● Part of management committee heavily involved in portfolio, client, and strategic business decisions● Manage research team and process, including coordinating daily meetings, discussing new investment ideas and research priorities, company-related news and corporate actions, and macroeconomic developments● Play active investment decision-making role via pitching, evaluating, and analyzing various opportunities and formulating portfolio buy/sell decisions● Fund has outperformed MSCI Frontier, Frontier Emerging, and Emerging market indices by wide margin since November 2007 inception● Experience investing in 60+ different frontier and emerging equity markets globally, having personally conducted 1,000+ company management meetings, calls and in-country site visits

● Monitor portfolio of 30~ equity positions across broad spectrum of industries and market capitalizations in 20~ countries● Perform in-depth sector and company fundamental research through analyzing financial filings, attending industry conferences, building projection models, scrutinizing sell-side research, and regularly speaking with company management teams, competitors and local market analysts and sources● Meet and cultivate long-term relationships with top executives of leading investment universe companies on consistent basis● Create and maintain numerous DCF valuation models to keep track of company intrinsic value estimates in order to evaluate both existing and potential investments, as well as formulate buy/sell discipline

● Developed daily reports for clients and senior salespeople focusing on both relative value opportunities and potential market- moving events in interest rate space● Conducted numerous research projects for wide variety of multi-billion hedge fund clients looking into such things as net treasury issuance, make up of fed purchases, treasury auction data/trends, carry and roll analysis, fund flows, and market positioning● Priced assorted interest rate derivatives for both clients and trading desk; executed swaption, swap, futures, & treasuries trades on a daily basis● Implemented pricing framework which saved desk significant amounts of time and simplified trade execution● Managed junior sales analysts and middle-office personnel in order to ensure a seamless execution, settlement, and confirmation process for clients

Rotated across three fixed-income trading desks – work included pitching investment grade trade idea, evaluating correlation of agency spreads to other fixed income products, exploring implications of issues trading special in repo markets, and analyzing changes to ongoing Fed programs to determine market impact

Identified how PwC could help large Russian companies including a real estate developer, investment manager, seafood processor, and major fast food company ensure compliance with international standards with regards to such things as inventory management, financial reporting, purchasing, and internal controls

Conducted market research of supermarket chains throughout Ukraine for client considering acquisition in the space, helped develop pitch tailored to large European bank looking for local partner, and developed teaser document targeted at strategic investors for private placement of prominent soda-ash producer