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Poju Zabludowicz

Poju Zabludowicz is a Finnish-born businessman, art collector and philanthropist who heads the Tamares holding company and founded BICOM.

born 1953Heading the Tamares holding companyFounding BICOMArt collectingOwning the Tappara hockey team

Born: 6 April 1953, Helsinki
Occupation: art collector, businessperson, philanthropist
Education: Tel Aviv University
Founded: Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (2002)

Poju Zabludowicz was born in 1953 in Helsinki

Chaim "Poju" Zabludowicz was born in Helsinki in 1953. His father, Shlomo Zabludowicz, was a Holocaust survivor who built a family business around Soltam, an Israeli defense company. He grew up in Tampere, where he went to the city's Swedish-speaking school.

He studied economics and political science at Tel Aviv University. He then worked at BFG Bank in Frankfurt.

In 1978 he became a director of Tamares, the family holding company, and he has headed it since 1990. Tamares invests in companies and real estate, including property in Las Vegas. In 1993 he set up Ivory Gate, a London property firm, and in 2010 he founded Tamares Telecom, which laid an undersea cable from Israel to Cyprus and France.

He founded BICOM, a group in Britain that works on behalf of Israel, and served as its chairman. He also owns the Finnish ice hockey team Tappara. In 2017 he gave testimony to police in one of the investigations of Benjamin Netanyahu, and said he was not a suspect.

He is married to Anita Zabludowicz and has 4 children. The family lives mainly in London and also has homes in Caesarea, Tel Aviv and Finland.