The former General Director of online cinema Okko Ivan Grodetskiy appointed Executive Director of ivi, said “Kommersant” in the company. This is a new position in the company, it involves direct subordination to the CEO and founder Oleg Tumanov. Mister Tumanov will be engaged in strategic development of the company, key business initiatives and partnerships and investor relations, while Mr grodecki will focus on the management of operations, specified in the ivi.As previously reported by “Kommersant” Ivan Grodetskiy left Okko in March 2020, he led the company from 2015, and before that was commercial Director. Mr grodecki left Okko after Rambler Group (which owns online cinema) changed the control system assets: the group was established on the basis of videoassisted Okko, projects “Okko Sport” and Okko Entertainment and its managing Director was the former Manager of the savings Bank Jan Bardintzeff.Ivi also announced the arrival of two new top managers: Yuri Smagorinski, who served as Executive Vice President of sales and client service of “VimpelCom” (brand “Beeline”), will take over the position of commercial Director and Maria Grechishnikova, formerly Vice-President, sales and international projects at Star Media, appointed to the position of head of content direction.Ivi revenue in 2019 increased by 55%, to 6.1 billion RUB without VAT according to IFRS, reported “Kommersant” in the company. Net profit the company did not disclose. As reported previously, “Kommersant” with reference to sources, the ivi expects to end the year 2020 IPO, the press service of the company is not commenting.Valeriy Lebedev
