VEON Ltd. announced the appointment of Leonid Boguslavsky to the Group's Board of Directors. Mr. Boguslavsky joins following the departure Mr. de Beer, who stepped down in December 2020. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Mr. Boguslavsky was a managing partner of PwC Management Consulting Services. In the early 1990s, he built one of Russia's largest IT solutions integrators. Mr. Boguslavsky is also an Independent Director of the Sberbank PJSC Supervisory Board.