Iwan Huta

Date of Birth: 07.03.1956

Place of Birth. Education. Born in the village of Vasylkivtsi in the Husiatyn district of the Ternopil region. In 1982, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Kamianets-Podilskyi Agricultural Institute.

Career. 1982-1983 - Chief Economist of the collective farm 'Pobeda' (Husiatyn district).

1983-1984 - Chairman of the Village Council of Kruhulets (Husiatyn region).

1984-1985 - Instructor of the District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine in Husiatyn.

1985-1989 - Deputy Chairman, Chairman of the collective farm 'Pobeda' (Husiatyn district).

1989-1991 - Deputy Head of the Mobile Mechanized Team of Husiatyn.

In 1992, he, along with his wife Klavdiya Huta, founded the farm 'Mriya', which was later transformed into the cooperative 'Mriya Tsentr'.

From 2005 to 2006, he was the Chairman of the Main Department of Agriculture of Ternopil Oblast.

From 2006 to February 2015, he was the General Director and Chairman of the Board of the corporate conglomerate Mriya Agroholding.

He was a deputy of the Ternopil Regional Council from the Our Ukraine faction.

In recent years, Ivan Huta has preferred to live in Switzerland.

Business and Wealth. Mriya Agroholding is an agro-industrial company in Ukraine, a vertically integrated corporation with its own infrastructure and a modern fleet of trucks and agricultural machinery. It manages 165,000 hectares of land in Western Ukraine and produces wheat, rapeseed, corn, sugar cane, potatoes, buckwheat, barley, peas, soybeans, and sunflowers. In August 2014, the company was unable to fulfill its debts and declared technical default. Since February 2015, the assets were transferred to European and American investors who appointed a new management. In September 2018, the Saudi investment company SALIC, whose tasks include ensuring the food security of the country, announced the purchase of Mriya.

In 2011, the magazine Korrespondent estimated Huta's wealth at 918 million USD (up from 519 million USD the year before), while according to Focus, the wealth of the agribusinessman was 939.1 million USD (up from 482.3 million USD the year before). In 2014, Forbes reported it as 277 million USD.

In 2015, he sold the family bank DV to Sergei Gorbachevsky and his parents.

Awards. Hero of Ukraine. Honorary Member of the Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine.

Family Ties. Wife Klavdiya and sons Andriy and Mykola (Top Managers of Mriya Agroholding), daughter.

07.03.2022