Vladimir Zhmak leaves the post of president of Rosneft-Ukraine for the post of first deputy governor of the Odessa region.
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About it reports the Odessa website “Timer”.
Vladimir Zhmak studied at the same university with Mikheil Saakashvili. Since his student days, Zhmak has also known Petro Poroshenko.
The career of the honored lawyer of Ukraine began with a failure in the entrance exams - and then Zhmak went to serve in Afghanistan. Then he studied at Kiev State University, at the University of European Education (Italy), at the International Institute of Management (Switzerland).
In March 1998, Vladimir Zhmak joined the Supervisory Board of Kyivstar CJSC, then changed his field of activity from jurisprudence to telecommunications and became an adviser to the president of the company. In 2010, he moved to the position of Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ITT-Plaza CJSC. In 2011, Zhmak became the executive director of TNK-BP Commerce, changing the real estate sector to the oil refining and petroleum products trading sector. In 2012, he was appointed president and chief executive officer of the company, after the company's takeover by Rosneft, as president of the RN-Ukraine FDI.
The main events during Vladimir Zhmak’s tenure were the shutdown of the Lisichansky oil refinery in 2012, the cooperation of companies under the management of TNK-BP and Rosneft with Kurchenko’s structures in 2013-2014, the seizure of almost 10 thousand tons of petroleum products at the oil depot in Vasilkov in 2014.
He married a French woman and had a family of four children.