Kim Boris

Biography

From January 15, 2020, Boris Kim, co-founder of the Company and Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2013, will take the position of CEO following the resignation of Sergey Solonin, who has held it since 2012. Mr. Solonin will remain a member of the Board of Directors and will assume the position of Executive Chairman of the Board.

Boris Kim has been Qiwi Director since May 2013 and Chairman of the Board of Directors since June 2014.

Mr. Kim is one of the co-founders of the e-port payment system, he was its Director General from November 2004 to September 2007, and from September 2007 to February 2010 - Advisor to the Director General e-port. From 2007 to 2012, Mr. Kim was the head of the payment networks and banking instruments committee of the Russian National Association of Electronic Market Participants. Mr. Kim was also Executive Director of the Russian FinTech Association from 2016 to 2018.

Mr. Kim graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1985 with a degree in chemistry, the Russian Institute of Finance and Economics in 1996 with a degree in finance, the Moscow State Law Academy in 2000 with a degree in jurisprudence and the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2004 and 2007 with specialties in psychology and philosophy, respectively. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry (Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1989).

2021

Investing in the Russian HR startup Facancy

On July 26, 2021, it became known about attracting startup Facancy investments in the amount of $300 thousand from co-founder Qiwi Boris Kim, director of "," Bitrix Sergey Ryzhikov former board member Alfa Bank Alexei Marey, business angels Ivan Tyagunov, Alexander Sysoev and Yegor Gilev. As Facebook Alena Vladimirskaya, co-founder of Facancy, wrote on her page, the round was closed with a business valuation of $3 million. More. here

Membership of the Board of Directors of VimpelCom

On March 4, 2021, VimpelCom shareholders elected a new composition of the company's board of directors. Boris Kim entered it. More details here.

Resignation as Qiwi Group CEO

March 30, 2021 it became known about the resignation of Boris Kim from the post of general director of the Qiwi group. Its place is likely to be taken by the head of the Qiwi payment segment Andrei Protopopov.

According to TASS, citing a Qiwi statement, Boris Kim will officially resign after the annual meeting of shareholders, which is due to be held in June 2021. The candidacy of Andrei Protopopov for the post of CEO of the group was recommended by its board of directors.

It is noted that this recommendation was based on the results of the succession planning process begun at the time of the resignation of the previous CEO of the Qiwi group, founder and majority shareholder of Qiwi Sergey Solonin.

Qiwi co-founder Boris Kim resigns as CEO of the company

After the appointment of a new CEO by the board of directors, Boris Kim will complete his work as CEO and will deal with his own projects. At the same time, Boris is ready to provide assistance to the company in the amount and quality that will be required. The composition of the new board of directors will be announced at the annual meeting of shareholders in June, "Anastasia Zhuravleva, Qiwi communications director, told Interfax.

According to her, Boris Kim has a minor stake in Qiwi, which he does not plan to sell. By March 24, 2020, he had 3.3% of Qiwi's votes, the news agency notes. By the end of March 2021, Zhuravlev did not specify a share.

Sergey Solonin, who by the end of March 2021 holds the post of chairman of the board of directors of Qiwi, said that under the leadership of Boris Kim, the group underwent a restructuring, and his strategic decisions "made it possible to outline the main business contour and focus on key projects." Including he helped in the implementation of the plan to transform Qiwi into a business that does not depend on the founding team and is managed by management, Solonin noted.^[1][2]

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