In 2011, I launched my own company specializing in corporate finance consulting, knowing that I could draw on a decade of experience working in major international banks, developing projects, and engaging in B2B sales. These experiences helped me to build a successful business with clients across CIS and European countries, which continued to thrive until the end of 2015. Unfortunately, geopolitical events led to the cooling of relations between the EU and Russia, coupled with significant reductions and even the end of financing for businesses from CIS countries by most European and major international banks, resulting in the closure of my company.
In 2016 I returned to employment, this time as a senior financial manager (previously, as a consultant, I had worked more as an advisory CFO or type of financial advisor to the CEO or owner). For four years, besides supervising legal and some other departments in the position of CFO, I led the financial department and oversaw operations and development in a crowdsourcing logistics project spanning more than ten countries. Together with its CEO, we visited the largest and fastest-growing metropolises in the world and settled companies from Turkey to Brazil, launching operations within just a few weeks upon each visit. Subsequently, in early 2020, I transitioned to work for a leading financial marketplace. Alongside setting up financial management from scratch and formalizing and automating financial and operational processes, my primary goal was to prepare the company for an IPO on NASDAQ. Once again, a «black swan» occurred – while geopolitical events thwarted our main objective, the experience presented valuable challenges and the opportunity to work with an exceptional team I managed to assemble in the company, particularly in the finance department.
In mid-2022 I returned to the international business arena, currently leading the finance and legal departments, and overseeing operations in an international team of highly talented software developers and mathematicians engaged in algorithmic trading. We confront new ambitious challenges amidst the changing economic landscape.
Wrapping up my introduction, I’d like to highlight my enduring passion for learning, conducting analytical work, dealing with vast and fragmented datasets, and optimizing processes while assisting colleagues, and imparting knowledge to employees. In addition to corporate careers in banking and finance, I completed my dissertation in economics (equivalent to a Ph.D.) at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2015.