Rank #1811
Alexander Ponomarenko
Net worth $2.3B
Real estate, airport · Russia
- Born
- Oct 27, 1964
- Age
- 61
- Source
- Real estate, airport
- Residence
- Moscow
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Master of Science, Russian State Academy of Management; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Simferopol State University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Alexander Ponomarenko was chairman of the board of Sheremetyevo, the biggest airport in Russia.
- Ponomarenko was sanctioned by the EU. the U.K. and the U.S. in 2022; he has disputed the sanctions.
- Ponomarenko and partner Alexander Skorobogatko started out with sea ports and banking and then moved into airport construction.
- In 2013 the two, with Arkady Rotenberg, a judo partner of President Vladimir Putin, won a tender to develop Sheremetyevo, the state-owned airport.
- The partners and Rotenberg also founded TPS Real Estate, which owns more than half of the real estate in Ocean Plaza, Kiev's biggest shopping center.
- In 2023 the center was seized by the Ukrainian government.
- In 2011 Ponomarenko paid $350 million for a complex of buildings and land near the Black Sea known as Putin's Palace. He later sold it to Arkady Rotenberg.
- The two Alexanders first set up a small perfume factory in the Ukraine and then founded a bank in Moscow.