Akimov Andrei Igorevich - banker, financier, top manager of the largest Russian gas industry bank Gazprombank.
In 2013, he ranked fourth in the ranking of the twenty five most expensive top managers in Russia according to Forbes. In 2012, Gazprom, according to Forbes, paid about $ 84 million to its key managers.
The share of Andrei Akimov in Gazprom is 0.02 percent, which, according to Forbes, is about two million dollars.
He currently holds the position of Chairman of the Board of Gazprombank Public Joint Stock Company.
Age - 63 years. Married.
He speaks two foreign languages - German and English.
Biography
Akimov Andrei Igorevich was born on September 22, 1953 in St. Petersburg (Leningrad).
In 1970 he entered the faculty of international economics of the IPA (Moscow Finance Academy). He graduated in 1975 and received a specialist degree in banking, finance and the international economy.
He began his career in the largest Soviet state corporation - Vneshtorgbank of the USSR, where he worked for fourteen years from 1985 to 1999. In this organization, he held leadership positions.
He worked at Vneshtorgbank in Zurich for two years. He was the head of the Swiss branch of Vneshtorgbank as deputy general director of a bank branch.
Achievement list
In the period from 1987 to 1990, the banker worked in the system of Soviet foreign banks. The position of the General Director at DonauBank in Austria (Vienna) was occupied by Akimov Andrey Igorevich. The financier's family also lived in Vienna during this time period.
In the nineties and the beginning of the zero (until 2002), Andrei Akimov was the managing director of IMAG, GmbH, an Austrian company engaged in the procurement of Russian oil products.
At the same time period (from 1991 to 2002) he was a full-time adviser to the chairman of the board of Vneshtorgbank.
Chairman of the Board of Gazprombank
On October 21, 2002, the Board of Shareholders of Gazprombank Closed Joint-Stock Company approved Andrei Akimov as chairman of the bank.
At Gazprom, Akimov Andrei Igorevich was involved in financing current and investment projects of the bank. He participated in the issue and placement of bonds and improved the structure of the bank’s share capital.
An equally important area in the activities of Andrei Akimov was the expansion of cooperation with world financial organizations, foreign and Russian banks.
Gazprombank (Moscow)
Gazprombank Joint Stock Company is a Russian commercial bank in the gas industry. The largest financial institution in Russia. It was founded in 1990 with an authorized capital of 25 billion rubles. Owns own capital in the amount of 272 billion rubles. It provides investment, banking and financial services to corporate clients and individuals.
Chairman of the Board of Directors - Alexey Miller Miller.
Chairman of the Board - Akimov Andrey Igorevich
The address of the head office of Gazprombank JSC is Moscow, ul. Novocheremushkinskaya, 63.
The staff for 2016 is about ten thousand people.
Gazprombank provides financial services to legal entities and individuals in the field of gas, machine-building, chemical, defense, nuclear, metallurgical, transport, construction and other industries.
It offers a wide range of solutions for the retail business in the form of credit programs, electronic bank cards, deposit accounts and settlement transactions.
It is included in the TOP-3 of the largest Russian banks and occupies a leading position in the list of European banks in terms of capitalization.
In total, the bank has about 3 million individual customers and about forty-five thousand legal entities.
The bank lends and services the largest interstate projects:
- YamalEurope - is engaged in the construction of the largest gas pipeline from Siberia to Europe.
- Blue Stream - is engaged in the construction of a gas pipeline along the bottom of the Black Sea from Russia to Turkey.
- Construction of a gas pipeline in southern, eastern and central Europe.
- Gas supplies to South Korea, Japan, China.
Gazprombank has forty-three branches in Russia. Representative offices operate in China (Beijing), Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar), India (New Delhi).
Further career
In June 2003, Andrei Igorevich Akimov became a member of the Board of Directors of Sogaz Public Joint Stock Company.
Since 2004, she has been a member of the coordinating council of the joint venture of Gazprom and the Austrian company Raiffeisen Investment, the company RosUkrEnergo. The organization specializes in gas supplies from Turkmenistan to Ukraine.
In 2006, Andrei Igorevich Akimov joined the new Board of Directors of Sibur-Holding Public Joint-Stock Company.
In December 2006, he joined the Board of Directors of Novatek Public Joint Stock Company.
He is a member of the board of directors of the Zenit football club.