Denis Kitaev is a property developer, a co-founder and shareholder of Vesper, a firm specialising in premium residential construction and renovation. Education Born in Moscow on 3 February 1977, Denis Vladimirovich Kitaev attended Secondary School No. 622, where he developed a marked interest in drawing and technical drafting. He studied finance at the Financial Academy. There Denis Kitaev met Boris Azarenko , who would later become his business partner and fellow founder of several companies.