Titov Boris Yuryevich

Titov Boris Yuryevich

Boris Yurievich Titov (born December 24, 1960, Moscow) is a Russian politician, entrepreneur. Commissioner for the Rights of Entrepreneurs under the President of Russia since June 22, 2012. Co-chairman of the all-Russian public organization "Business Russia." Chairman of the Russian-Chinese Committee for Peace, Friendship and Development. Chairman of the Council of the Russian Union of Winegrowers and Winemakers. Chairman of the "Growth Party." Acting State Adviser of the Russian Federation, Class 3 (2012). Candidate for the presidency of Russia in the 2018 elections.

State

Titov was repeatedly mentioned among the Russian billionaires. According to 2006 data, his fortune was $1.03 billion.

Biography

Boris Titov was born in 1960 in Moscow. In 1983 he graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) with a degree in international economist. Fluent in English and Spanish. While studying at the institute, he worked as a translator from Spanish, including in 1983 in the Republic of Peru.

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After receiving his diploma, he began working in the Soyuznefteexport foreign trade association as a specialist in the supply of technical oils, oil and petrochemical goods to Latin America and the Far East.

In 1989, he left the state company and took the post of head of the chemistry department of the joint Soviet-Dutch enterprise Urals.

1991: Foundation with Solvalub Partners

In 1991, he and his partners created his own company Solvalub, buying out the London company Solvents and Lubricants, with which he collaborated while working at Urals and VO Soyuznefteexport, and became executive director of the SVL Group of companies. After some time, Titov was mentioned in the press as the executive director of the group of companies, as well as as the chairman of the group's board. Later, the company turned into an investment and trading group operating in the market of petroleum products, agricultural and petrochemicals, liquefied gases. Very quickly, Titov's company, in parallel with international trade, began to prefinance exports from Russia, organize project financing and invest in production and transport projects.

In 1992, Solvalub built a chemical terminal in the Ventspil port, and then bought the terminal for the transshipment of ammonia and petrochemistry of Ventammonyaks OJSC from the Latvian state. In 1994, she acquired the port of Kavkaz. According to Titov, before the 1998 default, the consolidated sales of the Solvalub group amounted to $700-800 million, and by the beginning of the 2000s it had grown to $1.5 billion, during this period the SVL group accounted for more than 10% of the world's ammonia trade. At different times, the group's assets included a number of oil and agricultural chemistry enterprises - Neftekhimik (Perm), Stavropolpolymer (Budennovsk), etc.

1999: Creation of the management company Interkhimprom

In 1999, the Interkhimprom Financial and Industrial Group was created, which managed Solvalub assets in Russia, Titov became chairman of the joint board. The total turnover of the Titov group, which was the owner of the controlling stake in Solvalub, in 2008 was estimated at $2 billion.

2000: RSPP Board Member

In 2000, he was elected a member of the board bureau and vice president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), where in 2002-2005 he headed the ethics commission.

2001: President of Azot Corporation

In 2001-2002, Titov served as president of Agrochemical Corporation CJSC, Nitrogen which was a joint venture of Interkhimprom on a parity basis with Gazprom"" and owned stakes in four enterprises of mineral fertilizer producers.

In 2002, Titov was elected president of the Mineral Fertilizer Industry Development Fund and held this post until 2004.

For several years, starting in 2003, he was chairman of the board of the Non-Profit Partnership "Gas Market Coordinator," created on the initiative of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) and Gazprom to develop a model for the transition to a sustainable and fair free gas market regime.

2003: Co-Chairman of "Business Russia"

In 2003 he became co-chairman, and in May 2004 - chairman of the All-Russian public organization "Business Russia," an organization uniting representatives of non-resource private business in Russia. In this capacity, he criticized the tough financial policy pursued by the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin, insisting on the need to increase domestic production of goods, stimulate demand, attract investment, reduce taxes and refinance rates of the Central Bank.

As the leader of Business Russia, Boris Titov became part of a number of state and public structures. He became a member of the council for the implementation of priority national projects and demographic policy and the council for promoting the development of civil society institutions and human rights under the President of the Russian Federation, a member of the council for competitiveness and entrepreneurship under the government of the Russian Federation and the government commission for the development of industry, technology and transport. He was chairman of the Russian part of the Russian-Chinese Business Council, chairman of the board of the non-profit partnership "Gas Market Coordinator" and a member of the presidium of the national council for corporate governance. In 2005-2008, Titov was a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.

2006: Purchase of "Abrau-Durso"

On December 30, 2006, SVL Group acquired 58% of Abrau-Durso and began to develop the brand of the most popular Russian champagne, increasing sales by five times by 2014. In 2010, she acquired the Chateau d'Avize champagne house from Moyot & Chandon. The amount of the transaction, which Titov told about in the press, was not disclosed, some experts estimated it at 5-10 million euros.

On June 26, 2012, the board of directors of Abrau-Durso OJSC prematurely terminated Titov's powers as general director of the company in connection with the transition to the civil service and elected him chairman of the board of directors.

2007: Member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party

In October 2007, he was elected a member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party.

2008: Head of the Civil Force party, withdrawal from United Russia, co-chairman of the Right Cause

In 2008, Boris Titov headed the Supreme Council of the Civil Force party, starting the creation of a new right-wing party in Russia, this party building was assessed by the press as a "Kremlin project." In November of the same year, the Democratic Party of Russia, Civil Force and the Union of Right Forces were dissolved, and a new party, Right Cause, was established. The congress approved its three co-chairs. They were the former deputy chairman of the Union of Right Forces Leonid Gozman, journalist Georgy Bovt and Boris Titov himself. A few days later, by the decision of the X Congress of United Russia, Titov's powers as a member of the Supreme Council of the party were terminated ahead of schedule.

In March 2009, Titov expressed in the media a proposal to legalize monetary compensation for Russian citizens who do not want to serve in the army. According to him, such a measure could bring undoubted benefit in the situation of the country's budget deficit. However, no legislative action was taken to implement this initiative.

2010: Chairman of the Council of the Union of Winegrowers and Winemakers of Russia

Since 2010, he has been the Chairman of the Council of the Union of Winegrowers and Winemakers of Russia.

2011: Resigns as Co-Chair of the Right Cause

On May 6, 2011, Titov announced the desire of Delovaya Rossiya to join the All-Russian Popular Front, the creation of which was announced by Prime Minister Putin.

In February 2011, due to disagreements with other leaders of the Right Cause party, Titov left the post of its co-chairman. In June 2011, the institution of co-chairmanship was liquidated in the party. Mikhail Prokhorov was elected the sole leader of the party.

2012: Commissioner at the president V. Putin for the Protection of Entrepreneurs' Rights

On June 22, 2012, by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Titov was appointed authorized under the President of Russia to protect the rights of entrepreneurs (business ombudsman).

As a business ombudsman, Titov was remembered for a number of initiatives to protect the rights of entrepreneurs, the main of which was the amnesty of entrepreneurs in 2013, according to which 2,466 people were amnestied.

In 2014, he supported the annexation of Crimea to Russia.

On February 29, 2016, at the VII Congress of the Right Cause party, he was elected its chairman, announcing the change in the party's political course to the "business party" and its rebranding. On March 26, the party was renamed the "Party of Growth."

On June 21, 2017, he was reassigned to the post of Commissioner under the President of Russia for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

2017: Candidate for President of Russia

In April 2017, Boris Titov took the initiative to introduce electronic voting. According to him, the use of this technology is possible in federal elections by March 2018, when the presidential elections should be held. According to Titov, by this time the blockchain voting technology can be tested in a couple of regions.

The "Growth Party" domestically tests electronic voting systems based on the Reconciled Register of Operations (DLT) technology. The question is how, subject to the constitutional right of citizens to secret ballot, to certify each individual vote of the voter. This approach to the electoral system in the future could save people from voting at their place of residence and eliminate the problem of electoral fraud. The party planned to submit all its developments for consideration to the Central Election Commission (CEC). Read more here.

On December 21, 2017, the Growth Party nominated Titov as a candidate in the 2018 presidential election.

He is an expert at the Moscow Economic Forum.

2019: Roadmap "Sustainable growth of the non-resource sector of the Russian economy"

On May 15, business ombudsman Boris Titov presented his new economic reform plan - the Road Map "Sustainable Growth of the Non-Resource Sector of the Economy Russia." Starting with the statement of unsightly facts - by 2023 Russia will slide from 6th to 7th place in terms of the size of the economy, and by 2035 - to 11th place, Boris Titov presented to journalists a program prepared by the Institute for Economic Growth named after P.A. Stolypin in cooperation with a large number of institutions, universities, business associations and economic departments. In particular, such well-known Russian economists as Viktor Polterovich and Yakov Mirkin took part in the preparation of the document, and businessmen such as Konstantin Babkin and Sergei Generalov are present in the Supervisory Board of the institute.

The plan is extensive, but its key point is that government support measures should focus on 9 priority areas.

The most important support measure should be the availability of loans, which means softening the monetary policy of the Central Bank. The project financing mechanisms previously created by the Central Bank turned out to be non-working, and the main reason for this was the demand for collateral, Boris Titov is a supporter of unsecured lending to projects.

Another extremely important part of economic policy should be the creation of clusters, which mean groups of enterprises united by a chain of vertical production links from the extraction of raw materials to the sale of final products. The cluster arises with a "cluster initiative," which assumes that existing enterprises in Russia can be supplemented by others in order to make up a holistic production cycle. Probably, a cluster Association and a management company are created in each cluster. Boris Titov cited two examples of possible clusters: in Russia, Sibur makes polyethylene, but Russia buys plastic bags in China; in Kalmykia, the population raises livestock, but a company is needed that would buy these livestock and feed them to a commercially acceptable weight, and at the same time process hooves.

2022: Resignation from the post of business ombudsman of the Russian Federation

In September 2022, Boris Titov confirmed his resignation from the post of business ombudsman of the Russian Federation.

2023: Chairman of the Business Council of Russia-Cuba

The Presidential Commissioner Russia for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs Boris Titov was elected chairman of the Business Council of Russia, Cuba acting as a member. Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation The corresponding decision was made by the council members on January 11, 2023.

The Russia-Cuba Business Council unites more than 100 industrial trade companies educational scientific and institutions from the Russian side. In addition, it includes representatives of several federal ministries, as well as the mayor's office. Moscow The main task of the council is to strengthen the potential of trade economic relations with the Republic of Cuba, including promoting the interests of domestic business in the markets of this country.

"Among the current areas of our bilateral cooperation are projects in the field of power, transport, medicine, food industry and, of course, tourism," said Boris Titov. - For January 2023, Cuba continues to hospitably receive Russian tourists, and I think there will be a stable growth in this area. Working conditions, of course, have been difficult before, and in the current conditions, the challenges are aggravated even more. Nevertheless, the world has already changed a lot, so Russian entrepreneurs are looking for new partners and new forms of relations. In Cuba, all this is, and most importantly, there is an interest in interaction. Both of our countries are under sanctions, so new mechanisms for mutual settlements are to be developed to mitigate the effect of restrictions. Options for ruble settlements, cryptocurrencies, and clearing schemes are being considered. I hope that new initiatives will appear and will be implemented within the framework of the Business Council, useful to both Russia and Cuba.

Awards

• By decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 25, 2008 No. 1246 he was awarded the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the 1st degree.

• In 2010 he was awarded the Stolypin Medal, the highest award of the Government of the Russian Federation.

• In 2015 he was awarded the Order of Honor. In the same year he became a holder of the Legion of Honor (France).

Family

Married, wife Elena Titova - since September 2012, director of the All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts in Moscow. She was also mentioned in the press as the head of the Russian Glass Development Fund. The family has two children: son Paul and daughter Maria.

Hobbies

He is fond of diving, squash, loves yachts (navigation) and travel.