The FINANCIAL -- For the second year running, Volodymyr Lavrenchuk, CEO of Raiffeisen Bank Aval, has been named Best Top Manager in the Banking Sector of Ukraine within the all-Ukrainian Guard of Managers 2009 rating.

By results of the year 2009, the top manager of Raiffeisen Bank Aval was also named among three best managers in thirty branches of the economy of Ukraine .

The Guard of Managers 2009 rating named 300 most successful top managers of Ukraine , who succeeded to lead their companies through crisis trials and deserved positive assessments from their colleagues.

While making the rating, the expert board took into consideration management efficiency of companies, their competitiveness, quality of relations with partners, social activity as well as business reputation of their top managers. Besides, a number of resulting assessments in questionnaires of the rating experts as well as competitors’ evaluations on each kind of activities were also taken into account.

The rating Guard of Managers 2009 was initiated by the Ukrainian Rating Agency and published by the Halytski Kontrakty publishing house. The aim of the rating is to receive an objective independent assessment of a professional level of Ukrainian top managers.

Projects titled Guard have been launched since May 2004. Results of the ratings are subjected to external audit.

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