Rail Garant News

Rail Garant Group, a leading Russian railway rolling stock company, is strengthening its team of top managers. A number of appointments were made at the beginning of July.

Igor Tyagunov was appointed deputy general director for operations and technical policy. He was previously technical director at Transgarant for over 6 years. His main tasks will be to optimize the structure of the Group’s technical unit, minimize rolling stock maintenance costs, maintain the rolling stock fleet in working order and also develop Rail Garant’s competitive advantages through organizing preparation points for current and planned wagon repairs.

Mikhail Ageev, who worked for over 7 years in different departments of Globaltrans, has been appointed head of the strategy and investment department. Mikhail’s responsibilities include all Rail Garant Group’s investment activities as well as support and coordination of M&As.

One of the main tasks for the Group today is to build an effective logistics and marketing system. Therefore, a new division has been created in Rail Garant. This department will be led by Evgeny Prilepin, who previously worked as production director for Second Freight Company. The main task of the new division is to build a single performance indicator system and develop a marketing approach to be used by Rail Garant Group when forming policies.

“The combination of the professional skills, wide experience and leadership qualities of the new managers will enable improvement in the Group’s operating efficiency, improve its competitive advantages and strengthen its leading position and further effective development of the business”, commented Ilya Dudinsky, the newly appointed general director of Rail Garant.