Since 2004, he worked at the Russian office of McKinsey and was in charge of the electric power industry and heat supply in Russia and the CIS. Stepan supervised projects in the field of power generation, network development and operation, sales activities. Stepan has worked at SUEK since 2018, from November 2018 till May 2020 he was CEO of SGC. In this role, he solved the issues of upgrading the Group’s energy facilities, developing the heat supply infrastructure, improving the environmental efficiency of power facilities.

Stepan graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. He specialised in regulatory and environmental aspects of the power industry.