The chain was launched by private investors in 2003, with 36% of its shares owned by Alexander Mamut (also a shareholder in Ingosstrah, and Corbina Telecom, a Golden Telecom subsidiary); a further percentage split equally between Roman Lola, Dmitry Kushaev and Maxim Scherbakov, and the rest by Waterstone’s founder, Tim Waterstone.
Its wireless network covers just two metropolitan areas: Kiev and Odessa, lacking the national coverage of its competitors.
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Prior to Putnam Lovell, Gurgenidze served as Head of Technology Corporate Finance, Head of M&A and held other positions at ABN Amro advising such clients as Swift, Reuters, Moneyline Telerate, Wirtualna Polska, Marconi, Andrew Corporation, Merloni Elettrodomestici, News Corp, Global One, Golden Telecom and UPC.