Andriy
Verevskyi

Born July 25, 1974 in Poltava.

Education: Poltava Civil Engineering Institute, Oxford College, National Agricultural University.

Andriy Verevskyi is the founder of Kernel Holding S.A., the world's largest producer of sunflower oil. He owns the largest land bank in Ukraine—about 600,000 hectares. He owns nine oil-seed processing plants.

In 1998, he worked as deputy general director of the Poltava branch of the state-owned monopolist company Bread of Ukraine.

'He was controlling the grain elevators that were subject to privatization,' Forbes wrote. Soon, Verevskyi indeed bought them.

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In 1998-1999, Andriy Verevskyi was a Deputy General Director of the Poltava company Zernoexport.

In 1999-2000, he was a Deputy Director for Commercial Affairs of Transagroinvest, a private enterprise in Poltava.

In 2001, Verevskyi worked as a consultant of the Kyiv representative office of Louis Dreyfus, a French agricultural company. At that moment, it was the largest grain exporter from Ukraine. Back at that time, Ukrainian media actively covered the activities of Verevskyi who, on behalf of the French part, became an investor in Sonyashnyk.

Andriy Mykhailovych was confident due to having a controlling stake, therefore, he immediately advanced his demands: a complete replacement of the plant management and absolute control over the plant. He puts a new chairman of the board of the company, Viktoria Matkovska, the wife of the head of the Poltava tax service,' wrote Dzerkalo Tyzhnia.

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In 2001-2002, Verevskyi was the head of the Supervisory Board of Sonyashnik CJSC (Poltava), a sunflower oil producer.

According to the rating of the richest Ukrainians made by Novoe Vremia magazine and Dragon Capital, an investment company, the fortune of the chairman of the board of Kernel is estimated at $358 million. Focus estimates Verevskyi's fortune as $1 billion.

Wife: Tatyana Verevska (maiden name Matyash). Born April 11, 1972. She was the head of a PR agency. In social networks, she states that she lives in Geneva.

Since 2017, she has been the founder of Vere, a charitable foundation that helps young musicians. The fund is registered at the same address as the main office of Kernel, on Shevchenko Lane, 3.

Sons: Artem, Mark and daughter Sasha Verevsky. In social networks, they write that they live in the Versailles commune, Switzerland (on the shores of Lake Geneva).

Mother: Natalya Verevska, born January 17, 1951. She runs Vidrodzhennia Dobra (Eng. Renaissance of Good) foundation in Poltava. Among the founders, there are the youngest son Ruslan Verevskyi and Ihor Mamay, a former partner of Andriy Verevskyi in Kernel Group LLC.

Father: Mikhail Verevskyi (April 20, 1951 — September 24, 2006). He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Poltava. In the past, he served as a military in the German Democratic Republic and Hungary. In the early 1990s, he had a shoe cooperative, and his son, the future billionaire, worked there.

In the late 1990s, media wrote that Mikhail was an entrepreneur. He owned several enterprises related to the agricultural business. Since 1996, he headed a charity fund that provided assistance for cancer patients.

In 1999, he was the confidant of presidential candidate Alexander Moroz in the Poltava region.

Brother: Ruslan Verevskyi, born January 25, 1979.

Now, he is his brother’s business partner. Twice he was his assistant in the Parliament of 4 and 6 convocations. He is also a former deputy of the Poltava City Council from the Conscience of Ukraine party.

Until 2018, he was the owner of Zaliznychni shlyakhy.

Brother: Mikhail Verevskyi, born July 5, 1992. It is known that he studied at Poltava University of Economics and Trade and in the UK.