David Mikhaylovich Yakobashvili[3] ( დავით მიხეილის ძე იაკობაშვილი, sometimes spelled Iakobaсhvili[4]) is one of the founders of the largest Russian companies – JSC Wimm-Bill-Dann – the manufacturer of dairy products, juices and beverages. In 2001 - 2010 he held the position of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of this company. In 2010 David Yakobashvili together with shareholders sold the biggest Russian food producer Wimm-Bill-Dann (WBD) to US PepsiCo.[5] For his 10.5% stake in the company, Yakobashvili received more than US$600m.[6]
Yakobashvili was the vice-president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (the president is Alexander Shokhin),[7]