Boyko Oleg Viktorovich (photo below) is a Russian entrepreneur, producer and billionaire. Head of Finstar. Included in the rating "The Richest Businessmen of the Russian Federation" from the Forbes publication. In 2016, Boyko was in 58th place with a fortune of $ 1.2 billion. This article will present a brief biography of the entrepreneur.
Childhood and family
Boyko Oleg Viktorovich was born in Moscow in 1964. The boy’s mother was a researcher at the Research Institute of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants. And Dad led the enterprise, the NGO Rise.
Parents identified Oleg in a school with a physical and mathematical bias. Since childhood, Boyko had extraordinary abilities not only for the queen of sciences. The boy also had other talents. For example, passed the exam for a black belt in karate. Later Oleg organized a section on this martial arts in the educational institution. This was the first experience of a young man in entrepreneurship.
Carier start
In 1981, Boyko Oleg entered the Aviation Institute (Moscow) at the Faculty of Radio Electronics. Already from the second year, the future billionaire combined his studies with work in the information and computer center of Moscow State University. After graduating from high school, Oleg went to receive additional education abroad - in the USA and Britain. Returning home, Boyko founded a cooperative for the sale of software and computer equipment.
Before receiving an injury (fracture of the spine after falling from the second floor), he could simultaneously engage in several projects at once. Among them: the lands of the NGO Rise, politics, Cherry casino, Metelitsa club, Ogonyok magazine, Izvestia publishing house (share), shares of television channels, fruit imports, banking institutions, real estate operations, foreign exchange shops "OLBI-Diplomat." But after being injured in the fall of 1996, his life changed, and he lost the status of a public person.
New directions
In 1999, Boyko Oleg entered into a partnership with Alexander Abramov. Together they established Evrazholding, which engaged in the exchange of debts of metallurgical enterprises for their shares. Subsequently, Boyko sold his stake in this company for $ 600 million.
In 2001, the entrepreneur began to build a business, which made him a billionaire in the future. Together with Boris Belotserkovsky, who was involved in the production of slot machines, Oleg acquired a network of Vulcan establishments. Later they entered the Ritzio international holding.
In 2003, together with Dmitry Zelenin (ex-governor of the Tver region) Boyko acquired the Latvian VTB Bank, opening a network of its foreign representative offices. Then the entrepreneur sold it to an American company for $ 120 million.
Business expansion
In 2007, Boyko Oleg created Finstar. After a couple of years, the businessman renamed it. Now Finstroy was engaged in the implementation of projects in the field of gambling business and real estate trading. In addition to the Russian Federation, the company served customers from the CIS countries, the USA, Latin America and Europe. Oleg Viktorovich also founded the Smak retail chain, acquired Almond supermarkets in Zhigulevsk, Togliatti and Samara. And the businessman also owned the Rive Gauche chain of cosmetics and perfumery stores. In 2012, he sold a controlling stake for $ 140 million.
Personal life
Divorced - Boyko Oleg Viktorovich currently has such a family status. The wife of a businessman is not a public person. There is no information about her. The couple did not have children.
Property and hobbies
Oleg owns a collection of colored glass figures, antique books, elegant and cutting-edge real estate, including the Blade yacht, an Italian villa on Lake Como, a penthouse in Monaco, bachelor housing in Kiev, apartments in Dubai and an apartment in Riga. By the way, the cost of the yacht is estimated at $ 20 million. It can also be rented (125-139 thousand euros per week).
According to rumors, Boyko has an apartment in London. Moreover, in the same house where Prince Charles used to live. Oleg Viktorovich even drove a car of the same brand (Daimler) as the royal lady. Only the Prince of Wales' car was blue, and Boyko preferred black. Among the interests of a billionaire is a game of roulette and cards.
Present day
In 2016, Boyko Oleg, through the Finstar fund, invested in the German Internet service Spotcap. This company specializes in lending to businesses and provides services in Australia, Spain and the Netherlands. $ 30 million - this is the total amount Boyko invested in an online bank.
Alekseev Ivan Leonidovich (entrepreneur, Novosibirsk)