A rare entrepreneur at the age of 31 manages to become the main supplier of medicines to such a large state as Russia. However, the company of Alexei Evgenievich Repik was able to win the most tenders in this area. So far, the press and experts have not finally decided who he is - a business genius or just a dummy figure behind which high-ranking officials stand. The businessman prefers to be thought of as a "boot" under the "roof" of the FSB.
Early years
Parents of Alexei Evgenyevich Repik (born August 27, 1979 in Moscow) are scientists. Mom, Valeria Daeva, specialized in the development of new building materials and reinforced concrete plants, has a Ph. D. Father - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Evgeny Repik.
Aleksey received a certificate of secondary education at the age of 15, having passed the final examsexternally. The guy always dreamed of the profession of a historian and applied for the history department of Moscow State University. However, after passing the entrance exams in Russian and English with "excellent" marks, he failed at the profile exam. The following year, Repik decided to enter the Higher School of Economics (from which he graduated in 2003) and work in parallel. The work biography of Alexei Evgenievich Repik began in the city hospital as an economist.
First success
During the three years of work, the young employee gained a lot of experience, having studied in practice the economic mechanism of the hospital's functioning. As Repik himself recalls, at the age of 16 he had to defend the estimate for the next budget year in the city he alth department, since the head of the planning department was often absent due to illness. At the same time, he gained experience in negotiating with officials, which later came in handy when participating in public procurement.
The abilities of the young employee were appreciated in the company "Rosmedkomplekt", which was located on the territory of the hospital. He was lured away for a salary of $300 - not bad money for a second-year student. Because he knew what hospitals needed, he quickly managed to increase sales significantly. A year later, Aleksey Evgenievich Repik already held the position of sales director with a salary of $ 1,000. However, new shareholders appeared in the company, and he was fired with a scandal, blaming him for the losses.
Start your own business
In 2001, Repik opened his own"R-Pharm" company. He raised a start-up capital of about $40,000 by selling a car and adding $15,000 to it, which his mother gave him. The new company was engaged in the supply of medicines to hospitals, at first the same as Rosmedkomplekt. The largest client was the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital (seven positions for 91.6 million rubles).
The first major success came to Alexei Evgenievich Repik in 2006, when R-Pharm managed to become a major player in the Russian drug market. His company won bids to supply expensive drugs through the National Drug Supplement Program, which provided eligible citizens with prescription drugs that the government paid the bills for. R-Pharm was chosen as a supplier for several positions: medicines for hemophilia, oncology, diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
Optimal business model
Every year, the volume of won tenders for supplies increased, three years later the company also dominated the supply of medicines for the treatment of orphan diseases. Aleksey Evgenyevich Repik explains the success of R-Pharm with the right choice of business model, formed thanks to the knowledge gained at the university.
In subsequent years, the company started producing medicines, modern high-tech complexes were built in Novosibirsk, Moscow and Kostroma regions. R-Pharm successfully entered the world market, branches were opened in the USA,Turkey and Japan. In 2014, a technology center was bought in Germany (Bavaria).
On top of success
In the spring of 2017, he agreed with the Japanese corporation Mitsui & Co. on the sale of a 10% stake in R-Pharm, and in the autumn the companies announced the completion of the transaction. Repik has a 90% stake. According to Mitsui (quarterly report), the corporation paid 22 billion yen (which is approximately 196 million US dollars at the closing date).
In the same year, the pharmaceutical tycoon first entered the list of the richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes magazine. In 2018, he took 47th place in the prestigious ranking. Experts estimated the fortune of Alexei Evgenievich Repik at $2,100 million.
In the Russian rating "Kings of the state order" ("Forbes - 2018"), the businessman took 14th place with the volume of state orders in the amount of about 34 billion rubles. Now the company "R-Pharm" has more than 70 representative offices in various countries of the world, in total the businessman employs 3600 employees.
Repik is engaged in a great social activity, participating in the work of various expert councils. Since 2012, he has been co-chairman of Delovaya Rossiya.
Personal Information
Aleksey Evgenievich is married to Polina Repik, a former model and now a popular beauty blogger. The businessman met the girl when she was studying at the university. After marriage, Polina transferred to the eveningdepartment to do housework and raise children. The couple has three children - two daughters and a son. Family photos of Polina, the wife of Alexei Evgenievich Repik, can often be found on social networks.
Repik is an almost professional poker player and was interviewed for Gipsy Team in 2011 in connection with his successful performance at a European poker tournament. Then he took an honorable sixth place and received prize money of 72,000 euros. Many fans from Russia were interested in what kind of new player appeared and where he came from. The businessman then told the correspondent that he had a Russian passport, but he lived in America.
