Alexander Vinokurov (businessman)

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Semenovich and the family name is Vinokurov.

Alexander Semenovich Vinokurov (Russian: Александр Семёнович Винокуров, born 12 October 1982 Moscow) is a Russian businessman. He is one of the main owners of the privately held investment company Marathon Group and largest shareholder of retailer Magnit.^[1] Vinokurov was added to the EU Sanctions List on 9 March 2022 for providing a substantial source of revenue to the government of the Russian Federation during the Russo-Ukrainian War.^[2][3]

Alexander Vinokurov
Born	Alexander Semenovich Vinokurov 12 October 1982 (1982-10-12) (age 40) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Education	University of Cambridge
Occupation	Businessman
Spouse	Ekaterina Lavrova
Children	3
Website	en.marathongroup.ru

Early life

Sasha Vinokurov was born in Moscow on 12 October 1982 to Semyon Vinokurov.^[4]

Education

In 2004, Vinokurov graduated with honours from the faculty of economics of the University of Cambridge.^[4] He received a BA in economics. During the period of his studies, he established the Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society, a student organisation, and was elected its president.

Business

In 2001, he interned at the Troika Dialog, which was under the control of Andrey Borodin with a large stake owned by Ruben Vardanyan who recommended to Vinokurov to gain employment at Morgan Stanley.^[4][a]

In 2004, Vinokurov joined the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley (London).^[4]

In 2006, he returned to Russia as vice-president of TPG Capital (the world's largest private equity investment firm, with $100 billion in assets under its management), co-founding the company's Russian office. He was involved in acquisitions of a number of major assets, including shares in VTB upon the state bank's privatisation, stakes in the Moscow office centres White Square and White Gardens, Ontex S.A. (a Belgian manufacturer of personal hygiene products with Russian production facilities), Strauss Coffee and the Lenta hypermarket chain.

In 2011, Vinokurov became president of Summa Group, a diversified private holding company, which has significant investments in port and rail logistics, engineering, construction, telecommunications, oil and gas, oil trading and agriculture. Major deals concluded during his tenure included the acquisition of a 71% stake in Fesco from Sergey Generalov's Industrial Investors and the purchase of a 50% stake in United Grain Company from the state.^[6]

In 2014, he became CEO of A1, the investment arm of Alfa Group, which he left in May 2017. Major transactions by A1 during Vinokurov's time there included the sale of Formula Kino, Russia's second-largest cinema chain, to structures controlled by Alexander Mamut (RUB 6.75–7.65 billion));^[7] acquisition of a stake in Polyplastic (one of Russia's largest manufacturers of plastic pipes), and others.

In October 2015, although Alexey Repik [ru], ^[b] who is the founder and owner of R-Pharm, competed for control of SIA, Vinokurov gained control of the Sintez [ru; Sintez] pharmaceutical factory in Kurgan, 75% stake in the Biocom plant in Stavropol, 100% ownership of Mega Pharm and became an indirect 100% owner of SIA International [ru], now known as SIA Group, which was founded in 1993 by Igor Rudinsky (1954-2014) and is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Russia.^[18][19][20]

From 2017, Vinokurov focused on developing co-owned Marathon Group. Marathon Group was founded in 2017 by Vinokurov and Sergei Zakharov. The Company primarily focuses on strategic investments in retail, FMCG, infrastructure and other projects with subsequent development of the assets. Current investments of Marathon Group include shareholdings in a leading food retail chain Magnit, the largest franchisee of quick service restaurants in Russia, Demetra-Holding (the largest vertically integrated grain holding company in Russia with export logistics and trading assets) and Bentus Laboratories (producer of hand sanitizers). Recent highlights: turn-around and sale of pharmaceutical companies Sintez, Biocom and Fort, of pharmaceutical distributor SIA Group, and financial investment in Fix Price (a leading variety value retailer in Russia).^[21]

As of February 2021^[update], Vinokurov controls stakes in such companies as one of Russia's largest food retailer Magnit, an international restaurant brand KFC, a division of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), Demetra Holding – Russian grain exports infrastructure company and Santinelle, leading Russia's producer of instant hand sanitisers.

Civic activities

Vinokurov is a member of the supervisory board of the Russian Cycling Federation and Rugby Union of Russia, co-founder of Marathon-Tula Cycling Team.

Since 2021, he is a board member of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).^[22]

Sanctions

Vinokurov was added to the EU Sanctions List on 9 March 2022 for providing a substantial source of revenue to the government of the Russian Federation.^[23][24]

Family and personal life

Vinokurov is married to Ekaterina Vinokurova (née Lavrova) (born 1982 New York City), daughter of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov. She graduated from Manhattan's The Dwight School, majored in political science receiving a degree from Columbia University, and then studied for two years at the London School of Economics and received her master's in economics from there in 2006.^{[25][26][27][28]} After Russian special services noticed a $500 million contract on the internet for murdering both Alexander and Ekaterina Vinokurov addressed to Alexey Sherstobitov [ru] (Lesha the Soldat or Lesha the Soldier) in the fall of 2014, she and her husband moved to Moscow where she is the head of Christie's branch in Moscow.^{[27][28][29][30]} They have three children.^[4][31]

Vinokurov is fond of sports. He sponsored the Russian aquabike championship at 2019.^[32] Vinokurov's Marathon Group is also sponsor for FC Dynamo Moscow.

Notes

1. In March 2011, Ruben Vardanyan's controlling stake in Troika Dialog was purchased by Sberbank CIB for $1 billion.^[5]
2. Alexey Repik (born 27 August 1979 Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian citizen who lives in San Francisco with his wife Polina, who is a model, and his children and established R-Pharm in 2001, which one of the largest supplier's of drugs for HIV and hepatitis in Russia and is large provider of pharmaceuticals to the Russian military. He has business ties to Darren Blanton through Colt Ventures and Konstantin Nikolaev through Grabr in which they both invested in August 2016 and attended the Liberty Ball in Washington, D.C., on 17 January 2017 with President Trump after the inauguration of Donald Trump. Konstantin Nikolaev's son Andrey Nikolaev was also at Trump's inauguration and was a volunteer at Trump's 2016 presidential campaign headquarters. Repik's mother Valeria Daeva has a very close associate that is with the logistics service of the FSB.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]}

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