Anthony Yadgaroff

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Anthony H Yadgaroff (born 1949 in England) is the founder and Managing Director of Allenbridge Group PLC,^[1] and Director of Anglo-Pacific Group,^[2] both based in his offices in Mayfair, London.

Mr Yadgaroff is of Bukharan Jewish descent and is heavily involved in the Jewish community in London, being the Vice-President of Western Marble Arch Synagogue where Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks presides. He is also the treasurer of the Western Charitable Foundation, the largest Jewish burial society in the United Kingdom.

Other positions Mr Yadgaroff holds in the community include being a Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights organisation, and a Governor of Tel Aviv University.

His parents were both born in Bukhara, where his grandfather, Abraham H Yadgaroff,^[3] left in 1921. His father was Major Rahamin Yadgaroff who served in the British Army during World War II. His mother, Dora Yadgaroff, was the daughter of Aaron Abramoff, who spent the war years in Paris, where he was helped by Asaf Achildiev (listed previously). He has a brother Lewis Raphael Yadgaroff and two sisters - Odette Yadgaroff and Angela Assouline who is married to the well-known French author and broadcaster, Pierre Assouline.

Anthony Yadgaroff lives in London with his wife Karen and has two daughters Camilla and Pandora.