Vladimir Kuzmichev

Hydrogen are a global specialist recruitment business, placing exceptional, hard to find candidates in over 70 countries. • Business Development and Project Management related to the Russian market as well as addressing specialist recruitment needs of Russian businesses in the UK. • Sector and functional focus includes the following: Professional Services (primarily Legal), Natural Resources (Energy / Oil & Gas, Metals & Mining), and Financial Services.

Business Development and Project Management in the German marketplace aimed at client organisations in the area of Professional Services: law firms, management consultancies, and accountancy / business advisory firms.

Business Development and Project Management in the South-Eastern subregion of Asia aimed at client organisations in the area of Professional Services: law firms, management consultancies, accountancy / business advisory firms, etc.

A wholly-owned Executive Search boutique focussed on rendering professional services primarily in the Metals & Mining, Energy, and Investment Banking segments, and across all key business functions. Top-level local, international and global assignments on behalf of leading corporate clients: Basic Element - Russia's leading investment company with a diversified asset base, UC Rusal (Russian Aluminium) - world’s largest aluminium producer, Troika Dialog - Russia's premier Investment Bank, etc.

Partner / Co-Head of Representation (from 2001) • Developed new business with leading Russian Industrial Groups and companies with global / international operations and ambitions. Senior Manager, Sector Manager, Manager (1998 - 2000) • Set up, staffed, managed and developed the following Practice Lines: Finance & Accounting, Management Consulting, and Tax & Legal. Senior Consultant, Consultant

Project Research and Candidate Identification across a variety of business functions (General Management, Sales & Marketing, Legal, HR) on behalf of top international and local clients (e.g. Merloni Elettrodomestici, IDV/UDV, Herlitz, Yukos / Menatep Group), all of which resulted in timely and successful placements of personally sourced candidates.

Pioneered the Marketing & Business Development function within the Firm's Russian/CIS operations resulting in information sharing among various practice lines/groups, better client service, and prompt news alert preparation. This laid a foundation for a subsequent development of the service into a full-scale Business Support function.

• Performed Tax & Business Advisory and Company Registration services (e.g., personally registered the first representation of Andersen Consulting in Russia) • Initiated Work-Permit issuance, initially to AA employees and then to clients’, as required by changes in the legislation, by establishing a solid working relationship with the Moscow State Migration Agency.

Organisational Behaviour, Personal & Professional Development, Strategy (highest exam mark in the cohort); Electives: Leadership & Top Management, Advanced Negotiations, Change, Ethics (highest course mark)