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David Yakobashvili | |
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| Born | 2 March 1957 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR |
| Citizenship | Sweden[1] |
| Organization(s) | Orion Heritage Co, Ltd,[2] President |
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David Mikhaylovich Yakobashvili[3] (Russian: Давид Михайлович Якобашвили Georgian: დავით მიხეილის ძე იაკობაშვილი, sometimes spelled Iakobaсhvili[4]) is one of the founders of the largest Russian companies – JSC Wimm-Bill-Dann – the manufacturer of dairy products, juices and beverages. In 2001 - 2010 he held the position of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of this company. In 2010 David Yakobashvili together with shareholders sold the biggest Russian food producer Wimm-Bill-Dann (WBD) to US PepsiCo.[5] For his 10.5% stake in the company, Yakobashvili received more than US$600m.[6]
Yakobashvili was the vice-president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (the president is Alexander Shokhin),[7] an independent director of AFK Sistema PAO (Vladimir Yevtushenkov).[8] In 2022 Yakobashvili left the Bureau of the Board and the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and resigned from the Board of Directors of AFK Sistema PAO.[9] Yakobashvili is joint proprietor of Petrocas Energy Holding Ltd,[10] president of the Russian-American Business Council, member of the Сonsumer Мarket Development Council of the CCI RF, member of the Bureau of the Presidium of the Russian Jewish Congress, president of Orion Heritage Co, Ltd (private museum "Collection" in Moscow, Russia).[11] In 2013 he was elected a co-chair of the B20 Task Force "Job creation, employment and investment in human capital". In 2013, he joined the Presidential International Council of the New York University (NYU).
- ^ "Who Owns Georgia: Meet David Iakobashvili, now in control of assets formerly owned by Dato Kezerashvili". transparency.ge. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
- ^ "The World Economic Forum". www.weforum.org.
- ^ "#1372 David Yakobashvili". Forbes. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ "David Iakobaсhvili". Bloomberg news. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
- ^ "PepsiCo to Buy Wimm-Bill-Dann for $5.8 Billion, Interfax Reports". Bloomberg news. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
- ^ "#1372 David Yakobashvili". Forbes. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ "Peace and Economic Cooperation in the MED-EASTERN region discussed at the Crans Montana Forum in Geneva". www.traceca-org.org/. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
- ^ "AFK Sistema" (PDF). Sistema. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- ^ "David Iakobachvili". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "New Russia Sanctions, Putin's Economy, and the Shadow Over Planned U.S.-Russia Business Group". www.justsecurity.org/. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ^ "The World Economic Forum". www.weforum.org. Retrieved 3 October 2018.