Gavril Yushvaev
Moscow, Russia
Russia
precious metals, real estate, Self Made
$1,500,000,000
1511
#1511 Billionaires 2019
Gavril Yushvaev has gotten rich betting on a wide assortment of businesses. In the early 1990s Yushvaev cofounded Trinity, which owned Moscow dance club Metelitsa, one of the city's first casinos, and car dealerships.He later invested in dairy and juice company Wimm-Bill-Dann, which went public in 2002. Yushvaev sold his 19.6% stake in Wimm-Bill-Dann to Pepsico for $1.1 billion in 2010. He has reportedly invested $500 million in European and U.S. tech start-ups including driver app Lyft and delivery service Delivery Hero.
Wimm-Bill-Dann's prospectus for its 2002 IPO revealed that Yushvaev served nine years in a Soviet prison camp after being found guilty of a "violent crime" in 1980.Yushvaev and Vladislav Doronin, an ex-boyfriend of supermodel Naomi Campbell, invested $300 million in a 4.3-million-square-foot Moscow real estate development.
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