Stan Polovets

Stan Polovets is the President and CEO of Genesis Philanthropy Group. Stan is a member of the Board of Directors of the Russian-American Trade Council.  He is also the CEO of the Alfa-Access-Renova (AAR) Consortium, which oversees $20 billion in oil and gas assets for Alfa Group, Access Industries, and Renova Group.

Mr. Polovets is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vnimanie Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Russian children with learning disabilities.

A graduate of Stanford Business School, Stan received a Master's Degree in International Affairs from Stanford. He has worked for ExxonMobil in the company's U.S. operations and in the New York headquarters of KPMG and Ernst & Young.

At Ernst & Young, Mr. Polovets was responsible for establishing the company's consulting business in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Stan also worked for the RAND Corporation, a public-policy think tank in Santa Monica, California. From 2001 to 2006, Stan served in a variety of senior executive positions at TNK and TNK-BP, Russia's second largest private oil company. In 2002-2003, as Vice President M&A, Mr. Polovets represented TNK in negotiating a $15 billion merger with British Petroleum, the largest merger to date involving a Russian and foreign company. He was later Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff to Robert Dudley, CEO of TNK-BP.  In 2006-07, Stan served as Executive Vice President and member of the Board of URALSIB, the second largest financial conglomerate in Russia.

He lives in Moscow, with his wife Erina and three children, Danielle, David, and Sophie.