Mr. Kaan Terzioğlu has been serving VEON Group as the Group Chief Executive Officer since June 2021. As the Group CEO, Terzioglu leads the executive teams of the Company’s digital operators providing connectivity and digital solutions, empowering their customers with digital finance, education, entertainment and health services, among others, and supporting the economic growth of the Company’s operating markets.
Prior to being appointed as the Group CEO, Mr. Terzioglu served the Company as Group Co-CEO from March 2020 to June 2021, Group Co-COO from November 2019 to March 2020 and a Board director from July 2019 to October 2019. Kaan Terzioglu is currently a Board Member of the GSMA and of the GSMA Foundation, and also serves on the board of Digicel.
Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Terzioglu held regional and global leadership roles in management consulting, technology and telecoms with Arthur Andersen, CISCO and Turkcell in Belgium, United States and Turkey. In 2019, Mr. Terzioglu received GSMA’s “Outstanding Contribution to the Industry” award for his leadership in creating a digital transformation model for the telecoms industry and for his contributions to socially responsible business in telecommunications industry.
Mr. Terzioglu holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Bogazici University and is also a Certified Public Accountant (Istanbul Chamber of Certified Independent Public Accountants).
Oleksandr Komarov serves as the President of Kyivstar Group Ltd. He joined VEON in 2013 and was appointed CEO of Beeline Kazakhstan, VEON’s subsidiary in Kazakhstan, in 2015, where he oversaw the launch of new digital services. In July 2018, he became interim CEO of Kyivstar, and in December 2018, he was named its permanent CEO. Prior to VEON, he served as Director General of GroupM, the largest marketing company in Ukraine, and held senior marketing and commercial roles with international and Ukrainian companies. Mr. Komarov holds an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics and is a graduate of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
Boris Dolgushin serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Kyivstar Group Ltd. He has been the Chief Financial Officer and managing director of Kyivstar since October 2019. He joined VEON in 2004 and held roles including Head of Finance for VEON’s operations in Vietnam and Regional Director of Financial Planning & Analysis and Business Control for the Seller. In 2019, he received a certificate in high performance leadership from IMD Business School. Mr. Dolgushin holds a Master of Science (Hons) in economics and management of enterprises from Perm National Research Polytechnic University and is an Executive MBA candidate at London Business School.