Media as well as general director of its NTV television network, Jordan was forced to resign in early 2003 under political pressure. He is chairman Curaleaf, an American cannabis company. Personal life Boris Jordan and family Jordan is fluent in English and Russian. In 2011, Jordan, an NYU alumni, established the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU. He purchased a penthouse in South Beach, Miami in 2014 for $20 million. He sold it in May 2018 to Cliff Asness, for a record $26 million. Nicholas Jordan Jordan's brother, Nicholas Jordan, has an extensive career in Russia related entities and finance. He is fluent in Russian and English. In 1982, he graduated from Boston University with a bachelor's degree majoring in political science and embarked upon a career in finance. At Deutsche Bank, he was Alfred Koch's banker when Koch was with Gazprom-Media. Nichols Jordan supported his brother during the privatization of Russia. After he co-headed Russian investment at Deutsche Bank spearheading the financial backing of the Kremlin's aims for financing the Gazprom expansion into petroleum, he went to Lehman to re enter the Russian markets in March 2007. He received nearly $7 million to re establish the Lehman Brothers Holdings' Moscow office in 2007 as head of its Russia operations. In 2015, he left the UBS Group to join Goldman Sachs as the co-CEO of Goldman Russia. In September 2015, he joined Oleg Boyko's Finstar as CEO. From March until October 2018, he was at Big Un Limited. In January 2019, he joined the boards of Oleg Deripaska's En+ Group and his Rusal. See also NTV Russia Renaissance Capital Notes References General references External links Profile: Boris Jordan, CNN, April 10, 2001. Commanding Heights: an interview with Boris Jordan, PBS, October 3, 2000. Jordan: a statist with a US passport, BBC Russia, April 5, 2001 (in Russian). An interview with B. Jordan by Elena Lankina, 2002 (in Russian). The Sputnik Group: Selected Press. EBRD helps found new Russian life insurance company (2004). Dossier by Vladimir Pribylovsky (in Russian). Russian media executives American chief executives of financial services companies American people of Russian descent New York University alumni Living people 1966 births American billionaires Russian billionaires Russian businesspeople in the United States People from Sea Cliff, New York