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Extensive Relevant Experience / Past Projects

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Forging very large-scale relationships between major US enterprises and countries of the former Soviet Union

  • Participated in structuring, financing, and executing the first large-scale commercial wind energy project in the Russian federation, in the autonomous republic of Kalmykia. (Total value: Up to $300M)

  • Worked closely with the leading infrastructure companies and the governmental entities in the former Soviet territory to structure financing and secure global strategic partners for large-scale projects such as leasing, financing technologies, energy logistics, seaports, wind and hydro-power, real estate, and others.  (Total value: Up to $2B)

  • Secured important working relationships between the large government companies in Kazakhstan and Georgia and the US private sector; from Astana International Financial Center and with the former Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze and his administration.

  • Advised the space communicative project in the country of Kazakhstan with the entry to the Central Asian market by one of the largest satellite internet providers, OneWeb. (Total value: Over $1B)

  • Secured important working relationships for a number of large U.S. media, infrastructure, and financial corporations in the Central Asian and Caucasus region including, GE, Trump Org, National Geographic, CNN, Billboard Magazine, Philip Morris, P&A, JP Morgan, and others. (Total value: Over $1B)

  • Structured and funded entry of some of the biggest superstar celebrity brands into the former Soviet market including “JLo” by Jennifer Lopez, “House Of Derion”, by Beyoncé Knowles, and “L.A.M.B.” by Gwen Stefani (Total value: Over $30M)

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Founding and leading paradigm-shifting technological advancements that do good for humankind

  • Led and helped restructure, fund, oversee, and build the world’s largest technology-first digital accessibility company with the goal of eradicating every barrier to digital access, an issue that impacts 15% of the global population, including individuals with disabilities.

  • Founded, built, and sold financial technology companies and IP to multinational corporations in order to help the world’s largest companies with investment decision-making, wealth management, and financial reporting.  E.g. Sold to Bank of America/Merrill Lynch the first and largest technology company to help companies meet the reporting requirements of SFAS123R, arguably the Financial Accounting Standard Board’s (FASB’s) most significant accounting standard change of the past 30 years.

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Impacting financial and economic policy and supporting UN sustainability and humanitarian initiatives

  • Participated in and co-sponsored a UN forum on “Impact Investing in Technology and Women’s Equal Access to Investment Capital for Economic Prosperity” in order to bring attention to this global issue in front of a diverse group of global business and government leaders.

  • Partnered with the Foundation for the Support of the UN and IBM to promote the UN’s Global Goals of Sustainable Development (Agenda 2030).

  • Working closely with the Grace Farms Foundation and the United Nations (UN) representatives to fight modern-day slavery around the world, including securing important initiatives between Grace Farms and the Government of Georgia to create universal standards for supply chain transparency.

  • Participated in and sponsored UN-related events and competitions for the effective use of blockchain technology in emerging countries.

  • Advised US Congressional, regulatory bodies and their appointees on several important issues in both the Troubled Asset Reform Program (TARP) and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) which govern the responsibilities of companies following the financial system crisis of 2008.

  • ​Working closely with General Wesley Clark and his bipartisan foundation Renew America Together to foster bipartisanship and prosperity in the United States.

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