The Most Famous
BUSINESSPEOPLE from Armenia
This page contains a list of the greatest Armenian Businesspeople. The pantheon dataset contains 601 Businesspeople, 1 of which were born in Armenia. This makes Armenia the birth place of the 52nd most number of Businesspeople behind Yemen and Albania.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Armenian Businesspeople of all time. This list of famous Armenian Businesspeople is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Gennady Timchenko (1952 - )
With an HPI of 52.31, Gennady Timchenko is the most famous Armenian Businessperson. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Gennady Nikolayevich Timchenko (Russian: Геннадий Николаевич Тимченко, also spelled Guennadi Timtchenko; born 9 November 1952) is a Russian oligarch and billionaire businessman. He founded and owns the private investment firm Volga Group. He was previously a co-owner of Gunvor Group. Timchenko has been close friends with Russian leader Vladimir Putin since the early 1990s. In 1991, Putin gave Timchenko an oil export license. Timchenko then founded Gunvor, which has now exported billions of dollars-worth of Russian oil. Timchenko's investment firm Volga Group owns a large stake of shares of the natural gas giant Novatek. The Pandora Papers leaks revealed that a Timchenko firm, which played a key role in the Novatek investment, obtained massive loans through anonymous offshore shell companies. Timchenko was sanctioned by the US over Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. He was about to be sanctioned further by the government of the United Kingdom just before the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. As of March 2022, Timchenko was 205th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with an estimated fortune of US $10.3 billion; he is the sixth richest person in Russia. He is known for being the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kontinental Hockey League, and President of the SKA Saint Petersburg ice hockey club. He is a citizen of Russia, Finland, and Armenia.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as businesspeople born between 1952 and 1952. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living businesspeople include Gennady Timchenko. As of April 2022, 1 new businesspeople have been added to Pantheon including Gennady Timchenko.
