Gregori Davidzon American businessman, president of 'Davidzon Radio' Country: USA

Biography of Gregory Davidson

Gregory Davidson is an American businessman and the president of 'Davidzon Radio'. He emigrated to the United States in 1990 and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Davidson was born in 1959 in the former Soviet Union. His father was a geologist who led geological expeditions across the country, and his mother was a chemical engineer involved in scientific research. He has a younger sister, with a three-year age difference.

Davidson excelled in his studies and graduated from school with a gold medal. He then went on to obtain a technical degree with honors. He dedicated a significant amount of time to self-education and currently holds degrees in three fields - technical, medical, and linguistic, with the latter two being unfinished.

After completing his education, Davidson conducted research in medicine, specifically focusing on mathematical methods for processing medical images. He collaborated with renowned cardiologist and academician Evgeniy Ivanovich Chazov, as well as the Minister of Health of the USSR, Boris Vasilyevich Petrovsky, and the director of the Oncology Center, Nikolay Nikolaevich Blokhin.

In 1990, Davidson moved to the United States. Initially, he worked on installing television and radio antennas on rooftops for about a year. He then learned that Baruch College, one of the colleges of the City University of New York, was looking for an assistant, even though he did not yet speak English fluently. Armed with stacks of his publications, Davidson convinced his potential supervisor, Ida Lo, an individual of Colombian descent, to hire him. Within a few months, he started speaking English with a Colombian accent, influenced by Ida Lo, which likely determined his path in the United States.

Thanks to his work at Baruch College, where there were no Russian-speaking staff members at the time, Davidson, who had a weak command of English, began speaking fluently as he was primarily immersed in an American environment. He maintains warm relationships with his former colleagues with whom he worked for eight years.

Two years before leaving the college, Davidson ventured into entrepreneurship. In 1996, during the Olympic Games in Atlanta, he and his partner engaged in selling travel packages to the Olympics in Russia. Davidson's task was to provide these packages with telephone cards, despite having no prior knowledge of what a telephone card was. However, he succeeded, and cards with names like 'Call to Russia' or 'Call to Ukraine' found buyers. This endeavor eventually grew into his business, the telecommunications company 'CALL-O-CALL, Inc.', specializing in international communication.

Currently, Davidson is the head of a media holding company that includes a radio station, newspaper, web design studio, and ticketing services. 'Davidzon Radio', which has been in existence for five years, is one of the largest Russian-language radio stations in America. Davidson has two children: his son Vladislav, who studies political science, and his daughter Natasha, who attends a conservatory and aspires to be an opera singer.