Early life and education
Akimov was born in Leningrad in 1953. He earned his degree from the Moscow Financial Institute in 1975, studying international economics, finance and banking.Career
Vneshtorgbank
From 1974 to 1987, Andrey Akimov was employed in Vneshtorgbank at senior positions heading the financial operations department, which was involved with securities, of VTB USSR until 1985. From 1985 to 1987, he held a post, which is usually given to an undercover KGB agent, as Deputy Director General of the Vneshtorgbank branch in Zurich (IMAG GmbH
From January 1991 to November 2002, he was a Managing Director of the financial company IMAG GmbH in Vienna (Austria), which specialized in financing the oil and natural gas industry, and was regular advisor to the Chairman of the Management Board of Vneshtorgbank. At IMAG, Akimov had a mandate from the Supreme Economic Council under the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation "in order to attract loans and investments in the Russian economy" (russian: «в целях привлечения кредитов и инвестиций в российскую экономику»). Through IMAG, Akimov participated in the Russian privatization project including attracting investment from Bear Stearns for AvtoVAZ instead of the traditional Soviet Union supporterGPB
In November 2002, Akimov has taken up a post of the Chairman of the Management Board of the GPB (OJSC).Krasny Okyabr
Following the bankruptcy of Krasny Oktyabr in 2009 in which the Andrei Borodin led Bank of Moscow was a large creditor, Akimov, as the interim manager of the plant, appointed the Ukrainian Dmitro Gerasimenko, who is the owner of Dieg-Impex LLC (russian: ООО «Диег-Импэкс»), to be executive director of Krasny Oktyabr), placed numerous persons from Dneprospetsstal at positions at Krasny Oktyabr including his mother Svetlana Gerimenko, who became financial director, Eduard Shifrin, who worked with Svetlana Gerasimenko at Dneprospetsstal, Vadim Leibenzon, who Gerasimenko calls his “right hand” and in the early 1990s led the steel shop at Dneprospetsstal and became general director of Dneprospetsstal in 1998-2001 and 2003-2004, and Konstantin Ryabov, who became the president of Red October International and was very close to Viktor Pinchuk who had been a co-owner of Dneprospetsstal until 2008. and who in November 2018 "sold" the plant to Pavel Krotov.Corporate boards
Since December 2006, Akimov is a member of the Novatek Board of Directors. Since June 2011, he is a member of theAwards
Awarded theSanctions
In April 2018, the United States imposedPersonal life
His romantic partner has been identified as the painter Marianna Chaykina in Russian media. She has a Cypriot passport. She is listed as a co-owner of some of Akimov's companies. She bought a $15.6 million flat in London through a shell company. The Pandora Papers leaks revealed that Akimov owned at least eight shell companies over the period 2007–2018.Notes
References
1953 births Businesspeople from Saint Petersburg Russian bankers Soviet bankers Gazprom people Living people Soviet businesspeople Soviet expatriates in Switzerland Soviet expatriates in Austria Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation alumni Russian individuals subject to the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions {{Russia-business-bio-stub