Sergei Tigipko - Career Man
Net Worth: $345 million
Age: 49
Marital status: Married, one daughter
Last year: $1.6 billion
Industry: Construction, finance
“People who try to combine state service and business are making a mistake,” said Sergei Tigipko at the beginning of March 2008, in an interview with Korrespondent. Two weeks later he had become a freelance adviser to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. In May 2009 Tigipko left his post as CEO of Swedbank put himself forward as a candidate for president of Ukraine. What’s going on? Surely the owner of TAS business group is not leaving business? Hardly. First, he needs to win the elections first. Second, in Ukraine a political career has never stopped anyone from increasing their private capital. Third, politics is not the world beyond – many people return from there to business. Examples? Sergei Leonidovich Tigipko – in the past Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, economy minister and president of the National Bank. You have to give him credit for his talents – in all positions he was an effective manager. But he’s been more successful in business. “With my extensive experience in business and in state structures, I approach any problem pragmatically,” he emphasized in an interview with Korrespondent on May 29.
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