Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev (Russian: Александр Иванович Медведев, Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedev; born 14 August 1955) is the current Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Russian energy company Gazprom and since February 2019 he is the director general and president of the football club Zenit, Saint Petersburg.
Between 1997 and 1998 he was a vice president of the Eastern oil company (Восточная нефтяная компания) in Moscow.
[citation needed] In December 2008, The New York Times reported that at one point Medvedev predicted Gazprom's market value would reach $1 trillion by 2014.
In May, he claimed that his representatives spoke with NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly, who refused to accept Russian ownership in the league.
Daly denied ever being in contact with Medvedev and asserted that the NHL does not discriminate on the basis of nationality among its prospective team owners.