Dawn Meson

It is the dream of every aspiring businessman to father a global conglomerate with diversified holdings in various industrial sectors – it is a goal fueled by ambition, and inspired by one’s interests.Needless to say, the road towards achieving that goal is never easy, and obviously not for just anyone – but those that do brave the challenge emerge victorious, becoming one of the world’s titans and pinnacles of progress.

Len Blavatnik is one such titan, having holdings in three continents (North and South America, Europe) covering three various sectors: Natural Resources, Media and Telecommunications (Blavatnik Media), and Real Estate, Retail, Emerging Technologies and Life Sciences, under a singular conglomerate – Access Industries, Inc. Though the company itself is not a common sight to the the public eye, many of its subsidiaries are – including Tory Burch LLC, an up and coming apparel fashion house and Warner Music Group, one of the big three recording companies, which has given rise to the Bee Gees, Bruno Mars and Frank Sinatra among others.

It is heartening to know that conglomerates such as Access Industries, with their grandeur and prominence, are also contributors to society in a much more mundane and personal way. The philanthropic Len Blavatnik with the Blavatnik Foundation, has been a prominent contributor to academic institutions (Yale, Oxford, Harvard, among others) with the vision of helping the world’s most brilliant realize more things to better aid humanity, and to the arts (The National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others) with the intent to preserve the most amazing facets of our humanity.