Igor Albertovich Kesaev is a major Russian businessman, one of the few who does not like publicity, communicates with media representatives extremely rarely and reluctantly. More than a man is pleased with the recognition and high assessment of his merits in the field of entrepreneurship.
Lack of self-promotion in business and charity, reaction to attempts by the media to discover something dirty or scandalous in his biography, workaholism and modesty - these traits and behaviors are not characteristic of all representatives of the Russian business elite. Among these few is Igor Kesaev, the owner and president of the Mercury group of companies. Who is he and where is he from? What's going on in his personal life?
Biography of a businessman
Igor Albertovich Kesaev is a native of North Ossetia. He was born at the end of October 1966, in the city of Ordzhonikidze. In childhood, the boy was not much different from his peers, he could afford pranks and insignificant disobedience to his parents, but he always took his studies seriously. Little is known about his parents, only that the family was average, with an appropriate level of income. That is, rumors that Igor entered MGIMO thanks to his father's money are implausible.
Moreover, the young man entered the university after completing military service in the ranks of the Soviet Army - from 1984 to 1986. The selection committee praised the results of his testing during the exams. Igor easily coped with the tasks in the main subjects and the foreign language (English). It was his perseverance at school, in the process of preparing for the entrance exams at MGIMO, that helped him become a student of one of the most prestigious higher educational institutions in Russia.
Data on the year in which Kesaev became a graduate of MGIMO varies. It is known for sure that from 1988 to 1992 he headed the insurance department at Absolut-Moscow. It was there that he gained his first entrepreneurial skills and experience. Later he headed two insurance companies at once - the same "Absolute-Moscow" and "Jupiter".
Career
Igor Kesaev's business career began even earlier - in 1991, when he created the Mercury company, the main activity of which was aimed at selling imported food and alcohol, tobacco products. A year later, his brainchild received the status of a "group of companies". Media representatives tried to associate such a dizzying start in business with Kesaev's involvement in the special services or the underworld, the access of a novice businessman to the so-called Soviet "shop" capitals, but no one was able to find evidence.
Igor Albertovich did not limit himself only to sales. He "brought" the production sites of his main suppliers to Russia, began to study the market of shares of enterprises of various directions, actively buy up those that, in his opinion, were the most promising. Kesaev was never wrong in anything as regards the development of his business.
Colleagues, partners and business analysts note such traits of his character as a sharp mind, confidence in himself and his actions, complemented by natural modesty, diplomacy, which helps to achieve any goal set for himself.
Igor Albertovich is actively involved in charity work, but he does not advertise this direction of his activity. The general public is aware of only a few of his projects in this area - the Happy Children program, in which he finances the supply of equipment and teaching materials to schools, and the Monolith Foundation, which provides material and moral support to widows and children whose relatives served in special services, veterans.
Igor Kesaev's condition
The businessman, according to Forbes, has been a dollar billionaire since 2011. His fortune is steadily increasing, and in 2014 amounted to 3.4 billion dollars. This was followed by a recession, but in 2016 the situation stabilized.
It is not known what kind of property and where the entrepreneur owns. Only one of his hobbies and passions became public property - the Rolls-Royce Phantom. In addition, Igor Albertovich is passionate about contemporary art, often attends classical music concerts.
It is known that the first wife of Kesaev owns an art gallery that her husband bought her, and even after the divorce, he provides her with financial support in the development of her beloved business, which is worthy of respect.
Personal life
If a famous person closes his personal space from the public and journalists, this immediately arouses genuine interest and a stream of rumors and speculation. Businessman Igor Kesaev did not escape such a fate, but he never commented on dirty publications about himself in magazines and newspapers.
The businessman has been married twice. A certain Stella became his first wife. The woman gave birth to three children - Ilona, Erica and Christina. The couple lived in marriage for a long time, together they were engaged in the popularization of the work of contemporary artists from Russia.
Stella is engaged in this area even now, and her ex-husband provides financial support to her projects even after breaking up with a woman. It is not known what the entrepreneur's adult children from his first wife are already doing.
In 2019, Igor Albertovich was published with a new girlfriend - she was a model of Ukrainian origin Olga Klimenko. Kesaev refused to comment on his relationship with the girl. It is still unknown whether he filed an official divorce from his first wife and whether he is going to marry a new darling.
