Portrait of Timur Turlov

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Timur Turlov

Net worth $6.2B

Stock brokerage · Kazakhstan

Born
Nov 13, 1987
Age
38
Source
Stock brokerage
Residence
Almaty
Citizenship
Kazakhstan
Marital status
Married
Children
5
Education
Bachelor of Science, Moscow State Technical University

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Timur Turlov is the CEO and founder of Freedom Holding, a Kazakhstan-based retail brokerage; it operates in Central Asia, Europe and the U.S.
  • Freedom Holding gives post-Soviet citizens access to American and European stock exchanges and specializes in IPOs.
  • The company entered the U.S. in 2015 through a shell of a Kazakh oil and gas exploration entity located in Nevada.
  • Freedom Holding began trading on the Nasdaq in 2019, an event that Turlov calls his proudest accomplishment to date.
  • Turlov says he started the company in 2008 (before he finished college) with $100,000 pooled with his cofounders.
  • Turlov has kept life-size cutouts of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Joe Biden at the company's Kazakhstan headquarters.

Financial assets

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