Biography
Andrei Kostin is the head of the system-forming VTB Bank, the second largest in Russia and one of the pillars of the country's economy. In his youth, the financier was a diplomat, so caution and hidden optimism are traced in his speeches. Despite the sanctions and the tense political situation, the banker "works fine, calmly and clearly."Childhood and youth
The official biography of Andrei Leonidovich is scarce on details. Born in 1956 in the family of an employee of the office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and the teacher of the Academy of Labor. In addition to the general education, he graduated from a music school in the violin class. In 1979 he received a diploma of the Economic Faculty of Moscow State University with honors.
The young man had a happy opportunity to see the world than he did not slow down. From 1982 to 1985, Kostin worked in the Consulate General of the Soviet Union in Sydney, then she worked for 5 years at the embassy in the capital of Britain. For another 2 years, Andrei held the post of advisor to the European Department of the Soviet Ministry.
Later in the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, the diplomat defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of economic sciences.
Personal life
With his wife Natalia, Gordeva Banker met at the university - they studied at one course of Moscow State University. Couple had a son Andrei. Kostin Jr. went in the footsteps of his father, graduated from the Financial Academy and the special program of Deutsche Bank, worked in the London Bank division, for 2011 he climbed the career ladder to the Deputy Chairman of the Board.In the summer of the same year, the only heir to the Chairman of the Board of VTB died in an accident, riding on the Quadrocycle.
However, the yellow press writes that Andrei Leonidovich has more children. The mother of the son of Egor is called Oksana Lavrentiev, a former model and an actress, shot in the clips of Russian pop stars, and now - a businesswoman and a secular lioness. According to rumors, the daughter of Alina remained from the previous relationship, she was married twice, while in the 2018th did not suit a personal life with the writer Alexander Tsapkin.
What connects Kostina with a journalist Nail Asker-Zade, is unknown. The media is content with the results of the so-called investigation of the Foundation to combat corruption Alexei Navalny. The opposition politician claims that the banker has rewrote on TV presenter elite real estate, pays for EE vacation on luxury yachts and provides plane for flights, "registered for eye removal" in the overseas offshores.
Ocobo rye representatives of the writing brachia saw in the photo in "Instagram" colleagues watches, bags and other accessories for millions of rubles and concluded that it is impossible to purchase them on the salary of journalists. Naila in response only laughed. It is clear that Kostin did not comment on the situation.
In addition, the Internet community requested that sites that place the notes of the banker's novel with Asker-Zade are blocked. Roskomnadzor explains it by decisions of the Court, which are carried out on the claims of VTB on the protection of honor and dignity of their top manager.
Andrei Leonidovich is fond of mountain skiing, theater and painting, maintains the capital theater of Peter Fomenko. The banker bought at the auction and gave the state museum in Pavlovsk a breakfast service that belonged to Empress Maria Fedorovna.
Career
In 1992, Kostin left the state service in business - along with the current owner of the newspaper Independent Alexander Lebedev worked in the Russian investment and financial company, then in the "Imperial" bank and the National Reserve Bank.
In the fall of 1996, President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree on the appointment of Andrei Chairman of Vnesheconombank, who was responding after the union for servicing the debts of the USSR and assets. Ego candidacy suggested a former university teacher Sergei Dubinin.
After 5 years, the merger of Vnesheconombank with VTB occurred. Kostin became Chairman of the Board of the New Financial Structure - VTB Group, and now also includes the Bank's Supervisory Board. During this time, the company "Guta-Bank", "Bank of Moscow" and VTB 24 were joined in the company, and subsidiaries in Georgia, France, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Ukraine appeared. Each year the services are expanded, "Post-Bank", leasing companies, retirement funds and real estate management agencies are created.
VTB Financially supports Hockey Club "Dynamo", the Kremlin Cup for tennis, a basketball single league, is part of the founders of the non-profit organization "Rosalki", which is responsible for the Formula 1 stage in Sochi.
In 2007, Kostin entered the board of directors of OJSC Russian Railways, in 2010 refused re-election, wanting to fully focus at work in VTB.
The political career of the banker began in the spring of 1997, when he was elected a member of the political council of the movement "Our House - Russia". After 10 years, he entered the Supreme Council of United Russia. In November 2011, Kostin was chairman of the Business Council of the Summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Vladivostok.
In 2014, the financier was headed by SPbSU Business School. In the care of Andrei - Big and Mariinsky Theaters, MGIMO and Moscow State University, Russian Geographical Society and the Federation of Sports Gymnastics of Russia.
Andrei Kostin now
Calculated by the sanctions banking system of Russia is experiencing not the best times, and VTB is no exception. However, his head retains a combat mood. Since 2017, the Bank's shares fell by 40%, but Kostin was confident that in the 2020th financial organization will enter the profit of € 2.8 billion. This allows you to preserve the profitability of own capital, which means that the market resistance.The sanctions apply to the financier personally. In 2019, Andrei did not allow the World Financial Forum in Davos as a person included in the American SDN List. The organizers issued an invitation only after the threats of the Chairman of the Government not send the Russian delegation to Switzerland at all.
According to Andrei Leonidovich, the main task for VTB is the transition to a digital format of work. In this sector of the economy, new technologies are implemented faster and easier.
"We are trying to get out of the rest, as well as break into other industries. We want to create an ecosystem, inside which our services will be used in transport, commercial and other areas. "Posts
- President-Chairman of the Board, member of the Supervisory Board of VTB
- Member of the Board of Directors of AO VTB Capital
- Member of the Board of Directors, JSC Holding VTB Capital
- Member of the Board of Directors LLC Holding VTB Capital Ai Bi
- Member of the Supreme Council of the All-Russian Political Party "United Russia"