Functional Skills

Business Development
Financial Management
Market Research

Software Skills

MySQL
MATLAB
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
HTML
PHP
VBA

Sector Experience

Consumer Goods
Financial Services
Healthcare
Media & Entertainment
Technology

Notable Clients

Bertelsmann
Deutsche Bank
Informa
The European Commission
Vodafone

Experience

AlphaGamma Start-Up
Chief Executive Officer & Editor-in-Chief
8/2016 - Present
• Generated 6 figures in sales revenue;
• Manage 500+ contributing writers and 13 team members;
• Started AGC Wealth Management as part of the media company with the intention to raise 150M EUR in funding for the first round;
• Got named the Media Innovator of 2020, the Best Marketing Agency of 2021 and the Best Social Enterprise of 2022;
• Got selected into the YTILI fellowship program, organized by German Marshall Fund and the U.S. State Department;
• Got into Top 11 (out of 5,000+ startups) at Collective Global Accelerator in London, UK;
• Got into Top 15 (out of 1,500+ startups) for the startup and leadership bootcamp at Hansen Leadership Institute at University of San Diego, CA, USA;
• Selected into the finals of the European Youth Awards competition in Graz, Austria and got listed in "Top 20 Most Promising Dutch Startups" according to Capgemini Consulting.

Privus Wealth Management B.V. Finance
Head of Investments
4/2014 - 8/2016
• Designed a unique trading algorithm that makes a net 1% per trade in a highly volatile trading environment;
• Developed the official website;
• Raised 1.5M EUR in funding;
• Privus Wealth Management has been shortlisted to Top-10 FinTech 2014 in London (out of 250+ companies).

Creel B.V. Corporate Strategy & Development
Executive Vice President
4/2014 - 9/2014
• Development of the platform that enables users exchange different virtual currencies globally;
• Member of the Executive board, being in charge of the communications and business development;
• Brought large game developers to use the Creel platform;
• Brought Creel to the Web Summit exhibition;
• Involved into the final rounds of fund-raising for the company;
• Raised 1.5M EUR from the VCs and got interest from the largest bank in the Eurozone.

PwC Netherlands N.V. Management Consulting
Asset Management Consultant
9/2013 - 3/2014
• Developed a compliance cost quantification model for Dutch investment management firms that PwC used for new clients;
• Member of the Asset Management Advisory team.

De Zilveren Rijder B.V. Management Consulting
Vice Chairman of the XVIIth Board
11/2012 - 2/2014
• Developed a long-term investment strategy for the investment fund (the fund continuously outperforms the AEX index, and 2013 it made a return of 10.25%);
• Hired and managed 8 fund managers;
• Designed and executed a new De Zilveren Rjder website;
• Arranged the Investment Day 2013 conference: invited speakers, promoted the event, designed the posters;
• Arranged the Bloomberg Assessment Test on campus in partnership with Bloomberg L.P.

Dukascopy Bank SA Operations
Deputy Head of Research Department
8/2011 - 9/2012
• Developed and released 11 research products for the Swiss bank (apart from improving the previous 6 products, created the following products: Market Research; Commodity Overview; Global Stock Market Review; Exotic Currency Pair Technical Analysis; Economic Research; Dukascopy Aggregate Technical Indicator);
• Managed 15 people in the Dukascopy Research Department;
• The readers base rose to 32,000 of private and institutional traders and investors since I joined the bank;
• Arranged the Dukascopy Challenge 2012 Student Competition which allowed finding talented candidates for expanding research department.

Dukascopy Bank SA Research
Currency Market Analyst
3/2011 - 8/2011
Currencies & Derivatives
• Established the research department at the Swiss bank (managed 5 people);
• Developed the format for 6 daily analytical products: Technical Analysis; Fundamental Analysis; Trade Pattern Ideas; Press Review; Russian Daily Forex News and Expert Commentary;
• Improved the online presence of the Swiss bank (managed Facebook/Twitter accounts of the bank).

Maximus Capital Markets S.A. Finance
Asset Manager Assistant
11/2010 - 3/2011
• Developed 3 investment strategies: "the Gold Strategy", "the Uranium Strategy" and "the Russian Funds Strategy";
• Got acquainted with the brokerage department (worked 1 month as a broker) – accepted calls from the clients and placed their orders within the Maximus trading platform or sent it directly to the company's counter-parties;
• Assisted the Head of Investment Department in the decision-making process by offering the ideas for the prospective investment strategies (e.g., penny-stock strategy).

MegaGadgets BV Marketing
Online marketer
1/2010 - 11/2010
• Developed and implemented the new market entrance strategy for Germany;
• Performed the market research, offering new online marketing ideas (e.g., Yahoo buzz, Article Marketing etc.);
• Improved the German sales by 10%
• Improved the online presence of the company (the number of Facebook followers tripled, Twitter – doubled), which allowed the company to improve web-traffic by 25%.

Gjensidige Baltic, Plc. Finance
Project Manager
7/2009 - 9/2009
• Learned about the company structure and its objectives;
• Got acquainted with the structure and the way how of the Baltic and International insurance markets operate;
• Offered solutions to the managerial problems (e.g., designed a case study for the data entry environment by scanning the insurance proposals and offering hot keys to the typists).