Year of birth: 1974. Alexey Kulichenko graduated from the Omsk Institute of World Economy with a degree in economics. In 1996-2003 he worked in “Sun Interbrew”, starting his career as cash flow economist of Omsk plant “Pocap” and ending as Efficiency Planning and Managing Director of “Sun Interbrew”. From 2003 till 2005 Alexey worked as CFO at “Unimilk” – the second largest milk producer in Russia, which joins 20 plants in Russia and Ukraine. From December 19, 2005 to July 2009 he served as CFO of CJSC “Severstal Resource”. Since May 2006 Alexey is the member of the Board of directors of JSC “Vorkutaugol”. In July 2009 Alexey Kulichenko was appointed CFO of OAO Severstal.