Rank #2051
Vadim Yakunin
Net worth $2.0B
Pharmacy · Russia
- Born
- Jan 05, 1963
- Age
- 63
- Source
- Pharmacy
- Residence
- Moscow
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Ph.D, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Net worth over time
Biography
- Vadim Yakunin founded Protek Center of Implementation in 1990.
- Protek, which went public in 2010, is one of the biggest drug distributors in Russia.
- Yakunin, who got his start importing computers and writing software, also worked in the tourist business in Hungary.
- While in Hungary, he met reps from a large pharmaceutical firm and decided to start importing drugs.
- Later he founded the Rigla chain of drug stores, and built a pharmaceutical factory and logistics center near Moscow.
- Sister Yuliya Yakunina is economic director of Protek and a member of Protek's board since 2002.
- Yakunin graduated from the Moscow Physical and Technical Institute (MIPT) as engineer-physicist. He holds a degree as a Doctor of Technical Sciences.