Stefan Quinn Soloviev (born May 21, 1975) is an American businessman who is the Chairman of the Soloviev Group, the parent company of Crossroads Agriculture, the Colorado Pacific Railroad, the Solow Building Corporation, and other business entities. He took over the Solow Building Corporation from his father Sheldon Solow, after his death on November 17, 2020.

Early life

Stefan Soloviev is the son of Mia Fonssagrives-Solow and Sheldon Solow. He uses the Russian spelling of the family name as it was before it was Anglicised on arrival at

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. He grew up in

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, New York, played spring football in 1996 at St. John’s University (New York) and attended the

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, but did not graduate.

Career

Soloviev started working in the family real estate business when he was a teenager, in the parking garages in his father's buildings. He dropped out of the University of Rhode Island in the mid-1990s to focus on trading commodities. Crossroads Agriculture was founded in 1999 by Stefan Soloviev to cultivate, purchase, store and sell cash grains in the Wichita, Kansas area. By the early 2000s the company moved to the western edge of the high plains, successfully producing grains in historically dry farming regions using a combination of drought-tolerant seeds and emerging agricultural technology. Starting in 2004, the company began acquiring grasslands south of Portales, New Mexico, and the ranching side of the operation was born. As of 2021, Soloviev owns and operates farmland and ranchland in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, and New York. In 2018, Soloviev was ranked 33rd overall on '' The Land Report'' list of the 100 largest landowners in the US, with over 400,000 acres, through Crossroads Agriculture, and his holding company KCVN LLC, named after the

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Personal life

Soloviev and his family are

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from his mother's side of the family, which originated in Sweden. Soloviev is divorced and has at least 16 children, 11 from his marriage to his ex-wife Stacey Soloviev. He has at least 5 children from multiple women, who live in the western United States.

References

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