Alexei Mordashov

Alexei Alexandrovich Mordaschow (Russian Алексей Александрович Мордашов; born September 26, 1965 at the North Russian Cherepovets ) is a Russian entrepreneur. He is the CEO of the company Severstal and General Director of Severstal Group. The business magazine Forbes estimated his fortune in the spring of 2008 to 21.2 billion dollars.

Biography

Until 1988 Mordaschow studied at the Leningrad Togliatti - School of Business and Technology. There he met the later Russian Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais know who taught at that university at that time.

After graduating Alexei Mordaschow took a job at Tscherepowezer Metallurgical Combine. There he worked in the administration and later rose to deputy director of the Policy Planning Staff.

1992, in the early days of privatization of Russian state-owned enterprises, Mordaschow was economic and financial director of the metallurgical combine, which was converted soon afterwards in the joint stock company OAO Severstal. The Director General of the combine, Yuri Lipuchin, Mordaschow responsible for carrying out the privatization of the company. The then 27 -year-old Mordaschow then founded a subsidiary called Severstal -invest that 24% belonged to the Combine and 76% him self in whose name he then bought the shares of the metallurgical work on and thus gained control of the company.

Since 2000 Mordaschow is a member of the Russian - German intergovernmental commission on strategic cooperation in the economic and finance.

On 5 October 2007 Alexei Mordaschow signed with Siemens AG signed an agreement on a long-term cooperation in the development of the Russian engineering group Silowyje Mashiny. About his S- Group Travel Holding, he is a 25 percent owner of the largest TUI.