- Boris Jordan
Boris Jordan ( _ru. Борис Алексеевич Йордан, born
June 2 1966 ) is an American businessman ofRussia n origin. He speaks both English and Russian fluently.An American of Russian ancestry, Boris Jordan assisted Russia's economic transition to capitalism in the early '90s, assisting in the launch of the Russian stock market and the privatization of state assets. Later appointed chief executive of Russia's Gazprom Media as well as general director of its NTV television network, Jordan was forced to resign in early 2003 under political pressure.
In 2001-2003 he was the Director General of the Russian TV channel NTV and also the Director General of
Gazprom Media , a subsidiary media holding ofGazprom (now ofGazprombank ) that owned NTV, TNT,NTV Plus , five popular radio stations (includingEcho of Moscow ), numerous widely-circulated news and entertainment publications, and two premier movie theaters inMoscow andSt. Petersburg .From 1992 to 1995, Boris Jordan was Managing Director of the Moscow office of
CS First Boston . During his tenure, CS First Boston became a leading investment bank in Russia, engaged in privatization, corporate finance and securities trading.Fact|date=February 2007Boris Jordan is the founder of
Renaissance Capital investment group (founded in 1995). He is also the President and CEO of theSputnik Group Ltd., which he launched in 1998. The Sputnik Group is a diversified holding company, which used to manage the Sputnik Funds, the largest foreign private-equity funds invested in Russia.Fact|date=February 2007 Currently, The Sputnik Group owns proprietary investments in the Russian insurance ( [http://corporate.renins.com/indexeng.php Renaissance Insurance] ), forestry, telecommunications and media sectors – as well as a number of investments in foreign companies.In 1999 Boris Jordan established the [http://www.fskk.ru Cadet Corps Fund] and is the Fund’s President.
Mr. Jordan received his BA from the
New York University .Fact|date=February 2007ee also
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NTV Russia
*Renaissance Capital References and notes
External links
* [http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/04/03/ntv.jordan/index.html Profile: Boris Jordan] ,
CNN ,April 10 2001 .
* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/int_borisjordan.html Commanding Heights: an interview with Boris Jordan] ,PBS ,October 3 2000 .
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/news/newsid_1263000/1263165.stm Jordan: a statist with a US passport] ,BBC Russia,April 5 2001 (in Russian).
* [http://www.peoples.ru/tv/yordan/ An interview with B. Jordan] by Elena Lankina,2002 (in Russian).
* [http://www.spkgroup.com/html/company/selected-press.php The Sputnik Group: Selected Press] .
* [http://www.ebrd.com/new/pressrel/2004/145oct11.htm EBRD helps found new Russian life insurance company (2004)] .
* [http://www.anticompromat.ru/jordan/index.html Dossier] by Vladimir Pribylovsky (in Russian).
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