Olga Naumova has taken up the position of General Director at the Russian Fishery Company (RFC) with immediate effect.
Viktor Litvinenko, who previously held the position, will continue to work for the company as a member of the Management and General Director of subsidiary companies with responsibility for RFC’s operating business.
Since November 2019, Naumova has been a member of the Board of Directors at both RFC and Russian Crab LLC as an independent director. She will hold on to her position at the latter.
“The RFC’s ambition is to become the world’s largest and most efficient company harvesting wild whitefish in five years,” RFC Chairman, Gleb Frank, said.
Frank explained that Naumova’s main objectives as RFC’s General Director are to deliver on the company’s key strategic priorities. These include the commissioning of its state-of-the art fishing fleet, the transition to high value-added production and sales development, improved efficiency within key business functions and the growth of its labour productivity, as well as ensuring the company’s compliance with the highest global standards of environmental, social and corporate governance.
“When making this decision we, among other things, took into account Olga Naumova’s experience in retail. I am sure that under her leadership, the RFC will be able to significantly expand the sale markets for high value-added products manufactured by the new fleet,” Frank said.
Naumova graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University, and from 2001 to 2013 she held executive positions in the structures of Severstal and NLMC groups. From 2013, she headed the Pyatyorochka retail chain (X5 Retail Group) for five years, and then headed the Magnit retail chain.
Between October 2019 and April 2021, she was General Director of the logistics company Lorus and Deputy General Director of Sollers PJSC. From May 2021 to January 2022, she headed the Eastern Union, an association of leading retailers in the Far East and Siberia.
