Juozas Kazickas

Juozas Petras Kazickas ( born April 16, 1918 in Tschjornaja Padina, province of Saratov, Russia) is a Lithuanian entrepreneur, business consultant, self-made billionaire, philanthropist and patron.

Education and emigration

1937 graduated from Juozas Petras Kazickas Vileišis trade school Pasvalys and then he studied economics at the University of Vilnius, where he met his wife Aleksandra. In 1942 he finished his studies and went into business. In 1944 he emigrated to Germany, then to the USA. 1951 doctorate Juozas Kazickas at Yale University. He was scientifically active, advised companies and engaged in the activities of the Lithuanian emigrant organizations. Later he entered the trade in petroleum and mineral resources. After 35 years of exile, he returned to Lithuania and began a brisk business.

Activity in Lithuania

In 1991, the company Kazickas Litcom (now Omnitel ), which invested in Lithuania LTL 1 billion. Subsequent sales to the Scandinavian TeliaSonera, Kazickas earned about $ 0.5 billion.

Kazickas advised several U.S. corporations such as Philip Morris, Coca -Cola, Motorola, who wanted to gain a foothold in Lithuania, including the skandalumwitterteten Investor Williams, the business returned to the U.S. after several years. Alone, Philip Morris estimated the value of the consulting help of Kazickas to $ 250,000. ( Though it does not actually consulting agreement was ).

The assets of Kazickas in 2006 was, according to the magazine " Veidas " over 1 billion LTL. A launched by Kazickas Foundation, Dr. P. Juozo Kazicko fondas, supported the program support project "School for informative society", Lithuanian Olympic Movement, the National Committee and Lithuanian Olympian. 2000 Kazickas supported the renovation of the way to Golgotha ​​in Jerusalem. In the same year he became a laureate of the Verslo SLOVES galerija ( Gallery of the Lithuanian economy ).

Awards

  • Medal of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (1937 )
  • Sauliu Sąjungos Ordinas (1973 )
  • Sausio 13 - osios atminimo Medalis (1992 )
  • Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas III. Class (1995 )
  • Ellis Iceland ( JAV) Medal of Honor (1996 )
  • Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas First Class (1998)
  • Honorary Doctorate ( Doctor Honoris Causa ) Kaunas University of Technology
  • Order for Services to Lithuania (2008)
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