Tariel Vasadze

Ukrainian businessman and politician

Tariel Shakrovych Vasadze (Таріел Шакрович Васадзе; born 15 October 1947 in Supsa, Lanchkhuti Municipality, Georgian SSR) is a Ukrainian businessman of Georgian descent, president of Ukrainian Automobile Corporation LLC, former Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada PM (IV, V, VI and VII convocations).

Born on September 15, 1947 in the village of Supsa, Lanchkhuti Municipality, Georgian SSR, Vasadze graduated as a mechanical engineer at the Kyiv Automobile and Road Institute.

From 1971 to 1982, Vasadze worked as an engineer, senior foreman, workshop manager, director of a technical service station, and deputy general director of the Kyivavtotekhobslugovuvanniya association. Subsequently, from 1982 to 1991, Vasadze was a deputy chief and chief of the "Avtotekhobslugovuvanniya" Ukrainian Republican administration. In 2007, Vasadze was recognized 92nd in the Top 200 Most Influential Ukrainians published by the Focus magazine. From 2002 to 2006, he represented Ukraine in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). In 2002, Vasadze was a freelance adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Anatoly Kinakh. From April 2002 to April 2006, Vasadze was a 4th Verkhovna Rada PM and part of the "For united Ukraine!" block. From April 2006 to June 2007, Vasadze was a 5th Verkhovna Rada PM as a Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc’ member. Since 2014, Vasadze announced he no longer engages in political activities and is only focused on his business activities.

Within the past 30 years, Vasadze’s corporation took a leading position in the automotive market of Ukraine that emerged from scattered and lagging post Soviet enterprises and maintained long term partnerships with the leaders of the world automotive industry, such as Daimler AG, Kia Motors, General Motors, Toyota Chery. More than 90 enterprises provide jobs and make tax deductions to the country's budget. He managed to build vertically integrated business processes at UkrAVTO from full scale car production and distribution to an extensive network of dealerships, logistics centers, forwarding services, leasing and car insurance.

Apart from the destruction of dealerships, the loss of assets and personnel in the occupied territories, the shutdown of the factory, the construction of several facilities was frozen in Kyiv, including the largest in Eastern Europe, the new Mercedes Benz concept center operating according to the new MAR 2020 standards on the Stolychny Highway 90, which was supposed to be implemented in the fall of 2022.

All his life he was married to Vasadze Shorena Serhiivna (died 16.06.2020), with whom he has two children — Vasadze Vakhtang Tarielovych and Vasadze Nina Tarielivna, who hold managerial positions in UkrAVTO. Has four grandchildren.