Peter Baron

Petr Baron
Personal details
Born	28 November 1980 Moscow, Russia
Profession	banker, financier, businessman

Petr Baron (Russian: Петр Барон, born on 28 November 1980, in Moscow) is a financier, banker, businessman.

1994–1999 – Taunton School, UK. Academic qualification of GCSE, A-levels. Captain of rugby school team, School colours.

1999–2002 – City University (Cass Business School), UK. Degree of Bachelor of science in investment and financial risk management. Diploma with distinction.

In 2001 – real estate consultant in “Cushman & Wakefield Stiles & Riabokobylko”.

2002–2003 – advisor to the chairman of the supervisory board of Banking Group OVK, Moscow (largest retail branch network after Sberbank). Participated in the sale of OVK to Rosbank. Member of the supervisory board of Inkakhran (Moscow, Russia).

2002–2004 – member of the supervisory board of International Private Bank, Macedonia.

2003–2005 – investment consultant (Eastern Europe) of Countryside Group Investments Ltd. (Essex, Great Britain).

2005–2006 – investment director of John Galt Investments (TVR Motors), Great Britain.

2003–2008 – member of the supervisory board and in 2006–2007 first vice-president of (Kiev, Ukraine). Later bank launched rebranding and changed its brand name to .

2007–2008 – CEO and chairman of VAB Group (Kiev, Ukraine) – large financial group providing wide range of commercial services, comprising nine companies: VAB Bank, VAB Insurance, VAB Life, VAB Leasing, VAB Pension, VAB Express, VAB Re, VAB Asset Management, VAB Capital.

In June 2008, as a result of restructuring of VAB Group, Petr was appointed CEO and chairman of the management board of VAB Bank – cross functional commercial bank with foreign investments.

In 2010, under his management VAB Bank launched new business strategy with the view to refocus bank to retail business. Main priorities are given to efficient interaction with clients, high quality of servicing, technologies launch. High end IT solutions Oracle Siebel CRM, SAS Analytics, FICO have been successfully implemented.

Throughout financial crisis of 2008–2010 VAB Bank did fulfill all financial commitments to the bank’s clients and creditors, and increased customer base twice – up to 500k clients. In 2009, despite collapsing of borrowings market, VAB Bank was one of the few which provided lending. Bank kept financing corporate clients, introduced scoring schemes and one of the first after the crisis activated consumer lending.

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