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Vitaly Orlov
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Fisheries
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Residence
- Murmansk
- Education
- Murmansk Higher Marine Engineering School (Master of Science in Engineering)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 4
Biography
Vitaly Orlov is the CEO and cofounder of Norebo Holding, the largest vertically integrated seafood company in Russia.
In the late 1990s, Orlov and two partners, who he later bought out, started a business buying used fishing trawlers then exchanged for fish in Russia.
Over the years, Norebo has spent $600 million to acquire fishing companies in the North and Far East of Russia.
Today Norebo, which operates 15 companies, catches 400,000 tons of cod, haddock and pollock a year in the Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea and the Far East.
About
Orlov moved to Norway in 1996 and lived there until 2014. He gave up his Norwegian citizenship when he moved back to Murmansk, Russia.