Alexander Mamut
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Investments
- Industry
- Finance & Investments
- Residence
- Tel Aviv
- Education
- Moscow State University (Master of Laws)
- Marital Status
- Widowed
- Children
- 5
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.
About
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.