On February 20, 2020, the AEB Southern Regional Committee held its Annual General Meeting in Krasnodar. 

In the morning of February 20, Frank Schauff, AEB CEO, and Oleg Zharko, Chairman of the AEB Southern Regional Committee, met with the Vice Governor of Krasnodar Region Vasily Shvets. They invited the leadership of the Krasnodar Region to take part in AEB 25th anniversary events, which will be held in Moscow and Krasnodar in autumn 2020. 

The Annual General Meeting took place in the office of the Southern Sales Directorate of Knauf. Oleg Zharko, Chairman of the Southern Regional Committee spoke about the results of the Committee's work in 2018-2019. The members of the Southern Regional Committee elected by secret voting the following representatives to the Coordination Group of the Committee (Steering Group): Alisa Andreeva, Philip Morris Izhora; Ralph Bendish, Claas; Anna Kalmykova, EY; Sergey Kuzmenkov, Nestlé Kuban; Diana Lipinskaya, Center-Invest Bank; Natalia Minzhulova, Banca Intesa; Lyubov Popova, VEGAS LEX; Yuri Pustovit, Advocates Bureau Yug; Oleg Zharko, Danone.

At the first meeting of the Steering Group Oleg Zharko was elected as a Chairman of the Southern Regional Committee. His deputies became Ralph Bendisch and Lubov Popova. The meeting was followed by a strategic meeting of the newly elected members of the group and the AEB top-management. At the meeting they discussed the development plans of the AEB Southern Regional Committee and outlined a number of priority steps.