The head of Alfa Group, is mainly known to all as the owner of the eponymous bank. Meanwhile, Friedman belongs to a very diverse business, the scale of which makes it one of the richest and most influential people on the planet. "It's very simple - explains his success entrepreneur - I'm just a very well known human nature." Subtleties of human nature Maratovich Michael had to learn on their own. Born in 1964 in western Ukraine to a family of engineers, it is immediately after school went to Moscow. In the capital, he entered the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys in the Faculty of nonferrous and rare metals, where, as they say, including "theater mafia" engaged in buying and reselling theater tickets. After graduation in 1986, Friedman found a job as a design engineer at the plant Elektrostal, and, two years after he founded his first business - co-op "Courier", specializing in window washing. In 1989, together with the Swiss company the young entrepreneur was able to organize the Alfa-Eco ", which became proroditelnitsey" Alfa-Group. The company sells computers, office equipment and the control of the ecological state of products. Later in 1990 came voucher fund, Alfa Capital "and famous for today Innovation Bank Alfa-Bank. Four years later, in addition to food activities, the company began to trade oil products and coal. And the crisis in 1998 all the assets of Alpha teamed up with each other and become united "Alfa Group, which has become the largest financial-industrial holding company of the country. Headed the company, of course, Michael Friedman. True, exactly 10 years later, in 2008 he left that post to concentrate on strategic issues holding. To date, except for "Alfa Group's assets Friedman and his partners include the share in TNK-BP, a telecommunications company Altimo, retailer X5 Retail Group, uniting in itself such stores as Pyatyorochka and" Crossroads ", the operator Cellular VimpelCom and television company CTC Media. It is believed that Friedman has a fairly aggressive style of doing business, but at the same time, prefers to operate democratically, considering that each of his employee, he should be totally accessible. Who knows, maybe it is these qualities have allowed him to build such a huge-scale business. So, in 2004, Fortune magazine included Michael Friedman's list of 25 most influential businessmen in Europe. And according to Forbes magazine in March 2010, his estate was valued at $ 12.7 billion, allowing the entrepreneur to take 42 th place in the list of world's richest people. I would say the art of being rich - is the art of knowledge of human nature. And her knowledge is manifested in communication, -
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