Experienced business strategist and financier with a strong track record in corporate leadership and investment management and stellar track record in corporate turnarounds, cross-border M&A and mid-size IPO deals. An international entrepreneurial executive with MBA from Duke University Sergey was at the cutting edge of financial innovation throughout his career, from launching the first ever Russian stock index in 1992 (MT-Index, in partnership with Moscow Times), to publishing academic-quality textbook on art valuation (Skate's Art Investment Handbook by McGraw & Hill in 2009) to pioneering use of bitcoin and blockchain tech in art trade through Paddle8 in 2018 before selling Paddle8 to Facebank (FuboTV). Sergey has retired in 2020 but continues to be engaged with a small number of non-exec board roles and private investments in the USA, Hong Kong and Western Europe since then.
Listed skills include Strategy, Mergers And Acquisitions, Investment Banking, Emerging Markets, and 41 others.