Alki David Net Worth & Biography
Popular Name: | Alki David |
Real Name: | Alkiviades David |
Birth Date: | May 1968 |
Birth Place: | Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria |
Age: | 54 |
Gender: | Male |
Nationality/Citizenship: | Greek, Nigerian |
Height: | N/A |
Weight: | N/A |
Sexuality: | Straight |
Marital Status: | Married |
Spouse(s): | Emma McAllister (m. 2007–2009) Jennifer Stano (m. 2011) |
Children: | 2 |
Profession: | Businessman, Film Producer, Investor, Entrepreneur |
Years active: | N/A |
Net Worth: | $2 Billion |
Last Updated: | 2022 |
Alki David is a Nigeria-born Greek billionaire heir who happens to be a member of the prominent Greek Leventis family whose holdings include shipping, manufacturing, property and bottling plants. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, and educated at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, England, Alki is an entrepreneur and TV personality. He was the majority stakeholder of Leventis-David Group in 2008. The Leventis-David Group owns Coca-Cola Hellenic bottling plants in twenty-eight countries. His companies include the modeling agency Independent Models, the streaming-video site BattleCam.com, the home-shopping website 9021go.com, and the Internet-based television provider FilmOn. In addition to making stellar performances across business and investment concerns, David has also appeared on television and in feature films where he equally delivered stellar performances. His financial standing enables him to claim a spot on any list of the richest Greeks alive. More details follow below.
Early Life: Childhood, Education
He was born Alkiviades David in May 1968 in Lagos, Nigeria, to a shipping and trading family of Greek-Cypriot origin.
His father was Andrew A. David, who was born and raised in Petra, Cyprus, and went on to get a degree in business at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. In 1957, Andrew joined the family business, the Leventis-David Group in Ghana. He managed the Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Accra, Ghana’s capital.
David received his early education at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire England before attending high school in Le Rosey in Switzerland. He later went to London where he studied film at the Royal College of Art.
Professional Life: Entrepreneurial Career
In 1998, when he had decided to start a profession, Alki David teamed up with another investor and they founded the London modeling agency called Independent Models, whose models included popular model Helena Christensen.
In 2006, he partnered with veteran film producer and director Elliott Kastner to launch 111 Pictures Ltd., a United Kingdom-based independent production and global sales company. In that same year, David launched the online streaming site FilmOn.
He was the majority stakeholder of Leventis-David Group in 2008. The Leventis-David Group owns Coca-Cola Hellenic bottling plants in twenty eight countries. His companies include the modeling agency Independent Models, the streaming-video site BattleCam.com, the home-shopping website 9021go.com, and the Internet-based television provider FilmOn.
David has appeared in several films, including a motion picture, “The Bank Job” (2008), in which he played a bank-vault expert employed by Jason Statham to help with a bank heist.
Personal Life: Relationships, Children, Private Interests
This businessman has been married on three separate occasions and divorced twice. He has two sons, Alex and Andrew with his first wife.
When his first marriage ended, he married his second wife Emma McAllister in 2007 after meeting her in 2004. They separated in 2009.
As of 2011, he is married to Jennifer Stano. She is a former model and swimsuit designer who founded the “Have Faith Swimwear” brand with David in Beverly Hills, California, in 2010.
In May 2019, David made headlines after he was arrested in St. Kitts after cannabis worth over a million dollars was found on his private plane. In 2021 he gave an interview to The Daily Beast after an $80 million lawsuit was slammed on him for sexual battery.
Alki David Net Worth: Salary, Income Sources
As already established in this report, Alki David is one of the wealthiest Greeks walking the face of the earth. He happens to be a member of the prominent Greek Leventis family. After serving in the British Army, he attended the Royal College of Art in London where he studied film, before moving to Los Angeles, California where he lived for eight years and was a minority owner of a film post-production company. Following his return to the United Kingdom in 1998, he co-founded Independent Models to mark the start of the numerous other companies he founded, which have all been enjoying success since their inception.
Alki David’s net worth of $2 billion has been inspired by his inheritance as a member of a wealthy family whose holdings include shipping, manufacturing, and bottling plants, as well as real estate. He was the majority shareholder of Leventis-David Group as of 2008, and his role in the company put him in a position to supervise all the company’s assets in more than 20 countries. His other investments, in addition to the aforementioned Independent Models, include the streaming-video site BattleCam.com, the home-shopping website 9021go.com, and the Internet-based television provider FilmOn. He also owns and operates the online streaming platform FilmOn.TV which he started in 2007. Furthermore, he is the owner of the patented tech company Hologram USA which is best known for the hologram of deceased American rap king Tupac performing at Coachella, as well as countless other resurrection concerts. He maintains a home in London, England, where he resides with his family.