Portrait of Alexander Mamut & family

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Alexander Mamut & family

Net worth $1.2B

Investments · Russia

Born
Jan 29, 1960
Age
66
Source
Investments
Residence
Tel Aviv
Citizenship
Russia
Marital status
Widowed
Children
5
Education
Master of Laws, Moscow State University

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Alexander Mamut was trained as a lawyer but made his fortune as an investor.
  • Over the years he's had stakes in a few banks, an insurance company, fertilzer producer and mobile phone chain.
  • He was an owner of Rambler&Co, which unites several internet media projects including news site lenta.ru and politics and society site gazeta.ru.
  • Mamut bought two of Russia's biggest movie chains, Cinema Park and Formula Kino, in 2017.
  • He eventually sold off his stakes in Russian companies and bought shares in such American companies as Google and Apple.
  • In the 1990s, Mamut was close to Russian president Boris Yeltsin and was known as "the Yeltsin family banker."
  • Mamut owns the British bookstore chain Waterstones, founded by his friend Tim Waterstone, which merged with Barnes & Noble In 2019.
  • He got Israeli citizenship in 2022.