Ziyad Manasir

Ziyad Manasir (زياد المناصير; born 12 December 1965, Amman, Jordan) is a Jordanian-born Russian entrepreneur and businessman. He is the founder of Stroygazconsulting, a construction company based in Russia. He also is the founder of Manaseer Group.

Biography
Manasir was born on 12 December 1965 in Amman. He attended the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University. When he was a student, he began purchasing and selling computers and vehicles. Soon after, he moved on to trading yellow phosphorus, wood, and oil products. In 1994, he bought a construction firm in Tyumen to construct houses for Gazprom workers. In 1996, he founded Stroygazconsulting (SGK) (Стройгазконсалтинг (СГК)) which develops oil and gas condensate fields, constructs and overhauls pipelines and roads and is one of the largest contractors of LUKOIL, Transneft, the Federal Road Agency of the Ministry of Transport in Russia and the Alexei Miller associated firm Gazprom and its subsidiaries. Beginning in at least 2008, Ziyad Manasir through his firm Stroygazconsulting and its contract to construct the Moscow to Minsk toll road, which is also known as Belarus or M1 in Russia, is closely linked to Dmitry Lebedev, Yuri Milner, Nikolai Shamalov, Yuri Kovalchuk and the Bank Rossiya which is closely associated with Vladimir Putin and his inner circle especially Konstantin Nikolaev, Arkady Rotenberg, Igor Rotenberg, the Rotenberg's representative Georgy Koryashkin (Георгий Коряшкин), Mostotrest, N-Trans, Igor Levitin, Gennady Timchenko, Alexander Grigoryev through his daughter Olga Grigoryeva and others. In 2014, Manasir sold 74.1% of SGK shares to Ruslan Baysarov.

He stated that he has many more friends in Russia than in Jordan.

Personal
His wife is Victoria Manasir and they have five children: Diana Manasir, Helen Manasir, Alex Manasir, Roman Manasir, Dana Manasir. He resides in Sardinia, Italy.