Frederick Andresen

Who is Frederick Andresen?

Frederick R. Andresen is an international businessman and writer. He has over forty years of entrepreneurial experience in Asia, Europe and Russia. In post Soviet Russia, he was active in telecom, founding two companies, and living there from 1992-1998. In his earlier career he founded and ran Scandia Trading Co., a ski and active sportswear company, in 1962. He also founded CEVAS, another skiwear company, and was president of Ski Industries America from 1972-74. He is a writer and has published books including Walking on Ice, An American Businessman in Russia, "Dos Gringos," and is working on "The Lady with an Ostrich Feather Fan," the story of the famed Yusupov Rembrandts. In addition he has made contributions to the Russian news media, RIA Novosti via his column "Musings of a Russofile", in addition to other activities.