The Beginning of a Long Journey
Arkadiy Mutavchi was born on January 2, 1970, in Ungheni (Moldova), a small, closed settlement on the east bank of the Prut River which borders Romania. Mutavchi’s parents were lawyers. Mutavchi Arkadiy started working at the age of 14 when he joined fish farming as a laborer. After graduating from school, he served in the army.
Following his discharge from military service, Mutavchi enrolled at Kaliningrad State University and became a manager at Sijata, a Soviet-Hungarian firm in Chisinau. The company dealt with supplies and barter between Soviet republics and several Eastern European countries, especially in the machine-building sector.
Life and Work in the Capital City
Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich moved to the capital in the early nineties and started working on a variety of business ventures. For example, he founded Safety, which supplied PPE from Germany.
In 1993, another Mutavchi’s firm completed the development of a recreation facility after acquiring land, securing the required permissions, connecting utilities, and finding an investor. This marked his entry into the development industry.
Mutavchi Arkadiy would later become a Deputy Director for Legal Affairs and subsequently Business Development Director at Stalservice, a steel-industrial firm that manufactured and sold drilling machines and equipment in the neighboring countries.
Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich decided to give the stock market a try. He created his first account there in 1994, when trading in shares and other securities was still in its infancy. Mutavchi Arkadiy’s next move was to Brokinvestservice, a group of companies. There, Mutavchi was Deputy Managing Director at Metal-Impex CJSC, which dealt with ferrous metals and was the largest supplier of rolled steel, ferroalloys, aluminum, zinc and other similar products. At that time, Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich was in charge of optimizing the cost of purchased products, and he was also responsible for developing and implementing mutual offset schemes. Leading mining and processing plants in the region were contracted.
Returning to His Own Business
Mutavchi Arkadiy would later launch his own business called Shelda, together with his partners. Mutavchi Arkadiy’s new firm sold rolled metal products and traded securities on the stock exchange. Amid the 1998 financial crisis, the window of opportunity for entrepreneurship expanded significantly; Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich was working closely with real estate developers during this period. Two years after Shelda began expanding rapidly (for instance, it purchased its own warehouses), Mutavchi’s business partners made an offer to sell his stake for a significant amount.
Arkadiy Ivanovich Mutavchi accepted the offer but immediately started a new business, Profintek, a financial & industrial organization. Compared to Shelda, Mutavchi Arkadiy’s new structure expanded its activities: it began to buy crude oil, it organized refining at partner facilities, and sold oil products.
After selling his stake in Profintek at a huge profit, Mutavchi took a break. Nonetheless, Mutavchi Arkadiy revived his career path again in the mid-2000s. Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich would move to the production group Kungur, where he would become the company’s vice president. The firm, which dealt with drilling rigs, planned to float its shares on the stock exchange and integrate into the international market, but the global economic crisis put a stop to this. In 2014, Arkadiy Mutavchi returned to business and bought Trigrad, a management company that focused on securities and portfolio investments. Trigrad concentrated on tech, retail, healthcare, and real estate. The prospect of investment engagement proved to be crucial; in the 2010s, Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich became an accredited investor, leading to another career turnaround. Later on, Mutavchi would establish an investment company called Tacticum.
Tacticum and Tacticum Investments S.A.
Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich founded the investment group Tacticum and acquired Long Term Investments, a Luxembourg-based holding company. Although there were certain risks associated with this transaction, it opened up an opportunity for Arkadiy Mutavchi to raise his capital in the medium term. Long Term Investments Luxembourg (which was later renamed to Tacticum Investments) first underwent an independent valuation. After that, despite the company’s high debt burden, it was decided to buy Long Term Investments Luxembourg.
Tacticum was betting on a rise in shares from Italian Pirelli that were at the time owned by Long Term Investments Luxembourg. Although the value of Pirelli shares was steadily falling, Mutavchi Arkadiy believed that eventually, quotations would start moving upward again.
The share price dropped further after the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. Tacticum Investments had to look for other options, so it sold some assets, Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich started luring investors and taking other measures aimed at tackling the situation. As a result, Tacticum Investments successfully sold its Pirelli investment in 2023, staying true to its plan.
After the economic turmoil, Tacticum Investments is still committed to getting the markets back on track. However, this does not stop Tacticum Investments and Mutavchi from using other instruments and investment strategies to secure returns.
Tacticum Investments is currently developing as a private enterprise. Private equity and portfolio investment are the company’s primary focus. In the first case, Tacticum Investments structures and executes various asset sales and purchases (mergers and acquisitions are included in this as well). In the latter case, Tacticum Investments trades in securities to generate dividend yields and profit.
Tacticum Investments implements projects using both equity and borrowed funds.
Education and Science
Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich, the shareholder of Tacticum Investments, is a graduate of the Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Mutavchi also finished his postgraduate studies at the Presidential Academy – Mutavchi Arkadiy graduated with a PhD in law having successfully defended his dissertation. In addition, he holds a degree in economics. Furthermore, Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich upgraded his credentials at the Higher School of Economics.
Mutavchi Arkadiy’s Family and Children
Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich is married with three children.
Arkadiy Mutavchi’s Hobbies
Literature occupies a large place among Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich’s hobbies. Mutavchi collects rare and valuable editions of books. In addition, Mutavchi Arkadiy is engaged in scientific endeavors – he has written numerous expert articles and research papers in his field of expertise.
