$442 million Married with one daughter Interests: investments, banking, pharmaceutical distribution, sports
A banker from Zaporizhia, Ihor Dvoretsky controlled Zaporizhstal steel plant with his partners until they sold a majority stake to Russian investors earlier this year.
He has his fingers in many other pies. He is regarded as the brains behind IndustrialBank and Express Bank, which outperformed analysts’ predictions in 2010.
One sweet deal allows Express Bank to take commission from all train tickets sold online by the state railway company – a nice little earner in the years to come, no doubt.
A native of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, Dvoretsky is an engineer by education who turned banker in Ukraine during the early 1990s.
He became a shareholder and member of Zaporizhstal’s advisory board in 1999.
In addition to his banking investments, the entrepreneur is co-founder of the regional pharmaceutical distributor, Elitpharm, and benefactor of the Zaporizhia Oblast’s most successful soccer club, Metallurg.
