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May 21, 2010
Russian diplomat's daughter gets top Nets post
Billionaire owner of the NBA team hires Stanford grad and former Google staffer to help manage team and oversee development of the Nets' new Brooklyn arena.
AP via Crain's NY Business
The daughter of a Russian diplomat was hired Thursday as president of the company that will oversee the New Jersey Nets.
Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim Group announced that Irina Pavlova will be the team owner's representative in the New York area.
Ms. Pavlova has extensive experience in business and finance. She earned an MBA from Stanford, worked as a financial analyst with Prudential Investment Corp. and became Russia's first employee for Google. She lived in Moscow and Washington as a child.
...Ms. Pavlova will coordinate the development project in Brooklyn that is to become the Nets' new home. The long-delayed arena is expected to open in 2012.
NoLandGrab: Ms. Pavlova, who's no doubt a smart, accomplished and talented executive, appears to possess other attributes important to Prokhorov.
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The Russian billionaire's Onexim Group announced yesterday that Irina Pavlova would be his local representative, opening an office in New York and working with the team's front office "to ensure they have everything they need to build a championship team."
Prokhorov plans to keep living in Moscow, so Pavlova will work on his behalf with developer Bruce Ratner on the Barclays Center in Prospect Heights and potentially on the rest of the Atlantic Yards project.
Posted by eric at May 21, 2010 10:49 AM