Igor Tikhonov, the managing director of Brewer SABMiller in Slovakia, has been named president of the company's Romanian subsidiary Ursus Breweries. He will start in the new position on January 1, 2014, replacing Andrew Highcock, who will move to Poland to lead the SABMiller subsidiary there.

Tikhonov has been working with SABMiller since 2001, initially as sales director for the Russian Federation, and five years after, as strategic development director for the same market. Later on he became the general manager for the Commonwealth of Independent States CIS, and in 2008, general manager of the brewer's subsidiary in Ukraine. In March 2012, he was named GM in Slovakia.

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