Mr Mikhailov is President and a member of the Board of Directors of Cherkizovsky Meat Processing Plant. He was Deputy President and Chief Operating Officer of Cherkizovsky MPP from 2000 and joined Cherkizovsky as Deputy President of the Marketing and Sales Department in 2004. In the same year, he was appointed General Director of Cherkizovsky Trade House. From 1998 to 2001, he served as Director and founder of the telecommunications company aTelo, Inc. in the United States. In 1999, he was a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley and in 1997, he worked as an intern at Goldman Sachs. He received a BSc in finance and economics from Georgetown University (Washington DC) in 2000.