Dmitry Mazepin

Dmitry Arkadievich Mazepin is a Russian businessman who was born in Belarus. He is the majority shareholder and chair of Uralchem Integrated Chemicals Company. In 2013, he acquired a 20% stake in the world’s largest pot producer, Uralkali, in a deal estimated to be worth USD 9 billion.

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Summary Dmitry MazepinDmitry Arkadievich Mazepin is a Russian businessman who was born in Belarus. He is the majority shareholder and chair of Uralchem Integrated Chemicals Company. He was the president of Sibur, a subsidiary of major gas producer Gazprom, in 2002 and held the position until 2003. In 2013, he acquired a 20% stake in the world’s largest pot producer, Uralkali, in a deal that was estimated to be worth USD 9 billion. Since 2014, he has also been the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Uralkalis in March 2014. He has sought to introduce a business development strategy to both his own company and that of the state-owned Russian bank Vnesheconombank. He graduated from the Saint Petersburg Institute for Economics and Management in 2008 with a first-tier university degree in Organization Management. He earned his PhD from the same school in 2012 after defending a thesis on developing a methodical approach to managing the stock market potential of an oil producing company.

The main production assets of the company include the Azot branch in Berezniki, the Perm Mineral Fertilizers branch in Perm, and the Kirov-Chepetsk Chemical Plant branch in Kirovo-chepetsk, and Voskresensk Mineral FERTilizers in the Moscow region. The company also owns stakes in Halopolymer, a public joint-stock company, and Halogen and Minudobrenia, a Moscow-based joint stock company. In June 2008, MazepIn acquired a 75. 01 per cent stake in Voskshnevartovsk Mineral Fartilizers, increasing this stake to 100% in 2011. He also owns a 75 per cent share in Suleiman Prokhorov, a company that produces potash, and also a stake in Uralkal, a Russian potash producer. He took control over the operating company at that time, winning a winning bid for the company.