Kuzyaev Andrei Ravelevich

Kuzyaev Andrei Ravelevich

Aktivs

The main assets of Andrei Kuzyaev are concentrated:

• Finance (Perm Financial and Production Group LLC, Ural Financial House Bank );
• Telecommunications and Communications (ER-Telecom);
• oil industry (OAO Lukoil, OOO Neftservisholding (serves OAO Lukoil fields), Lukoil Overseas Holding).

Property

Owns a three-story mansion in the historical center of Perm.

State

2011: State of $1.1 billion - No. 87 in Russia

He took 87th place in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The Richest Businessmen of Russia - 2011"^[1].

2012: State of $1.1 billion - No. 124 in Russia

He took 124th place in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "Richest Businessmen Russia - 2012." The fortune of Andrei Kuzyaev was estimated at 1.1 billion dollars^[2]

Biography

Born October 6, 1965 in Perm, Russia, in a family of employees. He graduated from Perm High School 125.

As a child, he was engaged in swimming and boxing.

Education

1987 - graduated with honors from the Faculty of Economics of Perm Gorky State University with a degree in Industrial Planning.

While studying at the university, he participated in the construction detachment movement, created his own detachment "North," which collected logs nailed to the shores of Vishera and transported them to the pulp and paper mill.

1989 - entered the graduate school of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov.

1993 - graduated from the graduate school of the Department of Political Economy of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Career

1987-1989 - Lecturer, Department of Political Economy, PSU.

1989 - created a small enterprise "Sevur" (logging and woodworking)^[3].

1991-1993 - Co-founder and manager of Perm Commodity Exchange JSC (created according to the idea of ​ ​ Evgeny Sapiro). They claim that the deputy head of the regional administration, the future speaker of the Legislative Assembly and an active member of the Federation Council, Government Minister Sergei Kiriyenko Yevgeny Sapiro, who met Kuzyaev at the university, put the floor for him. One way or another, but this event was the beginning of the rapid take-off of Andrei Kuzyaev on the stairs of Perm business.

1993 - President of Universal Trading House LLP.

1993 - Perm Commodity Exchange JSC was reorganized into Perm Financial and Production Group LLC, which Kuzyaev headed as president.

1993-2003 - President of Perm Financial and Production Group LLC.

By agreement between the oil company Lukoil and the Perm region, a joint company for the production and processing of oil is being created in Perm. 50% of the shares in it are owned by OAO Lukoil and 50% by OOO Perm Financial and Production Group. Kuzyaev was recommended to the top management of Lukoil by the Governor of Prikamye Gennady Igumnov.

1993 - President of AOZT "Commercial and Industrial Company" Neftsintezmarket. "

1994 - Member of the Coordination Council "Round Table of Business of Russia."

1996-2003 - General Director of CJSC Lukoil-Perm, established on the basis of Permneft.

2000 - President of Lukoil Overseas (LUKOIL Overseas Holding Ltd. - international upstream division of Lukoil).

2003 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of CJSC Lukoil-Perm.

2003 - ^[3] Kuzyaev sold his stake in Lukoil-Perm to OAO ^[3].

2004 - Head of the Perm Community in Moscow.

2005 - Vice President of OAO Lukoil.

2010 - sold 10% ER-Telecom to Baring Vostok Capital Partners for 80 millons dollars^[3]

He was a member of the board of directors of Perm Development Bank OJSC.

In March 2015, CJSC ER-Telecom Holding changed the structure of management bodies. According to the press service of CJSC ER-Telecom Holding, a new position of president has been introduced in the company to ensure strategic management of activities. Part of the powers of the Board of Directors was transferred to the President to exercise his functions. The powers of the CEO are retained unchanged. The board of the company was also created, which was headed by the president.

Andrei Kuzyaev, who previously served as chairman of the board of directors, has been appointed president. Elena Ivashentseva, senior partner of BVCP, investment adviser to Baring Vostok private equity funds, was elected to the post of chairman of the board of directors.

In early October 2018, he assumed the duties of the General Director of ER-Telecom Holding in connection with the transfer of Andrei Semerikov to the post of Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company.

2022: 8th place on the CNews list of the richest signalmen in Russia

In the ranking of the richest operators Russia in 2022, according to CNews Andrei Kuzyaev, he took 8th place.

Andrey Kuzyaev is the head of the Perm Financial Industrial Group (PFPG) and the telecommunications operator Er-Telecom. In a similar ranking in 2015, he ranked ninth. For a long time, Kuzyaev worked in the oil industry: he headed one of the structures of Lukoil - Lukoil-Overseas. In the mid-2000s, PFPG successfully acquired the operator Er-Telecom, which began its development with Perm.

In 2015, Kuzyaev left Lukoil, focusing on Er-Telecom. In 2018, Kuzyaev became the general director of Er-Telecom, displacing the long-term head of the company Andrei Semerikov and starting the process of business transformation. In 2020, Kuzyaev bought out shares in Er-Telecom from the Baring Vostok fund.

Over the years, Er-Telecom has carried out active expansion, starting to provide paid television and Internet access services under the Дом.ру brand in many Russian regions, including St. Petersburg. For a long time, Er-Telecom negotiated the purchase of Akado. Finally, the assets of Akado in St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg were acquired. At the beginning of 2022, Er-Telecom, together with the state corporation Rostec, already acquired Akado itself, which allowed Er-Telecom to gain a presence in Moscow. At the same time, the expansion of Er-Telecom through mergers and acquisitions led to a large debt of 120 billion rubles from the company. ^[4].

Social and political activities

1998 - full member of the Academy of Mining Sciences of the Russian Federation.

Member of the Presidium of the Non-Profit Partnership to Promote the Activities of Industrial Enterprises and Research Institutes and Design Bureaus of the Perm Region "Cooperation."

Member of the Coordination Council of the Russian-Arab Business Council.

He is the co-chairman of the deputy group "Industrialists of Prikamye," which represents the real sector of the region's economy.

Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Region of the first (since 1994), second (since 1997) and third (since 2000) convocations.

Founder of the elitist Stroganov Club in Perm, created by him according to the model of the Moscow Oil Club. Located in the most expensive and smallest hotel in Perm, the club collects and serves almost the entire oil, financial and political elite of Prikamye. According to rumors, many important problems for the region are solved there. Or in the hunting farm of OAO Lukoil, where Andrei Kuzyaev spends his vacation, preferring Perm protected areas to rest abroad.

Chairman of the Council of Entrepreneurs "Russia-Venezuela."

2007 - supported the Ridge of Russia project.

Hobbies

Bicycle, hunting, collecting.

Interesting facts

Andrei Kuzyaev is called the "main taxpayer" of the Kama region.

The initiator of the establishment of the Stroganov Prize^[5].

Awards

• 1999 - Order of Friendship;
• 1999 - Church Order of Daniel of Moscow, 2nd degree (1999),
• 2006 - the sign "Golden Coat of Arms of the Perm Territory";
• 2006 - gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation;
• 2008 - Order of Honor;
• 2009 - title "Honored Worker of the Oil and Gas Industry of the Russian Federation";
• 2010 - title "Honorary Subsoil Prospector";
• a number of state awards and commemorative signs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Quotes

'Yes, I love good and comfortable things, I'm tired of the constant sense of lack of funds and clothes I experienced as a child and youth.'

Marital status

Married, three children^[3].

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