Biography of Leonard Blavnatnik

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Access Industries group founded in the year. According to experts, he earned the main assets precisely working in Russia thanks to friendship with Viktor Vekselberg and Mikhail Friedman. Blavatnik is known for communicating little with the press. Biography Leonid Valentinovich Blavatnik Leonard “Len” Blavatnik was born on June 14 in Ukraine on other sources, in Moscow in a wealthy Jewish family.

Blavatnik quickly managed to get comfortable in a new place: he continued his studies at Columbia University University in New York, where he received a master's degree in computer sciences. The young specialist coped well with this task and when one of the company’s directors once decided to thank him, Blavatnik asked him for a recommendation at Harvard Business School business school, where he ended.

Prior to the completion of training, Blavatnik worked in the audit company Arthur Andersen and took up business, founding a transport company for the transportation of goods in the United States. The first major Access Industries business was a logistics company that drove goods throughout America. Vekselberg and Blavatnik agreed on a joint venture, which was created two years later and was supplied to the USSR of computer equipment.

For some time, the Blavatnik was a co -owner of the Renova, but sold his share in exchange for a share in joint assets. According to Vekselberg, Blavatnik has long refused to invest in Russian assets. Blavatnik was a member of the board of directors of the company and owned 47.5 percent of the shares of the company, and after its unification with Russian aluminum, he entered the board of directors of Rusala.

The start of business activity in Kazakhstan has been developing his business in Kazakhstan since the year. The Blavatnik was a member of the company’s board of directors and saved this post in a parity basis formed in the year with the BP company TNK-BP, and Access Industries became the owner of 12.5 percent of the shares of the new oil company. The purchase of TNCs by the press called one of the most profitable investments of the bliss.

From the year, Blavatnik, together with Vekselberg, was one of the co -owners of the financial group, which included Alba Alliance Bank and the Council company. In the year, they lost to their partners chemical assets of “owlinka” in exchange of investment business of the company and Alba Alliance Bank. Blavatnik also owned a stake in the Russian telecommunications company Svyazinvest.

Soros subsequently admitted that the sale of shares of Svyazinvest Blavatnik was his most unsuccessful deal in his career. Blavatnik is known for real estate investments: in the year he acquired one of the most expensive mansions in the English capital for 41 million pounds. Buying in the United States in the years Blavatnik was actively engaged in the bought -out real estate in the United States: at one Manhattan, he owned real estate worth more than millions of dollars, and in the year he purchased a plot of land in Hollywood worth millions of dollars.

In the year, Forbes magazine estimated the state of Blizz at 7.2 billion dollars, in the year the condition of the businessman increased to 11 billion. It was reported that about a hundred million dollars Blueket lost due to improper management of his investment by JP Morgan Chase. In March, Vekselberg, due to disagreements with the management of the company, resigned from the post of chairman and member of the Board of Directors of Rusala.

For a long time, the Blavatnik owned a share in Warner Music Group, and in the year bought it all over $ 3.3 billion. Access received funding from Credit Suisse and UBS banks, which were also transactions consultants [2]. The CEO of the company Edgar Bronfman is considered his close friend. Rusal International in May became known that the Blavatnik sold his share in the Russian aluminum manufacturer United Co.

Rusal International, getting rid of his last major asset in the country, where he put on his fortune 33.5 billion. Blavatnik sold shares in the second half of the year, according to sources. Its share in Rusal was about 1.2 billion shares, the market value of which at the end of the year was about millions of dollars. Bluewatnik charity is actively engaged in charity work through his family fund Blavatnik Family Foundation, sacrificing money to American educational institutions and the American Jewish community.

The Blavatnik was also a member of the board of directors of the Institute of Management at the University of Management at the University of Cambridge and Tel Aviv University University, was a member of the Harvard School of Business and a member of the Harvard Directors and Member of the Directors and Member of the Directors and Tel Aviv University. Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Kennan Institute for the Study of Russia at the Woodro Wilson Wilson Center Center.

The Blavatnik family is married, his wife's name is Emily Emily. The younger brother of Blavnik Alex Alex is the deputy chairman of the board of directors of Access Industries.The beloved film called the Blavnik’s favorite film called the film “Change places”, the main role in which was played by Eddie Murphy Eddie Murphy.