Biography
Herman Gref is the head of the largest bank in Russia and one of the highest paid top managers of the country. He passed a long way to financially and during the career visited leadership posts in LUKOIL holding, Transneft, Gazprom and Yandex, and also held the chair of the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation. In the economy of the country, German Oskarovich introduced a number of conceptual ideas: on the account of the Chief Banker, the creation of free economic zones, consistent reform of the electric power industry and the taxation system.Childhood and youth
Gref Herman Oskarovich was born on February 8, 1964 under Pavlodar, in the village of Panfilovo, in the family of ethnic Germans. The future head of Sberbank became the third and youngest child in the family, Hermann has the elder brother Eugene and Sister Elena. Gref's parents, Oscar Fedorovich and Emilia Philippovna were educated and intelligent people. Father worked as an engineer, and Mama is an economist in a rural council.
When Gref was fulfilled a year and a half, in the family happened to Mount - Father died, as a result of which mother was left alone with three children on his hands, which the grandmother of the future banker was helped. They taught children restraint, modesty and accuracy, and also helped to master the German language.
Herman Oskarovich's school years have passed successfully. The boy studied well, was an obedient and disciplined student, without delivering his mother's trouble to unsatisfactory behavior. The future head of the Ministry of Economiciazia did not differ in the sciences, but loved the sport and even was the captain of the school basketball team.
At the end of the school, Gref entered MGIMO, but for unknown reasons dropped out of the university after the first year of study. After the deductions, the young man took into the army, the future economist's debt was given in the ranks of the Special Forces of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. After demobilization, Gref became a student of Omsk Law State University at the Faculty of Law.
In 1990, Gref entered the Leningrad graduate school, where the former Mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak, the "Great Father" of an economist in a political career became the supervisor. Thanks to Herman's policy, Gref fell into the St. Petersburg Mostmitary, in the walls of which met the future leadership of the country - Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, as well as other Russian politicians and businessmen from Anatoly Sobchak.
Government
The Biography of Herman Gref received a key direction during the years of restructuring. The position of the head of the Special Committee for the Development of the Russian Federation received an economist. In the role of economic strategist, Herman Gref worked for 7 years, after which the career began to move rapidly to climbing the main political arena of the country.In 1998, he became the Deputy Head of the Ministry of State Property Property of the Russian Federation. A year later, the economist headed the Center for Strategic Developments and entered the Board of the Federal Commission on the Securities Market. In 2000, after the victory in the presidential election, Vladimir Putin, German Oskarovich was invited to a new government to the post of Minister of Economic and Trade of Countries.
The main achievements in this position of German Gref began to lobbying the program to enter Russia in the WTO, carrying out the reform of the electric power industry and taxation in the country, so that the Russian Federation entered the European level of economically developed countries, received the status of a market economy and raised an investment rating.
Head of Sberbank of Russia
In 2007, after the full resignation of the government on the eve of the presidential election, German Gref completed ministerial activities, transferring the powers Elvira Nabiullina. On the recommendation of the Supervisory Board of Sberbank of Russia, Gref was elected president and chairman of the government of the country's largest bank, the position of which occupies to this day.
At the head of Sberbank Herman reached considerable success - thanks to him, the financial institution has become more customer-oriented and globally expanded the client base, which made it possible to increase the net profit of the bank by 74%. Rebranding was conducted by the new chapter in Sberbank, and convenient and technological systems of remote service channels were introduced, which made the financial institution by the leader among banks in Eastern and Central Europe.
At the beginning of 2016, German Gref was in the epicenter of a loud scandal. At the Gaidar Forum, the banker gave an unexpected assessment of the current position of the country at the international economy market. The former Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation called Russia "Country-Downshifter", which fell into the abyss and technological enslavement before the advanced countries of the world.
State Duma deputies acutely responded to such nonpatariotic statements by the head of Sberbank and called for Gref after such derogatory assessments to voluntarily resign from the post of president of the country's largest financial institution.
In 2017, Youtube appeared a short video from the performance of Herman Gref at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, which was broadcast on the channel "Russia-24". The head of Sberbank forgot that there is a live broadcast, and spoke in support of Kabbalah's teachings. In the words of the banker, the thought of the people sounded, who should not have access to the truthful information. Thinking people, according to Gref, are dangerous for government circles, which resort to methods of manipulation.
Herman Gref does not hide that she strives to bring the era of digital domination. The head of Sberbank in his own interview was expressed in support of legalization at the state level Bitcoin - virtual currency. In the summer of 2017, Gref declared the lectures to students that lawyers working in Sberbank will be obliged to master work with neural networks.
In 2017, Herman Gref launched a project to optimize mortgage lending provided by the population of Sberbank. At the meeting with Vladimir Putin, which took place in early August, the Chairman of the Board of the Bank reported on return to the pre-crisis indicators in the work of the lending department.
Personal life
Head of Sberbank German Gref was married twice. Elena Velikanova became his first love, with whom the future banker was friends with school bench. Young people got married immediately at the end of the school. In 1982, the newlyweds were born firstborn - son Oleg. At 17, the young man entered the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University, from where after 3 years I was transferred to Moscow State University. The marriage of Herman Gref with the first wife collapsed even before Herman Oscarovich fell into the government.
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The turning point in the personal life of Herman Oscarovich occurred in 2004. His chosen was the designer Yana Vladimirovna Glumov, the founder of the Khoroshevsky Progimazasia.
Their marriage was outraged by deputies and was widely discussed in the media, since the solemn ceremony was held in the Unique Reserve "Peterhof", the cost of renting the throne room of which reaches several million. In the second marriage, two children were born in the former minister of the Russian Federation.
In an interview with Herman, Gref argued that the "instagram" and Twitter dislikes, but he impresses the Chinese social network of WECHAT, which he uses to stay up to date with the latest international events and conduct tests of various services.
Herman Gref watches his own health and sports form. In the office of the head of Sberbank there are scales. Herman Oskarovich believes that the control of its own weight disciplines a person. To date, with an increase in 180 cm, the weight of the banker is 76 kg.
Herman Gref now
The head of Sberbank of Russia continues to surprise the public with his sayings. In 2018, in the Moscow Forum "Open Innovations", he stated that soon the profession of mathematicians and programmers would become unclaimed.
According to Gref, investing time and money in mathematical education now, the state will fall in the near future to the same trap, which has previously occurred due to the oversaturation of the labor market by economists and lawyers. The Minister of Education Olga Vasilyeva, a MSTU teacher, did not agree with the President of Sberbank. N. E. Bauman Sergey LEGTOR, Erudita Anatoly Wasserman and others.
In 2019, Gref became a guest of the news of Naila Asker-Zade "Active persons", during which he gave an extensive interview. Herman Oscarovich spoke about the features of the Cberbank Cyber Bank Center, which today is considered one of the best in the country. Provide the preservation of electronic data of the Bank's customers graduates of the cyber security faculties of the best universities in Moscow. Department staff reflect several thousand attacks every day.
Also, the President of the largest bank of the country also said that in the early 2000s faced with influence on the actions of the government of the oligarchic lobby. Team Vladimir Putin, in which Herman Gref himself, managed to do "a great surgical work on their removal from power."