Rinat Akhmetov
Rinat Leonidovych Akhmetov is a Ukrainian billionaire businessman, and oligarch. He is the founder and president of System Capital Management, and ranked among the wealthiest men in Ukraine. As of 2019, he was listed as the 272nd richest man in the world with an estimated net worth of US 6.4 billion.
- Rinat Akhmetov‘s holding company, System Capital Management, oversees his stakes in a variety of mostly industrial businesses.
- He owns a stake of mining and steel firm Metinvest Group, one of the largest private companies in Ukraine.
- Akhmetov is invested in energy through DTEK, a firm with coal mines, thermal power generation and Ukraine’s largest wind farm.
- He also owns companies in telecom, engineering, finance, real estate, transportation and retail.
- The son of a coal miner, he got his start buying up mining assets during the 1990s privatization era in Ukraine.