Yuri Milner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yuri Milner

Investor

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1961

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Profession: entrepreneur, physicist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Yuri Borisovich (Bentsionovich) Milner (Russian: ?´??? ????´????? ??????´????? ??´?????; born 11 November 1961) is an Israeli-Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist.
Milner is Russia's most influential tech investor.
He is a co-founder and former Chairman of internet company Mail.ru Group (former name Digital Sky Technologies (DST)) and a founder of investment firm DST Global.
Through DST Global, Milner is an investor in Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Flipkart, Spotify, Zocdoc, Groupon, JD.com, Xiaomi, OlaCabs, Alibaba, Airbnb, WhatsApp, Nubank, Wish and many others. Milner's personal investments also include a stake in 23andMe, Habito, Planet Labs, minority stake in a real estate investments start-up, Cadre, founded by Jared Kushner, and others.
In September 2017 Forbes included Milner to the list of 100 greatest living business minds.
Milner was named one of the World's Greatest Leaders by Fortune magazine in March 2017, was listed in the "Titans" category of Time magazine's 2016 Time 100.
Foreign Policy magazine included Milner on its "Power List" – an inaugural list of the 500 most powerful people on the planet in May 2013.
Milner was included in Bloomberg Markets' 2012 50 Most Influential list.
In Fortune's 2010 list of the world's fifty most prominent businessmen, Milner was ranked 46th.
That same year Russian business magazine Vedomosti recognized him as "Businessman of the Year".