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Curriculum vitae
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Experience
08.2025 — now
Product owner & Head of R&D
Own the product line end to end — market research, custdev, solution architecture. Designed and shipped the company's flagship products: a public-company analysis system, counterparty due diligence with AML screening, and World Economy Graph. The products underpinned a $100k seed round and the launch to the first 1,000 users.
- Product
- LLM agents
- Fintech
11.2023 — 07.2025
Investment analyst
Prepared 30+ investment documents — teasers and information memoranda — for sell-side M&A and LBO deals. Built and maintained 10+ financial models from scratch, mostly industrial manufacturing and real estate, including transactions combining LBO, equity financing and greenfield investment in a single structure.
- Sell-side M&A
- LBO
- Financial modelling
05.2023 — 11.2023
Investment analyst
Investment appraisal and business plans for two industrial lighting projects — manufacturing facilities in Bahrain and Russia. Each secured roughly $50M in funding.
- Project finance
- Business planning
08.2022 — 05.2023
M&A analyst
Investment materials and valuation models for sell-side cash-only M&A: 5+ financial models and 10+ teasers and memoranda across insurance, fintech, agriculture and HoReCa. Took part at various stages in the Pampadu, EvroPac, UIC and Smart Logistics deals.
- Valuation
- Insurance
- Fintech
02.2022 — 08.2022
Business analyst / in-house consultant
Audited internal operations — HR, financial planning, procurement — identified the key inefficiencies and presented the findings and remediation plan to the CEO and senior management.
10.2021 — 02.2022
Investment analyst (project)
Element Technologies, JSFC Sistema Group
Prepared the investor document set for a $120M semiconductor project — business plan, market feasibility assessment, financial model and teaser — and owned the model and financial planning. The project received initial credit committee approval before being halted by geopolitical events.
- Semiconductors
- Project finance
06.2021 — 10.2021
Junior investment analyst, deal advisory
Built 2 project finance models from scratch and reviewed 5+ others; wrote the market research and financing sections of an agricultural business plan; supported due diligence, in particular receivables analysis.
06.2019 — 08.2019
Intern, structured products
Analysed capital-protected, digital and volatility-linked notes; replicated international market practice and built pricing models in Excel and Python. Proposed structured bond ideas to senior management.
Education
2021 — 2024
MSc, Banking and Finance
Higher School of Economics
Thesis: Sovereign Wealth Fund Asset Structure — A Factor Analysis.
2017 — 2021
BSc, Banking and Finance
London School of Economics
Graduated with honours and commendation for exceptional academic achievement.
2017 — 2021
BSc, Economics
HSE, International College of Economics and Finance
Thesis: Combining Volatility and Stock Market Direction Forecasts — Macroeconomic Variables as Key Indicators.
Skills
Finance
Deals and valuation
- Financial modelling (LBO, DCF, project finance)
- Valuation
- M&A execution
- Investment appraisal
- Business planning
- Market research
- Structured products
- Due diligence
Technical
Building and shipping
- Python
- LLM agents and tool-calling
- Knowledge graphs
- Data pipelines and API integration
- Linux
- Git
- Excel (advanced)
Languages
Working languages
- Russian — native
- English — fluent