Alexander Burjak

Date of Birth: 23.05.1970

Place of Birth. Education. Born in Donetsk. In 1993, he graduated from the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (Field of Applied Mathematics).

Career. 1993-1996 (after two years of military service) - Director of Elefant LLC, Deputy General Director of Gekata LLC, Deputy Chairman of the Board, First Deputy Chairman of the Board, Acting Chairman of the Management Board, Chairman of the Board of the Bank for Business Cooperation (Kyiv).

1996-2002 - Director of the Department for International Relations, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Acting Chairman of the Management Board, Chairman of the Board of Broker Business Bank.

2002-2006 - Member of the Parliament of Ukraine of the IV Congress from the Our Ukraine bloc (No. 59 on the electoral list). Member of the Parliament's Finance Committee.

During his time as a deputy, he changed 'political camps' several times. He was a member of the Our Ukraine faction for less than a month and almost immediately switched to the United Ukraine, which was loyal to President Leonid Kuchma. He then joined the faction of the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (PPPU) and the Labour Party of Ukraine. During the 'Orange Revolution' and the third round of the 2004 presidential elections, he was non-factional. After that, he joined the People's Freedom group and again the PPPU faction. In January 2005, he switched to Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc.

In July 2005, he joined the PPPU of Anatoliy Kinach.

2006-2007 - Member of the Parliament of Ukraine of the V Congress from Batkivshchyna (No. 69 on the list). Member of the Parliament's Finance Committee.

Since 2006, he has been a member of Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna party.

2007-2012 - Member of the Parliament of Ukraine of the VI Congress from Batkivshchyna (No. 69 on the list). Deputy Chairman of the Parliament's Finance Committee.

Awards. Honored National Economist of Ukraine (2004).

Wealth. In February 2008, Focus magazine estimated the wealth of the Burjak brothers, co-owners of Broker Business Bank, at $1.040 billion, ranking them 19th-20th on the list of the 130 richest Ukrainians. The magazine noted that a year earlier their wealth was $550 million. According to the editorial, besides one of the leading Ukrainian banks, their area of influence includes AG Agrohimtsentr, the chemical concern Stirol, AG Ukrainian Rice, and LLC Kyiv Real Estate to varying degrees.

According to the rating of Correspondent magazine in June 2008, the wealth of the millionaire brothers was $887 million (27th place in the Top-50 list of domestic oligarchs).

In 2013, brothers Sergey and Alexander Burjak signed an agreement to sell 80% of the shares of Broker Business Bank to the Vetek Group of Sergey Kurchenko.

Family Ties. Married.

His older brother Sergey Burjak (born 1966) - a member of the Ukrainian Parliament in several legislative periods.

20.05.2022