Meet Samir Mane, Albania's first billionaire and CEO at BALFIN
Written byTimes Magazine
Samir Mane is an Albanian entrepreneur. Mane was born in the southern Albanian town of Korça on 24 December 1967. He was a student of the Faculty of Geology and Mining at Tirana University while the communist system in Albania collapsed. As a younger student, he moved to Austria where generally worked as a translator while constructing his private business network. While living in Austria in 1993, he got the chance to begin business with electronic items and home machines in Albania.
He is the founder and Chairman of Balfin Group, one of the most huge and a success investment companies withinside the Western Balkans region. The Group's investment portfolio embraces activities of actual property development, retail sales, industrial and commercial space management/services, mining and smelting industry, banking, tourism, client financing, est. Actually a part of Balfin Group are more than 18 organizations. Geographically, BALFIN Group is found in Austria, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro and the Netherlands, employing about 6,000 people.
Samir Mane, the President and CEO of Balfin Group, the biggest privately owned organisation in Albania, has been found out as Albania's first billionaire with a fortune worth $1.2 billion,as per information given by WealthX, a worldwide ultra high total assets insight supplier.
Mane, president and CEO ofBalfin Group, who introduced the primary shopping center and logistics park to the southeastern Europeannation, is a self-made billionaire.
He not only left Albania for Austria in 1991 while Communism fell but was additionally housed withinside the Traiskirchern refugee camp for a while.
He worked as a translator before staring Albatrade in 1993, an electronic appliances trading organisation sellingtelevisions and video recorders via a sequence of stores withinside the Albanian capital Tirana.