Yuri Milner

Yuri Borisovich Milner (Russian Юрий Борисович Мильнер; born November 11, 1961 in Moscow ) is a Russian entrepreneur and manager. In 2012, the financial magazine Bloomberg Markets it was one of the 50 most influential people in the world.

Life

Milner came November 11, 1961, the son of an economist and a laboratory assistant in Moscow to the world. In 1985 he finished his studies of physics at Moscow State University. He then worked for the Lebedev Institute in the field of theoretical physics, under the direction of the later Nobel Prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg. During this time he began selling computers. 1990 emigrated from Milner in the United States, where he studied at the Wharton School.

Business

From 1992 to 1995 Milner worked for the World Bank in Washington, where he worked as an expert for the development of the Russian banking system. End of 1996, Milner was promoted to Vice - President and CEO of Menatep Bank. A post he held until December 2009.

Milner made ​​his name as an Internet investor by investing in several projects, both in Russia and in the United States invested. Examples are the Mail.ru Group in Russia or Facebook. His fortune is estimated at about 1 billion U.S. dollars. In 2011, Milner attracted international attention when he bought a villa worth more than 100 million U.S. dollars in Los Altos Hills.

Foundation

His Physics Prize Foundation awards since 2012 a number of highly doped physics Prices (New Horizons in Physics Prize, Fundamental Physics Prize, Physics Frontiers Prize ).