{"id":70720,"date":"2026-03-26T13:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/?p=70720"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:11:50","slug":"andrey-rappoport-executive-investor-philanthropist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/andrey-rappoport-executive-investor-philanthropist\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrey Rappoport: Executive, Investor, Philanthropist"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n  .profile-table {<br \/>    width: 100%;<br \/>    border-collapse: collapse;<br \/>    table-layout: fixed;<br \/>    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;<br \/>    font-size: 14px;<br \/>    color: #111;<br \/>  }<\/p>\n<p>  .profile-table td,<br \/>  .profile-table th {<br \/>    border: 1px solid #222;<br \/>    padding: 10px 12px;<br \/>    vertical-align: top;<br \/>    text-align: left;<br \/>    word-wrap: break-word;<br \/>  }<\/p>\n<p>  .profile-table colgroup col:first-child { width: 7%; }<br \/>  .profile-table colgroup col:last-child { width: 50%; }<\/p>\n<p>  .profile-title {<br \/>    background: #f2f2f2;<br \/>    font-weight: 700;<br \/>    text-align: center;<br \/>  }<br \/><\/style>\n<table class=\"profile-table\">\n<colgroup>\n<col \/>\n<col \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"profile-title\" colspan=\"2\">Andrey Rappoport \u2013 Profile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Name (English)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Andrey Rappoport \u00b7 Andrej Rappoport \u00b7 Andrew Rappoport \u00b7 Rappoport Andrei \u00b7 Andrei Rappoport \u00b7 A. Rappoport \u00b7 Rappoport A. \u00b7 A.N. Rappoport \u00b7 Andrey Natanovich Rappoport \u00b7 Andrey Natanovitsj Rappoport<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Name (Russian)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>\u0420\u0430\u043f\u043f\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442 \u0410\u043d\u0434\u0440\u0435\u0439 \u041d\u0430\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u00b7 \u0410\u043d\u0434\u0440\u0435\u0439 \u041d\u0430\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u0420\u0430\u043f\u043f\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442 \u00b7 \u0420\u0430\u043f\u043f\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442, \u0410\u043d\u0434\u0440\u0435\u0439 \u041d\u0430\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u00b7 \u0410\u043d\u0434\u0440\u0435\u0439 \u0420\u0430\u043f\u043f\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442 \u00b7 \u0420\u0430\u043f\u043f\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442 \u0410\u043d\u0434\u0440\u0435\u0439 \u00b7 \u0410.\u041d. \u0420\u0430\u043f\u043f\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442 \u00b7 \u0420\u0430\u043f\u043f\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442 \u0410.\u041d. \u00b7 \u0420\u0430\u043f\u043f\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442 \u0410. \u00b7 \u0410. \u0420\u0430\u043f\u043f\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442 \u00b7 \u0410\u043d\u0434\u0440\u0435\u0439 \u041d. \u0420\u0430\u043f\u043f\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Ukrainian Spelling<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>\u0420\u0430\u043f\u043f\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442 \u0410\u043d\u0434\u0440\u0456\u0439 \u041d\u0430\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u00b7 Rappoport Andrii Natanovych \u00b7 \u0410\u043d\u0434\u0440i\u0439 \u0420\u0430\u043f\u043f\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442 \u00b7 \u0420\u0430\u043f\u043f\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442 \u0410\u043d\u0434\u0440i\u0439<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>German<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Andrej Rappoport \u00b7 Andreas Rappoport \u00b7 Andrey Rappoport<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>French<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Andr\u00e9 Rappoport \u00b7 Andrei Rappoport \u00b7 Rappoport Andr\u00e9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Italian<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Andrea Rappoport \u00b7 Andrej Rappoport \u00b7 Rappoport Andrea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Spanish<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Andr\u00e9s Rappoport \u00b7 Andrei Rappoport \u00b7 Rappoport Andr\u00e9s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Initials<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>\u0410.\u041d.\u0420. \u00b7 ANR \u00b7 A.N.R. \u00b7 \u0410\u041d\u0420<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Date and Place of Birth<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Jun. 22, 1963, Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson Region, Ukrainian SSR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Primary Residence<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Switzerland (since 2015)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Education<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>1989: Donetsk State University \u00b7 University of Santa Clara (fellowship) \u00b7 1997: Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (PhD)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Industries<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>FinTech \u00b7 Telecommunications \u00b7 Real estate development \u00b7 Energy \u00b7 Banking sector \u00b7 Philanthropy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Primary Occupation<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Founder and Chairman of Advisory Committee, Tira Management<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Marital Status<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Married to Irina Eduardovna Rappoport (b. March 9, 1963, Makiivka, Ukrainian SSR)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Children<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Two daughters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Charitable Foundation<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>FAIR Charitable Foundation of Andrey and Irina Rappoport<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Investment Portfolio<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>100+ private PE and venture funds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Investment Geography<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>USA \u00b7 Europe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><b>Biography<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ceoworld.biz\/2026\/03\/04\/andrey-rappoport\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrey Rappoport<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an international investor who has been based in Switzerland since 2015. Decades of management experience in the banking and energy sectors shaped his systematic approach to capital, focused on long-term results. Today he invests primarily in U.S. and European markets, concentrating on fintech, telecommunications, and real estate development. Philanthropy is also an integral part of his life \u2014 together with his spouse Irina Eduardovna, he supports educational, cultural, and social initiatives through the FAIR Charitable Foundation of Andrey and Irina Rappoport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Table of contents:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Education Overview<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rappoport Andrey: Early Career<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A New Bank for a New Economy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrey Rappoport: Industrial Assets and International Investments<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Energy Sector: Crisis Management and Industry Modernization<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rappoport Andrey: International Pivot<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Family Office to Capital Management<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrey Rappoport: Notable Investments<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Commitment to Philanthropy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrey Rappoport: Biography FAQ<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Education Overview<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.analyticsinsight.net\/business\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrey Rappoport<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was born on June 22, 1963, in Novaya Kakhovka, a small city in the south of the Kherson Region of the Ukrainian SSR. His family later moved to Severodonetsk in the Luhansk Region, where he spent his childhood and completed his secondary education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rappoport Andrey graduated from the economics department of Donetsk State University in 1989. His collegiate experience included an internship at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley \u2014 an experience that gave him his first real exposure to American business culture and markets, an interest he would carry with him for decades to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the mid-1990s, Andrey Rappoport was well into his professional career. 1997 proved to be a pivotal year, marked by an academic milestone alongside his managerial work, as he defended his PhD thesis at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research focused on the principles behind building effective management teams in commercial organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Rappoport Andrey: Early Career<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rappoport Andrey&#8217;s professional path began in 1989 at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/how-to-get-into-healthcare-consulting-as-a-career\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">consulting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> firm EKOU-Consult in Novaya Kakhovka, where he worked as a consultant. At the time, Soviet industrial enterprises were navigating the transition to a market economy. After decades of centralized planning, they needed entirely new approaches to management. EKOU-Consult guided them through this transition, helping companies find their footing in a rapidly changing economic landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The experience he accumulated over the course of two years at the consulting firm laid the groundwork for his first independent venture. In early 1991, Andrey Rappoport founded a brokerage firm in Donetsk called Conso &amp; K \u2014 though this was always intended as a stepping stone. His sights were set on something far more ambitious: establishing the first major private bank in Ukraine. Such a task required investors, and Andrey Rappoport spent considerable time in talks with industrial executives, but the financing never came together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In late 1991, Rappoport Andrey was invited to Moscow when a group of businessmen launching a new private <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/which-are-the-global-financial-centers-of-the-future\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">financial<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> institution identified him as their top candidate for Chairman of the Board. His background in management consulting was exactly what the project needed at the ground floor, the founders believed. This project, Alfa-Bank, would go on to become one of the largest private banks in the Russian Federation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>A New Bank for a New Economy<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70722\" style=\"width: 942px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-70722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-02.avif\" alt=\"Andrey Rappoport - an international investor\" width=\"942\" height=\"1413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-02.avif 384w, https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-02-200x300.avif 200w, https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-02-280x420.avif 280w, https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-02-150x225.avif 150w, https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-02-300x450.avif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 942px) 100vw, 942px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrey Rappoport &#8211; an international investor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the early 1990s, private <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/a-move-towards-digital-banking\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">banking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Russia was taking its very first steps. There were no established practices, no industry standards, no models to follow \u2014 everything had to be built from scratch. Andrey Rappoport, biography of whom would come to include many such challenging tasks, began working on how to build a full-service bank largely on his own, without the benefit of anyone else&#8217;s experience to draw on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrey Rappoport took a strategic approach that ran counter to the prevailing logic of the time. While other banks were racing to open branches across the country, he stayed focused on first building a quality model, then scaling it. Regional expansion without a solid foundation struck him as pointless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1997, he concluded this chapter of his biography. Andrey Rappoport sold his 15% stake in Alfa-Bank and stepped down from his position as Chairman of the Board. The financial crisis of the next year would prove the worth of the strategy he had used to build the financial institution. Banks that had sacrificed product quality and structural soundness in the chase for regional reach failed in droves. Alfa-Bank, built on different principles, survived, and eventually became the largest private bank in the country. Andrey Rappoport came out of that chapter with a reputation as an executive who knew how to build organizations that last. It was with that track record that he moved into the energy sector, an industry that badly needed people with exactly that kind of experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Andrey Rappoport: Industrial Assets and International Investments<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrey Natanovich Rappoport&#8217;s move into the industrial sector came at about the worst possible moment for the industry. In 1997\u20131998, global oil prices had bottomed out at $9 a barrel, and the threat of bankruptcy hung over most players in the market. YUKOS-Rosprom, which managed equity stakes in various industrial companies, was looking for a First Vice President who could think outside the box in a crisis environment, and their choice fell to Rappoport.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His time at YUKOS-Rosprom lasted just one year, but it was a productive one. Overseeing the holding company&#8217;s economics and finances, he quickly assembled a team and set about consolidating assets. The key transaction during his tenure was the merger of Eastern Oil Company, which held significant production assets, including Tomskneft. Rappoport ran that merger personally, spending the entire process on the ground in Tomsk and keeping it under direct control throughout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he wrapped up at YUKOS-Rosprom in 1998, he moved into the next phase of his career with two important assets in hand. The first was the capital he had earned over his years as an executive in Russia, which now gave him access to global markets. The second was hands-on experience in international investing: since 1996, Rappoport Andrey had been putting money into foreign securities through Swiss banks. Both assets pointed toward the same goal \u2014 a gradual transformation into an international <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/GVS-US\/top-global-venture-investing-platforms-connecting-investors-with-promising-startups\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">investor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>In the Energy Sector: Crisis Management and Industry Modernization<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70723\" style=\"width: 1220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-70723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-03.avif\" alt=\"Andrey Rappoport invests primarily in U.S. and European markets, concentrating on fintech, telecommunications, and real estate development\" width=\"1220\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-03.avif 728w, https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-03-300x171.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-03-150x86.avif 150w, https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-03-696x398.avif 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1220px) 100vw, 1220px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrey Rappoport invests primarily in U.S. and European markets, concentrating on fintech, telecommunications, and real estate development<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By 1998, Russia&#8217;s energy sector was in deep crisis. Infrastructure that had gone years without modernization was 70% worn out. Around twenty regional power systems were insolvent. The August 1998 default had shattered an already fragile payments system: only 8\u201320% of electricity was being paid for in actual cash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To tackle the industry&#8217;s accumulated problems, Russia&#8217;s largest energy holding \u2014 RAO UES of Russia \u2014 brought in Andrey Rappoport as Deputy Chairman of the Board for Investments. He was entrusted with the task of overhauling the sector from top to bottom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrey Natanovich Rappoport started with what seemed impossible given the payments crisis: reviving construction on major energy facilities that had been sitting idle since Soviet times. The Boguchany hydroelectric plant, the Bureya hydroelectric plant, the North-west Thermal Power Plant and other facilities were brought online with his direct involvement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, Rappoport Andrey tackled payment discipline in the Russian Far East and the North Caucasus \u2014 regions where electricity had been treated as a given for years. His tools were the restructuring of the contractual framework and the elimination of opaque intermediaries that had entrenched themselves in the system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rappoport Andrey also took on the challenge of recovering the roughly $800 million that CIS countries owed to RAO UES \u2014 and he did it creatively, through a debt-for-asset swap approach. For example, Kazakhstan handed over a controlling stake in a power plant, while Georgia transferred an electricity distribution company. Other countries settled their debts in the same way, and by the time the process was complete, Rappoport had recovered 3\/4 of the $800 million owed. The acquired assets were folded into a new RAO subsidiary called Inter RAO UES, with Andrey Natanovich Rappoport as Chairman of the Board of Directors. What began as an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/08\/02\/climate\/electricity-generation-us-states.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">electricity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> trading intermediary quickly evolved into a full-fledged producer with assets spanning nearly the entire former Soviet Union.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2002, as part of broader electricity sector reform, the government established the Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System (FGC UES) to consolidate all of the country&#8217;s high-voltage grids under one roof \u2014 and Andrey Natanovich Rappoport was appointed Chairman of the Board while continuing his work at RAO UES. It was a daunting starting point: grid infrastructure was fragmented across dozens of joint-stock companies, in critical condition, with virtually no qualified contractors available for modernization. However, by summer 2009, FGC UES had been transformed into a company with over 300 billion rubles in capitalization and roughly 75,000 miles of power lines. Under Andrey Rappoport\u2019s leadership the sector had attracted roughly $150 billion in investment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2002, Rappoport Andrey and his partners acquired six electrical grid construction trusts \u2014 funded through his Swiss bank investments \u2014 and consolidated them into a new entity, Energostroyinvest Holding. Only one of the six was operational at the time; the rest were on the brink of bankruptcy. The holding became the most technically capable contractor in the country, able to build four high-voltage substations simultaneously and complete projects that included more than 6,000 miles of fiber optic cable from the Urals to the Far East. Rappoport sold the company in 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By mid-2009, the energy sector reform had run its course: RAO UES was dissolved, its assets privatized, and on June 30 of that year, Rappoport closed out eleven years in the energy sector by stepping down from FGC. What came next was a deliberate pivot \u2014 away from Russian industry and toward international investment full-time.<\/span><\/p>\n<style>\n  .energy-career-table {<br \/>\n    width: 100%;<br \/>\n    border-collapse: collapse;<br \/>\n    table-layout: fixed;<br \/>\n    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;<br \/>\n    font-size: 14px;<br \/>\n    color: #111;<br \/>\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .energy-career-table th,<br \/>\n  .energy-career-table td {<br \/>\n    border: 1px solid #222;<br \/>\n    padding: 10px 12px;<br \/>\n    vertical-align: top;<br \/>\n    text-align: left;<br \/>\n    word-wrap: break-word;<br \/>\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .energy-career-table thead th {<br \/>\n    background: #f2f2f2;<br \/>\n    font-weight: 700;<br \/>\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .energy-career-table colgroup col:nth-child(1) { width: 7%; }<br \/>\n  .energy-career-table colgroup col:nth-child(2) { width: 10%; }<br \/>\n  .energy-career-table colgroup col:nth-child(3) { width: 7%; }<br \/>\n  .energy-career-table colgroup col:nth-child(4) { width: 10%; }<br \/>\n  .energy-career-table colgroup col:nth-child(5) { width: 15%; }<\/p>\n<p>  .table-title {<br \/>\n    background: #f2f2f2;<br \/>\n    font-weight: 700;<br \/>\n    text-align: center;<br \/>\n  }<br \/>\n<\/style>\n<table class=\"energy-career-table\">\n<colgroup>\n<col \/>\n<col \/>\n<col \/>\n<col \/>\n<col \/> <\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"table-title\" colspan=\"5\">Energy Sector Career of Andrey Rappoport<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Company<\/th>\n<th>Position<\/th>\n<th>Period<\/th>\n<th>Specifics<\/th>\n<th>Key Responsibilities and Achievements<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>RAO UES<\/td>\n<td>Deputy Chairman of the Board, later Board Member<\/td>\n<td>1998\u20132008<\/td>\n<td>The country&#8217;s largest energy holding company<\/td>\n<td>Restored payment discipline, hydroelectric plant construction, industry reform<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FGC UES<\/td>\n<td>Chairman of the Board<\/td>\n<td>2002\u20132009<\/td>\n<td>Consolidation of fragmented networks into a unified federal power grid system<\/td>\n<td>Modernization of 74,565 miles of power transmission lines<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Inter RAO UES<\/td>\n<td>Chairman of the Board of Directors<\/td>\n<td>2000s\u20132009<\/td>\n<td>RAO subsidiary, international energy trading<\/td>\n<td>Transformation from intermediary to major producer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><b>Rappoport Andrey: International Pivot<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From 2009 onward, Andrey Rappoport steadily transitioned from Russian senior executive to international investor, actively deploying capital into European and American assets \u2014 though in 2012 he briefly stepped back into a management role, as First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board and advisor to the Chairman at Rusnano. There he conducted a review of an investment portfolio spanning nearly 100 projects with total capital commitments exceeding $4 billion. It didn&#8217;t take long for him to conclude that his interests lay elsewhere, and he left after less than a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2015 he relocated permanently to Switzerland, and by early 2022 had wound down all remaining business and charitable activities in Russia \u2014 bringing his full focus to bear on the international investment work he had been building through Swiss banks since the 1990s.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>From Family Office to Capital Management<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70724\" style=\"width: 1115px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-70724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-04.avif\" alt=\"Andrey Rappoport supports educational, cultural, and social initiatives through the FAIR Charitable Foundation of Andrey and Irina Rappoport\" width=\"1115\" height=\"1552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-04.avif 416w, https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-04-216x300.avif 216w, https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-04-302x420.avif 302w, https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-04-150x209.avif 150w, https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-04-300x418.avif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1115px) 100vw, 1115px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrey Rappoport supports educational, cultural, and social initiatives through the FAIR Charitable Foundation of Andrey and Irina Rappoport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rappoport Andrey\u2019s transition to full-time international investing wasn&#8217;t a leap into the unknown \u2014 it built on a track record of early investments that predated his move to Switzerland by years, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Troika Dialog:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In 2002, Rappoport acquired a 5% option as part of a $50 million deal to purchase 81% of the investment company&#8217;s shares. He held these shares until 2004.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Datadog:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He invested in the cloud infrastructure monitoring company in 2010-2011 when it was still an early-stage startup, well before its 2019 Nasdaq IPO, which valued the company at $8.7 billion, and it has since been added to the S&amp;P 500.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Delivery Hero:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A similar early bet on digital food delivery logistics. Rappoport Andrey entered early and exited in 2017, the year the company went public in Frankfurt at a \u20ac4 billion valuation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since relocating to Switzerland in 2015, Rappoport has positioned himself entirely as an international investor, backed by a team of professionals with experience in European and American markets that he personally assembled. This led to the establishment of a full-fledged family office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the first years after establishing his family office, Andrey Rappoport operated with a clear priority: capital preservation. The portfolio was heavily concentrated in public-sector instruments and bank deposits, held with leading international and Swiss banks \u2014 a conservative approach focused on wealth protection over growth. That began to change in 2019, when a new investment team joined the family office and initiated a comprehensive reassessment of the strategy. The result was a new asset allocation targeting long-term returns exceeding 10%, complementing prudence with a disciplined focus on growth, diversification, and long-term value creation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The years between 2020 and 2025 validated this shift. Assets grew significantly, driven primarily by U.S. markets and supported by European investments, and the complexity of the portfolio made clear that a purely conservative model was no longer adequate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In parallel, the family office began transitioning toward an endowment-style investment philosophy, rebalancing major mandates into a more sophisticated mix of public and private assets. In early 2023, this process was formalized with the registration of Tira Management, transforming what had begun as a family office into a fully institutional investment operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, Rappoport Andrey leads an international team bringing over 100 years of combined investment experience, staying personally involved in portfolio management and the implementation of best practices across the firm&#8217;s projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Andrey Rappoport: Notable Investments<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrey Rappoport&#8217;s portfolio spans a range of sectors, with several standout investments worth noting:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Docplanner<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoovu<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wizz AI<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Docplanner is a European digital healthcare platform connecting patients with physicians for online appointment booking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoovu provides AI-powered product configuration and compliance solutions for global enterprises.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wizz AI develops artificial intelligence tools for data analysis and operational <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2022\/jun\/05\/how-to-make-good-decisions\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">decision-making<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Together, these investments reflect Rappoport\u2019s consistent focus \u2014 through Tira Management \u2014 on scalable technology platforms with long-term structural tailwinds.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>A Commitment to Philanthropy<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philanthropy has also been an integral part of Andrey Rappoport biography for the past three decades \u2014 and in many ways mirrors his approach to investment: systematic, long-term, and built around meaningful impact rather than gesture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His most significant early commitment was to education. In 2006, Rappoport was one of five principal sponsors of the philanthropic project that became the Skolkovo School of Management, Russia&#8217;s first nonprofit business school of its caliber. He went on to serve as its president from 2011 to 2016, teaching alongside his administrative duties. &#8220;You can only change society through education,&#8221; he has said \u2014 a conviction that has shaped his philanthropic priorities ever since. He then served on the Coordinating Council until 2022, but has had no ties with the school since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the entire family is dedicated to charitable endeavors. Andrey Rappoport\u2019s spouse Irina Eduardovna has been exclusively focused on philanthropic work for over twenty years, concentrating on music, the arts, education, and medicine (Rappoport\u2019s spouse is sometimes misidentified as Irina Markovna Rapoport, who once worked for Rusnano, but Irina Eduardovna\u2019s sole activity has been and remains philanthropy).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In November 2023, the couple formalized their shared commitment by establishing the FAIR <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-12-25\/charity-is-part-of-britain-s-cultural-landscape\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charitable<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Foundation of Andrey and Irina Rappoport. The foundation operates across multiple countries \u2014 with major programs in Switzerland, Israel, Portugal, and Italy \u2014 and directs its work across four areas: education, scientific innovation, music and the arts, social and humanitarian initiatives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Andrey Rappoport: Biography FAQ<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70725\" style=\"width: 1007px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-70725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-05.avif\" alt=\"Andrey Rappoport\" width=\"1007\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-05.avif 640w, https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-05-300x174.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.globalvillagespace.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rappoport-andrey-natanovich-globalvillagespace.com-05-150x87.avif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrey Rappoport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Q: What role did Andrey Rappoport play in founding Alfa-Bank?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A: Andrey Rappoport joined as Chairman of the Board in 1991, building a disciplined model while competitors chased regional expansion \u2014 a strategy vindicated by the 1998 crisis, which felled many rivals while Alfa-Bank survived to become the country&#8217;s largest private bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Q: How did Rappoport tackle Russia&#8217;s energy crisis at RAO UES?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A: Rappoport restarted construction on Soviet-era facilities, imposed payment discipline in problem regions, and recovered $600 million of the $800 million CIS countries owed RAO UES \u2014 assets that became the foundation of Inter RAO UES.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Q: What did Rappoport achieve at FGC UES?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A: Rappoport transformed a fragmented, deteriorating grid into a company with 300 billion rubles in capitalization and 75,000 miles of power lines, attracting roughly $150 billion in investment to the sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Q: How did Rappoport Andrey make the shift to international investing?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A: Andrey Rappoport had been investing through Swiss banks since 1996, building international experience alongside his executive career. He left the energy sector in 2009, relocated to Switzerland in 2015, and by 2022 had wound down all remaining Russian business activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Q: What is the philosophy behind Andrey Rappoport&#8217;s Tira Management?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A: Andrey Rappoport&#8217;s family office began with capital preservation before a 2019 reassessment shifted focus to returns exceeding 10% through a mix of public and private <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/councils\/forbesfinancecouncil\/2025\/12\/23\/alternative-assets-from-private-equity-to-passion-collections\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assets<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 formalized in 2023 with the establishment of Tira Management.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrey Rappoport \u2013 Profile Name (English) Andrey Rappoport \u00b7 Andrej Rappoport \u00b7 Andrew Rappoport \u00b7 Rappoport Andrei \u00b7 Andrei Rappoport \u00b7 A. 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