Samir Mane
$1.51B
as of 01/18/26
About Samir Mane
Samir Mane is the founder and president of BALFIN Group, an investment conglomerate based in Tirana, Albania.
BALFIN owns shopping malls and electronics retail and toy stores in the western Balkans, plus a bank and luxury real estate developments in Albania.
Mane fled Albania's communist regime in 1991 and moved to Austria as a refugee; in 1993, he started selling domestic appliances to his native country.
He launched Neptun, a chain of electronics stores, in Albania in 1998 and moved back to Albania in 2005 to open the country's first shopping mall.
BALFIN also owns real estate in the U.S., Canada and Austria as well as logistics parks and a private university in Albania.
Personal stats
Citizenship
AlbaniaSource of wealth
DiversifiedResidence
TiranaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
12/24/67 (age 58)Self-made
self-madeSamir Mane’s fortune is worth
25K
troy ounces of gold
23K
median U.S. household
15K
median U.S. income
0.03%
U.S. credit card volume
0.006%
GDP of the United States
0.004%
United States debt
Net worth history
Annual ranking
Related people
Did you know?
Mane would sleep in trucks on the two-day journey from Vienna to Tirana when he sold appliances in the early 1990s.
Net worth over time
Real-time ranking
Images © Forbes.com. All rights reserved.