Net Worth: $ 499 million (June 2008)

Age: 40 years old

Marital status: Married, has a son

Last year: -

Industry: Petrochemistry, food industry

As it should be among friends, they all shared everything fifty-fifty. Stepan Ivahiv and his old friend Igor Eremeev (# 40) in 1985 they shared a room in a dormitory while they were students in Rivne. “Since then we communicate with each other every day”, Eremeev confessed during an interview to the internet publication Ukrainska Pravda. Now they split fifty-fifty the shares of business concern Continuum. During their third year at the institute, the friends got involved in sewing leather jackets. In 1992 the graduates of the water economy Institute, Ivahiv and his partner registered an enterprise  - Private Enterprise Continuum.  Since then, they began to trade in food products and oil products, which they fortunately came across in Riga (Latvia). Not going into the details of the creation of financial and industrial group in the period of wild capitalism of 1990s, one can just sum it up: Ivahiv is a millionaire with experience.