Ukrainian businessman and former politician
Andriy Mykolayovych Pyvovarsky (Ukrainian: Андрій Миколайович Пивоварський) is a Ukrainian businessman and a former Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine.[2][3] He did not retain his post in the Groysman Government that was installed on 14 April 2016.[1]
Biography
Pyvovarsky graduated in 2000 from the history department of the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv.[3] In 2003 he received a master's degree in International Business and Finance of Tufts University (United States).[3]
From 1998 to 2001 he worked as a financial analyst and business developer in Kyiv Investment Group BLASIG, where he developed and oversaw a number of projects with an investment of $10 million.[3]
From 2003 to 2006 Pyvovarsky worked at International Finance Corporation (IFC) as an investment adviser.[3]
In January 2006 Pyvovarsky joined the investment company Dragon Capital, where he headed the investment banking division.[3]
In January 2013 Pyvovarsky became CEO of Continuum Group, which is owned by Ihor Yeremeyev, Stepan Ivakhiv and Petro Dyminskyi.[3]
On 2 December 2014 Pyvovarsky was appointed Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine in the second Yatsenyuk Government.[3]
On 11 December 2015 Pyvovarsky announced his resignation.[4] He stated he planned to resign because his subordinates, volunteers he had attracted to the ministry, could not "work having non-market salaries".[5] An anonymous source in his ministry told UNIAN that Pyvovarsky was "extremely dissatisfied" with the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko faction refusal to adopt key bills regarding Ukraine's transport industry.[6] His resignation letter was submitted to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) in December 2015.[6] Pyvovarsky was never formally dismissed.[6] He was finally relieved from his post when the Groysman Government was installed on 14 April 2016.[1]
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