In a statement, the company said Grigory Fedorishin has been given the nod for the job. His appointment is pending a shareholder vote.  

Fedorishin has been with NLMK since 2011, when he left Moscow-based investment management company Libra Capital. For the next two years, he served as director of strategy and business development. In 2013, he was named vice president for finance and served in that role until 2017, when he was named senior vice president and the management board’s deputy chairman.