CEO Co-founder

Konstantin Shulga

@kashulga Role:

Guides the team in Making Capital Markets Efficient

Bio:

Konstantin has over 13 years of institutional financial markets experience across major asset classes from equities to FX & derivatives.

Having had Business Development roles at major brokerage houses to a Moscow Exchange to becoming a Managing Director, Electronic Trading at Sberbank CIB, the largest Eastern European bank.

Nominated by Forbes 30 under 30 in 2020 and joined Finery Markets as a CEO & Co-founder in 2021.

Product Co-founder

Ilia Drozdov

@ilia-drozdov-cfa Role:

Leads the evolution of Finery Markets technology and ecosystem

Bio:

Ilia Drozdov is responsible for product development and innovative services for digital assets. He started his career in the investment industry in 2008 and worked at the interception of finance & technology.

Ilia is a CFA charter holder and brings deep experience from the FinTech firms specializing in the asset management and trading.

Ilia co-founded Finery Markets in 2019 and continues to lead its evolution

Businness Development

Ivan Jelic

@ivan-jelic Role:

Developing business at the right pace and in the right direction

Bio:

Ivan Jelic is a Business Development professional with 6 years with blockchain technology implementation within Capital Markets and other industries combined with fundamental on-chain analysis.

Last 3 years, Ivan was focused on Digital Assets, with a focus on digital securities starting from issuance to secondary markets.

In addition to that, Ivan has 7 years of experience as Business Development Manager in highly regulated Pharma industry.

Business Development

Egor Morozov

@greggmv Role:

Doing now what clients need next

Bio:

Egor Morozov has over 4 years of marketing and digital sales experience spanning advertising agencies to the #1 bank in the CIS region

In addition to this, Egor is author of research papers on pharmaceuticals and banking, strong believer in social responsibility and supporter of SU2C.

Technical Lead

Anastasia Karpinska

@anastasiakarpinska Role:

Sending our technology to the moon and beyond

Bio:

Anastasia Karpinska has 13 years of experience in designing and building high-performance software solutions on С++ from an idea to market.

Worked in different fields including electrical engineering, cloud computing, IoT, and others. Joined Finery Markets at the end of 2020.

Business Development

Eugen Somov

@evgenysomov1 Role:

Making German market ready for Finest liquidity

Bio:

Eugen Somov is a financial markets professional with more than 20 years of experience in the Industry working for such well known companies as Deutsche Bank, UniCredit and Renaissance Capital.

From institutional Sales & Trading desks, to pre-IPO solutions, over to blockchain and digital assets space, Eugene has also entrepreneurship experience by running his own pre-IPO boutique.

Business Development

Ryan Orton

@ryorton Role:

Bringing FinTech and Payments expertise into the Crypto space

Bio:

Ryan has over 16 years of experience in the traditional financial & payments markets covering the European region.

Having worked for tier one players such as Barclays, J.P Morgan & Visa, Ryan wanted the challenge that Crypto and a start up provide leading him to Finery Markets.

Strategic Parternships

Leo Hmelnitsky

@hmelnitsky Role:

Wall Street executive leading institutional crypto adoption

Bio:

Leo brings 20+ years of experience in capital markets and investment industry. He worked at Goldman Sachs, Moore Capital Mgmt, and most recently at BNY Mellon as the Global Head of Equity Trading.

Leo graduated from NYU Stern School of Business and has completed an executive program at Harvard Business School focusing on digital transformation and innovative strategies.

He joined Finery Markets in the fall of 2021 and is responsible for developing global partnerships.