Chaim "Poju" Zabludowicz (born 6 April 1953) is a Finnish-British-Israeli billionaire businessman, art collector and philanthropist.
[7] Zabludowicz and his family reside mainly on The Bishops Avenue in Hampstead, a street in London referred to as Billionaire's Row, and have homes in Caesarea, Tel Aviv, and Sarvisalo, a small island in Finland.
[17] The Sunday Times Rich List 2021 of the wealthiest people in the United Kingdom ranked Poju and Anita Zabludowicz 111th with a personal net worth of £1,500 million.
He has been the chairman of the advisory board of Synova Capital[26][27] from 2007 to 2014, a private equity fund specialising in investments in UK growth companies, and Chairman of Tamares Telecom[25] since 2011, a privately held service provider that operates and markets communications services based on a new internationally deployed fibre-optic network.
Zabludowicz was a director of Mustavaaran Kaivos,[28] a company that owns the mineral rights to the Mustavaara vanadium/iron/titanium deposit in northeastern Finland, and has been a director and member of the Human Capital Committee of Outotec[29] from March 2012 until March 2017, a company that provides technologies and services for the metal and mineral processing industries.
[31] In June 2016, it was announced that ARTA, a fine art shipping startup based in New York, has raised $1 million in capital from a group of institutional and strategic investors, among them Poju and Anita Zabludowicz.
[37] According to Electoral Commission records, the Tamares Group provided £15,000 for Cameron's leadership campaign in 2005 and has donated £55,000 to Conservative funds in 2006 and 2007,[38] and £131,805 in 2010.
[46][47][48] They exhibit their private art collection at three different locations, one of them being 176, a gallery in a former 19th-century Methodist chapel in Chalk Farm, north London.
The programme at the New York City venue consists of changing exhibitions and other events while the lobby is publicly open during daytime.
[52] Across three locations on Sarvisalo, an island in Loviisa, Finland, the Zabludowicz Collection has initiated an international residency programme for invited artists.
"As the public-relations front end for historically one of the largest suppliers of arms to the Israeli state and Chairman of the UK based Pro-Israeli Lobby group Bicom," the statement reads, "the Zabludowicz Foundation represents a direct link between the opportunities for careers in art for young people here in London and the current bombing and ongoing genocidal oppression of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
[68] In response, Anita and Poju Zabludowicz released a statement acknowledging "the innocent lives lost on both sides" but failed to respond to the accusations, or commit to adjusting for them.