Oleg Boyko

Oleg Viktorovich Boyko (Олег Викторович Бойко; born 28 September 1964) an international investor and resides in Switzerland, Chairman of Finstar Financial Group. Oleg Boyko was born in Moscow in 1964 and educated at the Moscow Aviation Institution beginning in 1981, where he specialised in radio electronics. Boyko subsequently gained a Master of Business Administration from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. He worked at the Lomonosov Moscow State University between 1982 and 1986. International serial investor Oleg Boyko has a diverse portfolio having successfully invested in multiple industries including financial services, banks, IT, retail, real estate, entertainment and steel. From a young age, Boyko was interested in the financial sector and he began his career in the IT and finance sectors whilst he was a student. He is credited for introducing the first stores with credit card readers into Moscow in the 1990s. In 1988, he began selling used United States computers and computer accessories in the Soviet Union. In 1990, he established National Credit Bank (AКБ "Национальный кредит") and served as its director until Boris Fedorov (Борис Федоров), took over the bank in autumn 1995 and was in charge of it until May 1996 before the collapse of the bank in September to November 1996. In 1995, Boyko was worth $1.5 billion. In 1996, Boyko and a team of professional executives formed Finstar Financial Group as an investment vehicle and management company in order to identify, invest in, and actively manage businesses on behalf of Boyko and other private investors. As Finstar's Chairman, international investor Oleg Boyko has now directed Finstar to focus mainly on digital financial services and fintech industries. Among its non-core businesses, Finstar maintains a presence in real estate, entertainment and FMCG retail. In 1999, Boyko was a joint investor in EvrazHolding alongside Alexander Abramov, combining three steel mills and thereby creating one of the world's largest vertically-integrated steel producers as a result.