Andrew John Baxter appointed Chief Financial Officer of Alfa-Bank.

Before joining the Bank in July 2005, Baxter worked at SUN Group. Initially employed in 1999 as CFO of one of SUN’s portfolio companies, he was promoted to CFO of SUN Capital in 2000, and soon thereafter to Partner in charge of the Moscow Office of SUN Group. Prior to the SUN Group, Baxter worked at Renaissance Capital as Finance Director/CFO, The US Russia Investment Fund, CS First Boston and Deloitte & Touche, all based either in Moscow or Johannesburg.

Baxter, a native South African, graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, with Bachelors degrees in Commerce and Accountancy. He later qualified as a Chartered Accountant (S.A.), having passed the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants’ final qualifying examination and completed his Articles of Clerkship with Deloitte & Touche in December 1990.

Baxter was born in South Africa on 4 April 1966.