From December 2014, Igor Chechikov has been Director for International Business Development and Aftersales Service in Military-Technical Cooperation. He has extensive experience in management positions in the defence industry. From October 2013 Chechikov served as Deputy CEO for Foreign Trade Activity at Oboronprom. From 2012 to 2013 Chechikov was Deputy CEO for Marketing and Oversight over Foreign Trade Activity at Oboronprom. From 2011 to 2012 he served as Deputy CEO for cooperation with India at Oboronprom. From 2009 to 2011, Chechikov was Deputy Head of the Marketing and Sales Department at United Engine Corporation. From 2006 to 2009 he was Department Head, Deputy CEO, and Executive Director at Astrasystems, prior to which he was Deputy Department Head at the Federal Service for Environmental and Nuclear Oversight. From 2004 to 2005 he served as Chief Specialist at Novye Regionalnie Samolety, and from 2000 to 2004 he was Leading Specialist, then Chief Specialist at the Russian Munitions Agency. He is a member of the Board of Directors at NARP.

  He is a member of the Board of Directors at NARP. He graduated from the Military University, Russian Presidential Academy of Public Service, Financial Academy under the Russian Government, and the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy.