Former Deputy Prime Minister’s Son Appointed MAZ Deputy Director

38-year-old Maksim Tsiutsiunau is the son of former deputy prime minister and general director of “Keramin” Anatol Tsiutsiunau.

Since late April, Maksim Tsiutsiunau is the first deputy general director of MAZ. This information has been confirmed at the enterprise, tut.by reports.

He followed Valery Ivankovich, who became the CEO of “Amkodor” more than a year ago. “All this time the place has been vacant, there has only been the acting first deputy general director,” – Tsiutsiunau’s receptionist said.

Tsiutsiunau’s father has worked at “Keramin” more than 40 years, rising through the ranks from an engineer on automation to the head and major shareholder.

“Even being a child, I knew everything about the joys and the problems of the enterprise, grew up among people, who worked there. As a student of the Law Faculty of the Belarusian State University, studying Business Law, I decided to try my hand in the legal department. I worked without a salary for a year – just to prove that I could make myself useful. And I proved. I wanted to participate more in the work of the enterprise, so when the unexplored in the legal work was almost gone, I went into technical reconstruction. Given the export sales volumes, the need to compete with Western companies, I had to comprehend the complicated science of management standards, the development of commodity programs, human resource management. The enterprise needed reforms – and they occurred. As the result, according to the standards, achieved in the field of sales, we, as they say modestly, became not the worst company of the country,” – Tsiutsiunau Jr. said in his interview to the newspaper Minsk Courier.

Maksim Tsiutsiunau has gradually risen to the first deputy general director of “Keramin,” become a member of Minsk City Counsil, graduated from the Academy of Management under Lukashenka. In December 2011, after numerous inspections of the state law enforcement agencies, the state dramatically increased its share from 3% to 57%. The Tsiutsiunaus were forced to leave the office and sell their shares. As the employees did say at the plant, “it was probably a compromise between the inspectors and the Tsiutsiunaus.”