• Led search for Asian investment partners and successfully signed agreements of intent with three Chinese developers to jointly realize residential development projects• Managed structuring of RE partnerships involving leading law and real estate consultants• Negotiated with a number of local private equity funds to sell company’s important equity stake and raise capital for new projects

• Led business development for Capital Markets Group with focus on IPO services• Helped sustain and improve PwC’s #1 position in Russian IPO advisory segment• Won a number of engagement contracts with country’s top tier private groups• Increased prospective clientele pipeline several times• Originated and developed new service products that helped “open doors” to clients otherwise closed to new business• Assisted PwC regional offices to grow client base

• Directed efforts to realize new investments, M&A transactions, raising capital for for ongoing projects, disposition of completed real estate assets• Managed structuring and legal work for potential partnerships and acquisition transactions• Obtained acquisition offer for completed office center at record price level• Received interest to invest into AFI’s projects from important investors out of Europe, Singapore and South Korea

• Led work to find and realize new opportunities in real estate segment• Originated and arranged project to develop sizable real estate complex in city of Volgograd; engaged Deutsche Bank to act as majority equity partner and EBRD to provide debt financing• Co-managed work to set up company’s own real estate investment fund

• Set up and led new venture to realize large-scale affordable house building project• Obtained interest from private equity fund to invest into the venture• Developed business plan, put together management team, selected construction technology, took company off ground

• Managed company’s financial, legal, HR and administrative functions• Arranged debt finance for number of new investments into retail real estate• Successfully implemented several acquisition transactions to buy land, unfinished projects, etc.

• Led financial management of country’s largest network bank with 58 regional branches• Optimized costs through cutting overheads by more than 10%• Improved bank’s S&P credit rating• Transferred bank to international accounting standards (IAS)• Implemented management reporting system