Who will work in the new Cabinet of Ministers with the oligarchs' quota

Who will work in the new Cabinet of Ministers under the oligarchs' quota

Top managers from famous oligarchs may be invited to positions in the new government. Espreso.TV has investigated whose interests the future ministers will represent

Yesterday, information appeared that President Petro Poroshenko proposed including in Yatsenyuk's government several managers with Western education. In particular, the surnames of the president of the Ukrainian Agricultural Business Club (UCAB) Alex Lissitsa, the general director of the Continium group of companies Andriy Pyvovarovsky, the general director of Foxtrot Oleksiy Pavlenko, and consultant of the international consulting company McKinsey Roman Rubchenko were mentioned.

Espreso.TV tried to figure out who these people really are and who stands behind them.

Yes, Alex Lissitsa, who is vying for the post of Minister of Agricultural Policy, is oriented toward the agricultural magnate, owner of the Mironivsky Hliboprodukt (MHP) Yuriy Kosyk. It is known that he for a long time (for 2007 to 2010 years) worked as an adviser to the Minister of Agricultural Policy Yuriy Melnyk (Kosyk's ally).

What defines him is that, born Alexey Lisitsa, he changed his name to Alex Lissitsa to avoid loss of scientific reputation in the West, which would inevitably arise from retracing his name's transliteration (initially his name was transliterated from Russian to French).

In 2007 year, Alex Lissitsa became president of the Ukrainian Agricultural Club (UCAB), a year earlier he held the position of chief executive officer of the Ukrainian Agricultural Confederation.

Another page of his career deserves attention — for two years Lissitsa worked as non-executive director of the agricultural holding Agroton. It should be noted that in 2013 year Agroton found itself at the brink of bankruptcy, and it became clear that this was one of the most scandalous schemes in the agricultural market.

Also under consideration for a position in the new government is the oligarch Andrej Pyvovarovsky’s manager candidate.

In December 2012 year Pyvovarovsky was appointed executive director of the Continium group of companies, which belongs to Ihor Yeryomeev, Stepan Ivakhiv, Serhiy LAGura, and Petr Dyminski. It includes Ukraine's second-largest network of filling stations WOG (more than 400 stations), one of the largest dairy processing companies “Western Milk Group”, the Kherson Oil Refinery and other assets in energy and the food industry.

Why might the government include a person connected with Ihor Yeryomeev? It should be noted that the latter has long-standing friendly and working relations with the former speaker and leader of the People’s Party, Volodymyr Lytvyn, who, in turn, is an old friend of Petro Poroshenko.

From 2006 year Pyvovarovsky worked at the Dragon Capital (Ukraine) investment company as managing director, director of the investment-banking department.

Prior to that — at the Moscow office of IFC.

Roman Rubchenko is vying for the post of Minister of Energy and Coal Industry.

It is known that since 2010 year he was a leading employee of the Rinat Akhmetov's Foundation for Efficient Management (advised by the company mentioned earlier McKinsey & Company), and he is the author of the draft updated “Energy Strategy of Ukraine for the period up to 2030 year.” It is worth noting that a key point of the strategy is to increase generation on domestic coal, modernization and development of generating capacities, and large investments in improving the efficiency of the coal sector. The document envisions that coal production by 2030 year could grow from 51 million tons to 75 million tons, i.e., by 47%. Thus it becomes clear that this strategy was written exclusively for Akhmetov, since DTEK is the monopoly on the electricity market.

Among his achievements, besides writing the energy strategy project, Rubchenko also cites the creation of a Coordination Center for reform implementation (under the Yanukovych administration), as well as a pilot project for the presidential reserve of personnel.

Before collaborating with Akhmetov’s Foundation, he worked in the consulting sector, 17 years lived in the United States, from where he returned in 2008 year. He studied at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the owner of a bar called “Question Bar,” located in the building of the Kinopanorama cinema on Shota Rustaveli Street.

It is worth noting that Roman Rubchenko is not Akhmetov's man; he is just a hired manager. At the same time, he has no experience managing large companies or assets, so it is unclear how he could perform the duties of a minister.