Professional Record
Managing Principal & Chief Investment Officer
Critical Consortium
2026 - present
Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Tbilisi, Georgia
Serving as Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer of Critical Consortium, a sponsor-led co-investment platform focused on critical resource discovery and subsurface technologies. Responsible for investment strategy, origination, underwriting, transaction structuring, capital allocation, co-investment, portfolio oversight, and value realization across transaction-specific private-market opportunities.
Chairman
M2ALTERNATIVES
2026 - present
Road Town, British Virgin Islands | Tbilisi, Georgia
Serving as Chairman of M2ALTERNATIVES, a discretionary investment manager for transaction-specific SPVs, co-investment vehicles, and private funds across metals and mining. Oversee investment governance, risk management, capital allocation, portfolio monitoring, restructuring, and realization across the firm’s managed vehicles.
Managing Director
M2QUANT
2022 - present
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Serving as Managing Director of M2QUANT, a scientific research and technology company developing quantamental investment strategies across listed metals and mining equities and private-market resource assets. Responsible for investment research, quantitative and algorithmic strategy development, probabilistic modeling, financial engineering, and the application of these methods to investment selection, portfolio construction, transaction structuring, and capital allocation.
Chief Investment Officer
Viktoriia Holdings
2022 - present
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Serving as Chief Investment Officer of Viktoriia Holdings, a private family office and holding company. Responsible for capital allocation, investment strategy, and portfolio oversight under a long-term mandate focused on diversification, capital preservation, and intergenerational wealth compounding.
Investment Committee Member
Moskapital
2018 - 2022
Moscow, Russia
Served as an Investment Committee member at Moskapital, a boutique alternative investment firm focused on precious metals and critical minerals. Evaluated investment opportunities, transaction structures, capital allocation, and risk across resource-sector investments.
Advisor to the Non-executive Chairman
Goldman Sachs
2016 - 2018
Lisbon, Portugal
Advisor on geopolitical and security risk in relation to resource extraction markets, strategic capital allocation, and institutional expansion to José Manuel Barroso, Non-executive Chairman, Goldman Sachs International.
C-Suite Advisor
BlackRock
2014 - 2016
New York, United States
Advised a C-suite executive on geopolitical and security risk, transaction exposure, capital allocation, and institutional positioning across resource extraction markets. Executive name withheld under NDA.
Advisor to the President
Goldman Sachs
2012 - 2014
New York, United States
Advisor on geopolitical and security risk in relation to resource extraction markets, strategic capital allocation, and institutional expansion to Gary D. Cohn, President and Chief Operating Officer, The Goldman Sachs Group.
Founder & Managing Partner
VANSKYE & Cie.
2003 - 2012
Geneva, Switzerland
Founder and Managing Partner of VANSKYE & CIE., a geopolitical strategy advisory focused on natural resources, structured finance, and capital allocation across frontier and complex markets. Advised resource companies, financial institutions, strategic investors, and capital providers on political and security risk, sovereign policy, market entry, transaction diligence, partnership structuring, and institutional positioning across mining,
Education
Doctor of Business Administration - DBA, Finance
University of Southampton
2007 - 2011
Southampton, United Kingdom
Master of Business Administration - MBA
University of Southampton
2004 - 2006
Southampton. United Kingdom
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA
University of Hamburg
1999 - 2003
Hamburg, Germany