OREANDA-NEWS. October 5, 2011. “When I met Oleksiy Vadaturskyy for the first time it was hard to believe in a possibility of realization of such a large-scale project,” the EBRD Director for Ukraine said in an exclusive interview to “Agroprofi” newspaper. “At the first sight it seemed to be an echo of Soviet gigantomania. But after ten minutes of intercourse I was surprised by how he describes his business, how important it is to him, how global he looks at issues of agricultural sector and what a patriot of Ukraine he really is - it is very impressive. I was impressed by his understanding of business, strategic planning, including financing and investment.

How innovative his idea to revive the transport potential of Ukrainian rivers was. It was a new approach. And we thought - why not? We started to cooperate, together with a delegation from the London Board of Directors of the Bank visited the head office of "NIBULON" in Mykolayiv. People were just impressed how high-tech and beautiful everything is, roses are blooming. As if it is not an agricultural enterprise, but an Opera House in Sydney. A distinctive feature of Vadaturskyy is his brilliant ability to do marketing for his company. Indeed, it becomes clear that people want to do something very, very qualitatively.

Personality plays very important role in business. The history of funding shows that approximately 20% of the total risk, which assumes the investor or bank, depends on the balance of a company, profitability, reports, papers, etc., and 80% depends on people - the main owner and management of a company. Because any strong balance will collapse if it involves people who do not understand, do not want, are not patriots of business.