Denis Lvovich Sverdlov (born 6 June 1978) is a British-based Russian businessman, and the founder and former CEO of Arrival, a former British electric vehicle manufacturer that was based in London. The businessman who was worth $11.7 billion in April 2021 lost his billionaire status in April 2022. Sverdlov's 94% decline in net worth is the largest wealth loss of anyone outside China who appeared on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index in 2021.[1] In 2012–13, he was Russia's deputy minister for communications and mass media.
Early life
Sverdlov was born in 1978 in Agara in the then Soviet republic of Georgia.[2] He was raised in Saint Petersburg by his engineer parents who were employed at a state-operated factory specializing in manufacturing fan blades used in electrical turbines.[3] He has a degree in economics from Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics.[4]