Butkevych Hennadii Vladyslavovych - co-owner of ATB Corporation, founder of the BGV Group investment company.
Born May 27, 1958 in Dnipro.
Education
He graduated from the Faculty of Heat and Gas Supply and Ventilation of the Dnipro Engineering and Construction Institute and the Law Faculty of the Oles Honchar National University of Dnipro.
Career
During the USSR, he began a career in the police, worked in the Department for Combating Economic Crime, was the head of the Department for Combating Organized Crime in Dnipropetrovsk.
In the 1990s, he took up trade.
In 1993, he became a co-owner of the Ahrotekhbiznes trading company.
In 1995-1997, he headed the security service at United Energy Systems of Ukraine, the president and founder of which was Yulia Tymoshenko. "I had a conversation with her when she and Pinchuk were at odds. I said, "Yulia Volodymyrivna, you broke up with Pinchuk today. Tomorrow you decide to go into politics..." No one else thought about it, and I felt it. And asked for a bonus. And we launched this bonus into business... On the bonus that I received from Yulia Volodymyrivna, we built a meat processing plant and earned well," Butkevych said in an interview with Dmytro Hordon.
In 1998, Butkevych and partners Viktor Karachun and Yevhen Yermakov registered ATB Market, which they own in equal shares (the company received its name from the abbreviation "AhroTekhBiznes"). "Without Yermakov, it would not be possible to make production, and without Karachun, I would not realize anything - he always sold more expensive, and bought cheaper. This is a merchant with a capital letter," Butkevych said in an interview with Hordon.
Currently, ATB Corporation includes the ATB Market supermarket chain, the Kviten confectionery factory, the Favoryt Plius meat factory.
ATB Market is the largest Ukrainian supermarket chain, according to the results of 2022, the network's turnover amounted to UAH 176.9 billion.
On the eve of the war, 1,322 ATB supermarkets operated in Ukraine. As a result of russian aggression, 31 ATB stores were destroyed, and another 79 were in the occupied territories.
Since February 2022, as of the end of 2023, the company has opened 20 new stores, reconstructed 40 stores, while 7 were restored after hostilities.
The chain plans to open more than 60 stores in 2024.
Butkevych took 15th place among the 100 richest Ukrainians in 2021 according to Forbes Ukraine with a fortune of USD 530 million.
He is also the president of the Polissia football club.
Family
He is married and has two daughters.