VK's board of directors will include Rector Nikita Anisimov of the Higher School of Economics and Natalia Yakovleva, a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees of Petropavlovsk and Globaltruck. They will become independent directors. Mikhail Gordin, acting rector of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, was appointed as a non-executive director. Vladimir Gabrielyan, the first deputy general director of VK, and Alexander Aivazov, senior vice president for investments and business development at VK, also became executive directors.