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'''Gennady Gazin''' (Russian: Геннадий Газин; born 28 January 1965 in [[Ukraine]]) is an international businessman and philanthropist of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=50987133&privcapId=379316|title=Gennady G. Gazin: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=2019-05-07}}</ref> |
'''Gennady Gazin''' (Russian: Геннадий Газин; born 28 January 1965 in [[Ukraine]]) is an international businessman and philanthropist of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=50987133&privcapId=379316|title=Gennady G. Gazin: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=2019-05-07}}</ref> |
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Gennady Gazin (Russian: Геннадий Газин; born 28 January 1965 in Ukraine) is an international businessman and philanthropist of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.[1]
Education
Gazin has an MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Business
Gazin began his career working for Bell Communications Research (now Telcordia Technologies) and General Dynamics in the US as a systems and telecommunications engineer. Gazin moved on to work in McKinsey and Company's New York and Moscow offices, specializing in technology and telecommunications and becoming the firm's senior partner responsible for the CIS region. Gazin was CEO of EastOne from 2007-12 and was invited to speak at the 2011 World Economic Forum[2]. In 2014, he was appointed to the supervisory Board of Vimplecom, now VEON.[3][4][5] and in 2015 joined the advisory board of LetterOne Technology.[6] He was vice-chairman of the board at Studio Moderna. Gazin is also an affilate partner at Lindsay Goldberg, a New York base private equity firm[7]and co-founder of Swiss Timber International, a Swiss trading company.
Philanthropy
Gennady Gazin is chairman of the Genesis Philanthropy Group, a foundation created to promote Jewish identity among Russian-speakiing Jews worldwide[8][9] and is a member of the Taglit-Birthright Israel Planning Committee.[10] Gazin actively supports Jewish life in Zhitomir, the city in Western Ukraine where he was born, and is a founder of the Gazin Family Fund[11].
References
- ^ "Gennady G. Gazin: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
- ^ Forum, World Economic (2011-06-08), Gennady Gazin - World Economic Forum on Europe 2011, retrieved 2019-05-10
- ^ Editorial, Reuters. "${Instrument_CompanyName} ${Instrument_Ric} People | Reuters.com". U.S. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Акционеры Veon избрали в совет трех новых директоров". ТАСС. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ Ведомости (6 October 2014). "В наблюдательный совет Vimpelcom Ltd. вошел глава EastOne Геннадий Газин". www.vedomosti.ru. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ "LetterOne Technology appoint Jeremie Berrebi and Gennady Gazin to advisory board" Private Equity Wire, 5/26/2015
- ^ "Lindsay Goldberg | Affiliate Partners". www.lindsaygoldbergllc.com. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
- ^ "Genesis Philanthropy Group announces recipients of grant money - Diaspora - Jerusalem Post". www.jpost.com. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
- ^ "Genesis Philanthropy Group Grants Hillel $1m for Russian-speaking Jewish Students". 12 January 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2019 – via Haaretz.
- ^ Greer Fay Cashman (18 June 2017). "MORE HONORS FOR KAHN AND MOBILEYE'S AVIRAM". JPost. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ "Catalogue". www.medialuna.biz. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
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