BIOGRAPHY
Mr. Volynets is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of ACG
Metals Ltd. He has 27+ years of experience in mergers and acquisitions,
capital markets, and senior corporate management roles. He has led
private and public transactions worth more than $30 billion and managed leading
businesses in the metals and mining industry.
Mr. Volynets listed ACG Acquisition Company as a SPAC
on LSE in 2022 with a strategy to consolidated the critical metals
industry. The company completed the first $300m transaction in
Türkiye in 2024, acquiring producing Copper / Gold Gediktepe mine and was
renamed ACG Metals Ltd. ACG’s near term goal is to build 200-300
ktpa copper producer via a series of roll-up transactions.
Mr Volynets has previously designed and implemented a
similar roll-up strategy in aluminium, having led several high-profile
transactions that created UC Rusal, which he listed in Hong Kong in 2010 at a
pre-money valuation of over $20 billion.
Mr. Volynets’ former roles include the CEO of Chaarat
Gold, CEO of En+ Group, head of strategy and Board director of UC Rusal.
He also served as an independent non-executive director at Norilsk Nickel and
as Chairman of International Aluminium Institute and started his carrier as a
strategy consultant with Monitor Group in Boston and London.
He obtained an MBA from Georgetown University in 1997
(in a joint program with INSEAD in France) and a BA in Economics from The
American University in Washington DC in 1994 and previously studied geology and
philosophy at Moscow State University.