Alex Konanykhin
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Alex Konanykhin (b. Russia) is a successful entrepreneur. In Russia, Konanykhin built a banking and investment empire, controlled Russia’s largest commercial bank, and was a member of former President Boris Yeltsin inner circle. He left his country in 1992 and was granted asylum in the United States in 1999.
In New York City, Konanykhin began a successful advertising company and was chosen as “New York Businessman of the Year”. His book, Defiance, or How to Succeed in Business, is a true story on his life and his success. In late November 2007 he founded Delivery4Tip, an internet-based fine food restaurant delivery company based in Florida, USA. The company works in conjunction with ten restaurants and delivers meals and dishes off the restaurants’ regular in-house menus. Cuisines include Russian, Argentinian, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Indian, Thai, and Italian.
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- News Story, "Delivery4Tip" CBS4 News, January 2008.
- Andres Amerikaner, New Delivery Service Targets Luxury Food Market, Miami Herald, January 26, 2008
- "Pageant Winner New VP of Deliver4Tip", Miami Herald, December 23, 2007.
- Escape from the KGB and FBI , Business Week, August 11, 2007
- Terry Macalister, Poisoning puts business with Russia under a cloud, The Guardian, November 29, 2006
- Scott Shane, Ex-banker ordered to return to Russia, Baltimore Sun, November 25, 2003