#ukrzaliznytsia

  • Government keeps railway monopoly on balance sheet amid industry’s downturn
    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/business/government-keeps-railway-monopoly-on-its-balance-sheet-amid-industrys-down

    Despite the Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius’s willingness to privatize as many state-controlled assets as possible, government-run railway monopolist Ukrzaliznytsia won’t be sold to a private investor any time soon, according to its interim head Maksym Blank.

    Avant de trouver des investisseurs, il faut déjà commencer par trouver un PDG pour remplacer l’actuel intérimaire, pas candidat — mais alors, pas du tout candidat ! — à sa titularisation…

    Blank, 41-year-old former investment banker, became interim head of the company, though he refused to apply for a position of a full-time CEO. Work at Ukrzaliznytsia “brought me nothing but troubles so far – rummage, criminal case where I’m a witness,” he said during the Jan. 22 news conference in Kyiv.

    To participate in an open competition [for the CEO position] you have to be liked. You have to be liked by the industry, by the members of parliament, by the city mayors and governors, by the industrial lobby, by the members of Cabinet of ministers,” he wrote in a Jun. 17 Facebook post. “And to present a program that everyone would like. But the program that I’m implementing in fact – it doesn’t contain any points that (people) like.

    Roman Bondar, a head hunter involved in finding the best candidate, says #Ukrzaliznytsia needs Steve Jobs in order to be managed effectively.

    Pas certain que Steve Jobs soit intéressé par le poste…
    Et pour un étranger, le plus dur sera sans doute d’avoir à retenir le nom de l’entreprise à laquelle il postule :-D