Alexander Mamut
Moscow, Russia
LLB, Moscow State University
Russia
investments, Self Made
$2,600,000,000
916
#916 Billionaires 2019
Alexander Mamut was trained as a lawyer but made his fortune as an investor. His core asset today is a nearly 11% stake in Polymetal, a precious metals and mining group in Russia. He is CEO of Rambler&Co, which owns 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. Over the years he's had stakes in a few banks, an insurance company, fertilzer producer and mobile phone chain.
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.
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