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Belgrade, Serbia

Lines of business for different types of clientele:♦ CORPORATES: Internal Innovations & "Regulatory Sandboxes"; establishment of Corporate Venture Funds (CVC) & Corporate Accelerators; M&A opportunities; Pipeline of technologies via startups, teams, IPs & know-how.♦ STARTUPS: scaling validated business models to premium markets with soft landing & localization, (incl. search for local Investors, R&D partners, infrastructural support, first customers & partners), Product/Market-Fit Calibration.♦ R&D TEAMS: search for relevant business partner (startup, corporation) for developed technology/IP utilization / commercialization; establishment of own internal technology transfer office & staff training.♦ INVESTORS (VC & the rest): pre-investment due diligence (real one – not for CYA objectives); BoD / Investing Committee participation; routine projects’ portfolio monitoring, tracking & mentoring; graceful & beneficial liquidation of failed projects; search for Co-Investors in new geographies, establishment of Seed-stage VC/Accelerator & staff training.♦ ECOSYSTEMS: Worldwide Roadshow with excellent communication of your value proposition; Ads preparation (unique, tailored, non-trivial, multi-language); review of Marketing/PR program of your subcontractors; events participation & organization.

Berlin Area, Germany

♦ Supporting a mature IT team, who re-started our AI-driven marketplace in EU. At best times in Moscow we used to have 3m MAU, 45m models in total with 1.5m updates daily, 800 paying Eshops and could smoothly sustain 20m PV daily (all cost-efficient with zero investments burnt ever). Now we operate in Germany at preisealle.de at the next level of technological & marketing superiority. ♦ Fund-raising from Seed-stage VC / business Angels from DACH / EU countries with clear interest / experience / mandate for e-commerce related technologies, especially for AdTech.♦ Coordinating a cooperation of multinational team of in-house Engineering Co. and subcontracted R&D professionals for development of new generation of predictive analytics for customers’ behavior. We hope to be the first to create multi-factor regression model based on a system of stochastic differential equations in partial derivatives fueled by non-trivially collected heterogeneous users’ data with such level of commercial feasibility, that will totally reshape existing purchasing habits. (For laymen: we apply narrow AI to E-Commerce).♦ Growing customers’ base of paying Eshops, helping them survive in the unfair competition with famous global non-German e-commerce behemoth.

Moscow, Russia

♦ Seed stage venture fund with check brackets of $50k - $500k at the valuation of $500k - $2.000k (2%-20%). Сo-investments with your local partners are very welcome.♦ Industry: P2P (peer-to-peer, C2C, B2C2C) business models, which support discovery of new people and their cooperation on whatever topic: ♠ DATING: (casual, marriage, business, event, travel-related), networking, people matching; ♠ SHARING economy: car-pooling, collective purchases, service- & knowledge-sharing, crowdsourcing, P2P rent & subscriptions; ♠ COMMUNICATION platforms: messengers, social networks, collaborative tools or other non-trivial/MeshUp solutions with extensive innovations;♦ Deal structuring: SSA, SPA, SHA & Reserved matters conditions, British law environment, monthly Excel model update, immediate bridge financing upon Term-Sheet signing.♦ Quick decision making: 5 - 9 weeks from application till the bridge-financing.♦ Within 3 month after bridge-financing it’s OK for us, if you continue working for your current employer.♦ We support founders with their focus on marketing, analytics, set-up of processes, business model development, by subcontracting back office routine to proven specialists.♦ The purpose of our investment check is a validation of key business hypotheses at your location and demonstration of a positive unit-economy, e.g. eCPA (= CPA/Virality) < LTV (=mARPU * LTm). Thereafter we facilitate getting a new round A investment in the amount of $1m+ to finance your international expansion.♦ We support scaling your model to premium markets of EU (Berlin), USA (New York) and Asia (Hong-Kong) on our hard-infrastructure.♦ We like dividend-focused business models, which will reach break-even point. We avoid money-intensive speculations with a purpose to sell a heavy burn-rate business to some unknown corporation.♦ We support and advise, but we never forget that your startup is your business, not our business.

Moscow, Russia

Professional support to Russian High-Tech companies through our Services:• Internal Audit & Risk Management,• Due Diligence at M&A including venture type investments,• Fraud Prevention & Forensic Accounting,• IFRS & US GAAP Reporting & Transformation from RAS,• Strategic & Process Consulting of Internet-focused projects,• Business Intelligence.Extensive in-depth expertise in our Clients' Industries: • Web-based models, • E-Commerce & Retail, • Software Development, • System Integration, • Import & Distribution, • Telecommunication, • Media & Entertainment, • Venture Capital & Private Equity funds investing in above industries.

Tula, Russia

• Established from scratch my own viable business based on modern management & IT technologies and daily developed it with a long-run perspective to get a scalable model.• Constructed a website based on CMS (Content Management Systems)’ and Web-development studios’ tenders, Technical Task preparation, WIP monitoring, focus-group testing and final acceptance;• Marketed & promoted a website & the brand via Context ads, Banners ads, Ads materials preparation, off-line non-standard communication channels, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tools, internal optimization & regional traffic management, as well as PR activities in Social Networks with geo-targeting.• Established efficient Logistic function, including search & tender for major wholesale suppliers, raising own Currier service, assorting & pricing management, Valued-added services from selected sub-contractors.• Carried out HR function, including development of Functions-to-Position matrix, recruiting, motivating, couching and monitoring regional staff.• Reserved the Financial function fully to myself, including financial accounting (based on the simplified mode “упрощенка») performed in 1C software, taxation, managerial accounting, successful fund-raising, budgeting, treasury & cash-flow management.

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Established from scratch an effective and cost-efficient Internal Audit function according to the best practice of IIA standards, tuned to the local environment;• Reviewed existing Internal Controls in all key business cycles, reported detected weaknesses in Controls’ design & operation basing on COSO standards to Audit Committee of Board of Directors and developed recommendations for improvement to Management;• Performed forensic engagements and developed Whistle-blowing practice;• Operated as Project-Manager M&A activities for Financial & Tax Due Diligence, Business Appraisal, negotiated sophisticated areas of SPA, SHA, Reserved Matters, Deeds of Guarantees, etc.• Participated in Corporate Governance process involving active informational, analytical and logistics support of Board of Directors (Audit Committee) members in their decision-making and subsequent monitoring of their decision execution.

Moscow, Russia

Audit Department (Internet, Software Development, Business Integration Industires)• Managed annual Audit engagements through all stages from customers’ orders processing, through planning and field testing to working papers review, reporting and project finalization;• Compiled full Annual Reports with Notes, prepared Consolidated financials and transformed RAS financials into US GAAP and IFRS financials;• Participated in successful IPO at AIM of London SE of our key customer;• Audit Clientele included multi-subsidiary entities including those listed on AIM of London SE, operated in industries Manufacturing, Trading, Telecom, Media, IT-integrators, Software-developers,​ who prepared their financials according to US GAAP, IFRS and RAS.• Reviewed Internal Controls as part of Planning and Substantive testing stages of Audit engagements and developed extended and value-adding Management Letters.

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Supervised in field Annual audit engagements, which included overall planning, supervision and management of all financials areas audits for teams up to 7 people;• Compiled full Annual Reports, prepared Consolidated financials and transformed RAS financials into US GAAP and IFRS financials.• Audit Clientele included multi-subsidiary entities including those listed on NYSE, operated in industries Manufacturing, Trading, Telecom and Media, who prepared their financials according to US GAAP, IFRS and RAS.• Reviewed Internal Controls in the Annual engagement to report subject to Sarbanes - Oxley Act requirements for the clients listed on NYSE;

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Audited of all areas of the financial statements prepared in accordance with US GAAP, German Commercial Code and IFRS by manufacturing and trading clients, including those listed on the NYSE.• Tested design and operation of Internal Controls in Business Processes as part of Planning & Substantive testing stages of Audit funnel: risk-oriented vs. accounts-oriented approuch.

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Transformed financial reports from RAS into IFRS and US GAAP.• Audited finance reports according to Russian and ISA Standards.• Audited loans of the World Bank to the non-for-profit organizations.

Cpa, Accounting, 86/100

Activities and Societies: * Auditing * Reporting * Taxation * Business Law

Internship, Accounting And Finance, 3.5/4.0

Master'S Degree, Accounting And Finance, 4.7/5.0