Len Blavatnik at No. 74 on Forbes 2010 billionaires list with a fortune estimated at $ 7.5 million. However, this employer of 52 years has not always been easy. Like many self-made billionaires, Blavatnik invested in a good education and worked hard to achieve your philanthropic legacy.

Leonard Blavatnik was born in 1957 in the Soviet Union. At 21 years old and penniless, he moved with his family to the United States, where he began his journey. Blavatnik attended and received a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Columbia. In 1981, he became a U.S. citizen. Blavatnik left Columbia and continued his studies at the Harvard Business School, where he earned his MBA.

In 1986, Len Blavatnik group holding based Access Industries. Today, he is the current president’s private company and the interests of industrial controls in various industries and countries around the world. Len Blavatnik and Access Industries has strategic investments in natural resources and chemicals, media and telecommunications, real estate, and new technologies and retail.

According to the site Access Industries, the portfolio provides access to a number of leading companies in the market included LyondellBasell Industries (the third largest independent chemical products worldwide), TNK-BP (a vertically integrated oil company) and UC Rusal (the largest vertically integrated aluminum producer in the world).

Blavatnik, industrialist and philanthropist active, sharing his wealth and returns to the community. For example, last year Blavatnik Family Foundation donated two gifts to Harvard University a total of $ 10 million. There is continuous support from various organizations including the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tate, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, the Prince’s Trust and many other major cultural and charitable institutions.