The Russian Managers Association (RMA) and Kommersant publishing house released their annual rating of the Top 1000 Russian Managers on September 15. It includes 14 Gazprom Media employees in the Media Business and Communications and Telecommunications categories.

Top executives in the Media Business category included Deputy General Manager and Chief Producer of NTV Timur Weinstein (who has also been chief producer at PREMIER since June 2020), General Manager of the Gazprom Media Sales House Ekaterina Veselkova and First Deputy General Manager of Friday! Valentina Kulikova. 

Top executives in the Communications and Telecommunications category included General Manager of NTV-Plus Natalya Gorbunova, as well as Deputy CEO of Gazprom Media Yulia Golubeva, who headed Krutoy Media when the rating was compiled. 

Seven of our employees were included in the rating’s Media Business category as managers of the company’s functional areas, with Artemy Gladchenko, Friday!’s deputy general manager of marketing and digital; Vilena Takaeva, financial director of the Gazprom Media sales house; and Lyubov Komarova, deputy general manager of communications at Ekho Moskvy making the Top 5. 
       
The rating also included NTV’s marketing director Anastasia Lisova, NTV’s commercial director Roman Antonenko, Deputy General Manager of Sales at the Gazprom Media Sales House Alina Efimova, and director of marketing and research Olga Timofeeva. 

Timur Spiridonov, director of marketing at NTV-Plus, and Dmitry Mozzhegorov, director of information technologies at NTV-Plus, were included in the rating of Communication and Telecommunications functional-area managers.