The success story of Maksim Nikolaevich Yakovlev. Maxim Yakovlev - biography, information, personal life. Family and hobbies

For a week now, the media have been actively discussing the mysterious disappearance in Abkhazia of a business partner of billionaire Maxim Yakovlev, the owner of shares in the Kirovsky Zavod, and the subsequent strange demand for a ransom of 200 million rubles. This requirement looks even more strange in view of the fact that the family of the factory magnate is itself able to collect such a sum. There are many versions of the disappearance today, the main two are revenge directly on Yakovlev for fraud with other people's money and an attempt by the "fruit mafia" to put pressure on Mussa Ekzekov.

A lot has already been written about the history of business relationships between the respected St. Petersburg philanthropist, billionaire and businessman Mussa Ekzekov and the owner of St. Petersburg OJSC Polygraphoformlenie and a 25% stake in Kirovsky Zavod Maxim Yakovlev. Ekzekov and Yakovlev have known each other since their student days at the Leningrad Institute of Technology. JSC "Polygrafoformlenie" is part of the holding company "Devencroft Enterprises Limited", which in turn is the main shareholder of the company "Solomon" - the brainchild of Mussa Ekzekov.

The kidnapping of Maxim Yakovlev

Maxim Yakovlev disappeared on the territory of Abkhazia, having allegedly been kidnapped on the night of June 20 from the elite Afon Resort Hotel, owned by relatives of Mussa Ekzekov. The entrepreneur has lived here since April 2018. The media write that Maxim Yakovlev settled in Abkhazia for a long time in order to circumvent the law on the status of a currency resident, which states that Russians who live 183 days a year abroad have the right not to report on their foreign accounts.

The very circumstances of the kidnapping of a businessman are surrounded by a halo of a detective: three masked thieves, an attack on an administrator and attendants, knocking out the doors of a room, pieces of furniture and a mysterious ransom note that appeared a month later.

The law enforcement agencies of Abkhazia initiated a criminal case under articles 159 and 119 of the Criminal Code of the Republic (robbery with penetration into a dwelling and abduction by a group of persons with the use of violence and weapons, for mercenary motives). The investigation is studying the orientation of the suspects.

According to official reports of the Assistant Prosecutor General of Abkhazia, Daur Amichba, "there were three attackers, dressed in camouflage clothing, wearing masks and gloves, from 160 to 175 centimeters tall." In Yakovlev's room, the security forces found a cache with a large amount of money hidden under a closet. The amount of cash found was not specified. Apparently, the kidnappers had no idea that the businessman kept a large amount of money with him.

Mussa Ekzekov is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, public figure. In the rating of billionaires of St. Petersburg, compiled in September 2016, he takes 48th place with the value of the assets of his companies - 17.9 billion rubles. In 2016, having bought up the debts of the owners, Mussa Ekzekov took control of the two largest vegetable warehouses in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region with a total area of ​​95 thousand square meters. m.

In December 2017, Mussa Ekzekov announced the creation of a multifunctional sports complex in St. Petersburg with an area of ​​​​more than 30 thousand square meters. m, which will house five pools. The total investment is estimated at 2.5 billion rubles. In December 2017, he was elected Chairman of the Supreme Council of the World Abaza Congress. Mussa Ekzekov is the founder of the children's sports academy "Leader" in St. Petersburg. This institution has more than 15 sports sections, as well as several children's creative teams. He is the owner of the shopping and entertainment complex "Grand Canyon" with a total area of ​​​​almost 200 thousand square meters. m.

Letters from the kidnappers of Maxim Yakovlev

But the most interesting fact is the note left by the kidnappers, in which the ransom for the businessman is demanded not from his relatives, but from his business partner Mussa Ekzekov. Today, this exciting story has been replenished with new circumstances. Thus, a letter from a well-wisher who promised to reveal the truth about the kidnapping of Maxim Yakovlev for 10 million rubles was sent to the e-mail of the Kirovsky Zavod. The author of the letter also hinted that this whole story was a well-staged performance and that no one was kidnapped, and Maxim Yakovlev was in Turkey, hiding from creditors.

Yakovlev has something to run from: since 2013, at the request of the Kyrgyz authorities, he has been wanted by Interpol, and there are some from whom, according to sources, the businessman once stole decent sums.

Maxim Yakovlev

Maxim Yakovlev has long been known in criminal circles. Back in the late 90s, he was known in narrow circles as an experienced builder of financial pyramids (check investment funds). Then he did not shy away. According to rumors, members also took part in the acquisition of Polygraphoformlenie OJSC by him. They say that after the privatization of the enterprise, its shareholders did not receive a penny of dividends. Until recently, Maxim Yakovlev was engaged in the legalization of income and the transfer of assets abroad to offshore companies controlled by him.

But for some time now, Maxim Yakovlev has been actively investing his capital in various kinds of projects, many of which today are officially declared not only dubious, but criminal. For example, today he is included in the 10 most wanted criminals of Kyrgyzstan because in 2010, together with a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan for the independence of East Turkestan, Yuri Vereshchagin, according to local authorities, taking advantage of the riots, organized a criminal group that raided several large companies (for example, Continent LLC) and illegally took possession of their premises.

Maxim Yakovlev and Yuri Vereshchagin are accused of arbitrariness with the use of violence, robbery, as well as unauthorized seizure of premises with the use of physical violence or with the threat of murder. Earlier, they were arrested in absentia by the Bishkek District Court.

But if such “sins” can find understanding, then today, according to our sources, Maxim Yakovlev has already lost both weight and respect among the “authorities” of the Northern capital. The once respected businessman hit on, or rather, tried to create it together with Korean colleagues. The get-rich-quick idea was called "UNHWA" (UNHWA) and had all the signs of a commercial cult. The essence of the new project was to sell miracle drugs made in Korea, the use of which provided the buyer with salvation from AIDS, cancer and all other types of deadly diseases.

To promote the panacea, several professionals were hired, who, under the guise of doctors, literally enchanted the gullible public with lengthy conversations about the miracle and mystery of the culture of the East. The plans were very broad. So, it was even planned (when the project starts to make a profit) to buy a whole TV channel and broadcast the benefits of drugs from there, recoup the invested funds, and then competently “jump off”.

However, these grandiose plans were not destined to come true. Hired scammers quickly disappeared, stuffing their pockets. For some reason, pensioners stubbornly did not want to buy magic liquid, and the whole criminal scheme began to fall apart rapidly. The Korean fellow scammers, who actually “shared their experience” with the Russian businessman, did not want to communicate with the new partner. And Maxim Yakovlev got into debt, got loans and for some reason increased his stake in UNHWA.

Of course, Yakovlev understood that the dubious commercial project had failed. They say that he even tried to get away with it by selling it to the American investment corporation World Business Capital, but the Americans, great specialists in promoting various commercial cults, for some reason did not want to acquire and develop the Asian miracle panacea.

It was after this scam that Maxim Yakovlev fell in the eyes of many respected people of St. Petersburg. After all, for those who built their business dangerously in the 90s, to personally deal with the divorce of poor old women and, as they say, “sell them deribas” instead of medicines, means to become a handshake “huckster”. And acquaintance with Mussa Ekzekov was the last straw for Yakovlev.

According to many sources, Maxim Yakovlev sought protection surrounded by a longtime partner and hid from creditors and enemies in his hotel. Mussa Ekzekov is a prominent figure in Abkhazia. This is a person who finances the construction of houses for the poor, stadiums, competitions and the education of young athletes. He is also the founder of the Alashara Foundation, which consists of 30 of the largest businessmen of Abkhazia, who have undertaken philanthropic obligations to maintain the cultural and linguistic traditions of their people. Based on the available information, it turns out that Mussa Ekzekov gave Maxim Yakovlev asylum.

Versions of the disappearance of Maxim Yakovlev

Version one. Actually, Maxim Yakovlev had a conflict with other shareholders of the enterprise for a long time. According to sources, he resisted and did not want to sell his share in the Kirovsky Zavod, driving up the price. According to this version, Yakovlev is no longer alive, and the ransom demand of 200 million arose to make the story more truthful.

Version two. They demanded money from Mussa Ekzekov, because he, knowing about Yakovlev's debts, nevertheless gave him asylum out of the kindness of his soul. The named amount is a debt that the patron's longtime partner did not return. The possible elimination of Yakovlev also fits into this alignment.

Version three. Some time ago, information appeared that after Mussa Ekzekov quite unexpectedly entered the fruit and vegetable market of the country, he somewhat "moved" his own compatriots. Such an introduction into the already divided field of semi-criminal business is fraught with a war of clans and a redistribution of spheres of influence. There are several ethnic clans operating in the fruit and vegetable business, for whom the entry into the market of such a weighty figure as the billionaire Mussa Ekzekov meant the collapse of many hopes.

• General Director of the Group of Companies "Polygraphoformlenie"
• General Director of the European Representative Office of the Biotechnology Corporation "Unhwa" in St. Petersburg
• Partner of the educational project "EduMarket"

Biography

Yakovlev Maxim was born in Temirtau on November 30, 1965. He graduated from the Construction School, evening school, then moved to Leningrad and graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute with honors.

After working for some time as a heat engineer, Maxim Nikolayevich was appointed in 1990 to the position of head of the department of the MGP "Linstek". Then the career continued and in 1994 Maxim Yakovlev became a member of the board of directors of Kirovsky Zavod OJSC and the general director of Polygraphoformlenie Group of Companies.

In 2010, Yakovlev Maxim Nikolaevich became interested in the innovative field of biotechnology and headed the European office of the South Korean biotechnology Corporation Unhwa in St. Petersburg.

Another creative project in the interests of people was EduMarket, in which Maxim Yakovlev acted as a business angel and investor. This project is a network of useful career and educational sites.

Personal details and hobbies

Maxim Nikolaevich is married and has three children. In his spare time he plays badminton, skiing and is fond of the culture of the East. He is also an active participant in charitable work, in particular, he provides assistance to orphanages and special boarding schools in St. Petersburg.

The future entrepreneur was born in 1965 in Temirtau in the family of a miner.

He grew up and studied at a secondary school in his small homeland, then moved to Moscow, where he studied at the Construction College and at an evening school. In 1983 he moved to Leningrad, where he successfully passed the entrance exams to the Leningrad Technological Institute, graduating five years later.

Having received a diploma, he worked for some time at the Leningrad Ceramic Products Plant as a heat engineer, but already in 1990 he moved to the position of department head at the Linstek company. The first managerial experience allowed me to hone my human capital management skills, which were based on a respectful attitude to the opinion of each employee, the consistent disclosure of professional talents and the involvement of the team's specialists in the work due to emotional interest in the common cause. Such a humanistic position of forming a circle of people for his team of specialists later became the basis of Maxim Yakovlev's career.

Members of Maxim Yakovlev's team, speaking about him, mention this peculiarity of his in the following way: "Around Maxim Nikolayevich, creative people gather who are capable, like him, inspired by his faith, to create and transform the space around them."

Having gained the experience of a middle manager for two years, after another 2 years, Maxim Nikolayevich already began to manage the Maya company, and in 1994 he received membership in the board of directors of the Kirov Plant.

In the same 1994, Maxim Nikolayevich headed another organization, which, with his arrival, firmly embarked on the rails of managerial and technological innovations, taking a leadership position in the domestic packaging market. We are talking about the Polygraph Formation Company, whose CEO Maxim Yakovlev has been continuously working for more than 20 years. During the years of perestroika, the Soviet printing company was not in the best condition and with unclear prospects, but thanks to the reforms of Maxim Nikolayevich Yakovlev and his team in the personnel sphere, and technological re-equipment, which overcame the backlog from the players of the foreign printing market, there was significant progress, thanks to which "Printing " has taken a leading position, and the proof of this is the membership of the Polygraph Forming Group of Companies in the respected international industry association Global Packaging Alliance (GPA).

In 2010, Maxim Yakovlev focused his managerial resources and talents in a new innovative area of ​​biotechnology, namely in the segment of cellular production of plant substances. We are talking about the biotechnology of the Korean Corporation Unhwa and the initiatives of Maxim Yakovlev to transfer this technology to Russia. Thanks to biotechnology, which became the subject of investment and managerial interest of Maxim Nikolayevich, for the first time it became possible to talk about the isolation and industrial cultivation of unique plant cells - producers (Cambial meristematic cells (CMC)) - cambial meristematic cells)) which, due to their high reproduction rate and endless reproduction processes are natural "biofactories" that produce useful biologically active substances of plants in mass quantities.

As a progressive person who relies on technological innovations in development, Maxim Yakovlev did not pass by biotechnology and became the head of the European representative office of Unhwa Corporation, which is located in St. Petersburg. Currently, one of the main tasks of the organization is the transfer of this biotechnology to Russia.

Maxim Yakovlev is firmly convinced that this biotechnology can solve the most important task for the Russian market of plant bio-raw materials, namely, to establish the production of standardized bio-raw materials on a large scale, each mass unit of which will contain the same amount of plant BAS (biologically active substances).

Cambial meristem cells guarantee an identical amount of biologically active substances, as they have the property of genetic and physiological identity, which was proven in cooperation between a South Korean corporation and the Institute for Plant Molecular Research, which is part of the University of Edinburgh, where these cells were studied at the molecular level.

Maxim Yakovlev believes that the breakthrough South Korean technology and the organization of its transfer to Russia will make it possible to build and launch an innovative biotechnological plant with many cell lines from various plants, and to obtain biologically active plant substances on their technological basis, which were previously inaccessible to pharmaceutical manufacturers of medicines and cosmetics and natural products in mass industrial volume.

This herbal bio-raw material can be used both domestically and exported, since the world market of herbal substances is also interested in solving the most important problem of obtaining bio-raw materials and optimizing the production of herbal medicines.

Another project of Maxim Yakovlev, focused on creation, is "EduMarket". useful career and educational sites that are used by more than 1 million people every month. The mission of the EduMarket Project Group is to give people the opportunity to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills for growth and development in their professional activities, increasing competitiveness in the labor market. Today, the EduMarket Project Group is a significant player in the education market in Russia, has the largest audience in the market of additional professional education.

Russian businessman, widely known in the North-West, General Director of the Polygraphoformlenie Group of Companies, whose history of origin is closely connected with the name of E.I. Markus, the former owner of one of the largest chromolithographs in St. European representative office of the biotechnology corporation Unhwa, South Korea, located in St. Petersburg.

Childhood and education

Maxim Nikolayevich was born on November 30, 1965 in the city of Temirtau (now Kazakhstan) in the family of a miner.

After graduating from school, he continued his studies at the Construction School and an evening school in Moscow. And in 1983, having entered the Leningrad Technological Institute, he moved to the Northern capital for a long time. Both the Leningrad Technological Institute and the Construction School, Maxim Yakovlev graduated with honors.

Career and business

Maxim Nikolayevich's career began with work as a heat engineer at the Leningrad Ceramic Products Plant and very quickly moved into the field of management and top management.

Already a year after the start of his career, in 1990, Maxim Yakovlev became the head of the Linstek MGP department. And in 1992, he became the general director of CJSC Maya, and two years later - a member of the board of directors of OJSC Kirovsky Zavod, which is one of the largest Russian industrial holdings of a machine-building profile with a developed metallurgical base and is included in the list of backbone enterprises in Russia.

In 1994, Maxim Yakovlev took the post of General Director of Polygraphoformlenie OJSC, the largest enterprise in the North-West region of Russia, which has been operating in the packaging industry for over 135 years.

The number of employees under the management of Yakovlev Maxim Nikolaevich is 556 people. Group of Companies "Polygraphoformlenie" today structurally combines 4 areas: offset production, flexographic production, production of self-adhesive labels and production of packaging by gravure printing.

Since 2002, Polygraphoformlenie Group of Companies has been a member of the international GPA (Global Packaging Alliance), and, like all GPA member companies, uses high technologies to produce world-class packaging, firmly adhering to certain standards of quality, materials and management.

Polygraph Formation Group in the GPA (Global Packaging Alliance) interacts and exchanges experience with the world's largest leaders in packaging production from all continents: Diamond Packaging (USA), Cartmont (Mexico), Colorpak (Australia), Goncalves (Brazil), Rob . Leunis & Chapman (Germany), Yau Bon (Hong Kong).

The participation of Polygraphoformleniya Group of Companies in the GPA (Global Packaging Alliance) is a confirmation of the international status of the Group of Companies as one of the leaders in the packaging industry, which allows it to develop taking into account global market trends.

The scope of activities of Polygraphoformlenie Group of Companies is evidenced by such names of customers as Nestle, Fraft Foods, Baltika, Orimi Trade, Wrigley's, Dirol, JTI, BAT. The conditions for ensuring the quality of production of label and packaging products are confirmed by the ISO 9001 certificate: 2000, issued by the certification society BVQI.

Biotechnology

Passion for the culture of the East, which is known in the world for innovative technologies to improve the quality of life and longevity, leads Maxim Nikolayevich Yakovlev in 2010 to the fact that he becomes one of the investors of the Unhwa Biotechnology Corporation, South Korea and the General Director of the European representative office of the Unhwa Corporation in his native St. Petersburg .

Unhwa Corporation, namely the Plant Stem Cell Institute (PSCI), which is part of the Corporation, in 2005 developed the world's only technology for isolating and cultivating unique cells from plants, which many biotechnologists in the world have been trying to obtain for 160 years.

But only Korean scientists managed to extract these cells from the rapidly damaging layer of the plant, called the cambial layer, in which the processes of regeneration, formation and growth of new cells take place.

The isolated cells are called cambial meristematic cells (CMC) because they are extracted from the meristem tissue of the cambial layer of the plant and have unique properties for pharmaceuticals and cosmetology.

Cambial meristematic cells/СМС are cells producing useful biologically active substances (BAS) of a plant, from which plant bio-raw materials are created, used in the development and production of herbal medicines and innovative cosmetics, as well as other natural products, including bionutrition.

Cambial meristematic cells/CMC can be called natural "biologically immortal biofactories", since the rate of their reproduction and multiplication in bioreactors is enormous.

In dozens of 250 liter bioreactors, one trillion cultured Cambial meristematic cells/CMC are doubling every 5-6 days, which allows us to talk about a real technological breakthrough in the field of plant cell cultivation. Cambial meristematic cells/СМС Technology is a real opportunity to obtain industrial volumes of biologically active substances from any plant on the planet Earth to use the potential of useful properties and create natural plant bio-raw materials in bulk.

At the same time, the obtained bioraw materials based on Cambial meristematic cells/CMC are unique, as they are standardized.

Each cultured Cambial meristematic cells/CMC contains the same amount of BAS. Only standardized bio-raw materials allow pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide the same amount of active substances (BAS) in each tablet they produce.

Identity to each other and stability of all produced.

Cambial meristematic cells/CMC was proven in collaboration with the laboratory of Professor Gary Loake of the Institute for Plant Molecular Research at the University of Edinburgh and described in a publication in Nature Biotechnology in 2010.

Maxim Yakovlev is actively initiating the process of transferring the unique Cambial meristematic cells/CMC Technology to Russia, developed by the Plant Stem Cell Institute (PSCI).

Maxim Nikolayevich Yakovlev sees his strategic task in ensuring that biotechnology of this level does not pass by Russia, and Russia can build a powerful research and production base for obtaining active active substances from plants for pharmacology, cosmeceuticals, bionutrition, as well as new methods for obtaining improved and unique strains from plant cells used in agriculture and industry.

The first presentation of Cambial meristematic cells/СМС Technology to the Russian and foreign pharmaceutical markets, Russian government authorities and the professional community took place on October 5-6, 2015 at the Red Hills Hotel at the VII International Conference "What's going on in the pharmaceutical market?", where Maxim Yakovlev In his report on Cambial meristematic cells/CMC Technology, he drew attention to the breakthrough nature of this unique technology, and to the fact that Russia needs such technologies to take its rightful place in the global competition and the market for herbal medicines.

Family and hobbies

Maxim Yakovlev is married and has three children. In his free time, Maxim Nikolayevich plays badminton, skiing and studying the cultures of the East.