Miller is young. Career, family and hobbies of Alexey Miller, head of Gazprom. Student years of Alexey Miller
Alexey Borisovich Miller— Chairman of the Management Board and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Gazprom. Alexey Miller is also the chairman of the board of directors of NPF Gazfond, Gazprombank and the insurance company SOGAZ. Alexey Miller is one of the highest paid Russian managers. Candidate of Economic Sciences. Miller has a number of state awards, including the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2006) for his contribution to the development of the Russian gas complex, and the Order of Alexander Nevsky (2014).
Alexey Miller is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Global Energy International Prize and the government commission for the production of the mineral resource base of the Russian Federation and fuel and energy complex issues.
Childhood and education of Alexei Miller
Alexey Miller comes from a family of Russified Germans.
Father - Boris Vasilievich Miller(1935−1986) - assembly fitter.
Mother - Ludmila Alexandrovna Miller(1936−2009) - engineer.
Parents worked at the Research Institute of Radio Electronics of the Ministry of Aviation Industry of the USSR.
Alexey Miller graduated from school-gymnasium No. 330 of the Nevsky district of the city of Leningrad. Young Miller studied successfully. After school, he immediately entered the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute. ON THE. Voznesensky. In 1984, having received a diploma, Alexey Miller began working as an engineer-economist at LenNIIproekt.
From the biography of Alexei Miller on Wikipedia, you can find out that in the 80s, the future head of Gazprom was part of the circle of Leningrad reformist economists, whose informal leader was Anatoly Chubais. In particular, in 1987, Alexey Miller was a member of the Sintez club at the Leningrad Youth Palace, along with such famous people as Mikhail Dmitriev, Andrey Illarionov, Mikhail Manevich, Andrey Lankov, Andrey Prokofiev and others.
The beginning of the career of Alexei Miller
While working at LenNIIproekt, Alexey Miller continued his education, studying in graduate school. In 1989, Alexey Borisovich Miller defended his Ph.D. thesis and took the position of junior researcher at LenNIIproekt.
In addition, the biography of Alexei Miller noted his activities in the Committee for Economic Reform of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council.
In 1991, a significant acquaintance for the future career of Alexei Borisovich took place. In the biography of Alexei Miller on the site "Know Everything" it is reported that in 1991 he began work in the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office, where he was director Vladimir Putin. In Miller's biography on the Gazprom website, it is reported that Alexei Borisovich began his career in the mayor's office as the head of the market situation department of the Foreign Economic Relations Department of the Foreign Relations Committee of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office.
Alexey Borisovich Miller successfully served on the Committee for five years and managed to establish contacts with major Western banks. Miller's biography in Lentapedia notes that he was involved in the development of the first investment zones in the city, in particular, Pulkovo and Parnassus, brought the first foreign banks to the city, such as Dresden Bank and Lyon Credit, was engaged in hotel business, was the chairman of the board of directors of the hotel "Europe".
Alexey Miller then became the head of the department of foreign economic relations, working under the direct supervision of Vladimir Putin (who at that time served as head of the mayor's office's foreign relations committee).
The perestroika period made it possible for Miller to rise high up the career ladder. Alexey Miller was invited to senior positions in the largest Russian companies.
In 1996, after the defeat of Anatoly Sobchak in the elections, a new place of work appeared in the biography of the future head of Gazprom - OAO Sea Port of St. Petersburg. Until 1999, Alexey Miller was the development and investment director of this company.
Since 1999, Miller has taken the position of General Director at the Baltic Pipeline System OJSC.
When Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia in 2000, Alexey Miller moved to Moscow. He was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation. In this position, Alexei Borisovich worked for only a year, since in 2001 Miller took over as chairman of the board of Gazprom.
In the photo: Moscow, May 30. Alexey Miller, Deputy Minister of Energy, became Gazprom's new Chairman of the Management Board (Photo: Vladimir Rodionov and Sergey Velichkin)
Alexey Miller's career at Gazprom
Alexey Miller, with the help of Vladimir Putin, carried out reforms at Gazprom, according to his biography on Wikipedia, the result of this activity was that by the beginning of 2004 the Russian Federation owned 38.7% of Gazprom shares and had a majority on the Board of Directors.
By 2004, the formation of the updated management apparatus of Gazprom came to an end. In 2006, Miller's employment contract was extended for another five years.
On December 9, 2005, the State Duma adopted amendments to the law “On Gas Supply in the Russian Federation”, according to which the share of shares owned by state-owned companies in total cannot be less than 50% plus one share, and restrictions are also established for foreign citizens and companies.
In the photo: Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko and the head of OAO Gazprom Alexei Miller during the ceremony of signing a cooperation agreement for 2006 (Photo: Grigory Sysoev / TASS)
Gazprom's Wikipedia page reports that in 2007, for the first time, the company entered the annual list of the 100 most respected firms and companies in the world according to Barron's weekly. In May 2008, Gazprom became the third largest company in the world in terms of capitalization.
In May 2008, the company had a maximum price and Alexey Miller noted that in 7-8 years its capitalization should grow from 365.1 billion dollars to one trillion. But in the fall of that year, it collapsed to 77.1 billion, according to Wikipedia.
In early 2010, CEO Alexei Miller ranked third in the ranking of the most effective top managers in the world according to the Harvard Business Review magazine.
The work of Alexei Borisovich Miller has been repeatedly recognized as successful at the state level. In February 2016, the news reported a contract extension with Miller for another 5 years.
In the photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chairman of the Board of PJSC Gazprom Alexei Miller (from left to right), who received the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st degree, at the ceremony of presenting state awards of the Russian Federation in the Kremlin (Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS)
In January 2018, Gazprom requested the Russian government to allow the company to sell its own gas on the St. Petersburg Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange (SPIMEX) without any restrictions. As reported in the news, Alexei Miller sent this letter to the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Relations between Gazprom and Naftogaz
A special place in the activities of Alexei Miller as the head of Gazprom was occupied by relations with the Ukrainian Naftogaz. The “gas wars” between Russia and Ukraine continued for years, and the situation became especially difficult after the Euromaidan, when Kyiv stopped paying for gas. Then Vladimir Putin said that Gazprom would “supply gas only in those volumes that would be paid for by the Ukrainian side a month in advance. How much they pay, so much they will receive.
On June 2, 2014, Alexey Miller announced that the price of blue fuel for Ukraine could drop below 385.5 US dollars per thousand cubic meters as a result of a discount provided by Gazprom.
On June 16, due to regular non-payments by Naftogaz Ukrainy, Gazprom introduced a prepayment regime for Ukraine for gas supplies. In addition, Gazprom filed a lawsuit against the government of Ukraine with the Stockholm Arbitration Court for a total amount of about $4.5 billion. Dmitry Medvedev, commenting on the news that Russia will supply gas to Ukraine only after pre-payment and repayment of all debts, wrote: "The freebie is over."
In July, Alexey Miller reported that Ukraine's total debt for fuel supplied by Gazprom had reached $5.29 billion. In total, 11.5 billion cubic meters of gas remain unpaid, which is comparable to the volume of annual Russian gas supplies to Poland.
“Ukraine’s unwillingness to pay for Russian gas in principle is becoming chronic and once again shows that the transfer to prepayment, stipulated by the terms of the contract, was the only right decision,” Miller emphasized.
On October 31, 2014, gas negotiations in the Russia-Ukraine-EU format were completed in Brussels. A tripartite agreement was signed, which fixed a plan for gas supplies in the winter. The first part was signed by the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, Vice President of the European Commission Gunther Oettinger, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak and head of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine Yuri Prodan, the second document was signed by the heads of Gazprom and Naftogaz.
“We, the citizens of Europe, can say that gas supplies are secured this winter, we have achieved a breakthrough. Everyone benefited from this, especially the citizens of the EU. The transit function of Ukraine will continue to be carried out. Countries such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary will receive sufficient volumes of gas,” Günter Oettinger said.
Pictured: Belgium. Brussels. October 31. Aleksey Miller, Gazprom Board Chairman, Andrey Kobelev, NJSC Naftogaz Board Chairman (left to right foreground) signing an agreement on Russian gas supplies to Ukraine. In the background, from left to right: Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak, European Energy Commissioner Günter Oettinger, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Commission Vice President for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic (Photo: AR / TASS)
The European Commissioner for Energy also confirmed the points reached earlier, in particular, about a $100 discount from the Russian Federation and Ukraine's obligations to pay $3.1 billion of its debt. At the same time, until March 2015, the news reported, Ukraine could buy gas on an advance payment at a price of $385 per thousand cubic meters. meters of gas or below, according to the calculation formula. It was noted that the key issue of the talks on October 30 was the financial guarantees of the European Commission for payment by Kyiv of Russian gas supplies.
In April 2015, Gazprom and Naftogaz signed an agreement on gas supplies in the second quarter of 2015.
In 2015, Gazprom filed a lawsuit against Naftogaz, demanding to recover from the company a fee for the shortfall in contractual gas volumes in 2012-2013, which it had to pay under the take-or-pay rule (“take or pay” - an annual payment minimum amount of fuel). Naftogaz, in turn, demanded a revision of pricing, which he considered not market-based. In 2012, the “square” received a discount of one hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters of gas in exchange for basing the Black Sea Fleet in the Crimea. But in 2014, after Crimea became part of the Russian Federation, the discount was canceled, and the price rose to $485 per thousand cubic meters. Naftogaz refused to pay at such a price and also applied to arbitration.
In autumn 2015, Russia again gave Ukraine a gas discount. According to the Deputy Head of the European Commission (EC) for the Energy Union Maros Shefcovic, in addition to the tripartite protocol, the "winter package" of documents included an additional contract between Gazprom and Naftogaz.
On November 18, 2015, the European Commission gave the green light to three gas pipelines from Southeast to Central Europe at once, which Gazprom can use to supply the Balkans with Turkish Stream gas. These projects allowed Gazprom to solve the problem of delivering gas to European consumers, while refusing gas transit through Ukraine.
Thus, Russia was going to secure itself from a gas crisis similar to the 2009 crisis, when Ukraine was stealing gas. The head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, made it clear that the Russian concern would not build “threads” on the territory of the EU in continuation of the Turkish Stream, and this should be taken care of by the Europeans themselves.
At the beginning of June 2016, Gazprom received an official letter from Naftogaz with a request to resume the supply of Russian fuel. Kyiv was offered a price of $177 per thousand cubic meters, but Naftogaz considered it too high. Then Gazprom issued a preliminary bill to Kyiv for gas.
On May 31, 2017, the Stockholm Arbitration Court issued an interim decision in a dispute between Gazprom and Naftogaz over a contract for the supply of gas to Ukraine.
On February 28, 2018, the Stockholm Arbitration Court published the decision on the transit claim of Naftogaz against Gazprom. It was ruled in favor of the Ukrainian company and ordered the Russian gas giant to pay Naftogaz $2.56 billion.
At the same time, Naftogaz demanded even more - $17 billion. Gazprom does not agree with the decision of the Stockholm arbitration, accusing it of violating the norms of Swedish law governing the contract with Naftogaz. Gazprom promised to protect its rights "by all means" that would not contradict the law.
After that, the management of Gazprom announced that it had returned the advance payment for March to Naftogaz and would not resume gas supplies. As a result, the Ukrainian authorities temporarily limited gas consumption in the country, but a day later the President Petro Poroshenko announced the start of fuel supplies from Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. As it turned out, this option turned out to be four times more expensive than the Russian proposal.
Commercial Director of Naftogaz Yuri Vitrenko said that Gazprom had underpaid his company about $20 billion since 2009 due to the fact that fuel transit tariffs were underestimated.
Income of Alexey Miller
Alexey Miller is a regular participant in the Forbes ratings, which show the income of the highest paid top managers in Russia. In 2013, with an annual income of $25 million, Miller ranked third. In 2015, Alexey Borisovich for the first time became the highest paid top manager in Russia with an income of $ 27 million.
Pictured: Gazprom Deputy Chairman Vitaly Markelov, Gazprom Board Chairman Alexei Miller (left to right) and Gazprom Board Chairman Viktor Zubkov (right) before the annual general meeting of Gazprom shareholders (Photo: Sergey Fadeichev / TASS)
At the end of 2016, Miller also topped the Forbes ranking of the most expensive executives of Russian companies with an income of $17.7 million.
According to Forbes, Alexey Miller owns 0.000958% of Gazprom's shares. Package price: $488.198 (as of October 20, 2016).
On April 6, it became known that the United States imposed sanctions against Russian businessmen and officials. The "black list" of the US Treasury included 15 companies 38 businessmen, including Oleg Deripaska, Sergey Fursenko, Alexey Miller, Konstantin Kosachev, Mikhail Fradkov, Kirill Shamalov and some others.
This restrictive list includes the freezing of assets, the seizure of real estate and possible bank accounts of individuals and legal entities in the United States, as well as a ban on entry into the country.
Personal life and hobbies of Alexei Miller
In the biography of Alexei Miller on the site "Know Everything" it is reported that the billionaire is married, his wife Irina is not a public person. The Millers are raising a son.
Alexey Miller can often be seen at the matches of FC Zenit, the general sponsor of which is PJSC Gazprom, it is known that he is a football fan.
In the photo: Alexey Borisovich Miller, Chairman of the Management Board of Gazprom, and Sergey Fursenko, President of the Zenit football club (Photo: Vyacheslav Evdokimov / TASS)
Alexey Miller visited the locker room of the St. Petersburg "Zenith" after the match of the ninth round of the championship of Russia, in which the "blue-white-blue" could not beat the Perm "Amkar", the news reported. The functionary was extremely dissatisfied with the result of the match and decided to personally talk with the players.
Alexey Miller is fond of equestrian sports. He owns stallions of thoroughbred riding breed - Vesely and Fragrant. In the second quarter of 2012, Miller took over as Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC Russian Hippodromes.
Forbes wrote that Alexey Miller registered with Odnoklassniki after a friend with whom he studied at the institute reproached that the head of Gazprom did not communicate much with classmates on the Internet.
In 2016, during the international gas forum in St. Petersburg, Alexei Borisovich said that he was a Deep Purple fan as a teenager. According to him, he dreamed of attending a concert and now attends performances of the legendary rock band at every opportunity.
Alexey Borisovich Miller
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Biography
From 2002 to present – Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Gazprom, Chairman of the Management Board of OAO Gazprom.
From 2001 to present – Chairman of the Management Board of OAO Gazprom.
In 2000, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation.
From 1999 to 2000 held the position of General Director of OAO Baltic Pipeline System.
From 1996 to 1999 From 1999 to 2000, he was Director for Development and Investments of OAO Sea Port of St. Petersburg.
From 1991 to 1996 worked in the committee for external relations of the mayor's office of St. Petersburg. Managed the market situation department of the Department of Foreign Economic Relations. Later he held the posts of Head of the Department, Deputy Chairman of the Committee.
In 1990, he was accepted as a junior researcher at the LFEI. In the same year, he headed a subdepartment of the Committee for Economic Reform of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council.
In 1986 he entered the graduate school of LFEI. After defending his dissertation in 1989, he was awarded the degree of candidate of economic sciences.
Alexey Miller was born on January 31, 1962 in Leningrad. In 1979 he graduated from high school and entered the Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics (LFEI) named after. N. A. Voznesensky. Upon graduation, he worked as an engineer-economist in the workshop of the master plan of the Leningrad Research and Design Institute for Housing and Civil Construction "LenNIIproekt" of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council.
Awarded with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree; Medal of the Order "3a Merit to the Fatherland" II degree; Order of the "Cross of the Hungarian Republic" II degree for merits in energy cooperation; Order of "Saint Mesrop Mashtots" (Republic of Armenia); Order "Dostyk" ("Friendship") II degree (Republic of Kazakhstan); Order of the Russian Orthodox Church of Sergius of Radonezh II degree and Patriarchal letter.
According to Alexey Borisovich, business is an intermediate activity of enterprising people between art and war. His colleagues have always noted his diligence, diligence, faith in partners and the ability to achieve his goal, thanks to which he achieved success.
From the moment A. Miller occupied a responsible post in Gazprom, the following opinions began to be expressed about his merits:
- always prepared figure
- walks in line
- knows how to bow
- arrogant
- touchy
- his life and service to the cause are like a shadow.
This person does not like noisy companies and for the most part prefers to spend time in a small circle of the closest people. Alexey is fond of skiing, plays the guitar well and sings. In his household, he takes care of two thoroughbred stallions named Merry and Fragrant. In 2002, at the Moscow hippodrome, the horse Vesely won a prize at the races. Since that time, Fragrant has also won prizes more than 10 times, coming first to the finish line 7 times. By the way, if we talk about Alexei's sports hobbies, then he is an avid Zenit fan, he loves to play football himself, besides, he Vice President of the Football Union of the Russian Federation.
Alexei Borisovich does not like to spread about his family life. It is only well known that he has a wife, Irina, and together they are raising their common son, Mikhail, and a daughter from their first marriage. Alexei spends all his free time in a narrow family circle.
Biography
Alexei Borisovich was born in Leningrad in 1962 on January 31 in a family of employees of a research institute of the aviation industry. Since Alexei's father, Boris Vasilyevich, passed away early, only his mother was engaged in raising her son - Lyudmila Alexandrovna. The origin of the surname Miller is rooted in ancestors who came from Germany.
The school years of the future economist passed within the walls of the Leningrad school-gymnasium №330 in the Nevsky district of the city. Upon completion of school studies with honors, in 1979, Alexei entered the LFEI (financial and economic institute) and graduated in 1984. At that time there was a movement of economist-reformers in Leningrad, whose leader was A. Chubais; Alexey Miller was active among them.
After graduating from the institute, Alexei entered the position of an engineer-economist at the Research Institute of Lenproekt and soon received the junior scientific title of a graduate student, thus becoming on the path to improving the acquired knowledge. As his skills improved, in 1990 he received the title of junior researcher at the Lenproekt and began working on the Committee for Economic Reforms in the Executive Committee of the Lensoviet. Here Alexei Borisovich holds a post deputy chairman of the mayor's office and becomes an executive officer for external relations. By the way, at one time this position was held by V. Putin . Since the start of Putin's presidency, Miller has served as Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation.
Later, under the leadership of the President of the Russian Federation, Miller developed investment zones in St. Petersburg, in particular in Pulkovo, where, with his participation, branches of enterprises " Coca Cola" and " Gillette". In the "Parnas" area, the production facilities of the brewery " Baltic". In the course of his investment activities, Miller attracted the capital of foreign banks into Russian business Dresden Bank and Lyon Credit.
In 1996, the investment activity of A. Miller was replaced by his taking the post of general director of the St. Petersburg seaport. After that, until 2000, he served as the general director of the Baltic Pipeline System.
Since 2000, Alexander Borisovich has become a state political figure - Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation.
Miller's career rise to Gazprom
A.B. Miller in 2001 was appointed by President V. Putin to the position of Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors at Gazprom. Sometimes you can hear that this appointment in the holding is dictated by the president's desire to take full control over the gas empire. Today, Miller justifies the presidential intentions and significantly strengthens the state role in Gazprom.
Alexey Borisovich also manages: Gazpromneft, Gazfond, SOGAZ, Gazprombank, and since 2012, Russian Hippodromes.
Alexey Miller today
Today A. Miller is the owner of 0.00096% of the shares of PJSC Gazprom, which, under his leadership, sponsors the matches of the football club "". Miller was repeatedly re-elected to the position of director of Gazprom, and in 2011 he again occupies this post for a five-year term. On May 31, 2016, he was again unanimously elected for 5 years as the holding's manager.
In 2017, Miller was awarded a state award, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, first degree. But this is only one of the previous multiple orders, letters, awards and distinctions.
According to information in the Internet newspaper Fontanka.ru, the head of the largest Russian company in the energy sector approved the work of S. Slepakov about oil; the single's videos are now shown on many TV channels in the country.
According to the publication of the English edition of Harvard Business Review, A. Miller has been on the first lines in the list of the best top managers of the planet since 2010; in one year he earned $25 million.
If you want to achieve success in life in your affairs, follow the advice of Alexei Miller: our whole life is a mirror of the behavior of each of us, and the plan is necessarily realized.
In 1984 he graduated from the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute named after N.A. Voznesensky. In 1989 he completed his postgraduate studies at the same university.
Alexey Miller is one of the highest paid Russian managers, Chairman of the Management Board of OAO Gazprom, Head of the Board of Directors of NPF Gazfond, as well as Gazprombank and the insurance company SOGAZ.
In addition to his activities at Gazprom, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Global Energy International Prize and the government commission for the production of the mineral resource base of the Russian Federation and fuel and energy complex issues.
Childhood and youth
Miller Alexey Borisovich was born on January 31, 1962 on the outskirts of Leningrad in a family of employees of the closed military enterprise NPO Leninets. Miller's parents were the so-called "Russian Germans" living in Russia, so the media often publish information about the origin and nationality of a top manager.
Father Boris Vasilyevich worked as a fitter, and mother Lyudmila Alexandrovna worked as an engineer. Alexey was the only child in the family, so he was not deprived of parental attention, care and love.
The future head of Gazprom studied at a specialized gymnasium with a mathematical bias No. 330 in Leningrad. During his school years, he did not cause trouble to either teachers or parents, he did not enter into conflicts with other children. Miller was a diligent and capable student, a shy boy. Teachers and classmates of Alexei speak of him as an inconspicuous person, but with a specific desire to achieve the goal through his own efforts.
After graduating from school with excellent grades, Alexei Miller managed to enter the local financial and economic institute the first time. In 1984, he graduated from the university and received a diploma in engineering and economics. In his student years, Alexei was a favorite student of the head of the department, Professor Igor Blekhtsin, a famous St. Petersburg economist and international-class master of sports in chess. FINEC teachers remember the student as a neat calligraphic hand.
After graduating from FINEK, Alexey Miller took the position of an engineer-economist at LenNIIproekt, under which he entered graduate school in 1986 and defended his dissertation 3 years later, receiving the degree of candidate of economic sciences. In his youth, he is interested in this.
Career
After graduate school, Alexey Miller continued his work at LenNIIproekt as a junior research fellow, and in 1990 he transferred to the executive committee of the Lensoviet, where he headed the Committee on Economic Reforms.
The next step in the career ladder of the Russian economist was the Committee on Foreign Relations in the mayor's office of St. Petersburg, in which Miller was the immediate supervisor. This collaboration was a key moment in the further successful biography of Alexei Borisovich Miller.
Thanks to him, the development of the first investment zones in the city - "Pulkovo" and "Parnassus", where the factories "Gillette", "Coca-Cola", "Baltika" were built. At the same time, Alexei Borisovich introduced the first foreign banks, Lyons Credit and Dresden Bank, on the territory of St. Petersburg. Miller also developed the hotel business and headed the board of directors of the famous Europa Hotel.
In 1996, after losing the ex-mayor of St. Petersburg in the gubernatorial election, the biography of Alexei Miller, like the fate of his colleagues in the St. Petersburg administration, underwent a turning point. Most of the members of Vladimir Putin's team resigned from the city administration of St. Petersburg and went on a "free float" for a while.
Alexey Miller and Vladimir Putin met in St. Petersburg After Vladimir Putin's victory in the presidential election in 2000, many of his colleagues in the St. Petersburg administration received leadership positions in the government and state-owned enterprises of the Russian Federation. Alexey Miller, who received the post of Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, was no exception. For his successful work in his position, experts and politicians predicted the post of Minister of Energy of Russia for the economist, but their assumptions did not come true. In 2001, Miller took an equally prestigious position, becoming the head of the board of OAO Gazprom.
Gazprom
The news of Alexey Miller's appointment to the position of Chairman of the Management Board of Gazprom was a shocking surprise for the entire management of the company. Since that moment, a new era has begun in OAO Gazprom, the return of the company to state control. Alexei Borisovich, as an experienced economist, was given the task of reviving the concern through reforms and returning the company's assets lost by the ex-head of Gazprom, Rem Vyakherev.
The global investor market took the news of the change in leadership of Gazprom with enthusiasm in connection with the upcoming reforms, which took place instantly. In a few months, Alexey Miller updated the old concern team with “his” people from the past, and also carried out a number of strategic reforms to revive the corporation. The new Gazprom team includes Mikhail Sereda, head of the board of directors, Kirill Seleznev, head of Mezhregiongaz, Elena Vasilyeva, chief accountant, and Andrey Kruglov, head of the concern's financial and economic department.
After the “cleansing of veterans” at Gazprom, Alexey Miller took up direct duties - to return the lost assets of the company. In this matter, Miller achieved success: for a nominal fee, he returned blocks of shares from Itera, restored lost control over SIBUR, Zapsibgazprom, Vostokgazprom, Northgas. But the main achievement of Alexei Miller was the returned shares of Gazprom itself, thanks to which a 51% stake in the Russian Federation was restored, of which about 11% were held by the concern's subsidiaries.
Alexey Miller - Chairman of the Board of Gazprom During Miller's tenure, Gazprom became the global energy business leader in the world. The gas giant received large assets in the oil and energy sectors, strengthened its position in the export direction, created strong economic ties with Italian and German corporations, began implementing projects to diversify supplies, and signed strategic agreements for gas supplies to the Asia-Pacific countries. At the same time, Miller managed to eliminate the actual competition of Gazprom in the gas sector.
In 2011, the head of OAO Gazprom, Alexei Miller, was re-elected Chairman of the Management Board of the concern for the next 5 years. During the years of his reign, he was repeatedly awarded prestigious state awards, which included medals "For Merit to the Fatherland" in the development of the gas complex of the Russian Federation.
In 2013, according to the rating of the financial and economic magazine Forbes, Alexei Borisovich took the 3rd leading position in the list of the most expensive and successful managers in the world, the official's income level was $ 25 million per year. Soon the situation changed.
Since 2012, total payments to top managers of Russian companies have been gradually decreasing. In 2016, Forbes analysts found that a 2.3-fold reduction in the total income of the leaders of the largest organizations was recorded.
Alexey Miller is on the Forbes list According to the American edition, in 2014 the state of the chairman of the board of Gazprom was again estimated at $ 25 million, but this time he took the 2nd position in the rating.
Already in 2015, this figure amounted to $ 27 million, which allowed Alexei Miller to rise to the first line of the Russian Forbes list for the first time. The company's revenue that year was recorded at $140.4 billion. In 2016, the income of the top manager of Gazprom fell by $9.5 million, while the first place in the Russian Forbes list still belongs to Miller . He lost to the head of Rosneft with a salary of $13 million a year.
Alexey Miller and Igor Sechin Profitability of "Gazprom" fell somewhat. The company is going through hard times due to the loss of traditional markets and the activity of foreign competitors. Thus, the statement of the President of Ukraine on the refusal to buy Russian gas is one of the main reasons for the decline in the sale of resources in a long-familiar direction. In addition, European states are introducing new technologies regarding alternative energy sources.
In connection with these difficulties, the leadership of Gazprom decided to start building bypass routes for delivering gas to Europe. They were named Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream.
Personal life
The personal life of Alexei Miller, like other famous Russian persons, remains in the shadow of his career. For many years, the head of Gazprom has been officially married. Irina, the wife of Alexei Miller, rarely appears in public, preferring the home environment to social events. The couple are raising their son Michael. Alexey Borisovich, by virtue of his status, does not maintain a personal Instagram, therefore, one can learn about his family only from publications in the media.
Information appeared in the media about Alexei Miller's affair with the head of the protocol of the chairman of the government of the Russian Federation - Deputy Head of the Government Staff Marina Entaltseva, but it was not officially confirmed. Russian publications have repeatedly published their joint photos.
The top manager prefers to devote his free time to his family. From a young age, Alexei Borisovich has a passion for football, he is considered the most famous fan of the Zenit football club. At the same time, Miller is fond of equestrian sports, he owns 2 thoroughbred stallions. Parties in a close family circle of relatives and friends, accompanied by songs with a guitar performed by him, are not alien to him.
As a businessman, Miller's passion for equestrian sports turned into a career. In 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Aleksey Borisovich to the position of head of the Russian Hippodromes OJSC, setting him the task of reviving the industry in this direction and breathing new life into equestrian sports in Russia.
Alexey Miller now
In the spring of 2018, the name of Alexei Miller was included in the US sanctions list, which was called "Kremlin". In total, it contains information about 26 officials and entrepreneurs close to the President of the Russian Federation. Among them were others. But, according to the calculations of the Russian media, this did not prevent the salary of the top manager of Gazprom from being kept in the region of 58 million rubles. per month.
Now Alexey Miller oversees the construction of Nord Stream 2, which will run along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, and also controls the launch of the Turkish Stream, laid through the Black Sea. In autumn, Miller reported on the construction of 200 km of the proposed 1,200 km of Nord Stream and the laying of the Turkish Stream pipe with the final joint.
Despite reports coming from the US ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, that the US has enough tools to stop these projects, Gazprom is optimistic about the process of building a gas pipeline bypassing Ukraine.
In November 2018, a solemn meeting between Vladimir Putin and the President of Turkey took place in Istanbul, dedicated to the completion of laying the last section of the offshore section of the TurkStream gas pipeline. Alexey Miller at that time was on board a working ship, from where he had a video conference with the heads of state. The top manager of the gas giant plans to complete the construction of 2 southern branches by the end of 2019.
Family
Alexei was born and raised in a family of "Russian Germans". Mother - Lyudmila Alexandrovna Miller (1936-2009), father - Boris Vasilyevich Miller (1933-1986). Parents worked at the Research Institute of Radio Electronics of the Ministry of Aviation Industry of the USSR, which was later transformed into NPO Leninets. Mother worked as an engineer, father - as a fitter.
Married. With his wife, Irina, they have a son, Mikhail.
Biography
He studied at school-gymnasium No. 330 of the Nevsky district of the city of Leningrad. Graduated in 1984 Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute them. N. A. Voznesensky.
In the 1980s, he was a member of the circle of reformist economists in Leningrad, whose informal leader was Anatoly Chubais; was a member of the Sintez club at the Leningrad Palace of Youth, which included young Leningrad economists and social scientists, including: Dmitry Vasiliev, Mikhail Dmitriev, Andrey Illarionov, Boris Lvin, Mikhail Manevich, Andrey Lankov, Andrey Prokofiev, Dmitry Travin and others.
In 1984-1986, he was an engineer-economist of the LenNIIproekt.
In 1987-1990 he studied at the graduate school of the LFEI. N.A. Voznesensky.
In 1990, he was a junior researcher at the LenNIIproekt.
In 1991, a fateful acquaintance for Alexei Borisovich took place. That year, he began his work in the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office, where the current president of the Russian Federation held the position of his chief. V. V. Putin. Under the leadership of Putin, Miller worked for five years. During this time, we managed to establish contacts with the largest Western banks.
The change of power in St. Petersburg forced Alexei Miller to change jobs. With extensive connections, Miller has become a desirable candidate for senior positions in major Russian companies. He was invited to work for the company JSC "Sea Port of St. Petersburg" where he worked for three years.
Since 1999, Miller has been CEO of OJSC "Baltic Pipeline System".
According to the results of the elections in Russia in 2000, Vladimir Putin became president. Following him, his former subordinate Alexei Miller also moved to the capital. He was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, but he only stayed in the post for a year (2000-2001).
Since 2001 he has been the Chairman of the Board "Gazprom", and since 2002 - Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Gazprom. Removal from office Rema Vyakhireva, who had worked as chairman of OAO Gazprom for almost ten years, meant imminent changes in the company.
With the arrival of Miller, Gazprom becomes completely controlled by the state, work begins to return the assets lost during the reign of Vyakhirev.
There were also major personnel changes. Being far from energy, Miller needed people for whom this area is not alien. A number of senior positions went to people with whom the new chairman of the board had already worked, other appointments came from Kremlin, some members of the Vyakhirev team managed to keep their posts.
Despite the fact that experts predicted Miller's imminent resignation, he strengthened his position. By 2004, the formation of a renewed leadership apparatus was completed. In 2006, Miller's work contract was extended for another five years.
In early 2010, the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, ranked third in the ranking of the most effective top managers in the world according to the magazine Harvard Business Review.
Experts studied the work of two thousand CEOs of companies, the performance of CEOs was measured by the income of shareholders during their tenure. At the same time, income was adjusted taking into account inflation and average indicators for the country and the sector of the economy.
On May 18, 2010, Miller was elected Vice President Russian Football Union. In the second quarter of 2012, Miller took over as Chairman of the Board of Directors. JSC "Russian hippodromes".
In December 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the closure of the project "South Stream". Later, the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, explained that instead of South Stream, a pipeline would be built through Turkey to the border with Greece, where a gas hub could be created.
In January, Alexey Miller advised European buyers to speed up preparations for changing the route of gas supplies due to the cessation of supplies through Ukraine.
The highest place in the rating of Russian companies is now occupied by "Rosneft", which dropped from 6th place to 10th. Surgutneftegaz came in 12th place and LUKOIL- in 13th place. Meanwhile, back in 2008, Miller announced that, thanks to high gas prices, he was going to increase capitalization to $ 1 trillion in ten years so that the company would become the most expensive in the world.
Alexey Miller has numerous government awards.
The top manager prefers to spend his free time with his family. Enjoys jumping. Alexey Miller owns Thoroughbred stallions - Cheerful and Fragrant.
Cheerful, imported from the USA, on August 12, 2012, took 3rd place at one of the races of the Central Moscow Hippodrome, receiving a prize of 3,000 rubles. Born at the Don stud farm, Fragrant came first to the finish line seven times in his career and remained in the prizes 12 times.
Income
In 2013, he entered the top 3 Forbes list (3rd place) of the most expensive managers in Russia with an income of $25 million.
Rumors, scandals
Classmates said that Miller was "an inconspicuous guy", although an excellent student. After graduating from FINEC in 1984 with honors, Alexey Miller got a job as an economist at LenNIIproekt, but relations with the team did not work out.
Miller did not stick out and "Club of Young Economists". According to the recollections of the "young reformers", Miller listened there more than spoke and was considered perhaps the weakest link in the Chubais team. But when Chubais needed personnel, Miller was not forgotten.
He was offered a vacancy in the city committee for external relations, which in those years was headed by Vladimir Putin. First, Miller was the deputy head of the department, then his boss, then Putin's deputy. Then it was a dim young man, containing a certain mystery, secrecy.
At meetings of the Center for Strategic Research "North-West" fund, Miller was also invisible. Unlike Kovalchuk, he did not rant or speak, although it was clear that he was close to this circle.
For Putin, he was, first of all, a hardworking, reliable person who could be relied upon. Indeed, former colleagues confirm that Miller could work 16 hours a day if necessary.
Despite his marital status, there are persistent rumors in the Moscow gay scene about Miller's bisexuality.
People who worked with Alexei Miller at Smolny recall: " He always greeted me and smiled." "A good official, it is noticeable that a careerist, although he kept himself modestly, is always in the shadows. You know, one of those who "sounds more than it looks". ("Izvestia", 2001).
One of Miller's former FAC colleagues said: " Alexey is very efficient and obedient. What he is told, he does. There is nothing bad to say about him, but nothing good either. He has no opinion of his own and is very convenient to deal with some other "Media Bridge". And stealing from Miller's hand will not rise. Unless for yourself". ("Vedomosti", 2001.)
In 2005, a criminal case was initiated on the fact of embezzlement from "Mezhregiongaz", 100% subsidiary of Gazprom. The essence of the fraud is that smaller offices also produce gas, but you can only sell it to Gazprom, since it has a pipe, - he explained to the Sobesednik the essence of the criminal case.
"However, Gazprom officials say, for example, to Novatek: "We can only buy half of it." The next day, an unknown office, Trastinvestgaz (TIG), comes to Novatek and offers to buy the remaining half at the same price that Gazprom itself takes - 500 rubles per thousand cubic meters. And a day later, Gazprom buys all this gas from TIG for 915 rubles, although two days ago it refused to take 500 rubles each.".
Navalny does not exclude that in this way "effective managers" from Gazprom, simply by moving pieces of paper around the table, earned 1.5 billion rubles. Only on this episode!
"According to the documents, the money was withdrawn to the Baltic states and cashed there,” Navalny explained. - Only through one of the dozens of companies 293 million rubles were pumped. But there are other episodes of the case. I think there are at least a thousand similar companies involved in this fraud, in different countries. Imagine how much money!".
However, the head of Gazprom himself has escaped accusations of fraud, at least so far.