Boris Jordan

Jordan earned a bachelor's degree in Russian–American Economic Relations from New York University.[2]

Boris Jordan is the President and CEO of the Sputnik Group Ltd., which he launched in 1998. The Sputnik Group is a diversified holding company, which manages the Sputnik Funds, the largest foreign private-equity funds invested in Russia.[3] Currently, The Sputnik Group owns proprietary investments in Russian insurance (Renaissance Insurance), forestry, telecommunications and media sectors – as well as a number of investments in foreign companies. Boris Jordan was one of the founders of Renaissance Capital investment group (founded in 1995) along with New Zealander Stephen Jennings. He is the chairman of Curaleaf, a cannabis company.[1]

Since 2007 Jordan has been a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of The Board Of Trustees of New York University, his alma mater. At New York University Jordan founded The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Boris Jordan assisted Russia's economic transition to capitalism in the early 1990s, 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.[4]

In 2001-2003 he was the CEO of the Russian TV channel NTV[5] and also the CEO 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.[6]

In 1999 Boris Jordan established the Cadet Corps Fund, and is the Fund's president.[7]

Jordan is fluent in English and Russian. He is married to Elizabeth.[8] They have one daughter and four sons.[2]

In 2011, Boris and Elizabeth Jordan, both NYU alumni, established the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU.[9]

He purchased a penthouse in South Beach, Miami in 2014 for $20 million. He sold it in May 2018 to Cliff Asness, for a record $26 million.[10] [8]

• NTV Russia
• Renaissance Capital

• Profile: Boris Jordan, CNN, April 10, 2001.
• Commanding Heights: an interview with Boris Jordan, PBS, October 3, 2000.
• Jordan: a statist with a US passport, BBC Russia, April 5, 2001 (in Russian).
• An interview with B. Jordan by Elena Lankina, 2002 (in Russian).
• The Sputnik Group: Selected Press.
• EBRD helps found new Russian life insurance company (2004).
• Dossier by Vladimir Pribylovsky (in Russian).