Aviv Nevo
{{Short description|Venture capitalist}}
Aviv "Vivi" Nevo ({{langx|he|אביב נבו}}; born 1965){{cite news |last=Arango |first=Tim |date=2008-07-28 |title=Behind the scenes, a force in the media world |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/27/business/27viviNEW.php |access-date=2008-07-28 |work=International Herald Tribune}} is an Israeli-American venture capitalist. He is a major shareholder in Time WarnerJohnnie L. Roberts [http://www.newsweek.com/id/56499 Crunch Time] Newsweek, August 22, 2005.{{cite news |first=Peter |last=Kwong |title=Zhang Ziyi vs. Confucius |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/18/news/edkwong.php |publisher=International Herald Tribune |date= 2007-07-18 |access-date=2008-07-15 }} and other companies, having built his fortune up from an initial $10 million inheritance.
Biography
Nevo was born in Bucharest in Communist Romania in 1965. As an infant, he moved to Tel Aviv, Israel with his parents. His father, a chemical engineer and his mother, an anesthesiologist, eventually divorced. Nevo is an only child. He is Jewish.{{cite web |title=Chinese Women Western Men Celebrity Couples |url=http://www.lovelovechina.com/celebrities/chinese-women-western-men-celebrity-couples/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902074145/http://www.lovelovechina.com/celebrities/chinese-women-western-men-celebrity-couples/ |archive-date=September 2, 2012 |access-date=September 5, 2012 |publisher=Love Love China}}
Business career
Stan Berk, a former hedge fund manager who hired Nevo in the 1980s after they met at a Los Angeles gym, said Nevo worked for him from 1985 to 1988, and then "just disappeared." After a certain time period, they met again, and "Nevo had befriended billionaires and media titans.{{cite web | last=Waxman | first=Sharon | title=Vivi Nevo Revealed: 'Attention of a Hummingbird on Crack' | website=TheWrap | date=July 21, 2010 | url=https://www.thewrap.com/vivi-nevo-revealed-attention-hummingbird-19443/ | access-date=January 3, 2018}}
According to an anonymous business associate of Nevo, with an inheritance of around $10 million, Nevo set about investing and networking. The New York Times reported that Nevo "opened trading accounts at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, as well as Allen & Co., which eventually won him an invitation to Sun Valley... Through diligence and hard work, the right contacts and a lot of the right trades during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, he turned his inheritance into a sizable fortune ... Later on, Nevo began sprinkling money around in private companies, many of which were new media ventures."{{cite web | last=Arango | first=Tim | title=Behind the scenes, a force in the media world | website=The New York Times | date=July 27, 2008 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/technology/27iht-27viviNEW.14814862.html | access-date=January 3, 2018}}
His venture capital firm, NV Investments, invests in technology companies worldwide, and is said to have been an early backer of The Weinstein Company,{{cite news|publisher=Details |url=http://men.style.com/details/features/full?id=content_4990&pageNum=8 |year=2008 |title=The power 50 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080608145209/http://men.style.com/details/features/full?id=content_4990&pageNum=8 |archive-date=2008-06-08 }} and the largest individual shareholder in Time Warner.
Personal life and reputation
Nevo is said to be averse to publicity: He has consistently refused requests for interviews, and was referred to by friends as an "international man of mystery."
In July 2008, Nevo said that long-running rumors of an engagement to Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi were true.[https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/crouching-tiger-actor-zhang-ziyi-says-yes-to-boyfriends-drone-proposal-20150210-13ar1k.html 'Crouching Tiger' actor Zhang Ziyi says yes to boyfriend's drone proposal] Rachel Clun, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 February 2015 The couple separated in 2010.{{Cite news |last=Ward |first=Vicky |title=Veni, Vidi, Vivi |language=en |work=The Hive |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/10/vivi-nevo-201110 |access-date=2017-06-19}}