Alexander Nesis: biography of a businessman

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Businessman, billionaire Alexander Natanovich Nesis is a closed and mysterious figure. He rarely talks about personal things, and he never talks about family topics at all. Let's talk about how the biography of a successful entrepreneur developed, and how he came to his billionth fortune.

Origin

Alexander Natanovich Nesis was born on December 19, 1962 in the northern capital of our Motherland. He never talks about his childhood and parents. This closeness is manifested in everything that concerns privacy. It can be assumed that Nesis Alexander Natanovich, whose family was hardly of a very high social status, does not want to disturb and injure his loved ones, allowing journalists and the general public into their lives.

Education

After school, Alexander Nesis enters the Leningrad Technological Institute. Many great Russian scientists and engineers studied at this educational institution: Favorsky, Zvorykin, Ioffe, Vologdin. Alexander studied with a degree in radiation chemistry. He successfully graduated from the university in 1985 and went to the "big" life.

The start of the journey

After graduation, Alexander Nesis, whose biography began very typically for that time, came to work at the B altiysky Zavod. The enterprise specialized in the production of the most complex, unique for its time ships, cargo carriers and nuclear icebreakers. He came to production as a master, but quickly began to move up the career ladder. And in four years he has grown to the deputy head of the shop. But at that time, rapid changes began in the country, a law on the cooperative movement was issued, allowing individual entrepreneurial activity. And everyone who had a commercial streak rushed into business. Alexander also decided to keep up.

First Entrepreneurial Experience

In 1989, Alexander Nesis left the factory and got a job at the Kupchino youth center, then moved to the Spektr-Service cooperative. But he quickly realizes that he does not want to work for someone, but is ready to run his own business. In 1991, he opened a cooperative for the production of synthetic fiber, synthetic winterizer, which was very popular with cooperatives that sew fashionable jackets. He also tried himself in other areas of business, including with a friend from Uzbekistan he was engaged in the extraction of rare earth metals from uranium ore waste. All this allowed Nesis to put together a decent initial capital. And already in 1993, with a team of like-minded people, he created the Investments. Construction. Technologies” (“IST”). They started investing infinance and development. It was the start of a really big business.

Mature capitalist

Today, the ICT group has grown into a huge holding, headed by Alexander Nesis. The company specializes in the construction of large, technically complex industrial facilities, is engaged in the extraction of rare earth metals, gold, coal, niobium.

But Alexander Nesis did not stop there. In 1993, his company established NOMOS-BANK, which in 2009 ranked 14th in the rating of Russia's largest banks. Later, the credit institution, the first among Russian ones, placed its shares on the London Stock Exchange. In 2012, the shares of NOMOS-BANK were bought by the financial group Otkritie.

Alexander did not forget about his "native" enterprise. In 1993, his group buys a controlling stake in B altiysky Zavod. So Nesis and the company became the owners of the largest shipyard in the country. The group made several attempts to sell the plant and finally parted ways with it in 2005, selling it to the United Industrial Company.

In 1998, the ICT group decides to strengthen its presence in the mining industry and creates the Polymetal mining company. It mines copper, gold and silver. Through several mergers and acquisitions, acquisitions of fields, Polymetal has reached a high level in its industry.

In 2001, Nesis builds a modern ferroalloy plant in Tikhvin. This project has grown into a real giant in a few years and was sold in 2008 for 1.5 billiondollars. For Alexander and his company, this was a sign that their strategy was right. For many years, Nesis has been looking for projects, developing them, investing heavily, and selling them with a big profit. He says his scale is firms up to 1 billion.

Alexander's business interests at various times also included a large car building plant in Tikhvin, logistics centers, projects for the construction of residential and commercial real estate in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Nesis did not miss the opportunity to invest in foreign business. The ICT Group owns a stake in a large engineering and construction holding in Israel.

Condition

Over the years of successful entrepreneurial activity, Nesis Alexander Natanovich earned a personal fortune of $2.5 billion. His group "IST" and he himself invariably fall into the lists of Forbes magazine. In 2017, Alexander takes 42nd place among the richest businessmen in Russia. The highest line, thirtieth, he held in 2013 and 2016.

Private life

Many big businessmen carefully protect their personal lives, so does Alexander Nesis. The entrepreneur has a wife and children, but no one manages to find out anything about them. It is known that Nesis' brother is one of the directors of Polymetal. Also, official information says that the entrepreneur has four children. Alexander is fond of extreme riding and travels with friends to exotic places several times a year - Ecuador,Sahara, Amazonia to drive jeeps.