1. Early life

2. Career

3. Hobbies

4. Awards

5. Charity and patronage

6. Personal life

7. References

8. External links

Boris Iosifovich Mints ({{lang-ru|Минц, Борис Иосифович}}) (born 24 July 1958) is a Russian billionaire businessman and philanthropist.

Early life

Boris Mints was born in Rybnitsa, Moldavian SSR, USSR (now Moldova), to military engineer Major Joseph Samuilovich Mints (born 1932, in Nevel), and librarian Lusia Izrailevna Milter (1936–2007, Kodyma, Ukrainian SSR). As a child, Milter was deported to the Chechelnik ghetto in Transnistria from 1941 to 1944, while 14 men of her family died on the front during the Second World War, including both of Boris's grandfathers, Samuil Iosifovich Mints (1892–1942) and Israel Gershkovich Milter (1901–1944).{{fact|date=April 2018}}

In 1980, he earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Ivanovo State University. Mints has a PhD in technical sciences and is an associate professor of higher mathematics.^[2]

Career

Between 1983 and 1990, he worked at the Ivanovo Textile Institute.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

Between 1987 and 1990, he worked in a Youth Center for Scientific Creativity where he earned his first capital.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

Between 1990 and 1994, he was vice mayor of Ivanovo and chaired the city property management committee (CPMC).{{fact|date=April 2018}}

Between 1996 and 2000, he was the head of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Issues of Local Governance and Secretary of the Council for Local Government in the Russian Federation, chaired by the President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

Between 2001 and 2003, he was the general director of REN TV.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

Between 2004 and 2013, he was chairman, and between 2012 and 2013, he was president of Otkritie Financial Corporation.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

In 2004, he founded the O1 Group investment company which owns and manages assets in real estate and financial sectors.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

In 2010, he founded the investment company O1 Properties for managing real estate assets. At the end of 2017, O1 Properties was the 6th largest owner of commercial real estate in Russia.^[3]

In 2013, Mints ceased to be a shareholder of the Otkritie Financial Corporation, selling his shares to other partners.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

Between 2014 and 2015, he acquired shares in the Austrian companies CA Immo and Immofinanz. CA Immo owns and manages commercial property in Austria, Germany and Eastern Europe.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

In 2013, the O1 Group began acquiring pension business assets and until the middle of 2017 concluded deals to purchase NPF Telecom-Soyuz, NPF Stalfond, NPF Blagosostoyanie OPS, NPF Uralsib, NPF Obrazovaniye, NPF Our Future, NPF Socialnoe Razvitie. ^[4]

As a result, in 2016 the Future Financial Group, one of the largest pension asset managers in Russia, was established. The Group manages several leading funds in the compulsory and non-state pension sector, including NPF Future, NPF Telecom-Soyuz and NPF Obrazovaniye.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

In October 2016, the Future Financial Group held a public offering (IPO) of ordinary shares of FG Future on the Moscow Stock Exchange.^[5]

In September 2018, Boris Mints sold O1 Properties and the Future Financial Group (includes NPF Future).^[6]

Member of the board of directors of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.{{fact|date=April 2018}} Russian Jewish Congress Presiding Board Bureau member. Russian Jewish Congress Presiding Board member.

Vice-president of the World Jewish Congress.Founder and chairman of the Yegor Gaidar international foundation.^[7]

Member of the board of directors of the regional charity foundation "Child Rehabilitation. G.N. Romanov Center".^[8]

Honorary professor and member of the capital campaign cabinet of Tel Aviv University.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

Member of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University.^[9]

President (and founder) of the Boris Mints Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions to Global Challenges at Tel Aviv University.^[10]

Chairman of the board of trustees of the Conference of European Rabbis.^[11]

Hobbies

Mints plays chess and tennis. Since 2001, he collects Russian paintings and graphics, mainly works by painters from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. His collection includes works by Serov, Korovin, Kustodiev, Konchalovsky, Polenov, Pimenov, Gerasimov.^[12] Based on his collection, Mints created the private Museum of Russian Impressionism in Moscow in the building of the former confectionery factory "Bolshevik". The Museum that was opened to the public in May 2016. The construction of the exhibition building at the Bolshevik site, based on a design by John McAslan + Partners, cost $16.5 million^[13].

In 2015, Mints became a supporter and sponsor of the Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions to Global Challenges, named in his honour, in collaboration with Tel Aviv University.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

Awards

In 2014, the Miloserdiye awards ceremony took place to honour public figures for their commitment to humanitarian values, and Mints became the first recipient.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

In May 2015, Mints, as founder of the Museum of Russian Impressionism, won the Prize named after Yekaterina Romanovna Dashkova, nominated in the “Patron of the Arts” category.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

Charity and patronage

In September 2014, Mints facilitated the installation in Moscow of a sculptural and spatial composition by the Russian sculptor and academician Georgy Frangulyan adjacent to the White Square business center.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

Mints also supports a number of cultural events such as: Golden Mask and "Territory" theatre festivals, the Arkhangelsk Street Theatre Festival, Vladimir Spivakov Foundation projects, Valery Gergiev "Easter Festival" and others.^[14]

Personal life

He is married to Marina Vladimirovna Mints, and they have four children.{{fact|date=April 2018}}

References

External links

• O1 Group

• Church of the Holy Spirit, Burpham
• Church of the Holy Spirit, Heidelberg
• Church of the Holy Spirit (Lake Wales, Florida)
• Church of the Holy Spirit, Lund
• Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount
• Church of the Holy Transfiguration, Sarajevo
• Church of the Holy Trinity
• Church of the Holy Trinity and Rectory
• Church of the Holy Trinity and Rectory (Middletown, Connecticut)
• Church of the Holy Trinity, Berwick-on-Tweed
• Church of the Holy Trinity, Košice
• Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia
• Church of the Holy Trinity, Singapore
• Church of the Holy Trinity, Svishtov
• Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto
• Church of the Holy Trinity with St Edmund
• Church of the Holy Virgin (Babylon El-Darag)
• Church of the Holy Virigin (Babylon El-Darag)
• Church of the Immaculate Conception, Baku
• Church of the Immaculate Conception (Chicago)
• Church of the Immaculate Conception (Knoxville, Tennessee)
• Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
• Church of the Incarnation
• Church of the Incarnation (Highlands, North Carolina)