Alrosa has promoted its Hong Kong sales director to a new vice president’s position at the Moscow headquarters.

According to a company announcement, posted yesterday, Vladlen Dmitrievich Nogovitsyn will "supervise issues of the marketing policy of the company." 

Nogovitsyn, 47, is an ethnic Yakut who made his initial career as a diamond sorter and valuer at the Sakha government's committee on precious metals and gemstones (Komdragmet). He then moved to London between 1995 and 1999, where he represented the Sakha republic's interests within the Russian trade mission to the UK.

Nogovitsyn received additional training at the Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, and since 2006 he has directed Alrosa's marketing for Asia and the Pacific region, based in Hong Kong.

Sergei Oulin remains as vice president in charge of international relations, a source close to the company said. In December of 2007, Oulin, a well-known senior executive of Alrosa from the start of the company's operations, was appointed to "coordinate activities of ALROSA diamond sorting, valuation, selling and purchasing divisions, development of operating procedures and sorting techniques, diamond valuation and sales, development of mutually beneficial relations with the Company’s partners in the domestic and global markets....[and] exercise direct control over and coordinate the activities of the United Selling Organisation of ALROSA, Yakutsk Diamond Selling Enterprise, Diamond Sorting Centre, other divisions engaged in production, sales (purchase) of rough diamonds and diamond products."
 
By John Helmer.