Dmitry Potapenko

Biography

After graduation, he entered the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation. In 1993, he graduated with a degree in "design engineer-technologist". He was forced to interrupt his studies at the institute for a year because of his service in the army.

In 2002, he received his MBA degrees from the VAVT and from the University of California in the East Bay.

In his youth, he was engaged in the sale of vinyl music records, worked as an orderly in a morgue and a psychiatric clinic. For some time he worked as a security guard for the president of the bank "Russian Credit".

He traded equipment at the Moscow Gorbushka market together with Evgeny Chichvarkin.

In 1992, he founded his first electronics trading company, Tusar..

In 1995-2000 - Senior Manager, Vice President for Sales and Marketing of Grundig GmbH in the Baltic countries.

In 1998-2001 — General Director of JSC "MEZ DSP", Vice-President for Investment Development of PBK "Creditimpexbank".

In 2001-2003 - Deputy Managing Director of the Logos Group of Companies, General Director of Wholesale Centers LLC

In 2003-2005, he managed the Pyaterochka retail chain in Moscow and the Moscow region.

In some media, he is referred to as the "managing partner of the company "Management Development Group Inc", which includes grocery chains "Prodeco", "Gastronomchik", "Orange", "Merchants", "Housekeeper", a chain of cafes and canteens "Real meat", "Real fish", "Pizza Uno", "Dining Room No. 1""[5]). Since 2009, he has been the General Director of MDG LLC and Praktor Retail GmbH LLC.

The author of the YouTube channel "Dmitry Potapenko".As of January 2022, the channel has more than 690,000 subscribers.

From 2018 to March 2020, he hosted the author's program "Potapenko wakes up!" on the radio.