Maxim Barskiy

Biography

Maxim Gennadievich Barskiy spent his childhood in the Ukrainian SSR.

In 1998, Barskiy Maxim dealt with client transactions in the brokerage market at Troika Dialog. Later, Maxim Barskiy received a position in the Department of Investment Banking.

In 2000, he acquired a stake in Cityline, an Internet service provider. He interested investors in expanding the provider’s reach across the country and got them to fund expansion. Cityline was bought out by Golden Telecom for $27 million, making Barskiy Maxim Gennadievich a millionaire.

From 2004 to 2008, Barskiy Maxim was a member of the Board of Directors of Vostok Oil Ltd. and became its Managing Director. He rebranded the company as West Siberian Resources (WSR), revamped its management, and acquired new assets for oil production. Mr. Barskiy led WSR to a 70-fold increase in production in four years and a seventy-five-fold increase in the company’s capitalization (from $60 million to $4.5 billion).

In 2009, Barskiy Maxim Gennadievich joined TNK-BP’s upper management. He optimized all business processes in the company, increasing management efficiency. Under his rule, TNK-BP purchased oil companies in Vietnam, Brazil and Venezuela, thereby increasing production from international assets by as much as ten percent. He worked at TNK-BP until the fall of 2011.

In 2012, Maxim Gennadievich Barskiy became the CEO of Matra Petroleum. He revised Matra’s assets to maximize profit potential, intending to create an increase in capitalization. However, Matra folded in the oil price collapse of 2014, despite all Barskiy Maxim’s attempts to save it.

In 2016, Maxim Gennadievich Barskiy joined the Board of Directors of Delivery Hero and began to improve the value of this company. Maxim Barskiy prepared the company for its initial public offering. At Delivery Hero’s IPO, the market estimated its value to be twice as high as the initial offering – lifting the capitalization from 2 billion euros to 4 billion euros.

Sibanthracite

In 2018-2020 Barskiy Maxim was CEO and co-owner of the coal mining giant Sibanthracite. Maxim Barskiy prepared Sibanthracite for sale. The group was acquired by a prominent investment holding owner in a leveraged buyout. Maxim Barskiy left Sibanthracite Management Company in 2020.

Education

Leningrad State University and Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley.