Oleg Tinkov
Moscow, Russia
Diploma, University of California, Berkeley
Russia
banking, Self Made
$2,300,000,000
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#1057 Billionaires 2019
Oleg Tinkov founded Tinkoff Bank in 2006. It is now one of the world's largest online banks, with around 8 million customers in Russia. Before banking, he founded frozen food producer Daria, Tinkoff Beer and Tinkoff Restaurants. Tinkov sold his brewery business to InBev in 2005 and started the bank the next year.Tinkoff Bank went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2013. Tinkov launched a chain of luxury-hotels in France, Italy and Russia under the name La Datcha.
The cycling team Tinkoff, owned by Tinkov, shut down due to lack of financing.
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