Boris Jordan is a Russian-American billionaire businessman, who is the founder and executive chairman of Curaleaf.
13 Facts About Boris Jordan
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Boris Jordan's father, Aleksey Borisovich Jordan, had lived in Yugoslavia and was a graduate of the "Cadet Corps" in 1941.
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Boris Jordan is a grand nephew of Czar Nicholas II's physician Eugene Botkin.
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Boris Jordan assisted Russia's economic transition to capitalism in the early 1990s, assisting in the launch of the Russian stock market and the privatization of state assets.
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From 1992 until 1995, Boris Jordan worked under Bruce Gardner, who was the director of the Russian Center for Privatization under the Government of the Russian Federation, and headed the Moscow subsidiary of the Credit Suisse First Boston bank, which was part of the Mellon empire.
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Boris Jordan was a co-founder of Renaissance Capital investment group, along with New Zealander Stephen Jennings.
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On 25 November 1998, billionaire Vladimir Potanin recommended Boris Jordan to be Chairman of Sidanko which Boris Jordan held until February 1999 when he stepped down.
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Boris Jordan is the President and CEO of the Sputnik Group Ltd.
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Later appointed chief executive of Russia's Gazprom Media as well as general director of its NTV television network, Boris Jordan was forced to resign in early 2003 under political pressure.
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Boris Jordan purchased a penthouse in South Beach, Miami in 2014 for $20 million.
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Boris Jordan sold it in May 2018 to Cliff Asness, for a record $26 million.
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Nichols Boris Jordan supported his brother during the privatization of Russia.
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Boris Jordan received nearly $7 million to re establish the Lehman Brothers Holdings' Moscow office in 2007 as head of its Russia operations.