During a meeting on December 4, the Supervisory Board of Naftogaz of Ukraine appointed board member Roman Chumak as the acting chairman. This was announced by Nataliya Boyko, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board, in a statement to Forbes, according to Expro.
According to Nataliya Boyko, the decision was unanimous - 7 votes in favor. In addition, the Supervisory Board approved the start of selecting a new head of Naftogaz.
“We will make every effort to complete the selection process by the end of the first quarter of 2025,” Boyko said.
Who is Roman Chumak?
Roman Chumak was the Chief Financial Officer of Naftogaz Group. Since September 28, 2021, he has been a member of the company's Management Board. Chumak has been working at Naftogaz for about 20 years in positions ranging from chief specialist to department director. Before that, he worked in large banking institutions and private businesses.
At Naftogaz, Chumak was in charge of establishing relations between Naftogaz Group companies and banks and financial institutions, attracting financing in the domestic and international financial markets, short-term planning and balancing the group's liquidity, conducting transactions with securities and other treasury operations of the Group.
Background
As ExPro previously reported, Oleksiy Chernyshev, who was the head of Naftogaz, was appointed Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Unity of Ukraine.
