Manager Oksana Kuchura
Oksana Kuchura is one of the few representatives of the beautiful female sex, in whose hands hundreds of millions of dollars of the richest people from all over Russia are managed.
It was this fragile woman, who has no financial education at all, who created the first family office in Russia, whose activities allow large investors to preserve and increase capital.
Oksana’s success story is a real example of how luck and hard work can elevate a person to unprecedented heights, which is exactly what happened to a simple girl from Kazakhstan.
Oksana Kuchura was born in 1974 in Kazakhstan. According to Oksana herself, independence and leadership were very much encouraged in the family, and her parents always supported her endeavors, no matter what she undertook, but they forced her to complete everything.
Since childhood, starting from her school desk, Oksana Kuchura showed an increased interest in foreign languages, and especially English.
After graduating from school, Oksana's love for foreign languages evolved into a conscious choice of educational institution and future profession: she wanted to become a translator.
Naturally, her parents, seeing her talent, supported her aspirations. She chose one of the most prestigious universities in Kazakhstan, the State University of World Languages, from which she successfully graduated in 1999.
Getting to Know the World of Finance: First Job
Oksana Kuchura began her career as a financier and manager while still a student, and in a most unexpected way. One day, she was drinking coffee in a cafe and reading a book in English.
A representative from USAID sat at the next table. It so happened that the company was actively seeking consultant translators who could negotiate on their behalf for investor funding for their hedge funds.
The young people exchanged a few words in English, after which Oksana was hired as a consultant specializing in attracting foreign capital. After working there for a while, Oksana realized she wanted to focus solely on finance.
After working for USAID for some time, Oksana Kuchura received an offer from a local Kazakhstani fund, Global Kazkommerts Securities, where she was closely involved in dealing and order execution for their hedge fund.
After working for just a year, Oksana received an offer from the brokerage company Regent European Securities, where she was entrusted with working with operations with many large international hedge funds.
It's worth noting that Oksana's career progressed by leaps and bounds within this company, and by the age of 23, she had become the firm's chief broker.
Let's start from scratch. Our own idea
In 1999, her husband received an excellent job offer in Moscow, so Kuchura left his high-ranking position in Kazakhstan and moved to Russia.
At first, she had to start back from the bottom and get a job as a consultant at Renaissance Capital, where she worked for practically pennies.
However, after less than a year of work, she received an excellent offer from Troika Dialog, where she took up a position promoting the company's products in Russian and foreign markets.
After Florian Fenner, one of the company's ideologists, left Troika Dialog for UFG, he was tasked with building a team, which he eventually recruited Oksana to join as head of sales.
According to Kuchura’s own recollections, she began to achieve tangible success only after a year and a half of work.
After three years of work, Oksana decided to adopt the international experience of family-run businesses and implement it in Russia. However, management reacted very negatively to her proposal and simply refused.
Nevertheless, Oksana puts her stake in UFG on the line and creates the first family office in Russia, UFG Wealth Management.
It was this desperate move that allowed them to earn enormous sums of money, and given that such offices did not exist at the time, many oligarchs and representatives of big business began to actively invest.
Oksana currently manages over $800 million, and her company receives new licenses every year, expanding its trading capabilities and investing in various business sectors around the world.
