Friday, August 19, 2011

Billionaires and their companies/Common denominator -Arthur Andersen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Blavatnik
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Len Blavatnik (Russian: Леонид Валентинович Блаватник, Leonid Valentinovich Blavatnik) (born June 14, 1957 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian-American businessman, currently living in New York and London, including at a home on Kensington Palace Gardens. He has made his fortune through diversified investments, through Access Industries, in Russia, Europe, North and South America.

http://rumafia.com/person.php?id=108
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Surname: Blavatnik

Name: Leonard (Leonid)

Fathername: Vasilyevich

Position: Councilor of directors of


Biography:


Born June 14, 1957 in Moscow;
Attended Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers, but did not graduate it (he left after the fourth grade); Victor Vekselberg was Blavatnik’s fellow student.
In 1978 he emigrated together with his family from Russia to the USA; Received masters in computer science from Columbia University and MBA degree from Harvard Business School;
Married with American lady; Constantly residents in New York.
In 2007 Forbes listed him at the 45th place in the list of the richest Americans estimating his condition in $7,2 billion.
Member of the board of directors of "SUAL-HOLDING"; Member of the board of directors in OAO "Siberian Ural Aluminum Company".
In 1986 he founded the company "Access Industries" investing various industries.
Since 1991 he has been one of the co-founders and the partner of Russian-American joint investment enterprise "Renova".
In different years he obtained key positions in companies "Arthur Andersen and Co.", "Macy's Department Stores", "General Atlantic Partners", TNK, "Deeside Aluminum", "Access Industries (Eurasia)", "EnergiBolaget i Sverige AB";

http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=1166326&privcapId=2447151&previousCapId=23473&previousTitle=Thomas%20H.%20Lee%20Partners,%20L.P.
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Mr. Leonard Blavatnik, Len is the Founder of Access Industries, Inc. Mr. Blavatnik serves as a Partner of Faena Group. Mr. Blavatnik served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Access Industries. He served as the Managing Director of Access Technology Capital. He served in various management positions at Arthur Andersen & Co., Macy’s Department Stores and General Atlantic Partners. Mr. Blavatnik co-founded the Russian-American investment group Renova in 1990. ...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=1174 (take some time and read this link in full)  ...cal
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Legal suits concerning price fixing surrounded Group Alpha and Renova. “Asked about the potential for BP to find itself being financially liable for any historical problems run up by TNK, the British oil executive said: "We have some indemnities that protect us very clearly from past activities."

Freedman, Blair, Putin, Brown

In 2003, TNK (Tyumen Oil Co.) and SIDANCO officially joined hands with British Petroleum (BP). BP’s need for reserves and TNK’s need for Western-style technology and management skills created a mutually beneficial partnership, said chief operating officer for Teton Petroleum Company, Effimoff. TNK-BP made plans to extend the oil output. Halliburton had been enlisted to help work-over Samotlor’s 14,000 wells. The purchase would transform BP from a company producing three million barrels per day to one producing four million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Vekselberg
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Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg (Russian: Виктор Феликсович Вексельберг, Ukrainian: Віктор Феліксович Вексельберг; born April 14, 1957, Drohobych, Ukraine, Soviet Union) is the owner and president of Renova Group, a large Russian conglomerate.

 

[edit] Business empire
Victor Vekselberg was born in 1957 in the Western Ukraine. He graduated from the Moscow Transportation Engineering Institute in 1979. In 1993, he became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Renova, one of Russia's most progressive investment and business development companies.
After working as an engineer in an obscure state lab for many years, Vekselberg moved to business in 1990. He rose to prominence after Boris Yeltsin's reelection in 1996 as co-owner and chairman of Tyumen Oil (TNK), one of Russia's largest oil and gas companies. He took a controlling interest in the company in 1997 and has subsequently developed a joint venture with BP. About the same time he co-founded SUAL Holding, which since grew to control Russia's second-largest aluminum business and is ranked ninth in the world. Later, he integrated those and other assets under the umbrella of Renova Group, delegating operating responsibilities to managers. Acting as a chairman of the executive board of TNK, he was instrumental in negotiating and establishing a 50–50 joint venture with British Petroleum in the largest private transaction in Russian history. He is currently a member of the board of directors and the vice-president of TNK-BP.
Vekselberg is now overseeing a vast restructuring of his assets: the division of property with partner Leonard Blavatnik, the merger of Renova's aluminium assets with those of Oleg Deripaska, and the integration of various electricity and telecommunications investment.
Viktor Vekselberg is often considered to be one of the remaining Russian oligarchs. The Forbes magazine estimated his net worth at $14 billion in March 2009.[2]

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article1166265.ece
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He controls 50% of TNK and his two partners each control 25%. The first is Viktor Vekselberg, a bearded businessman whose Renova Group controls a sizeable chunk of Russia’s aluminium industry. He is a friend from his Soviet student days of TNK’s third shareholder, Leonard Blavatnik. Blavatnik emigrated to America in the 1970s and worked for Macy’s department stores and Arthur Andersen, the now defunct auditor of Enron, before founding Access Industries, a company headquartered at 760 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

http://russiatoday.strana.ru/en/biz/business/lead_com/3630.html
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Sual-Holding company

The SUAL-Holding Company was registered in Moscow on September 13, 2000. SUAL was established as a single managing company for a number of Russian aluminum-producing facilities.

Negotiations on combining the packages of stocks of the SUAL and TransConsult aluminum facilities began late in 1999.

The Siberian-Urals Aluminum company (SUAL) was established in 1996 as a result of a merger of the Urals and Irkutsk Aluminum Plants. SUAL controls the South Urals Bauxite Mine, the Bauxite Timana company, and the SUAL-Silicon-Urals and Kremny facilities in Irkutsk. The facilities of this holding company export 82% of their output. The main consumers of SUAL's produce are the countries of Europe (54%), the U.S. (8%) and Asian countries (20%).


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-28/eurasia-drilling-plans-to-buy-slavneft-assets-for-150-million.html
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Eurasia to Buy Slavneft Assets for $150 Million in Expansion


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By Stephen Bierman - Feb 28, 2011 4:24 AM PT
Eurasia Drilling Co., a London- listed oilfield services company, agreed to buy drilling assets from TNK-BP and OAO Gazprom Neft’s OAO Slavneft unit for $150 million to increase its share of the Russian market.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Berardino
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Joseph (Joe) F. Berardino (born 1950) is an American businessman, Certified Public Accountant, and managing director at Alvarez & Marsal. Beradino was formerly managing partner and CEO of Arthur Andersen and chairman and CEO of Profectus Bioscience.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alvarez_and_Marsal
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Contact details

New York (Corporate HQ)
Alvarez & Marsal, LLC
600 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Tel: (212) 759-4433
Fax: (212) 759-5532
Email (media inquiries): rbaker AT alvarezandmarsal.com
Website: http://www.alvarezandmarsal.com/
(source)

http://www.quickoffice.com/company/board_of_directors/
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Peter L. Thoren

Executive Vice President, Access Industries, Inc.

Peter L. Thoren is Executive Vice President of Access Industries, Inc., a global private investment firm with a diversified portfolio in energy, minerals and mining, telecommunications and financial services. The firm is active in Russia, Eurasia, Western Europe and the United States. Access recently completed the largest transaction in Russian corporate history, a $7.7 billion joint venture involving British Petroleum,
Access-Renova and Alfa Group. The deal created TNK-BP, Russia's third largest oil and gas company, which is currently producing 1.2 million barrels of oil per day.
Prior to joining Access Industries, Mr. Thoren was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Walker Digital LLC, the founder of Priceline.com. Previously, he served in management positions with Salomon Inc and Citigroup working on various acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures.
Mr. Thoren graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Phi Beta Kappa) and received a degree in Russian Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Mr. Thoren received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and is a member of the New York State Bar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasser_Al-Kharafi
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Nasser Al-Kharafi (Arabic: ناصر الخرافي‎) (17 June 1943 – 17 April 2011) was a Kuwaiti businessman of M.A. Kharafi & Sons. His company has performed $4.3 billion in sales. His net worth increased because of rising share prices of several holdings including Mobile Telecommunications Co., National Bank of Kuwait and Americana, operator of U.S. fast food chains. Al Kharafi was also linked to many other chains such as Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, TGI Friday's, Hardees and thousands of others. He also held a major stake in one of the biggest telecom companies in the Middle East and Africa, Zain. His conglomerate business spread from engineering, construction, maintenance to other services related to spheres as diverse as oil,water resources and management, chemicals, power and energy and food. This immense empire did not cease to stop in Kuwait; Kharafi had his businesses and franchies spread over nearly 11 countries, including Egypt, South Africa and Syria. The billionaire had a keen interest in Egypt, where the Al Kharafi group built the port Ghalib International Marina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Russia
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The biggest Russian oil company is Rosneft followed by Lukoil, TNK-BP, Surgutneftegaz, Gazprom Neft and Tatneft.[7] All oil trunk pipelines (except Caspian Pipeline Consortium) are owned and operated by the state-owned monopoly Transneft and oil products pipeline are owned and operated by its subsidiary Transnefteproduct.

[edit] See also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNK-BP
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TNK-BP (RTS:TNBP) is a major vertically integrated Russian oil company. It is Russia's third largest oil producer and among the ten largest private oil companies in the world.[1][2][3] TNK-BP is Russia's third largest oil company in terms of reserves and crude oil production. It is 50% owned by BP and 50% by a group of Russian businessmen, represented by the AAR (Alfa-Access-Renova) consortium.
Since the merger in 2003 between BP's and AAR's assets in Russia and Ukraine, TNK-BP has expanded through acquisitions such as that of Slavneft and organically through improving operational efficiency. In that time, over a backdrop of shareholder dispute, TNK-BP's profits have risen from US$2.7 billion in 2003 to $5.3 billion in 2009.[4][5]

http://catalog.aucegypt.edu/content.php?catoid=11&navoid=321
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Mr. Moataz Al-Alfi
Chairman
Americana Group (Egypt)Arab Republic of Egypt

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carnegie_Middle_East_Center
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Ibrahim Dabdoub - CEO, National Bank of Kuwait and Chairman of many of the Bank’s subsidiaries

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Contemporary_Arab_Studies
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1) The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) based at Georgetown University "is the only academic center in the United States focusing essentially on the Arab world--the region from Morocco to the Gulf." [1]

2) Board of Advisors

Accessed February 2011: [2]

Board of Advisors (2007
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