A new General Director of AURUS has been appointed
AURUS Motors LLC announces the appointment of Andrey Pankov to the position of General Director from December 28, 2022.
The AURUS brand is confidently moving forward on the path of developing domestic high technologies and Russian competencies in the automotive industry segment. New tasks create new challenges, and today the company introduces a new CEO who will take on the implementation of the further strategic goals of the project.
The company would like to acknowledge with gratitude all the achievements that have been achieved with the participation of the outgoing project manager Nikolai Khodosevich. Thanks to his high professionalism, determination and competence in the automotive industry, over the past year, the tasks of bringing AURUS to the stage of full-fledged mass production of cars, including the launch of the production of the new AURUS Komendant model, were successfully implemented.
From December 28, 2022 Andrey Pankov takes over the management of AURUS.
Andrey Pankov has a master's degree in physics, as well as an MBA degree. Having started his career at Sberbank, Andrey Pankov then went on to work for leading international companies such as Procter & Gamble and Nestle. Andrey Pankov has vast experience in management in the automotive industry. In 2005-2014 he has held senior positions at Hyundai Russia and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation Russia. In 2015, A. Pankov was appointed General Director of Renault in Russia – the first and only Russian to hold the position of General Director of a full-cycle foreign automaker in the Russian Federation. In his post, Andrey Pankov led the first industrialization of a completely new highly localized global Renault model. In 2019, A. Pankov entered the Top 5 top executives of the Russian Federation in the Mechanical Engineering category in the Top 1000 Russian Managers rating.
In 2020, Andrey Pankov was appointed CEO of the ADV group of companies, one of the leaders in the Russian marketing and advertising industry.
Also, Andrey Pankov successfully worked for several years as a member of the Strategic Council for Investments in New Industries under the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov, the Council for Industrial Development of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, as well as other business public organizations of Russia.
A. Pankov, General Director of AURUS:
“In just a few years, which is a unique fact for the automotive industry, the AURUS brand has covered an impressive path - from design to industrial development, followed by the introduction of full-fledged serial production of luxury cars of a completely Russian design, moreover, there are already two models today. With great joy and responsibility, I am ready to start implementing new, ambitious tasks to increase the pace of industrialization of the project, increase the dynamics of growth in volumes, as well as scaling AURUS as a brand, with a multidirectional, integrated promotion strategy both in Russia and as part of export markets.”