Nogotkov Maxims Yuryevich

Nogotkov Maxims Yuryevich

Nogotkov Maxim Yuryevich is the owner and general director of Svyaznoy Group of Companies. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Svyaznoy Bank CJSC.

Assets and bankruptcy

The main assets of Maxim Nogotkov were concentrated:

• information technology, telecommunications and communications (Svyaznoy Group of Companies).
• Finance (Svyaznoy Bank CJSC).

He took 107th place in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The richest businessmen of Russia - 2011." Maxim Nogotkov's fortune was estimated at $950 million ^[1].

He took 93rd place in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The richest businessmen of Russia - 2012"^[2].

In the summer of 2018, the founder of the Svyaznoy retail chain Maxim Nogotkov was declared bankrupt. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the SPARK-Interfax base. The decision on bankruptcy was made by the Arbitration Court of the Kaluga Region^[3].

The lawsuit to declare Maxim Nogotkov bankrupt was filed by the Cypriot offshore Strafor Commercial. Earlier it was known that this offshore is associated with Svyazny and the structures of its current owner Oleg Malis. In particular, Megafon provided this offshore with a loan of $43.8 million.

Initially, the lawsuit against Nogotkov was filed with the Moscow Arbitration Court. However, the representative of the defendant, as well as another participant in the case - the Cyprus offshore Aklia Trading - insisted on transferring the case to the Arbitration Court of the Kaluga Region, since Nogotkov changed his place of permanent registration. Instead of Moscow, the entrepreneur is now registered in the village of Zvizzhi, located in the Dzerzhinsky district of the Kaluga region.

In June 2021, the Arbitration Court of the Kaluga Region completed the bankruptcy of the founder of one of the largest mobile retailers Svyaznoy  Maxim Nogotkov, writing off all debts to him.

According to RIA Viktor Yeltsov, Nogotkova's financial manager, the court exempted the businessman from outstanding obligations to seven creditors in the amount of more than 22.8 billion rubles.

Biography

Born February 15, 1977 in Moscow, Russia.

1993-1995 - completed 2 courses of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

1997-1999 - studied at the Moscow International Higher School of Business "Mirbis."

1995 - Founder and General Director of Maxus CJSC (wholesale trade in DECT phones and personal audio equipment), which was later transformed into Svyaznoy Group of Companies.

The main activity of Maxus was reduced to the wholesale trade in audio equipment and telephones. By 1998, the company became the leader in wholesale distribution of DECT phones and personal audio equipment. Maxus began to deal with mobile phones in 2000, and in the summer of 2001 it was decided to create its own retail network of mobile communication centers.

Officially, the Svyaznoy brand appeared on April 23, 2002. Today Svyaznoy is the second largest retail network in Russia, specializing in the sale of services of mobile operators, personal communications, accessories and portable digital equipment. The company is the official distributor of leading manufacturers of GSM phones and DECT phones, as well as a dealer of mobile operators.

In a very short time, Svyaznoy Group of Companies achieved recognition of consumers and the business community. Samsung Electronics awards the Breakthrough of the Year Award in 2002. Siemens recognized the sales staff of the Svyaznoy network as the most professional in 2005.

2004 - General Director of Svyaznoy Group of Companies.

2008 - Chief Managing Director of KIT Finance (retail).

2009 - Advisor to the General Director of KIT Finance.

2010 - main shareholder and chairman of the board of directors of Svyaznoy Bank CJSC.

2010 - opened a network of jewelry stores Pandora.

2011 - founded the Nikola-Lenivets Park.

2011 - launched a new project of Svyaznoy Group of Companies - Enter retail network, where you can buy non-food items from toys to furniture in any convenient way: go to an offline store, order the necessary thing via the Internet or by phone^[4].

Maxim Nogotkov on the Enter format

Maxim Nogotkov: business secrets

Charity

Svyaznoy Group of Companies participated in the charity event Red Noses - Good Heart.

Hobbies

Wind surfing, skiing, snowboarding, tennis.

Photo.

Interesting facts

2006 - entered the first list of 33 most successful young men under the age of 33 years of Finance magazine.

2007 - Svyaznoy Group of Companies filed a number of lawsuits against the Federal Tax Service inspection in Moscow related to the application of tax legislation.

2010 - winner of the contest "Entrepreneur of the Year," held by the auditing company Ernst & Young.

Plans to bring Svyaznoy Bank CJSC into the top ten in terms of the volume of issued credit cards in Russia by the end of 2014 to be in the top ten^[5].

2011 - together with colleague Sergei Rumyantsev, they are working on the creation of a large-scale Internet project in the field of e-commerce. Entrepreneurs intend to open the largest online trading platform in Russia - an analogue of the American Amazon^[6].

2012 - announced its intention to engage in agriculture. To do this, in 2011 he acquired the village of Nikola-Lenivets in the Kaluga region, where the Archstoyanie festival is held annually. According to the owner, the village will turn into a space for creative people. In addition, this year fields will be sown on these lands, and in 2012 - the development of livestock^[7]

2012 - entered the world ranking of billionaires (No. 1153) according to Forbes magazine.

Marital status

Married, three children.

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