Children of Russian Officials and Businessmen Hold Top Posts
(RIA Novosti – February 26, 2013)
Aleksandr Lebedev, the co-owner of Aeroflot has nominated three people for the company’ board of directors, including his own son Yegor. According to open sources, Yegor was born in November 2011.
Petr Fradkov (born in 1978), the eldest son of Mikhail Fradkov the director of the Russian Federation Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), heads the Russian Export Credit and Investment Insurance Agency (EKSAR), of which VEB is a shareholder. Petr Fradkov previously worked as deputy representative of Vneshekonombank in America (2000-2004); deputy general director of the Far East Shipping Company open joint-stock company (2004-2005); deputy director of the directorate, department director and first deputy director of the directorate, at Vneshekonombank (2004-2007). From 2007-2012, he was first deputy chairman of Vneshekonombank.
Pavel Fradkov (born 1981), the youngest son of SVR head Mikhail Fradkov, was appointed to the post of deputy head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) on 27 August 2012. Prior to this appointment he held responsible posts at the Russian Federation Foreign Ministry and the Russian Federation Federal Security Service (FSB). He graduated from the Moscow Suvorov Military School (1998), the Federal Security Service Academy (2003), and the Russian Federation Foreign Ministry’ Diplomatic Academy (2005).
The son of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitriy Kozak, Aleksey (born 1984), has held the post of investment manager at the department for direct investments and special projects at the company VTB-Kapital since 2009. In 2008, Aleksey Kozak worked at the Russian Federation Regional Development Ministry. In 2005, after graduating from the Higher School of Economics, he held the post of head of the capital markets department at the company MacBright & Partners, specializing in real estate operations.
The son of Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Zhukov, Petr (born 1983), is co-owner and a member of the supervisory board at the Moscow bank Unifin. Since January 2006, Petr Zhukov had owned 20% of the shares at Unifin, he reduced his holding to 4.6% in the spring of 2007. From 2004 to 2007 he worked at the London office of the Swiss UBS Investment Bank, and he worked for some time at Vneshprombank. In 2004 he graduated with honors from the Law Faculty at the Higher School of Economics, he is a candidate of economic sciences.
Denis Bortnikov (born 1974), the son of Russian FSB Director Aleksandr Bortnikov, has been a member of the board at the open joint-stock company VTB Bank since November 2011. Denis Bortnikov has worked at the VTB bank since January 2006, he held the post of deputy manager of the St Petersburg branch of the open joint-stock company Vneshtorgbank (now the VTB) until 2007, from 2007-2011 he was deputy chairman of the board and department head, first deputy chairman of the board, and chairman of the board at the open joint-stock company VTB Bank North-West, and from March-November 2011 he was head of the North-West regional center, and senior vice president of the open joint-stock company VTB Bank. Before joining VTB, Denis Bortnikov worked at the open joint-stock company Industry and Construction Bank (1996-2004), and from 2004-2006 he was an adviser to the manager and deputy manager of the North-West branch of Guta-bank. Denis Bortnikov graduated from the St Petersburg University of Economics and Finance in 1996.
Dmitriy Patrushev (born 1977), the eldest son of Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev, has been chairman of the board and a member of the supervisory board at the open joint-stock company Rosselkhozbank, since May 2010. Dmitriy Patrushev is a graduate of the State University of Management (1999), the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy (2004), and a doctor of economic sciences. From 2004-2010, he worked at the VTB bank, where he has held the post of the bank’s senior vice-president since 2007.
Andrey Patrushev (born 1981), the youngest son of Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev, has since February 2012 been the first deputy general director of the Russian-Vietnamese company Vietsovpetro, whose members include Zarubezhneft and PetroVietnam. Prior to this appointment, he worked from the autumn of 2011 at Zarubezhneft, where he was in charge of the Vietnamese sphere.
Andrey Patrushev graduated from the FSB Academy (2003), he served as deputy head of the 9 th department (oil and gas industry) of the P (Industry) administration of the Russian Federation FSB. In 2006 he was appointed as an advisor to the chairman of the Rosneft board of directors, who at that time was Igor Sechin (then deputy head of the Presidential Staff), and he was later moved to the post of head of one of its subsidiaries. In 2011, he left the state company at his own request.
Aleksandr Ivanov (born 1977), the eldest son of Sergey Ivanov the head of the Russian Federation Presidential Staff, has been deputy chairman of the state corporation the Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vneshekonombank) since April 2012. Aleksandr Ivanov has been working at the Vneshekonombank since 2006, he held the post of director of the department for structural and debt financing from 2007-2011. He worked from 2002 to 2006 at the open joint-stock company VTB, where he was managing director of the department for corporate development and financial assets in 2006. From 2000-2002, Aleksandr Ivanov was an expert in the department for Russian banks, the banks of the CIS countries and the Baltic states at the administration for interbank cooperation of Vneshekonombank. He graduated from the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Moscow State Institute of International Relations (2000) and the Russian Federation government’s Finance Academy (2003).
Sergey Ivanov (born 1980), the youngest son of Russian Presidential Staff head Sergey Ivanov, is chairman of the board at the SOGAZ open joint-stock company (since 2011) and a member of the board of directors at the open joint-stock company Gazprombank. Sergey Ivanov junior has worked at Gazprombank since 2004. In 2005, he was appointed to the post of vice-president of Gazprombank, in 2008 he was promoted to board member and first vice-president, and from 2009-2011 he was deputy chairman of the board at Gazprombank. From 2003 to 2005 Sergey Ivanov worked as the main expert at the administration for international projects at the Gazprom open joint-stock company. In 2001, he graduated from the Russian Federation Foreign Ministry’s Moscow State Institute of International Relations, specializing in finance and credit.
Sergey Matviyenko (born 1973), the son of Federation Council Chair Valentina Matviyenko, is the general director of the closed joint-stock company VTB Development; the company carries out construction projects in St Petersburg. From 2004 to 2006 he held the post of vice-president for information technology at VTB, he then headed the company VTB Capital, which was later renamed VTB Development. In p arallel, he worked at the Saint Petersburg Bank, first in the post of head of the directorate for information technology, and in April 2003 he took the post of vice president. In July 2010, Sergey Matviyenko left the bank, however he remained the beneficial owner of 4.12% of the bank’s voting shares.
Yuliya Shoygu (born 1977), the daughter of Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu, is the director of the Russian Emergencies Ministry’s Center for Emergency Psychological Aid. She started to work at the Russian Federation Emergencies Ministry’s Center for Emergency Psychological Aid in 1999 as a psychologist. Two years later she became deputy director. She was appointed director of this center in 2002. She graduated from the psychology faculty of Moscow State University, she is a candidate of psychological sciences.
Oleg, the son of the Sberbank head German Gref, has held the post of vice-president of the consultancy group NEO-Tsentr Ltd for matters of strategic development since 2009. From 2003-2009, he worked at Deutsche Bank in London and then at the bank’s Russian branch. He graduated from the legal faculty at Moscow State University in 2004.
Dmitriy Tuleyev (born 1968), the eldest son of the governor of Kemerovo Oblast, Aman Tuleyev, is the head of the Federal State Establishment the Federal Administration of the Highways of Siberia (Sibupravtodor) under the Russian Federation Transport Ministry.
Arkadiy (born 1993), the eldest son of the Roman Abramovich, the chairman of the Duma of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, billionaire and entrepreneur, has his own investment company — ARA Capital Limited, named Arkadiya. In addition, he owns a 26% stake in Crosby Asset Management. Both companies specialize in investments in oil and gas assets throughout the world. He is currently on an assignment at the London office of VTB Kapital — a subsidiary structure of the second largest Russian bank in asset terms –VTB.
Andrey Murov (born 1970), the son of Yevgeniy Murov the head of the Russian Federation Federal Protection Service (FSO), is the first deputy chairman of the board at the open joint-stock company Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System (OAO FSK YeES) and the executive director of the open joint-stock company MRSK Holding. He joined MRSK Holding in the post of deputy chairman of the board in February 2012, in June he became deputy chairman of the board at FSK YeES, and in July executive director of the open joint-stock company MRSK Holding. Prior to this, he worked from 2004 at Pulkovo Airport (St Petersburg) where he held the posts of: first deputy general director and director of production (2004-2005), acting general director of Pulkovo Airport (2005-2006), and general director of Pulkovo Airport (2006-2012). From 2003-2004, he worked as director of general affairs at the company General Data Comm and in 2002-2003 he was general director at Yevrostroykomplekt (a construction organization working as a subcontractor for Vodokanal SPb).
He graduated from the law faculty at St Petersburg State University (1993), and the interdisciplinary institute for enhancing the qualifications and r etraining managerial staff under the St Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, specializing in management (1998); he is a candidate of economic sciences.
Feliks (born 1978), the son of Vladimir Yevtushenkov, one the richest men in Russia, an entrepreneur and chairman of the board of directors at the open joint-stock company AFK Sistema, is first vice-president of AFK Sistema, and the chairman of the board of directors at the oil company Bashneft. From 2003 to 2008 he headed the open joint-stock company Sistema-Gals. In the year 2000, he graduated from the Griboyedov Institute of International Law and Economics, specializing in jurisprudence.
Vladimir Yevtushenkov’s daughter, Tatyana (born 1976), is an advisor to the president of Sberbank and a member of the board of directors at the open joint-stock company Mobile Telesystems (MTS). She has been vice-president of the open joint-stock company MTS s ince 2002 in charge of investments and corporate development. She graduated from the Academy of Finance under the Russian Federation government.