Leonard Blavatnik

Len Blavatnik (Russian: Леонид Валентинович Блаватник, Leonid Valentinovich Blavatnik) (born 14 June 1957 in Moscow) is a Russian-American businessman, currently living in New York and London. Born into a Jewish family, he attended the Moscow Transportation Engineering Institute. He emigrated with his family from Russia to the U.S. in 1978, and received a masters in computer science from Columbia University and an MBA degree from Harvard Business... more

Len Blavatnik (Russian: Леонид Валентинович Блаватник, Leonid Valentinovich Blavatnik) (born 14 June 1957 in Moscow) is a Russian-American businessman, currently living in New York and London. Born into a Jewish family, he attended the Moscow Transportation Engineering Institute. He emigrated with his family from Russia to the U.S. in 1978, and received a masters in computer science from Columbia University and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1989. In the West, he is known as Len Blavatnik. In 1986 he founded Access Industries, a New York-based international industrial group, of which he is Chairman and President. Access has long-term strategic holdings in Europe, North and South America. Initially, he moved into Russian investments, just after the fall of communism. With a friend from the Moscow Transportation Engineering Institute, Viktor Vekselberg, he formed the Renova investment vehicle, and the two joined with Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group to form the AAR venture.... less