Finger Grigory Moiseevich

Finger Grigory Moiseevich is the executive director of the Moscow representative office of NCH Advisors., Inc, one of the key figures in the investment fund Digital Sky Technologies (now Mail.Ru Group).

Aktivs

• in information technology and investment funds - (Mail.Ru Group, Facebook, Tiger Global Management, NCH Capital Inc.).

State

Grigory Finger takes 196th place in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The Richest Businessmen of Russia - 2011"^[1]. Grigory Finger's fortune is estimated at $500 million.

Biography

Education

In 1988 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering.

Career

1995-1996 - Executive Director of the Moscow Representative Office of NCH Advisors., Inc., specializing in investments in the economies of Eastern Europe.

1996-2004 - Member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Abrasive Plant Ilyich.

1997-2003 - Member of the Board of Directors of OJSC GUM Trading House.

1999 - Together with Yuri Milner and NCH Advisors., Inc, he created netBridge (an investment in the Russian Internet).

1999-2004 - Member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Central Telegraph.

2000-2003 - Independent member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Rostelecom.

2003 - Member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Aeroflot (Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors).

2005 - Together with Yuri Milner, he founded the investment fund Digital Sky Techhologies (now Mail.Ru Group), which continued the expansion of partners in the Internet market.

Since 2002 - Member of the Board of Directors of OJSC "Polymerbyt."

Since 2003 - Member of the Board of Directors of OJSC CenterTelecom.

since 2004 - Member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Rostelecom.

for 2010 - co-owner of the investment company Mail.Ru Group.

2023: Bills seized due to gaming studio issues

On July 24, 2023, information appeared that the arbitration court, in the framework of the bankruptcy case of the mobile games developer Game Insight LLC (Game Insight), seized bank accounts and real estate of persons who, according to the bankruptcy trustee Denis Kachura, controlled the debtor. The case file, in particular, includes the founders of the Mail.ru Group Grigory Finger and Mikhail Winchel, as well as the former first vice president of this Internet holding Igor Matsanyuk.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, we are talking about an amount of 75.9 million rubles: these are wage arrears for more than 270 employees of the game studio. These funds were arrested in the accounts of eight individuals. Among them, in addition to Finger, Vincel and Matsanyuk, were the former general director of Game Insight Alexei Fesenko, financial director of the company Anastasia Bubinets, founder of Data-Code LLC Igor Shelopaev and Sergei Avetikov (Igor Matsanyuk's partner in the accelerator of startups Farmers). The court order also applies to five properties owned by Finger.

In the case of the Game Insight studio, bank accounts and real estate of persons who controlled the debtor were seized

Kachura said that 75.9 million rubles are claims of 271 employees of the company for salaries included in the register of creditors. It is noted that Matsanyuk has a bank account in Russia, while Finger and Vincel closed their Russian accounts. The investigating authorities are checking on the fact of the deliberate bankruptcy of the game studio. At the same time, it is known that Matsanyuk turned to a number of employees with a proposal to buy back wage arrears.

Kommersant also notes that the Moscow Arbitration Court satisfied the claim of Game Insight LLC against the parent structure - Lithuanian Game Insight UAB. The amount of claims is 154 million rubles: this money, allegedly, the Game Insight studio received less under contracts for the development of games.^[2]

Marital status

Married, raising a daughter.

Interesting facts

The Internet company Mail.Ru Group brought its co-owner Grigory Finger a fortune of 1.05 billion dollars and No. 105 in the ranking of Russian billionaires of 2011 magazine "Finance."^[3]

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