Andriy Zdesenko (; 24 May 1969,

Dnipro Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper River, Dnipro River, from which it takes its name. Dnipro is t ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...

) — Ukrainian businessman, founder and president of

Biosphere Corporation Biosphere Corporation is a Ukraine, Ukrainian manufacturer and distributor of household and hygiene products, founded in 1997 by Andriy Zdesenko. The production facilities are represented by 4 plants. Biosphere owns a large polyethylene waste proc ...

, owner of Charisma Fashion Group. Co-founder of the Inspira business club in

. Listed in the top-100 richest people in Ukraine according to the Forbes magazine (since 2016).

Biography

Andriy Zdesenko was born on 24 May 1969 in

. He graduated from the faculty of Physics and Mathematics of

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University The Oles Honchar Dnipro National University ( DNU, ) is a state-sponsored university located in Dnipro, Ukraine. It was founded in 1918. The first four faculties were History and Linguistics, Law, Medicine, and Physics and Mathematics. Nowaday ...

(DNU). He also received his second degree at the DNU's Faculty of Economics. In 1997 Andriy Zdesenko founded

. In 2008 he started to develop his own premium boutiques of European clothing brands Charisma Fashion Group. Now it is represented by 9 stores in Kyiv and Dnipro. In 2014 Andriy Zdesenko along with Vladislav Guristrimba opened two restaurants of the Vapiano franchise in Kyiv and Lviv. In 2017 Andriy Zdesenko was named among 10 businessmen who form the image and reputation of Ukraine in the world by the Business magazine. He was also included into the list of the 50 most stylish men in Ukraine by the ELLE MAN magazine. The same year he invested $100,000 along with Vladislav Guristrimba in the Biosphere StartUP Platform to develop tech startups in Ukraine and abroad. In 2019 the Focus magazine estimated the businessman's fortune at $110 million. In 2020 the Forbes magazine estimated Zdesenko's fortune at more than $100 million.

References

Living people 1969 births 20th-century Ukrainian businesspeople 21st-century Ukrainian businesspeople Businesspeople from Dnipro Oles Honchar Dnipro National University alumni {{Ukraine-bio-stub