Rank #3139
Vitaly Orlov
Net worth $1.2B
Fisheries · Russia
- Born
- Dec 08, 1965
- Age
- 60
- Source
- Fisheries
- Residence
- Murmansk
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Master of Science in Engineering, Murmansk Higher Marine Engineering School
Net worth over time
Biography
- Vitaly Orlov is the CEO and cofounder of Norebo Holding, the largest vertically integrated seafood company in Russia.
- In the late 1990s, Orlov and two partners, who he later bought out, started a business buying used fishing trawlers then exchanged for fish in Russia.
- Over the years, Norebo has spent $600 million to acquire fishing companies in the North and Far East of Russia.
- Today Norebo, which operates 15 companies, catches 400,000 tons of cod, haddock and pollock a year in the Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea and the Far East.
- Orlov moved to Norway in 1996 and lived there until 2014. He gave up his Norwegian citizenship when he moved back to Murmansk, Russia.