Mikhael is known for a lot of things including an athlete, a playboy, metals mogul, an investor, media player, politician, a banker and of course as the owner of one of the teams in NBA. Considered as one of the leading industrialist in his country, he worked in the financial sector and owns major stakes in multinational corporations in the precious metals business. He ran the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium, Norilsk Nickel and was once the chairman of Polyrus Gold, largest gold producer in the country. It was in late February of this year that he sold for $3.6 billion his 37.8% share in the company.
He created the Civic Platform, a political party in Russia that is slowly expanding and has plans of taking head to head Putin’s United Russia.