Yandex N.V. announced the appointment of Vadim Marchuk as Chief Operating Officer, effective from June 1, 2021. Vadim will report to Deputy CEO Tigran Khudaverdyan. Vadim Marchuk joined Yandex in 2016 as Vice President of Corporate Development. Over the last five years Vadim has played a key role in all of the company's strategic decision making and transactions, including capital raising and corporate restructuring. Vadim is a current member of the Boards of Directors of MLU B.V. and Yandex Self Driving Group and a former member of the Board of Directors of Yandex.Market and Yandex.Money. Vadim has more than 15 years of experience in investment banking and consulting, having been a Managing Director at Sberbank Merchant Banking and an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan's Global M&A Group in New York and London.