Businesspersons
Alisher Usmanov Net Worth
Alisher Usmanov's Net Worth as of 2024
$14.4 Billion
Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov was born on the 9th September 1953, in Chust, Namangan Province, (then) Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union, and is a businessman, who is probably best recognized for being a shareholder of Metalloinvest, a Russian industrial conglomerate, which operates with metal, mining and investments. He is also the owner of the Kommersant Publishing Houses, MegaFon, and Mail.ru group. Beside that, he is a shareholder of English soccer club Arsenal F.C.
So, have you ever wondered how rich Alisher Usmanov is, as of late 2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Usmanov counts his net worth at the impressive amount of $14.4 billion, making him Russia’s richest man, and the 58th wealthiest person in the world. This sum of money has been accumulated through his successful career in the business industry, as the owner of several companies and conglomerates.
Alisher Usmanov Net Worth $14.4 Billion
Alisher Usmanov grew up in Tashkent, where his father worked as a state prosecutor. Upon matriculation, he had a plan to pursue his career as a diplomat, so he relocated to Moscow and enrolled at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, graduating in 1976 with a BA degree in International Law. Later he was a student of Banking at the Academy of Finance in 1997.
Following graduation, he returned to Tashkent, and began working as a director of the Soviet Peace Committee’s Foreign Economic Association. In 1980 he was arrested on fraud charges, and was in jail for six years, after which the court cleared his record adjudging that no crime had been committed, and Usmanov began to pursue further his career.
In 1999, Usmanov co-founded Metalloinvest together with Vasiliy Anisimoy. The company became one of Russian’s industrial conglomerates which operate in metal and mining industries. This added a considerable amount to his net worth, as the company owns a huge number of businesses, including Oskol Elektrometallurgical Plant, Lebedinsky GOK and Mikhailovsky GOK, and Ural Scrap Company.
Ten years later, Usmanov bought a 2% share of the social network platform Facebook, as well as other websites including Twitter, Alibaba, AirBnB, and 360buy. The owner of all of these shares is his company Digital Sky Technologies, the name later being changed to Mail.ru Group. Beside that, he is also the owner of MegaFon, a mobile telephone operator which is the second largest in Russia, which increased his net worth by a large margin.
Usmanov is also known for being the general director of Gazprom Invest Holdings, a gas company, and in 2006 he bought the newspaper “Kommersant” for $200 million, and he is also the co-owner of UTH, a media holding company which owns Disney Russia, U, and Muz TV channels, adding to his net worth.
In 2007 he moved his attention to the sports industry, acquiring one part of the English soccer team Arsenal Football Club, and in the following year he became a sponsor of the Russian football team Dinamo Moscow, which has also increased his fortune.
Thanks to his accomplishments, Usmanov has won a number of recognitions, including Medal of Honor in Russia in 2004, Order of Alexander Nevsky in 2014, among others.
Speaking about his personal life, Alisher Usmanov has been married to rhythmic gymnastics coach Irina Viner since 1992; he adopted her son from her previous marriage. In free time, he is very active as a philanthropist, who has collaborated with various organizations such as the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Geographical Society and European University in St. Petersburg.
Businesspersons
Charles Saatchi Net Worth
Charles Saatchi is one of the richest and best known businessmen in the world and one of many millionaires. Saatchi’s overall net worth has been stated to be $100 million for 2014. Charles Saatchi was born in Baghdad, Iraq, but later had to move together with his family to London, UK to avoid the persecution of Jews in his home country. He was the second son in the family of four kids. As a teenager Charles was really interested in American pop culture and studied at the London College of Communication. After graduation he began his professional career as a copywriter working for “Benton & Bowles” and later started to work in tandem with an art director, Ross Cramer, and together they formed their own company called “CramerSaatchi”.
Charles Saatchi Net Worth $100 Million
They were successful and took-on employees John Hegarty and Heremy Sinclair, but true success came to Charles later. In 1970 Charles Saatchi started his business together with brother Maurice: they established “Saatchi & Saatchi” agency which had become the largest advertising agency in the world by the mid-80’s with just a huge number of high-profile clients like UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and British Airways. However, Charles and Maurice left the agency and together founded another one called “M&C Saatchi”. They took many of their important clients with them, and one of these was British Airways. Nowadays, thanks to his prosperous business, Charles Saatchi has a net worth of $100 million dollars.
To the rest of the world Saatchi is also known as one of the most famous modern art collectors. He purchased his first art work in 1969 – by Sol LeWitt, a minimalist from New York. His passion for paintings only grew, and in 2009 he even published the book “My Name Is Charles Saatchi And I Am An Artoholic” wherein the author answered many questions and even gave some advice about collectibles. But the book didn’t become as popular as Saatchi expected, so the author asked his personal assistant to buy a huge number of books to help his work hit some positions in bestseller charts. Later in 2009 Saatchi appeared on the BBC program “School of Saatchi” and gave many young artists a perfect opportunity to show their talent and showcase artworks: some artists even painted portraits of Saatchi himself. In July 2010 Charles Saatchi donated his Saatchi Gallery to the British public together with 200 works of art.
Saatchi’s personal life has never been very public, but he married his first wife in 1973. He had met Doris Lockhart Dibley in 1965 while working for “Benton & Bowes”. The couple lived together for the six years before marrying, but divorced in 1990. Saatchi’s second wife was Kay Hartenstein to whom he was married from 1990-2001, and they even had a daughter together. Then Saatchi married for the third time in 2003, to English journalist, food writer, gourmet and television personality Nigella Lawson, but after public disagreements, were divorced 2013.
Businesspersons
Alexis Ohanian Net Worth
Alexis Ohanian was born on 24 April 1983 in New York City USA, of Armenian and German heritage. He is perhaps best known as a co-founder of the social news and networking website Reddit. He has also helped in launching the online travel company Hipmunk and created Breadpig, a company which sells “geeky” merchandise and gives a lot of its profit to charities.
So how rich is Alexis Ohanian? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $4 million. Most of his wealth has been accumulated by working on Reddit and Breadpig.
Alexis Ohanian Net Worth $4 Million
Alex Ohanian studied at the University of Virginia and after graduating in 2005 he, together with Aaron Swartz and Steve Huffman created Reddit. The company was bought by Conde Nast Publications, but Ohanian still had great influence as one of the people in Reddit’s Board of Directors. Of course, Alexis’ net worth rose significantly.
Alexis created another company, with the strange name Breadpig in 2007. This company mostly concentrates on selling “geeky” merchandise and has an unusual approach to business, claiming to be an “uncorporation”, which means that they try to use the earned money to support charities and other projects. Alexis decided to leave the Reddit’s team in 2009. A year later Ohanian became an advisor to the Hipmunk website and helped to launch it.
Apart from being known as a businessman leading great internet websites which have built most of his net worth, Ohanian is also known as a social activist. Between 2010 and 2012, the Internet users were threatened by the SOPA (Stop Internet Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act). Ohanian was an outspoken activist against these acts and was one of the key people who helped to vote down these bills. After these events, Ohanian was chosen as the first on The Daily Dot’s list of “Most influential activists of 2012”. While these social acts did not necessarily help to directly raise his net worth, they certainly helped to raise Ohanian’s popularity and earned him a lot of fans on the Internet.
In 2013, Ohanian published his first book, entitled “Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed” which made it to #5 on the Hardcover Business best sellers list in the Wall Street Journal. In the same year, Ohanian started his own web series, called “Small Empires with Alexis Ohanian”.
Ohanian has also been a part of two radio podcast shows: NYRD Radio in 2014 and Upvoted which started in 2015, and is strongly related to Reddit as it examines some of the stories found on that website. All of these endeavors have helped to increase Ohanian’s net worth.
In his personal life, Alexis Ohanian is not married yet. During the time-off from his businesses and projects, Alexis speaks at lectures and conferences in various universities, also on some of the most influential companies such as Google, Kraft, Johnson & Johnson and others.
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