Boris Jordan

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Boris Jordan (Russian: Борис Алексеевич Йордан, b. June 2, 1966) is an American businessman of Russian origin. He speaks both English and Russian fluently.

An American of Russian ancestry, Boris Jordan was a key figure in 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 of Gazprom (now of Gazprombank) that owned NTV, TNT, NTV Plus, five popular radio stations (including Echo of Moscow), numerous widely-circulated news and entertainment publications, and two premier movie theaters in Moscow and St. 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.^{[citation needed]}

Boris Jordan is the founder of Renaissance Capital investment group (founded in 1995). He is also the President and CEO of the Sputnik 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.^{[citation needed]} Currently, The Sputnik Group owns proprietary investments in the Russian insurance (Renaissance Insurance), forestry, telecommunications and media sectors – as well as a number of investments in foreign companies.

In 1999 Boris Jordan established the Cadet Corps Fund and is the Fund’s President.

Mr. Jordan received his BA from the New York University.^{[citation needed]}