Top Management

Bernard Sucher has been part of Russia's capital markets since its inception and is now the Chairman of Alfa Capital. From 1993 until its buy–out by a new shareholding group in 2002, Mr. Sucher was a principal and managing director of Troika Dialog, one of Russia's leading financial companies. Mr. Sucher began his career in finance in 1984 as a stockbroker in New York City with EF Hutton, and later took on roles for Cresvale and Goldman Sachs in institutional distribution, trading, and management in Asian markets, with postings in London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Mr. Sucher is a director of both the Washington DC–based U.S.–Russia Business Council and Moscow's American Chamber of Commerce, which in 2000, honoured him and his business partner as ╚Businessmen of the Year╩ for ╚significant contributions to business in Russia and commitment to the highest standards of business ethics╩. Over his ten years in Moscow, Mr. Sucher has founded a number of successful, ongoing businesses, including restaurant and fitness ventures, and a specialty publishing company. Mr. Sucher is currently a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He holds a BA from the University of Michigan and is a graduate of Columbia University's Senior Executive Program.

Anatoli Miliukov has been the chief executive officer of Alfa Capital since 2001. He has driven its expansion into the new markets of pension and corporate fund management services, also overseeing the integration of Alfa Capital's mutual funds into Alfa Bank's national branch network. One of the first professionals to enter the field of Russian asset management, Mr. Miliukov was 23 years old when, in 1995, he started the successful enterprise that became Mosbusinesstrust. As the treasurer Mosbusinesstrust's parent, Mosbusinessbank, Mr. Miliukov managed a diversified investment portfolio of US $ 700 million. Mr. Miliukov stayed with the bank through the 1998–9 Russian financial crisis, seeing his business units through their merger with Moscow's municipal bank. In 2000, he was accepted into Harvard University's MBA program, earning his degree with second year honours in 2001. A graduate with high honours and a prized ╚red╩ diploma in international economics from Moscow State University, Mr. Miliukov also attended the University of Wisconsin in a business administration exchange program. He began his professional career as a financial analyst with the World Bank, and was a member of the ten-man team that launched Credit Suisse's banking operations in Russia in 1994–95.