Rank #2252
Samir Mane
Net worth $1.9B
Diversified · Albania
- Born
- Dec 24, 1967
- Age
- 58
- Source
- Diversified
- Residence
- Tirana
- Citizenship
- Albania
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Samir Mane is the founder and president of BALFIN Group, an investment conglomerate based in Tirana, Albania.
- BALFIN owns shopping malls and electronics retail and toy stores in the western Balkans, plus a bank and luxury real estate developments in Albania.
- Mane fled Albania's communist regime in 1991 and moved to Austria as a refugee; in 1993, he started selling domestic appliances to his native country.
- He launched Neptun, a chain of electronics stores, in Albania in 1998 and moved back to Albania in 2005 to open the country's first shopping mall.
- BALFIN also owns real estate in the U.S., Canada and Austria as well as logistics parks and a private university in Albania.
- Mane would sleep in trucks on the two-day journey from Vienna to Tirana when he sold appliances in the early 1990s.