According to the all-Ukrainian weekly “Investgazeta”, the General Director of “Zaporizhstal” Integrated Iron and Steel Works Rostislav Shurma was ranked among top ten in the popular rating “TOP-100 best top managers of Ukraine regarding the results of 2013”.
The rating has been compiled by the editorial team and is based on the long list, which included managers of the top-3 companies of largest branches of Ukrainian economy. The rating nominees were assessed according to unified system intended to reveal the best executives of the state. Comprehensive assessment was performed by different groups of experts according to the following criteria groups: top-manager’s qualities, crucial nowadays for successful conduct of business, frequency of media mentions, on-line poll, style. When assessing the managers, the following key competences were taken into account: leadership, openness to innovations, capacity to transform business, understanding of the role of modern technologies in management, skills of building and maintaining relations inside and outside the company.
Please note that 2013 was a successful year for “Zaporizhstal” Integrated Iron and Steel Works in all aspects of its activity. In accordance with the results of the year and in comparison with the previous year there was an increase in overall production (by 5%) and in production efficiency, energy consumption was significantly decreased (by 100 mln cubic meters or 29 %), the Works has been actively investing into modernization projects. In the course of 2013 a project of construction of the sinter machine No. 1 with a high-tech gas-cleaning equipment was completed, while three important modernization projects have been started. These are construction of a hydrochloric acid pickling line in the cold rolling shop No. 1 (investment of 730 mln UAH), reconstruction of the blast furnace No. 4 with equipment of aspiration systems of the casthouse and the stockhouse of the furnace (600 mln UAH) and construction of the gas-cleaning plant on the sinter machine No. 2 (investment of 80 mln UAH).
Rostislav Shurma was born in 1983; he graduated Kyiv National Economic University and National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”. Rostislav Shurma gained substantial hands-on experience in Metinvest Group when managing operating process of the Group’s iron and steel companies. In August 2012 he was appointed to the position of the General Director of “Zaporizhstal” Integrated Iron and Steel Works.