Many people who operate start-ups know that their success or failure is determined ultimately by the people who run the company and how dedicated they are to the vision of the company. Many who participate will fall by the way side and remove themselves from the picture, fearing the risks involved. Victor Remsha, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, took his initial business ventures from small-time to international success over the course of more than twenty years.

Victor Remsha was born in 1970 in the city of Krasnoyarsk. He spent his school years in Western Belarus before enrolling in a well-known Technical University in the academic community, where he majored in radio electronic systems and graduated in 1995. As a university student, Victor Remsha opened a commercial kiosk with three other students and started the company Finance-Analytic in 1994. Finance-Analytic initially served as provider of breaking news on issuers, stock quotes, and news to stock market participants. By 1995, Victor remained the sole owner of the company and under his vision would see its rise to an international investment and asset management company.

By the late ‘90s, Finance-Analytic had obtained a license from the Federal Securities Commission and gained membership in NAUFOR, the Moscow Stock Exchange, the MICEX, and the RTS. In 2002, Finance-Analytic was turned into Finam Investment Holding a company comprised of numerous divisions including Finam News Group, Finam Insurance, and Finam Management. A year later all of the holding’s divisions were merged under the single brand of Finam.

Victor Remsha’s company acquired Megawatt Bank in 2004 and rebranded it to Finam Investment Bank in 2006. Victor started expanding again in 2007 with the acquisition of Bolshoye Radio and in 2011 with the acquisition of Bolshoye Gryzlovo, an airfield in a major international city.

Later that year, Finam Investment Holding expanded into the United States with its U.S. division, WhoTrades Inc., which became a full-fledged member on the NASDAQ. By 2012, Finam Investment Holding operated the widest regional network in his former country.

Victor Remsha was recognized by Forbes as being among his former country’s top 200 most affluent businessmen in 2014. He is married and has four children.