- Eugene Shvidler
Evgeny Markovich Shvidler ( _ru. Евгений Маркович Швидлер, born 1964 in
Moscow ,Russia ), also Eugene Shvidler, is aRussia n oilbillionaire . Although not often referred to as one of the prominentbusiness oligarch s, he still made his fortune in Russia during theprivatization of Russian industry.Eugene Shvidler received a degree in mathematics from the Gubkin Institute of Petrochemicals and Natural Gas and an
MBA fromFordham University . Early in his career he worked forDeloitte & Touche in New York and became a U.S. citizen. He later returned to Russia, where he teamed up withRoman Abramovich to start the oil trading outfit Runicom S.A. In 1995 they partnered withBoris Berezovsky to gain control of oil giantSibneft , which Shvilder joined initially as senior vice president. He served as company president from 1998 until October 2005, when Russian state energy companyGazprom acquired Sibneft. For most of his tenure, Sibneft was Russia's fastest growing oil company in terms of production, and its most profitable in terms of earnings per barrel. [http://www.gazprom-neft.ru]Eugene Shvidler is currently chairman of Millhouse, LLC, the investment and asset management company he shares with Abramovich and their partners. He also owns the Château Thénac vineyard in
France , a $37 million home inBelgravia inLondon , and the yacht "Le Grand Bleu".External links
* [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/54/SFMX.html Eugene Shvidler in "Forbes"]
* [http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/04/25/shvidlrrealty.shtml "Abramovich’s Sidekick Shvidler Buys Into Posh Realty in Britain" – "MosNews"]
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