Boris Iosifovich Mints (Russian: Минц, Борис Иосифович); – Russian entrepreneur, public person and philanthropist, Chairman of the Board of Directors at an investment company O1 Group
Biography
Mr. Mints was born in Moldova in the family of a military engineer, Iosif Samuilovich Mints (born 1932). His mother, Lusia Izrailevna Milter (1936–2007, Kodyma, Ukrainian SSR), worked as a librarian; as a child in 1941–1944 she was deported to the ghetto in Chechelnik in Transnistria, where 14 members of her family died. Both grandfathers – Samuil Iosifovich Mints (1892–1942) and Srul Gershkovich Milter (1901–1944) – perished in the Great Patriotic War.
In 1980 he graduated from the Physical Faculty of Ivanovo State University, PhD in Technical Sciences, A.P. of Academic Department of Higher Mathematics.
From 1987–1990 he worked in one of the Centers of Scientific-Technical Creativity of Youth, where he earned his first funds. From 1990–1994 he held the position of Vice Mayor of Ivanovo, and was the Head of the City Property Management Committee.
From 1994–1996 he was the Head of Chief Directorate of the Public Assets Ministry of the Russian Federation. From 1996–2000 he was the Head of Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation on the issues of local self-regulation.
From 2001–2003 he acted as General Director of REN TV media holding. From 2004–2013 he was the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and since 2012 he was the President of Otkritie Financial Corporation. In 2004 he founded an investment company, O1 Group, owning and managing assets in real estate and financial sectors.
In 2010 he founded an investment company, O1 Properties for the management of real estate assets and a holding structure for O1 Group.
In 2013 he ceased to be a shareholder of FC Otkritie upon disposition of his shareholding to business partners Vadim Belyaev and Ruben Aganbegyan.
Currently he is the Chairman of the Board of Directors at O1 Group.
In 2013 and 2014 he acquired three non-governmental pension funds: Stalfond, Telekom-Soyuz and Blagosostoyanie OPS which were merged under a common tradename Future.
Between 2014 and 2015 he acquired stakes in Austrian companies CA Immo and Immofinanz.
Starting from 2014 he commenced the active development of his personal project – Russia’s first Museum of Russian Impressionism.
He is a Class 1 Actual State Counselor of the Russian Federation (the qualification category was awarded by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1006 on September 11, 1997).
Boris Mints is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
He is the founder and Chairman of Yegor Gaidar Foundation.
Boris Mints is the owner of Cyprus-based investment holding company O1 Group, which owns pension funds and real estate assets in Russia. In 2014 he sold a 12% stake in O1 Group subsidiary O1 Properties to Goldman Sachs International. He used the proceeds to buy several Russian pension funds and a stake in Austrian CA Immobilien Anlagen, which invests in real estate; he has since sold that stake. Mints holds a degree in physics. In the 1990s he worked at the Committee for Managing State Property and Administration of the President of Russia.
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