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Alexander Svetakov
Russian businessman

Alexander Svetakov

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Russian businessman
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Place of birth
Moscow, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire, Duchy of Moscow
Age
56 years
Residence
Moscow, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire, Duchy of Moscow
Education
Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics
(-1993)
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Biography

Alexander Alexandrovich Svetakov (Russian: Александр Александрович Светаков; born 15 February 1968 in Moscow) is a Russian billionaire property developer, the founder and chairman of Absolut Group

Early life

Alexander Alexandrovich Svetakov was educated at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, where he earned a BA in engineering.

Career

While attending Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, Svetakov partnered with fellow students Gleb Galin and Andrew Truskov toimport electronics from Singapore and sell them wholesale. This enterprise became Absolute Trade House (Absolute LLP), now the largest electronics wholesaler in Russia.

In 1993, Svetakov partnered with Galin and Truskov to found Absolute Bank.He sold Absolut-bank in 2007 to a Belgian group for almost $1 billion. Since then, he has shifted to property development, and in 2013 was developing five projects in London and New York City. In 2015, Absolute Group received the International Property Award for Best Office Architecture in Europe for their Noble Business Centre in Limassol, Cyprus.

Personal life

He is divorced with four children and lives in Moscow, Russia. He owns the yacht Cloudbreak.

Svetakov founded the Absolute-Help foundation in 2002 to help orphans, children with disabilities, and children with grave illnesses.

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