Igor Mariovich Ostrovsky was born in 1971 in the Tver region. Father - Mario Arhetto, a Mexican citizen who left the USSR due to non-extension of his educational visa. Mother - Natalya Ostrovskaya. Until the age of 8, he was raised by his mother's parents. At the age of 12, he moved to Moscow to live with an adoptive family: he was adopted by Natalya Vladimirovna Maslova and Anatoly Grigorievich Maslov (Igor took the surname and patronymic of his adoptive father). Natalya Vladimirovna was Deputy Head of the Department of the Scientific Library named after. M. Gorky, and Anatoly Grigorievich headed educational institution“Station of Young Tourists” under the Ministry of Education of the USSR.
In 1989 he entered the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Department of Social Philosophy. Throughout his studies, Igor dealt with the issue of effective communications, and thesis defended on the topic “Information and communication processes in the social environment.” In his second year at university, Igor gained his first entrepreneurial experience by creating a real estate management company (with a staff of about 15 employees). In 1994, Igor completely handed over the management of the real estate business to his partner, and he himself moved to Hermes Center Bank, where he very quickly rose from an intern to a department head. Initiative, extreme hard work, strong business acumen, absolute determination - these qualities have proven to be decisive factors for success. Soon, together with his team, Igor joined the VIP client service department, which provided services for comprehensive support business. Within a year, its results exceeded all the expectations of the Bank's management. Thus, in 1996, the VIP service department was transformed into an independent branch of Moskomprivatbank, which, by all indicators, immediately became the absolute market leader.
In 2001, Igor Mariovich established Prado Bank (from Spanish prado - multicolor, flowering meadow), and in 2002 he created the consulting and financial holding company PRADO Banker and Consultant or PRADO Group. The holding quickly became a unique phenomenon on the Moscow market. Comprehensive consulting service for maintaining and improving core business functions, more than 400 products, the highest quality and customer-oriented approach - all this has become business card"PRADO Group". Against the backdrop of the first news of the financial crisis, Igor Mariovich Ostrovsky decides to restructure the holding and sell the bank, and spin off some of the consultants into a separate company. In February 2007, Ostrovsky completed structuring the deal for the sale of Prado Bank, which lasted almost a year. The bank is taken over by businessmen close to Gazprom structures and continues to operate successfully to this day. Soon after, a company was established - KSK group (Capital. Service. Consulting).
KSK Group, having adopted all the best that was in PRADO, nevertheless differs greatly in its development strategy and business organization. Today the company is one of the leaders in the business consulting market, focusing primarily on the private and real sector. Core competencies - audit, taxes, law, marketing, automation.
Consulting is a way of life
Today KSK group is 21 years old successful work in the Russian comprehensive consulting market. This is complete, high-quality, pragmatic-result-oriented business consulting for real Russian business. We cover all competencies necessary for business development, its sustainability and security: accounting and control, audit, taxes, law, assessment, personnel, marketing, sales, strategy and management, automation, raising finance. No matter how quickly the market develops, KSK Group always offers the most current solutions. We have managed to form a team of 350 industry experts with extensive practical experience and high qualifications. The company's employees have implemented more than 4,000 projects and accumulated unique technologies and solutions for private businesses. Today, KSK groups largely determine the development Russian market consulting.
In terms of labor equipment, we are the absolute leaders in Russia. Our motto: " Better conditions- for the best people!
Clients often ask us: how do we manage to achieve high results year after year for 21 years, always be at the forefront of relevance and demand, creating trends and shaping the market? The answer to this question is both complex and simple at the same time. The secret of success is in a unique corporate culture KSK group, based on an impeccably, fairly and transparently built system, common goals, spiritual values and principles that are shared by all employees (the so-called genotype of the company). People who share common values become like-minded people. And a team of like-minded people is a great business force, capable of effectively solving problems of any complexity, ensuring business security, sustainability and development.
Constant development
Consulting is a way of life. Interesting, creative work, requiring maximum dedication and involvement, constant development and working on yourself to the limit of your strength. Information in the world is becoming outdated at an incredible rate. Technologies, tools, thinking are changing: circumstances require constant improvement of skills and updating of knowledge. A true professional loves his job. Work for KSK Group employees is not just a job, it is a way of life: always be on your toes and maintain your knowledge and professional skills, develop and not be afraid of difficult tasks, conquer new heights and follow the leader. Only by developing ourselves can we move our company forward and develop the client’s business. New knowledge allows you to take a fresh look at tasks, decisions, and life around you. They help expand the range of possibilities and find among them those that can benefit us and our clients. Therefore, KSK Group operates an employee training system, the so-called KSK Group Academy. All employees attend lectures, seminars, colloquiums, trainings, and team building events. They learn from the best Russian experts and specialists, expand their business erudition, study the latest consulting technologies and best practices used in various industries economy.
We, at KSK Group, never stop developing, We always act proactively, we raise the bar of achievements to new heights (you must definitely exceed your own records). No matter how good the previous result was, we always strive to improve it. The development of our company and our clients’ businesses is the goal that unites us. Business changes the world, and KSK Group develops Russian business.
Personal interest in clients is the key to long-term cooperation
KSK Group consultants are focused on long-term cooperation, which is built on a sincere desire to help the client and impeccable professionalism. The foundation for such cooperation is personal interest in each client, constant interaction, continuous Feedback, the desire to achieve the client's admiration as the highest rating.
In consulting, a manager must understand how the client’s business works; he must be aware of what is happening in the market. Consulting is comprehensive solutions, and for this you simply need to be the best experts in all areas. Clients of KSK Group really see that we have information, we know the most effective solutions It is precisely regarding his problems and concerns that we can offer best service. Sincere interest in solving client problems, supported by professional and efficient work, – thanks to which for more than 21 years private business selects KSK groups.
Vertical growth or horizontal development
The ideology of KSK Group sets employees up to achieve their own maximum, to realize their abilities to the fullest. short time. We achieve such results by implementing the up or out principle (“up or sideways”), according to which an employee’s advancement is directly proportional to his efficiency and initiative, and for each subsequent career step it is necessary to purchase additional professional quality. This is logical and justified: the company is growing, tasks are becoming more complex - and in order to meet the position and train junior colleagues, it is necessary to develop with the company, and if it lags behind, to move to where the opportunities will be relevant and in demand most of all.
This approach is an example of an honest and mutually beneficial relationship: an employee either successfully makes a career within the company, or, having acquired unique skills and invaluable experience at KSK Group, goes to work for the client’s company - as an ambassador and conductor of our business ideology, which helps businesses grow and develop ensuring its security, sustainability and development.
Responsibility for the result
KSK Group experts bear full responsibility for the results of their work. When starting a new project, consultants set themselves specific and measurable goals. We don't sell air - we achieve results that can be measured in numbers. Increasing revenue, reducing costs, increasing labor efficiency, strengthening tax, legal and information security– have their own quantitative indicators, which we strive to meet and exceed.
Our goal is client development. We do everything to ensure that investments in consulting are 100% worthwhile. For every ruble invested, the client should receive from two to ten. The reports prepared by the experts of the KSK groups do not gather dust on the shelves, but serve as a practical guide to action. We help clients, bringing real benefit and profit, and the highest value for everyone in KSK Group is the client’s admiration for the impeccable and effective work we have done.
Teamwork
KSK groups are purposeful, ambitious, proactive, educated and energetic people who complement and strengthen each other’s personal competencies. The result of this synergy is a team aimed at achieving results. We grow together with our team and understand that everyone's success is everyone's success. That is why the mentoring institute - an important part KSK group. Any employee of the company has the opportunity to ask a question to a more experienced colleague. The principle “If you ask, you have to explain” is inviolable for us. The doors of management are open to any employee. In KSK groups, everyone has a mentor, and he himself is a mentor for the younger ones.
Full engagement
KSK Group employees devote most of their time to work. Involvement in the process is the norm of life for KSK Group employees. Only those people who dedicate all their time, creative energy and intelligence to work stay and succeed in the company. It is this attitude to work that allows them to make real breakthroughs in personal and professional development. For these changes to be of high quality, one hundred percent involvement and work at maximum speed is required. In return, employees receive sincere respect from their colleagues, new skills, qualities, knowledge, experience and contacts, which, in turn, are easily transformed into money and opportunities.
The personnel policy of KSK Group is simple - we employ the best of the best. To develop a company, we need strong, results-oriented employees who share corporate values, principles and requirements. It is thanks to the tough and principled personnel policy KSK Group today is an excellent, mobilized team, where each employee is a disciplined, responsible professional with an entrepreneurial approach, involved in the process. The manager must be passionate about his work, really help clients, solve their problems and develop the business, ensure its safety, sustainability and development.
Working in the KSK group is service in an elite business army, during which each employee undergoes many strength tests. But the result is worth it: our employees become not just specialists, but business special forces, for whom nothing is impossible in the professional sphere.
Igor Mariovich Ostrovsky was born in 1971 in the village of Kushalino, Tver Region. Father Mario Archetto, a Mexican citizen who left the USSR in 1970. Mother Ostrovskaya Natalya. Until the age of 8, Igor was raised by his grandfather Pavel Petrovich Ostrovsky, the head of the Kushalinsky military forestry. When his grandfather died and his grandmother became seriously ill, Igor gained useful experience of independence.
At the age of 12, Igor moved to Moscow, and in 1989 he entered the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. In his second year at university, Igor created his first business related to operations in the real estate market. The company employed up to 15 employees.
In 1994, Igor handed over the management of the real estate business to his partner, and he himself went to work at Hermes Center Bank. The goal is to develop a career in business. Igor started at the bottom level - the position of an intern. Career developed quickly: trainee, courier, operator, junior economist, deputy head of department. Initiative, extreme hard work, strong business acumen, absolute determination - these qualities have proven to be decisive factors for success. Four months after coming to work, the bank’s management supported Igor’s initiative, and he became the head of the VIP client service department he independently created. From this moment we count the history of KSK groups. It was then, as part of the VIP service, that Igor provided clients with comprehensive business support services, including accounting, legal and IT support. There were no analogues on the market.
Igor recruited his university classmates as direction leaders. It was then that the basic principles of the company were formulated: business consulting and outsourcing as products, complexity and focus on key task business, focus on the owner, manager and directors as customers, maximum relevance of solutions, utmost quality; not state, not resource, but real business as a target client; primary focus on the Moscow market.
The success within a year exceeded all expectations of the bank management. In 1996, the VIP service department was transformed into an independent branch of Moskomprivatbank, which immediately became an absolute leader in all respects.
In 2001, Igor Ostrovsky established Prado Bank (in Spanish “PRADO” - “multicolor, blooming meadow”), and in 2002 he created the consulting and financial holding company “PRADO Banker and Consultant” or PRADO GROUP.
The holding quickly became a unique phenomenon on the Moscow market. Comprehensive services for the efficiency and maintenance of core business functions, more than 400 products that provide all business needs on a turnkey basis, the highest quality and a customer-oriented approach - all this has become the hallmark of the holding.
By 2006, the holding had grown. Against the backdrop of refined processes, highest quality, a unique product line, an excellent team, negative symptoms of bureaucracy also appeared, especially in the top management of the holding, and the lack of a flexible and mobile response to the challenges of the time.
Igor Ostrovsky was able to predict the scale and some of the consequences of the development of the global crisis, which in 2006 manifested itself in the rapid growth of assets and the mortgage crisis in the United States. Igor decides to restructure the holding and sell the bank, and separate some of the consultants into separate legal entities and outsource. In February 2007, Ostrovsky completed structuring the deal for the sale of Prado Bank, which lasted almost a year. The bank is taken over by businessmen close to Gazprom structures and continues to operate successfully to this day. According to the signed agreement, the PRADO trademark also had to be sold. Soon, a successor company to KSK Group, Capital. Service. Consulting".
KSK, having adopted all the best that was in PRADO, nevertheless differs greatly in its development strategy and business organization. KSK has become a much more mobilized and mobile team, with stricter internal discipline and management requirements. Of course, this had a remarkable impact on the quality and execution of projects and processes.
Ostrovsky Igor Mariovich, Senior Partner of KSK Group:
“I sincerely believe that in Russia entrepreneurship can and should exist serenely, relying on its own resources and reliable consultants, and not relying on “maybe” or help from above. I adhere to 3 principles in life and business: 1) “Simpler, simpler and even simpler”; 2) “Less snobbery - more optimism”; 3) “Honesty is the best policy!”
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