Mikhelson vs Kroenke

NOVATEK and Kroenke Sports & Entertainment.

The differences

Forbes puts Leonid Mikhelson about $0.7B ahead of Stan Kroenke.Forbes figures from 9 Oct 2026 and 9 Oct 2026.
Both started the company their money comes from.
Stan Kroenke is about 8 years older than Leonid Mikhelson.
Leonid Mikhelson is from Russia; Stan Kroenke is from United States.

Put someone else on either side

Mikhelson

Kroenke

Net worth, Forbes: $28.3BForbes, 9 Oct 2026; $27.6BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
Net worth, Bloomberg: $23.2BBloomberg, 17 Oct 2026; $29.1BBloomberg, date not stated
Forbes rank: No. 81Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026; No. 85Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
Billionaire since: Not stated; 2006Earliest Forbes list in the cited sources: No. 153 on the 2006 Forbes 400 with $2.1 billion; an earlier listing isn't ruled out

How it started: Founded itForbes calls him Novatek's founder (it began in 1994 as Novafininvest); he bought control of SIBUR from Gazprombank in 2010-2011. Forbes' 2006 list called his fortune 'inherited and growing', noting his father ran the USSR's largest pipeline-construction trust; Founded itFounded The Kroenke Group (real estate) and Kroenke Sports & Entertainment in 1999; Forbes says he built his own fortune and tracks his wife Ann Walton Kroenke's separately
Main source: Novatek and SIBUR stockBloomberg: 'The majority of Leonid Mikhelson's fortune is derived from a 25% stake in Novatek'; Commercial real estate and sports teams and venuesForbes: some 60 million square feet of real estate, much of it shopping plazas near Walmart stores
Companies: NOVATEK, SIBURNOVATEK: Chairman of the management board and board member; SIBUR: Chairman of the board of directors; Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, Los Angeles Rams, ArsenalKroenke Sports & Entertainment: Founder, owner and chairman; Los Angeles Rams: Owner; Arsenal: Director
Biggest stake: SIBUR30.6% owned; Los Angeles Rams100% owned

Born: 11 Aug 1955Kaspiysk, Dagestan, Russia (then the Soviet Union); 29 Jul 1947
Country: RussiaLives in Moscow, Russia; United StatesLives in Electra, Texas, United States
Education: Not statedCivil construction engineering, Kuibyshev Institute of Civil Engineering (1977); Graduate degreeMBA, University of Missouri (1973); bachelor's degree, University of Missouri
Parents: His father Viktor Mikhelson headed the Kuibyshevtruboprovodstroy trust, which Forbes called the largest pipeline-construction trust in the USSR; Father Alvin bought a lumberyard with a small loan and expanded it into a hardware store in Mora, Missouri; mother Evelyn was a former schoolteacher

Giving Pledge: Not a signer; Not a signer
Foundation: V-A-C Foundation (Victoria - the Art of Being Contemporary)Founded by him in Moscow in 2009, named after his daughter; Kroenke Family FoundationHe also created Kroenke Sports Charities through KSE
Lifetime giving: Not stated; Not stated

Role now: Runs the companyChairman of NOVATEK's management board; chairman of SIBUR's board; Chair of the boardOwner and chairman of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment and chairman of The Kroenke Group
Successor: Not stated; Not stated
Public office: None found; None found
Legal record: None found; None found