Thanks to his perseverance and determination, Andrei Melnichenko managed to achieve considerable heights. Today this person is a major entrepreneur. He owns the assets of SUEK, EuroChem, SGK. Due to his fortune, which totals more than $ 16 billion, Melnichenko was able to become one of the richest businessmen in the world.
Biography
Andrey Melnichenko was born on March 8, 1972 in the Belarusian hospital in the city of Gomel. The boy grew up in an intelligent family: his father is a physicist, his mother is a teacher of literature. At school, Andrei was a capable boy. His favorite subject was physics. Andrey devoted all his free time to her. After a while, the gifted boy was invited to study at the boarding school of Moscow State University in physics and mathematics. It was there that Andrei Melnichenko began to receive higher education. However, over time, his preferences changed. Not having completed his studies at Moscow State University, he was transferred to the Plekhanov Academy with a profile in finance and credit.
For the first time, a future entrepreneur got acquainted with the business in college. So, in 1991, three friends led by Andrei Melnichenko opened a travel company. However, high profits began to come from the moment the currency exchange office opened, which was organized by the guys in the walls of the hostel at Moscow State University. After the law was passed allowing only banks to conduct foreign exchange transactions, a new period begins in the biography of Andrey Melnichenko.
To somehow get out of the current situation related to the innovation, young businessmen began to cooperate with Premier Bank. It was there that they inspired their first exchange “point”. Soon, such "points" began to appear in other banks. As a result, this led to the fact that the guys created their financial and credit company MDM. In 1993, it was fully licensed.
What all led to
In 1998, Melnichenko redeems the shares of his partners and becomes the sole owner of the bank.
Initially, the “zero” is the merger of two organizations - MDM and Converse Bank. Our hero acted as a co-founder of the MDM group. In the same period, Melnichenko started a new partner - Sergei Popov, to whom in 2003 he sold half of the assets of his bank.
Also at the beginning of the “null” MDM group is actively buying up shares from Russian companies whose activities are aimed at coal mining. As a result, SUEK was formed. In addition, 2 more major industries were included in the MDM group: Eurochem and TMK.
In 2011, the Siberian Generating Company was created through energy shares. After 2 years, Andrey Melnichenko acquires the shares of his business partner. Due to this, our hero becomes the main shareholder of SUEK and SGK. At the same time, Eurochem announced that soon its plants would appear in the USA and China.
