Maxim Nikolaevich Yakovlev is a St. Petersburg entrepreneur, director of the Poligrafoformlenie group of companies, director of the European representative office of the biotechnological corporation Unhwa and partner of the EduMarket online project, which allows people interested in education to have the opportunity to develop their careers, and in addition, engage in personal growth .

Was born future entrepreneur November 30, 1965 in the city of Temirtau (currently the Republic of Kazakhstan).

"Polygraph registration"

The Polygraph Formulation company, headed by Maxim Yakovlev since 1994, traces its history back to 1879, this time was marked by the creation of E.I. Marcus chromolithography in St. Petersburg, on Vasilyevsky Island. After the revolution of 1917, the enterprise was renamed State Lithography No. 3, and in 1974 it merged with Printing Factory No. 17, after which a new name appeared - “Polygraph Formulation”. Finally, in 1994, OJSC Poligrafoformlenie was formed, which currently represents a group of companies.

Today the company is the largest in the North-West of Russia in the label and packaging production segment, and the Polygraph Formulation staff consists of more than five hundred employees.

The company operates in four areas - offset production, production of self-adhesive labels, flexography and creation of packaging using intaglio printing.

Since 2002, the company joined the Global Packaging Alliance. This international organization includes companies from all continents, such as Diamond Packaging, Goncalves, Colorpak, Cartmont and many others.

Today "Polygraphoformlenie" works with large customers, including many famous brands, such as Baltika, Orimi Trade, Wrigley’s, Nestle, Dirol, as well as JTI and BAT.

Biotechnology Unhwa

Maxim Yakovlev has been interested in the culture of the East for many years, and thanks to this hobby he was able to establish business contacts in Asia. Since 2010, Yakovlev has headed the European headquarters of the South Korean biotechnology corporation Unhwa, which is called Unhwa Europe LLC and is based in St. Petersburg.

The South Korean biotechnology corporation is developing a technology for isolating plant stem cells (Cambial meristematic cells) to obtain active biological substances from them for the creation of medicinal and preventive drugs, as well as natural cosmetics.

Experts from scientific and educational institutions such as The Rockefeller University, Harvard Medecal School, and The University of Maryland for Integrative Medicine confirm that this technology is a big step forward compared to traditional technologies for cultivating plant cells for the production of natural products, which previously faced the problem of creating mass production of biologically active substances from cultured plant cells.

The St. Petersburg representative office of the corporation, headed by Maxim Nikolaevich Yakovlev, is working to bring Unhwa biotechnology to the domestic market. The company plans to build a plant in Russia that will produce biologically active substances from plants.

Maxim Nikolaevich Yakovlev is a Russian entrepreneur, president of the Poligrafoformlenie group of companies, a leader in the domestic packaging industry. Head of the European representative office of the South Korean biotechnology company Unhwa. Partner of the educational Internet platform EduMarket. In his activities he adheres to the principles of humanism, a supporter of innovation and bold business decisions.

Childhood and education

Maxim Nikolaevich Yakovlev is a native of the Kazakh city of Temirtau, where the country’s famous metallurgical plant, known as Kazakhstan Magnitogorsk, was located. The boy's father, like many residents of the city, worked in the mine.

After graduating from high school in Temirtau, Maxim Yakovlev entered the Moscow Construction College, while continuing his studies at evening school. In 1983, with a college diploma in hand, he moved to Leningrad and successfully passed the entrance exams to the Leningrad Technological Institute.

Business career

After graduating from university with honors, Yakovlev got a job as a heating engineer at the Leningrad Ceramics Plant, but he did not stay in this industry for long: his personal qualities ensured rapid advancement up the career ladder, switching his interest to the field of management.

In 1990, he headed the small supply department state enterprise Linstek, in 1992, took the chair of the general director of the closed joint stock company"Mayan". It was during this period that the entrepreneur formed his idea of ​​doing business, based on a humanistic approach to management and “human capital.” People are not a means, but the main objective any business, these are Yakovlev’s life principles.

In the same year, Maxim Yakovlev took the helm of the Polygraph Formulation company, an enterprise with a history dating back to 1879, but at that time was in a deplorable state. Under his leadership, the company, transformed into the holding company OJSC Polygraphoformlenie, received a life-saving renovation that helped bridge the technological gap with foreign colleagues and bring the enterprise to the international level.

In 1997, Poligrafoformlenie acquired a modern machine for high-speed 8-color flexo printing and a modern laminator - these were the first steps towards the global packaging market. Already in 2002, Poligrafoformlenie joined the international union of packaging manufacturers, the Global Packaging Alliance (GPA).

Today, the services of the Poligrafoformlenie holding are used by world-famous companies that are well known to everyone: the largest packaged food concerns Nestle and Kraft Foods, ruminant giants Wrigley's and Dirol, tobacco kings JTI and BAT, domestic tea and coffee producer Orimi Trade. and the Baltika brewing company.

Maxim Yakovlev today

The energy and managerial talent of Maxim Yakovlev found an outlet not only in the activities of Polygraph Formulation, but also in a number of other socially significant projects.

The entrepreneur has long been interested in the issues of longevity and anti-aging, focusing on the latest achievements in Asian countries. Thus, in 2010, Maxim Yakovlev helped the biotechnological company Unhwa (South Korea) enter the CIS market by heading its European representative office in St. Petersburg.

The Unhwa company is engaged in the biotechnological cultivation of valuable ingredients from producer plant cells. The cells are called Cambial meristematic cells. This technology, which allows the production of plant bioraw materials on an industrial scale, has received approval from leading biological experts at Rockefeller University, Harvard Medical School, and the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Maryland. Maxim Yakovlev is confident that cooperation with Unhwa will provide Russian industry herbal medicines competitive advantages.

Another socially significant project of Maxim Nikolaevich Yakovlev is the online project “EduMarket”. It is a huge database containing the best educational offers: lectures, seminars, trainings, qualification courses - everything that will help people grow in professionally and increase competitiveness in the labor market.

Maxim Nikolaevich Yakovlev. Born on November 30, 1965 in Temirtau. Russian entrepreneur, CEO of the Poligrafoformlenie group of companies, co-investor of the South Korean corporation Unhwa.

After graduating from school in his hometown, he moved to Moscow, where for a year he studied at evening school and the Construction School, from which he graduated with honors.

In 1983 he moved to Leningrad and entered the Leningrad Technological Institute, from which he also graduated with honors.

Maxim Yakovlev’s first job was as a heating engineer at the Leningrad Ceramics Factory, but soon he began to master the field of management.

In 1990, Maxim Yakovlev received the position of head of the Linstek MGP department. Two years later he became general director JSC "Maya" Two years later he became a member of the board of directors of OJSC Kirov Plant. In the same 1994 - general director OJSC "Poligraphoformlenie"- a company that he still heads.

Today Polygraphoformlenie has been transformed into a group of companies and is largest enterprise North-West of the country in the packaging industry, working in four areas: flexographic production, offset production, gravure packaging production and production of self-adhesive labels.

The group of companies is the only Russian member of the international alliance Global Packaging Allience (GPA) and has customers such as Nestle, Baltika, SladCo, Kraft Foods, Bravo International, Wrigley's, Orimi Trade, Dirol, Talosto ", "Petro" (JTI), BAT.

Since 2010, Maxim Yakovlev became a co-investor of the South Korean corporation Unhwa and began transferring its biotechnology to Russia, the essence of which is the cultivation of unique plant producing cells (Cambial meristematic cells (CMC)).

Using SMS technology, it is possible to obtain industrial volumes of biologically active substances from plants and create plant bioraw materials for production medicines and cosmetics.

Cambial meristematic cells have the potential to obtain valuable substances contained in all parts of the plant: stem, leaves, roots, fruits, petals, etc. Cambial meristematic cells are undifferentiated cells, they are able to self-renew, endlessly divide and reproduce their clones, identical to natural plant cells on the genetic and morphological level.

The cultivation of SMS occurs in bioreactors of 250 tons, where every 5-6 days the doubling of one trillion cultured SMS cells occurs.

Currently, the businessman sees his goal as that, with the support of Russian pharmaceutical companies and Russian state, build an innovative biotechnological plant for industrial production BAS from plants, for the creation of plant bioraw materials for the creation of herbal medicines.

Another investment interest of Maxim Yakovlev is the Internet project “EduMarket”. As part of this project, talented students who want to build a career and develop their personal potential have the opportunity to receive grants for education and access to educational information resources. The project is carried out in collaboration with leading Russian universities.

The future entrepreneur was born in 1965 in Temirtau in the family of a miner.

Grew up and studied in high school in his small homeland, then moved to Moscow, where he studied at the Construction College and at evening school. In 1983 he moved to Leningrad, where he successfully passed the entrance exams to the Leningrad Technological Institute, from which he graduated five years later.

After receiving his diploma, he worked for some time at the Leningrad Ceramics Plant as a heating engineer, but already in 1990 he moved to the position of head of department at the Linstek company. First experience leadership work allowed to hone management skills human capital, which were based on respectful attitude to the opinion of each employee, consistent disclosure of professional talents and involvement of specialists of their team in the work through emotional interest in the common cause. This humanistic position of forming a circle of people for his team of specialists subsequently became the basis of Maxim Yakovlev’s career.

Members of Maxim Yakovlev’s team, speaking about him, mention this feature of his in this way: “They gather around Maxim Nikolaevich creative people who are capable, like him, inspired by his faith, of creating and transforming the space around them."

Having gained experience as a mid-level manager in two years, after another 2 years Maxim Nikolaevich already began to manage the Maya company, and in 1994 he received membership in the board of directors of the Kirov Plant.

In the same 1994, Maxim Nikolaevich headed another organization, which, with his arrival, firmly stood on the rails of managerial and technological innovations, taking the position of leader in the domestic packaging market. It's about about the Polygraph Formulation Company, whose general director Maxim Yakovlev has been continuously working for more than 20 years. During the years of perestroika, the Soviet printing enterprise was not in the best condition and with unclear prospects, but thanks to the reforms of Maxim Nikolaevich Yakovlev and his team in the personnel sector, and technological re-equipment, which overcame the gap from the players in the foreign printing market, significant progress occurred, thanks to which "Polygraph Formulation " has reached a leading position, and proof of this is the membership of the Polygraph Formulation Group of Companies in the respected international industry association Global Packaging Alliance (GPA).

In 2010, Maxim Yakovlev focused his management resources and talents in a new innovative area of ​​​​biotechnology, namely in the segment of cellular production of plant substances. We are talking about the biotechnology of the Korean Unhwa Corporation and the initiatives of Maxim Yakovlev to transfer this technology to Russia. Thanks to biotechnology, which became the subject of investment and management interest of Maxim Nikolaevich, for the first time it became possible to talk about the isolation and industrial cultivation of unique plant cells - producers (Cambial meristematic cells (CMC) - cambial meristematic cells)) which, due to their high speed reproduction and the endless process of reproduction are natural “biofactories” that produce useful biologically active plant substances in mass quantities.

As a progressive person who focuses on development technological innovation, Maxim Yakovlev did not ignore biotechnology and became the head of the European representative office of the Unhwa corporation, which is located in St. Petersburg. Currently, one of the main tasks of the organization is the transfer of this biotechnology to Russia.

Maxim Yakovlev is firmly convinced that this biotechnology can solve the most important problem for Russian market plant bioraw materials, namely, to organize the production of standardized bioraw materials on a large scale, each unit of mass of which will contain the same amount of plant biologically active substances (biologically active substances).

Cambial meristem cells guarantee an identical amount of biologically active substances, as they have the property of genetic and physiological identity, which was proven in collaboration between the South Korean corporation and the Institute of Plant Molecular Research, which is part of the University of Edinburgh, where these cells were studied at the molecular level.

Maxim Yakovlev believes that the breakthrough South Korean technology and the organization of its transfer to Russia will make it possible to build and launch an innovative biotechnological plant with many cell lines from various plants, and to obtain, on their technological basis, biologically active plant substances that were previously unavailable to pharmaceutical manufacturers of medicines and cosmetics and natural products on a mass industrial scale.

This plant bioraw material can be used both domestically and exported, since the global market for herbal substances is also interested in solving the most important problem of obtaining bioraw materials and optimizing the production of herbal medicines.

Another project of Maxim Yakovlev, focused on creation, is “EduMarket”. useful websites on career and educational topics, which today are used by more than 1 million people monthly. The mission of the EduMarket Project Group is to give people the opportunity to receive necessary knowledge and skills for growth and development in professional activity, increasing competitiveness in the labor market. Today, the EduMarket Project Group is a significant player in the education market in Russia and has the largest audience in the market of additional professional education.

• General Director of the Polygraph Formulation Group of Companies
• General Director of the European representative office of the biotechnological Corporation "Unhwa" in St. Petersburg
• Partner educational project"EduMarket"

Biography

Yakovlev Maxim was born in Temirtau on November 30, 1965. He graduated from the Construction School, evening school, then moved to Leningrad and graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute with honors.

After working for some time as a heating engineer, Maxim Nikolaevich in 1990 was appointed to the position of head of the Linstek MGP department. Then his career continued and in 1994 Maxim Yakovlev became a member of the board of directors of OJSC Kirov Plant and general director of the Polygraph Formulation Group of Companies.

In 2010, Maxim Nikolaevich Yakovlev became interested in the innovative field of biotechnology and headed the European representative office of the South Korean biotechnological Corporation Unhwa in St. Petersburg.

Another creative project in the interests of people was “EduMarket”, in which Maxim Yakovlev acted as a business angel and investor. This project is a network of useful career and educational sites.

Personal details and hobbies

Maxim Nikolaevich is married and has three children. In his free time, he plays badminton, skis and is interested in the culture of the East. He is also an active participant in charitable work, in particular, he provides assistance to orphanages and special boarding schools in St. Petersburg.