Teaching Experience

• Applied Private Investment Management: Private Equity Fund
• Private Equity
• Entrepreneurship through Acquisition
• Private Deal Structures
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Buyout Structures and Deals
• Private Equity and Debt Markets

• Corporate Finance

• Managerial Finance
• Fundamentals of Finance
• Applied Corporate Finance
• Advanced Financial Management Laboratory
• Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management Laboratory

Investment Banking Institute, San Francisco, CA and Dallas, TX

• Financial modeling class: valuation using comparable trading, precedent transactions and discounted cash flows, integrated cash flow models, leveraged buyout (LBO) and merger and acquisition (M&A) models

Education

Ph.D. in Economics (2001) Moscow State University, Russia

• Defended a thesis on Mergers and Acquisitions in Russia and published research articles

M.B.A. (2006) Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada

• Recipient of Canadian Credit Management Foundation Entrance Fellowship

Chartered Financial Analyst (2006)

• Completed 3 levels of CFA program and earned the CFA charter

Bachelor of Science in Business (1997) Oklahoma City University, USA

• Full tuition and board scholarship while on 8 month exchange program