He is considered a real workaholic, because he devotes maximum time to work. This quality has helped him become one of the most respected persons in domestic trade. And in the past, he was an entertainer, the head of an advertising agency, an aircraft builder, a retailer, and an international specialist. And in all these areas of activity Lev Khasis succeeded. The banking sector, in which he was offered a job, also became a native businessman over time. What was his path to Olympus of entrepreneurship, and what career heights have been achieved? Let's consider this question in more detail.
Years of childhood and youth
Khasis Lev Aronovich - a native of the city of Samara. He was born into a Jewish family. Parents of the future entrepreneur worked at a local aircraft factory. But the profession of a businessman in the family was perceived negatively, so a boy from a young age dreamed that he would manufacture aircraft.
Naturally, having received a certificate of maturity, Lev Khasis began to prepare for admission to the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute (KuAI), to the faculty of aircraft engineering. He successfully passed the entrance exams and became a student at the specified university.
However, within the walls of the institute, he showed interest not only in engineering, but also in organizing entertainment events. Lev Khasis prepared KVN, Student Spring, moving columns from place to place and buying the necessary props in stores. When he will occupy senior positions in large enterprises, he will begin to actively sponsor the local Samara Aircraft KVN team.
Start of work
Studying in the last year of the institute, Lev Khasis was already the head of the KuAI International Relations Department. His duties included interest foreign applicants to study at the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute on a paid basis. And soon the young man on an equal footing opened two whole advertising agencies: Vekt and InterVolga.
According to unofficial data, his father-in-law Vyacheslav Burakov, who was the owner of the printing house, assisted in organizing the advertising business for the young man.
Niva Entrepreneurship
In the late 1980s, the young man received the coveted diploma. However, Khasis Lev Aronovich for a couple of years with the head goes into the advertising business. During this period, he heads the commercial structure of Samara Trading House JSC.
In 1993, a graduate of KuAI transferred to work at AvtoVAZbank, and after a while he was appointed arbitration manager of a large enterprise of Aviakor Corporation OJSC. ” Already in 1996, he was transformed from an “external observer” into the president of this commercial structure. And the situation at Aviakor was critical: the plant’s products were not claimed on the market, there were huge salary debts, and in order to pay off employees, we had to create a number of non-core subsidiaries: Aviakor-builder, Aviakor-mebel, and so on.
But even in this way, it was not possible to fully repay the debt in a short time.
Help came from outside
The situation straightened out in the late 1990s, when large tycoon Oleg Deripaska invested in the Samara Region. He bought the business from Khasis, and he was offered the position of vice president of SibAla. However, Lev Aronovich preferred the role of “free artist”. A businessman changes one position after another: member of the expert advisory board under the chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, head of the executive body of JSC TSUM Trading House, representative of the law firm Mikhail Barschevsky ...
Retail industry
A turning point in the career of a KuAI graduate occurred in 2002, when Khasis Lev Aronovich, whose biography is of interest to a huge number of entrepreneurs, receives an offer to become the head of the board of directors of TD Perekrestok. Such a gift was presented to him by his longtime friends from Alfa Group. The businessman immediately realized that retailers would bring good profit: a buyer from the “middle class” category appeared not only in megacities, but also on the periphery.
In 2006, two large retail chains merged, such as Perekrestok and Pyaterochka. As a result, a large structure of 5 Retail Group was formed, and Lev Aronovich took the post of chief executive officer in it. In this capacity, he will work hard until 2011.
Khasis showed his best business skills while working in X5. He invented corporate orders, an anthem and other components of the culture of the “labor collective”. However, despite the scale of the company’s activities, the manager of X5 was not able to defeat the Magnit trading network in terms of the pace of development. As a result, in 2011, Mikhail Fridman decided to update the staff of the leadership, and Lev Aronovich left the trading network.
Rainbow Perspective at Sberbank
So, for the graduate, the question of what to do next is again relevant. And soon he receives a tempting offer from German Gref, who headed almost the country's main credit organization.
The banking sector could be a great career continuation. And Khasis Lev Aronovich perfectly understood this. Sberbank has already loomed on the horizon, and here it has a chance to build a not-worse career.
And again the trading network
Wal-Mart Stores, an American retailer that has conquered international markets, has offered Khasis a senior vice president of international operations. His workplace was in the state of Arkansas (Bentonvild), and he, without thinking twice, agreed. However, despite all the power and authority of the American trading network, it was not possible to absorb one of the domestic competitors because of their absence. A graduate of KuAI has gained great authority among the leadership of Wal-Mart Stores. It could be assumed that Lev Khasis would cooperate with the Americans for a long time. The anniversary (50 years) was a memorable event for the businessman. He received congratulations from the "chef" Doug Macmillan, who praised his work.
However, he still decided to try himself in the banking sector and in the fall of 2013 became the first deputy head of the board of Sberbank.
A family
Lev Aronovich, like no one else, is happy in his personal life, although he did not meet his real companion right away. Twice a businessman tied himself with marital ties. His first chosen one was Natalia Barschevskaya - the daughter of a famous lawyer. Khasis Lev Aronovich, whose wife was from a wealthy family, was happy when Natalya bore him two sons - Alexander and Leonid. However, in the middle of the zero family idyll, the end came, and the marriage union broke up.
In 2009, he offered a hand and a heart to a young girl named Olga. The wedding ceremony was magnificent, pompous.
Today, a businessman is trying to devote as much time as possible to his family and communication with children.