Bill Browder
Founder & CEO of Hermitage Capital Management
Bill Browder is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, the investment advisor to the Hermitage Fund, which was once the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia. Browder’s primary investment strategy was shareholder rights activism.
Who is…
- Browder took on large Russian companies such as Gazprom, Surgutneftegaz, Unified Energy Systems, and Sidanco, and in retaliation, he was refused entry to Russia, deported to the UK, and declared a threat to Russian national security in 2005.
- In 2009 his Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was killed in a Moscow prison after uncovering and exposing a $230 million fraud committed by Russian government officials.
- Browder has spent years conducting a global campaign to impose visa bans and asset freezes on individual human rights abusers, particularly those who played a role in Magnitsky’s false arrest, torture and death.
- His 2015 New York Times bestselling book, “Red Notice,” recounts his experience in Russia and his ongoing fight for justice for Sergei Magnitsky.
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