Mikhail Fridman

Name: Mikhail Fridman
Date of Birth: 21april,1964
Country of Citizenship: Russia
Education: Moscow Institute of steel and alloys,bachelor of arts/ science
Fame: #20 on Forbes list of richest people
Mikhail Fridman spent his childhood in Ukrainian city of Lvov and studied at the Moscow Institute of Steel & Alloys in 1980s. He founded Alfa Group in 1990s with his college friends German Khan and Alexei Kuzmichev.Mikhail Fridman is Chairman of the Supervisory Board. His vision has built Alfa Group into a market leader in Banking, Energy, Telecommunications and Retail. Alfa Group Consortium incorporates: Alfa-Bank, which is one of Russia’s largest privately owned banks, TNK-BP, formed by the historic joint venture between British Petroleum and Tyumen Oil Company which was completed in 2003. Fridman also serves as Member of the Board of Directors of VimpelCom, the second of three major market leaders in the Russia’s rapidly growing mobile communications market. He is one of the Russia's most influential and successful busniess leaders. Alfa group has become one of the most attractive partners for international investments in russia.The historic joint venture with British Petroleum, announced in the summer of 2003, was the largest foreign investment deal in Russian history at that time and was valued at over US$ 7 billion.
Fridman's achievements have been recognised by prestigious international publications and organisations in the world of finance and business. Mikhail Fridman was named as one of the "Europe's power 25" by FORTUNE in 2004, and was included in the Financial Times list of ”2004 Leaders of the New Europe”. Mikhail Fridman was honoured with the Golden Plate Award of the International Academy of Achievement in Washington in 2003 and the award was presented by former US president Bill Clinton.His net worth is estimated around$20.8 billion. In 2007 Fridman was declared unofficial winner of a protracted and multimillion-dollar legal battle over a stake in Russia's third-largest mobile carrier Megafone. Source ( FORBES).
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