Mobile TeleSystems : MTS Announces Board Decisions

MOSCOW, Russia - Mobile TeleSystems Public Joint Stock Company ("MTS" or "the Company") (NYSE:MBT; MOEX: MTSS), Russia's largest mobile operator and a leading provider of media and digital services, announces the decisions of the Company's Board of Directors ("BoD" or "the Board") taken on March 17, 2022.

The Board reached the following decisions:
• To approve the Group's strategy for the period 2022-2024.
• To determine the following composition of MTS Management Board consisting of 15 people, effective from April 5, 2022:

1. Vyacheslav Nikolaev, President & CEO
2. Inessa Galaktionova, First Vice President for Telecommunications
3. Pavel Voronin, First Vice President for Technology
4. Alexey Barsegian, Vice President for Corporate & Legal Affairs
5. Victor Belov, Vice President for Technology (CTO)
6. Larisa Bodyagina, Vice President for Human Resources
7. Igor Egorov, Vice President for Infrastructure Development
8. Ilya Filatov, Vice President for Financial Services, MTS, and CEO, MTS Bank
9. Alexander Gorbunov, Vice President for Strategy & Development
10. Ruslan Ibragimov, Vice President for Government Relations
11. Farid Kamalov, Vice President for Retail Development
12. Andrey Kamensky, Vice President for Finance
13. Alexander Khanin, Vice President for Artificial Intelligence
14. Igor Mishin, Vice President for Media
15. Olga Ziborova, Vice President for Ecosystem Development & Marketing

MTS President & CEO Viacheslav Nikolaev commented on the appointment of Larisa Bodyagina as VP for HR: "MTS is rapidly expanding its high-tech capabilities, strengthening its position in new markets, and building cutting-edge digital solutions. Our ability to quickly develop and launch new products relies on the professionalism, teamwork, and horizontal cooperation of employees across our company. That is why building an integrated, collaborative culture is a critical pillar of our strategy, which can have an outsized impact on the future of the MTS digital ecosystem. And we are happy to have a passionate and involved leader to help achieve that goal."
"Larisa brings many years of experience in overseeing personnel management across a broad range of industries. In her previous roles, she managed to nurture a value-based HR culture to better attract and retain employees, and also led the introduction of digital HR processes across a massive organization with more than 260,000 employees. At MTS, Larisa will take on the ambitious task of developing a tech-first culture, providing additional resources to further grow our teams' capabilities, and introducing advanced agile, collaborative processes for emerging new divisions within our company," he added.

Biography of Larisa Bodyagina
Larisa Bodyagina is appointed Vice President for Human Resources effective April 5, 2022. Prior to joining MTS, she worked since 2018 as Director for Personnel & Organizational Development of Russia's Pyaterochka supermarket chain, part of the X5 Retail Group.
In 2014-2018, she served as Deputy General Director for Personnel of Sheremetyevo International Airport JSC, and before that as HR Director of the Arnest Group of Companies (2012-2014). From 2007-2012, she headed the Personnel Directorate in Siberia and the Far East, and after that worked at the head office of Wimm-Bill-Dann, part of PepsiCo, as a Senior HR Partner.
Larisa graduated from Novosibirsk State Academy of Water Transport in 2002 with a degree in enterprise management. She also holds an advanced degree in personnel management from Novosibirsk National Research State University as well as an MBA from Switzerland's International Institute for Management Development (IMD).