Rank #3042
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.