Plato Malozemoff

Plato Malozemoff (born Platon Alexandovich Malozyomov, Russian: Платон Александрович Малозёмов; 1909–1997) was a Russian-American engineer, manager, and businessman.

Malozemoff was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on August 28, 1909, and immigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area as a child.

[3][4] Unable to secure an engineering position after earning his master's degree, Malozemoff held jobs provided by the Works Progress Administration.

In 1945, Malozemoff took an entry-level engineering position with the Newmont Corporation in Colorado.

He expanded it into a $2.3 billion firm via acquisitions and international expansion by the time he left in 1986.