Robert
Nowikovsky
40 years of experience and a reliable partner.
Robert Nowikovsky is an Austrian businessman with Russian roots. He has more than 40 years’ experience and in-depth expertise in international commodity trading including oil & gas, soft commodities and metals as well as in market development, investment and the execution of major international projects in the energy sector.
Reliable,
experienced,
networked.
Robert Nowikovsky
brings people together.
In the field of commodity trading, Robert Nowikovsky acts as a catalyst, opening doors to new markets for companies. His profound expertise enables the connection of emerging economies with the established markets of Europe. He provides logistical, legal and financial support for projects in the energy sector. He brings the necessary players together and creates the basis for a successful cooperation in the long term.
He succeeds thanks to his in-depth knowledge of complex industrial and commercial processes – and not least thanks to his excellent contacts: Robert Nowikovsky has excellent international connections, especially in the energy sector, but also with leading legal experts, major international banks and entrepreneurs from various industries and countries.
Many years of expertise and a broad network make Robert Nowikovsky a reliable and experienced partner in establishing successful cooperations in the commodities sector.
Commodity trader,
financing expert,
strategic advisor.
For more than 30 years, Robert Nowikovsky strongly supported the family-owned company Jurimex, which he headed since 1989. As one of the largest suppliers of consumer goods to the CEE countries and the former Soviet Union, Jurimex increasingly traded in crude oil and petroleum, steel, fertilisers, coal and other raw materials from the 1990s onwards under Nowikovsky’s leadership.
In addition, the entrepreneur expanded the business activities to include consulting and financial services.
Milestones
After joining the family business, Robert Nowikovsky headed production and procurement in Southeast Asia.
Under Robert Nowikovsky’s leadership, Jurimex financed, procured and processed more than 20 million tonnes of crude oil and marketed petroleum products internationally with a turnover of approximately USD 1 billion.
As part of the governmental cooperation between Austria and Belarus, Robert Nowikovsky provided significant support for the modernisation of the NAFTAN refinery with Austrian credit lines.
Nowikovsky’s Jurimex played a leading role in the establishment and IPO of one of the major agricultural production and processing companies in Ukraine between 2000 and 2007. Market capitalisation: approx. 250 million USD.
Robert Nowikovsky assisted and facilitated the acquisition of Belarusian mobile operator Velcom by Mobilcom Austria in 2007, helping one of Europe’s leading mobile operators to successfully enter Belarus.
Between 2008 and 2022, Robert Nowikovsky advised a number of companies in a variety of industries and the field of business development and M&A. His clients included a leading global construction materials company; a German energy utility; a mechanical engineering company, a timber producer and a water and wastewater treatment technology company, all three from Austria; an Eastern European O&G company; a South African telecommunication technology company, and many others.
Robert Nowikovsky is currently using his expertise to identify, implement and develop promising investment opportunities in Latin America and Africa, where he sees continued growth potential.
After joining the family business,
Robert Nowikovsky headed production
and procurement in Southeast Asia.
Under Robert Nowikovsky’s leadership,
Jurimex financed, procured and
processed more than 20 million
tonnes of crude oil and marketed petroleum
products internationally with a
turnover of approximately USD 1 billion.
As part of the governmental cooperation
between Austria and Belarus,
Robert Nowikovsky provided significant
support for the modernisation of
the NAFTAN refinery with Austrian credit lines.
Nowikovsky’s Jurimex played a leading
role in the establishment and IPO
of one of the major agricultural production
and processing companies in Ukraine
between 2000 and 2007. Market capitalisation:
approx. 250 million USD.
Robert Nowikovsky assisted and facilitated
the acquisition of Belarusian mobile operator
Velcom by Mobilcom Austria in 2007,
helping one of Europe’s leading mobile
operators to successfully enter Belarus.
Between 2008 and 2022, Robert Nowikovsky advised a number of companies in a variety of industries and the field of business development and M&A. His clients included a leading global construction materials company; a German energy utility; a mechanical engineering company, a timber producer and a water and wastewater treatment technology company, all three from Austria; an Eastern European O&G company; a South African telecommunication technology company, and many others.
Robert Nowikovsky is currently using his expertise to identify, implement and develop promising investment opportunities in Latin America and Africa, where he sees continued growth potential.
From Central Asia
to Russia and
Italy.
In 2003, Novikovsky also founded the Austrian energy and natural gas trading company Centrex in cooperation with Gazprombank, with business activities from Central Asia via Russia to Italy and Turkey.
After three years of successful development, he withdrew from the investment at the end of 2005.In recent years, Robert Nowikovsky has increasingly devoted himself to other business areas. However, the current changes in the energy sector (energy crisis, transformation to renewable energies, supply chain issues) mean that proven structures and networks are once again in demand.
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