Jan Kulczyk
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Jan Kulczyk
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| Born |
24 June 1950 Bydgoszcz, Poland |
| Died | 29 July 2015 (aged 65) Vienna, Austria |
| Resting place | Jeżycki Cemetery Poznań |
| Residence | Poznań, Poland |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater |
Poznań University of Economics |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Net worth | $4.1 billion (February 2015) |
| Children | 2 |
Jan Kulczyk (24 June 1950 – 29 July 2015) was a Polish businessman and entrepreneur. He was the founder and owner of Kulczyk Holding (headquartered in Warsaw) and an international investment house Kulczyk Investments (former name: Kulczyk Investment House) with headquarters in Luxembourg and offices in London and Kyiv. According to the Forbes magazine, Kulczyk was the richest Pole.
Kulczyk graduated from VI Jan i Jędrzej Śniadeccy Secondary School in Bydgoszcz in 1968. He studied law at the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan and foreign trade at the Poznań University of Economics and Business (then: Academy of Economics in Poznań). He received a doctor’s degree in political sciences and international law in 1975.
In 1981 Kulczyk founded his first company with money from his father Henryk. The Interkulpol joint-venture was one of the first international trade companies formed in Poland after the second world war. In 1988, Jan Kulczyk became the official Volkswagen dealer in Poland. His first large-scale deal was a PLN 150-million sale of 3,000 Volkswagen cars delivered to the Polish police and the security services in the early 1990s. In 1991, Kulczyk Holding a limited liability company was founded. In 1993, the company changed its legal form into a joint-stock company. Jan Kulczyk held the post of the chairman of the supervisory board.
The completed investments in his portfolio included:
In 2007 Jan Kulczyk reorganized the Kulczyk Holding Group into Kulczyk Investment House, later known as Kulczyk Investments.
Kulczyk invested in energy, oil and gas, infrastructure, real estate and brewery sectors. His company Kulczyk Investments has 40% share in Neconde Energy Limited, an oil production in Nigeria, 3,49% in San Leon Energy (oil and gas exploration and production), 33,72% in Loon Energy Corporation (a company holding an oil exploration and production licenses in Columbia and Peru), 50,76% in Serinus Energy (an oil and gas exploration and production company operating in Ukraine, Tunisia and Romania) and 9,73% share in Ophir Energy (an oil and gas exploration and production company operating in Africa). Kulczyk Investments portfolio includes also a 15,4% share in Strata Limited, a company focused on development of mining projects in Africa and a 25% share in Centar, a company exploring for natural resources in Afghanistan and other countries in Central Asia and Africa.
In 2010, in cooperation with Silverstein Properties Inc., Kulczyk Silverstein Properties was founded a join-venture company specializing in development of commercial real estate projects in Central Europe.
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