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Biography

About me

Alex Radunsky

My family and I left the Soviet Union as refugees in August 1989. We spent six months in Austria and Italy waiting for permission to enter the United States. We arrived in America in February 1990. We had to start all over again.

I hauled boxes at a grocery store, delivered pizza, sold shoes, and studied English at night. In 1991, I bought a used car at an auction in the U.S. and sold it in Minsk for about $15,000. It was the first of hundreds of cars I would ship overseas — and the start of my first business in America. Over the next three decades, I built companies in international trade, food products, autosport, real estate, and healthcare.

Timeline

Key milestones

  1. 1958 Born in Minsk, USSR.
  2. 1965–1975 SchoolSchool No. 42, Minsk.
  3. 1975–1980 Belarusian Polytechnic Institute
  4. 1989 My family and I left the Soviet Union as refugees and were stripped of our citizenship. We spent six months in Austria and Italy waiting for permission to enter the United States.
  5. 1990 Starting overWe arrived in the United States in February. My first jobs paid about $4 an hour.
  6. 1991–1993 Bud Trading LTDFounder and president. Started by selling a used car, then shipped cars from the United States to the former Soviet Union, and imported and exported Italian furniture, clothing, footwear, and electronics.
  7. 1992–2000 Terra USACo-founder and president. One of the largest distributors for Philip Morris, Kraft General Foods, and R.J. Reynolds in the CIS. By 1995, annual revenue reached $500 million.
  8. 2001–2011 CentroChairman of the board from 2001 to 2004, then an investor and board member until 2011. The largest shoe retailer in the CIS: in 2013, it was selling about 72 million pairs of shoes a year, with revenue of around $1.6 billion.A Centro store entranceA Centro store in a shopping mallA Centro storeInside a Centro shoe storeInside a Centro store
  9. 2001–2013 Corrado GroupCo-founder and CEO. We built three brands — Corrado, La Corra, and Vilanta — from scratch and within six years took them to second place in their segment in Russia, capturing about 15% of the market with 105 SKUs. In 2011, we launched the Mamako baby food brand. Corrado Group products were carried by 82,000 stores in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and the U.S.The Corrado product lineLa Corra canned vegetablesMamako baby foodKommersant · in RussianCorrado moves into goat-milk nutrition
  10. 2003–2005 Amson CorporationFounder and CEO. Our 26 breath strip and hard candy SKUs were carried by more than 20,000 retail locations in Russia, putting us ahead of Wrigley and Listerine. The category itself never took off, and the company closed.Stinger breath strips and candy by Amson CorporationStinger breath strip packsThe Stinger range
  11. 2004–2006 Midland F1 RacingCo-founder and managing partner of a Formula 1 team. Sold in 2006.The Midland F1 car on trackMidland F1 drivers with the carMidland F1 cars on trackThe Midland F1 car during a raceLenta.ru · in RussianBoris Yeltsin takes a senior post at the Russian Formula 1 team
  12. 2005–2014 Perga Development and ManagementFounder and CEO. The company built commercial and residential real estate. In 2011, Alex Radunsky was named one of the 100 most influential people in commercial real estate, ranking 27th on the CRE Top 100 Market Makers list.The CRE Top 100 Market Makers issueKommersant · in RussianAlex Radunsky moves into development
  13. 2020–2024 Tripment HealthFounder and CEO of a healthcare startup offering affordable, transparent pricing for medical procedures in the U.S.Radiology BusinessPrivate equity-backed SimonMed partners with online imaging marketplace Tripment Health PRWebTripment Health Taps Proven Start-up Leader to Usher in New Phase of Funding and Growth TrustpilotTripment Health reviews on Trustpilot Business WireWalnut and Tripment Health Announce Strategic Partnership

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