Background
Igor Linshits was born in Rustavi, Georgia into a family of engineers.
Igor Linshits was born in Rustavi, Georgia into a family of engineers.
After finishing school in Rustavi, Linshits moved to Moscow to study chemical engineering at the Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemical Technology, graduating in 1988. In 1988 Linshits established his first business manufacturing hairbrushes and combs. In 1990 he started, with partners, a business trading oil products that quickly become one of the largest oil products trading and processing businesses in Russia.
In 1993 he spun-off from his partners to establish his own business: Neftyanoi.
The business initially focused on trading commodities (esp oil products, wheat and cotton) and then moved into direct investments. The most prominent deals were Lukoil-Neftekhim and mail.ru.
In 2001 Linshits established a real estate development company, Delin Development which specialized in office property. Its largest project was Silver City, a 60,000 sq meter, class A office building in Moscow city center.
In 2009 Linshits immigrated to the United Kingdom and founded the Delin Group, an investment business with interests in real estate, technology, construction materials and agri-business.
As part of the Delin Group, Linshits established Delin Capital Asset Management, a real estate investment advisor and asset manager focused on investments in logistics assets in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. In technology, Delin is an active investor in seed funds and early stage businesses. Subsequent to Nemstov’s appointment, the Russian authorities accused Linshits and a number of employees of a subsidiary of banking regulation violations.
In 2006 Linshits chose to emigrate from Russia to Israel and become an Israeli citizen in 2008.
All charges against Linshits were dropped in 2010. They have three children.
Linshits is also a member of the Investment Advisory Committee for the Cambridge-based venture fund intelligence quotient Capital Partners. In 2004, Linshits appointed his close friend Boris Nemtsov (then a well-known and outspoken member of the Russian opposition who was assassinated in 2015) as the Chairman of Neftyanoi.
