title: David Traktovenko
text: # David Traktovenko
  
  David Isaakovich Traktovenko (Russian: Давид Исаакович Трактовенко) is a Russian businessman.
  
  ## Business
  
  In 1978 Traktovenko graduated from Voznesensky Financial School with a degree in credit and finance. As a doctor of economics, he worked as an economist and then as a manager of State Bank department. In 1988, he joined the Leningrad office of the USSR Promstroybank (PSB). He soon became commercial director of Promstroybank and later a board member. In 1995, he was appointed board member of Vyborg-Bank and in 1998 was also a board member of St. Petersburg bank. Traktovenko chaired the board of directors of International Bank of St. Petersburg. In 2011 his wealth was estimated at $550 million.
  
  ## Football
  
  From 2003 to 2005 Traktovenko was chairman of the board of directors of FC Zenit of Saint Petersburg. Traktovenko took over the ownership of A-League club Sydney FC in March 2009. Traktovenko leave the ownership of Sydney FC to his son in-law Scott Barlow take over the A league club.
  
  