Mikhail Vladimirovich Dvornikov (Mikhail Dvornikov)

Mikhail Vladimirovich Dvornikov is an Austrian and Swiss entrepreneur. He was born in Moscow, USSR, where his parents worked as research scientists. He spent his childhood in Moscow. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he emigrated to Europe with his family. He studied law and also holds a master’s degree in economics.

Mikhail Dvornikov began his business in 1992, providing consulting services to companies in Russia, including on privatization matters. Since 1994, Mikhail Dvornikov has been investing in the purchase (on the secondary market) of real estate belonging to privatized enterprises that were in bankruptcy proceedings. In this way, he acquired the real estate of a number of large enterprises in Moscow and, through their repurposing, established the Savelovsky and Stankolit shopping complexes, as well as a number of smaller enterprises.

Mikhail Dvornikov owned a number of companies that held 100% of the shares of the Savelovsky Shopping Center (5 hectares of land and 60,000 m² of real estate) and Stankolit (15 hectares of land and 100,000 m² of real estate). As of 2006, the market value of Mikhail Dvornikov’s real estate was estimated at 200 million US dollars, and the annual gross income amounted to 60 million US dollars.

Between 2006 and 2008, all assets and enterprises in Moscow (Russian Federation) were sold. Mikhail Dvornikov stopped investing in Russia and focused on the securities market in Central and Western Europe. He is a private investor in Austria and Switzerland and is engaged in charitable, social and scientific activities.

Married, has two daughters. The elder daughter is engaged in international relations and diplomacy, while the younger daughter continued her studies after graduating from school.