renamed into Cordiant, and Gurinov was appointed the company's Chairman of the board of directors. In addition, he proposed a development strategy that allowed the company to expand significantly. As a result, in 2021, Cordiant became the second largest player in the market. In 2017, Gurinov transferred his shares in Cordiant to his wife, Galina Gurinova. Consequently, she became the company's controlling shareholder, and the company was considered a family asset. Service-Telecom In 2015, Service-Telecom was founded, and Vadim Gurinov became its chairman of the board of directors. He formed the company's development strategy, resulting in Service-Telecom's expansion: while the company owned 350 telecommunication infrastructure facilities in 2015–2016, their number increased by 18500 by 2022. Thus, Service-Telecom took 21% of the tower infrastructure market in Russia. Other activities In 2007, Gurinov became a member of SIBUR Holding's management board. From November 2011 to August 2012, he was the CEO of Russian Sea - Dobycha (now the company is renamed Russian Fishery). As of 2013, he owned 12,6% of the company's shares. Since 2009, Vadim Gurinov has been a shareholder of AvestraGroup, an independent supplier of petrochemical products from Russia to foreign markets with representative offices in the UAE, Switzerland, and Finland. In 2015, Gurinov invested in creating interregional centers for sterilizing technologies that would provide next-generation sterilization services in various industries, including medicine, agriculture, and automotive component manufacturing. In 2017, he became a member of the Board of Directors of the Arkhangelsk Experimental Seaweed Plant. In 2021, Technical Hemp Processing Technologies (owned by Galina and Vadim Gurinov) acquired almost 27,5% of Nizhny Novgorod Hemp Fibers LLC. Furthermore, Gurinov invests in fintech projects (neo-banking, online registers) that are implemented at the first stage in South-East Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia). He is also an investor in a marketplace project in African countries. His investment portfolio also includes investments in premium real estate in central London and highly liquid suburban locations in the United Kingdom. Family Gurinov is married to Galina Nikolayevna Gurinova. They have three children. References 1971 births Russian businesspeople Russian business executives Saint Petersburg University of Economics and Finance alumni Living people