Английская Википедия:Denis Sverdlov

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Denis Lvovich Sverdlov (Шаблон:Lang-ru; born 6 June 1978) is a British-based Russian businessman, and the founder and former CEO of Arrival, a British electric vehicle manufacturer based in London. As of April 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$933 million.[1] The businessman who was worth $11.7 billion in April 2021 lost his billionaire status in April 2022. Sverdlov’s 94% decline in net worth is the largest wealth loss of anyone outside China who appeared on last year’s Bloomberg Billionaires Index.[2]

Early life

Sverdlov was born in 1978 in the then Soviet republic of Georgia.[3] He has a degree in economics from Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics.[4]

Career

After graduating in 2000 Sverdlov founded IT Vision, an IT consulting firm.[5]

From 2003 to 2007, Sverdlov was the co-founder and managing partner of Korus Consulting, an IT consulting firm in Russia.[5]

Sverdlov was a co-founder and chief executive of Yota, a Russian mobile broadband company, until its acquisition by MegaFon in 2012.[4]

Post-acquisition Sverdlov set up the Kinetik Trust to invest in a range of promising technologies and bring them to market.[6]

He was Russia's deputy Communications and Mass Media Minister for 15 months before stepping down in 2013.[4] He left this position following new legislation which banned government officials from holding assets abroad.[7]

Sverdlov founded Arrival and began its operations in the UK in 2015.[8] He was its CEO from March 2016 until November 2022.[9] In March 2021 Arrival went public through a merger with CIIC Merger Corp.[3]

He is also the founder of Roborace – the world’s first driverless electric racing platform.[10]

Personal life

Sverdlov is married, with three children, and the family moved from France to London in September 2015.[3]

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