Moshiri Farhad (Farhad Moshiri)

Moshiri Farhad (Farhad Moshiri)

Ardavan Farhad Moshiri (Persian اردوان فرهاد ﻣﺸﻴﺮى; born 18 May 1955) is a British-Iranian businessman and investor based in Monaco.

Aktivs

At the beginning of 2020, he is a co-owner of USM Holdings - 8% through the Cyprus company Somelior Holding.

In 2018, Forbes estimated Farhad Moshiri's fortune at $1.7 billion.

Biography

Moshiri was born in Iran. His parents left the country shortly before the revolution in 1979. Moshiri said that his father was a "military doctor who studied to be a pathologist and then became a senior military judge," and his mother worked for the leading Iranian publishing house Kayhan.

Farhad was educated at University College London, and trained in the UK as a certified certified accountant. Farhad Moshiri holds a bachelor's degree from the University of London with a degree in economics and statistics.

He worked as an auditor at Ernst & Young, held senior positions at Pannell Kerr Forster and Deloitte & Touche. In 1989-1991 he was an expert witness at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, until 2006 - executive director of Global Natural Energy, the sales structure of the Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant (OEMK; included in Metalloinvest).

Moshiri is Alisher Usmanov's longtime business partner. Among other things, they were co-owners of Red & White Holdings, which bought a 14.65% stake in Arsenal F.C. from David Dane in August 2007. On September 18, 2007, Red and White Holdings increased their stake in Arsenal to 21%, and on September 28, 2007 - to 23%. As of June 2012, Red and White Holdings has acquired at least 29.72% of the club's capital.

In February 2016, it was announced that Moshiri had sold his stake in Arsenal Football Club to Red & White Holdings partner Alisher Usmanov in an attempt to raise the capital needed to begin a takeover of Everton F.C. on 27 February, the club officially confirmed Moshiri's purchase of a 49.9% stake in the club, which was ratified by the Premier League two weeks later.

2022: 7th place on the CNews list of the richest signalmen in Russia

In the ranking of the richest operators Russia for 2022, according to CNews Farhad Moshiri took 7th place.

Farhad Moshiri is a longtime partner of Alisher Usmanov and co-owner of the USM holding. In the 2015 rankings, he was also in seventh place.

In the mid-2000s, Moshiri, along with Usmanov invested in. British Arsenal Football Club Moshiri then invested in another football club - Everton. Moshiri permanently resides Monaco^[1]

Personal life

Moshiri lives in Monaco. His ex-wife Nazenin Ansari is an Iranian journalist in London, editor-in-chief of the weekly Persian language newspaper Kayhan London and producer of the series on the international free-to-air Persian language TV channel "Manoto." They have two children.

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