Business Manager of the Russian President, the First Vice-President of the Russian Olympic Committee, Chairman of the Council of Presidents of the Association of Winter Olympic sports.
He graduated from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute and the North-West Academy of Public Administration.
1982-1986 - Instructor, Department Head of the Petrograd RK Komsomol.
1986-1991 - engineer, chief engineer, chief specialist for the research and production association "Azimut".
1991-1993 - head of the joint venture "Azimuth International".
1993-1994 - Director General of the Association of Joint Ventures in St. Petersburg.
1994-1999 - Head of the North-West Regional Center of Russian Federal Service for Currency and Export Control. On September 20, 1999 - Head of the Russian Federal Service for Currency and Export Control.
In January 2000 he was appointed Business Manager of the Russian President.