Andrei Gusev has joined X5 Retail Group N.V., a multiformat retail company, in 2006. Prior to his appointment as CEO in 2011, Andrei Gusev was the Director for M&A and Business Development and was leading the development and execution of growth strategy for X5. From 2001 till 2006 – Director for Investment Planning and Director for Group Portfolio Management and Control at Alfa Group. Prior to joining Alfa Group Andrei Gusev worked for 6 years in consulting companies Bain & Company, Deloitte, A.T.Kearney/Cannon Associates. Andrei Gusev earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) in 2000. He graduated with a Diploma with Honors from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Andrei Gusev was born in Moscow (Russia) in 1972.