David Yakobashvili, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

David Yakobashvili

Russian businessman

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1957

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Profession: businessperson

Nationality: Sweden, Russia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

David Mikhaylovich Yakobashvili (Russian: ????? ?????????? ?????????? Georgian: ????? ???????? ?? ???????????, sometimes spelled Iakoba?hvili) 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.
For his 10.5% stake in the company Yakobashvili received more than US$600m. Yakobashvili is the vice-president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (the president is Alexander Shokhin), an independent director of AFK Sistema PAO (Vladimir Yevtushenkov), president of the Russian-American Business Council, joint proprietor of Petrocas Energy Holding Ltd, member of the Bureau of the Presidium of the Russian Jewish Congress, president of Orion Heritage Co, Ltd (private museum “Collection” in Moscow, Russia).
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 University of New York (NYU).