Vladimir joined McKinsey’s Moscow Office in 2001. He Leads strategy, operations, and organization projects in mining, chemical, and oil & gas industries.
Examples of his work in mining and the chemical sector include:
- a comprehensive operational efficiency-improvement and cost-reduction program for Russia’s largest gold mining and processing plant
- supporting a new gold processing plant in reaching its rated capacity
- supporting the USD 2+ billion construction of a major gold mining and processing plant
- designing the expansion of a coal mining and processing plant, including geological and mining-operations modeling, reviewing solutions for transporting coal to port and an export port terminal construction option, including capex and opex assessment
- optimizing design solutions for a new potash mine construction
- implementing a long-term comprehensive program to improve the operational efficiency of mining and processing plants for a leading potash fertilizer producer, including debottlenecking, and productivity and recovery-ratio improvement programs
- implementing a maintenance optimization program, including labor productivity and cost improvements
- a procurement efficiency improvement program
- and introducing a methodology for calculating operational and cost targets and setting KPIs
Examples in his work in the oil & gas sector include:
- leading a project to complete the construction and commission operations of the first Russian Arctic platform (total capital investment over USD 5 billion)
- performing a technical and commercial audit of the project to build the first Russian Arctic platform
- leading a program to evaluate the potential of mature fields (4th stage of development) for an international company in the North Sea
- leading a project to benchmark and optimize capital and operating expenditures of a mega-project (total capital investment over USD 25 billion) at the FID stage
- implementing a large-scale program to increase production from mature fields for an independent producer in the North Sea
- developing a mid-term E&P transformation program for a leading Russian oil company in West Siberia
- developing a fields optimization strategy (optimizing surface and subsurface infrastructure) aiming to increase production while reducing capital and operating expenditures
- developing a large-scale E&P procurement transformation program for a large Russian oil company
- performing a diagnostic and redesign of the core processes of a national oil & gas company
- developing an investment strategy for a national oil product pipeline network
Education
Harvard University
MBA
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Bachelor of Finance