From 2010 to 2016 Mr. Vasnetsov was Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning and Transactions at LyondellBasell, where he led a team responsible for corporate strategy, capital allocation (CapEx, M&A, JVs) and Investor Relations. In addition, he was responsible for the global polypropylene compounding business, specialty plastics unit serving automotive and consumer durable markets. From 1996 to 2010 Sergey worked in New York City at several leading investment banks, including Barclays and Lehman Brothers, as the head of global chemical research team responsible for identifying and developing investment ideas for largest global, US private & public investment funds. He started his career as an industrial research scientist at Union Carbide in 1990, and authored 8 US and world patents in polymer technology. He previously was a member of the Texas Petrochemical Company (TPC Group) Board of Directors and its Audit and Strategy Committees. Sergey was appointed to the EuroChem Board in April 2016. Sergey graduated with a Masters of Science degree at Novosibirsk State University and was a George Soros Scholar at Oxford University; later he earned an MBA degree (Finance) from Rutgers University (US).

Chemical Engineering, Fertilizers, Chemical