The Skolkovo Foundation produced an official statement on the new appointments in the business. It was confirmed that Mikhail Moshiashvili of Rostechnologii had been appointed the foundation’s CEO, while Viktor Maslakov, the General Director of ZAO Renova-StroyGroup, would become the city manager of Skolkovo. Finally, Renova’s HR Director Oleg Alekseev was appointed head of Research & Education Division.

Viktor Maslakov originally comes from Yekaterinburg. He held positions in Sverdlovsk Region’s government bodies and was the region’s Deputy Minister for Economics & Labor, Deputy Minister for Public Property Management, and Chairman of Yekaterinburg Council Economics Committee before coming to Renova-StroyGroup.

At the same time, Maslakov was the Research Director of Strategic Analysis Institute (a part of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ History and Archeology Institute). He graduated from the History Department of A.M. Gorkiy Ural State University.