Alexander Abolmasov
Managing Partner, Mezzanine Investments, Investor Relations

Prior to joining NRG Alexander was a Corporate Finance Director of Arbat Capital, investment company with over US$ 700 mln under management. Before that Alexander worked for Zindel Investment Partners as a director responsible for deal origination, execution and portfolio company development. Earlier he worked for an investment banking boutique, where he managed M&A transactions in Oil&Gas, Utilities, Retail, Forestry and other sectors with total deals value over $500m. Also Alexander ran a successful leasing company as an executive director.

Alexander graduated from New (Russian) Economic School (Moscow) with MA in Economics and Novosibirsk State University with BA in Economics and Finance. He also attended Finance Executive Program at London Business School.

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Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/abolmasov

 

 

Alexey Panferov
Managing partner

Alexey started his career in Moscow based Bank Zenit in 1995 (in 2006, Bank Zenit was ranked 16-th among Russian banks in terms of assets). In 7 years he advanced from a junior trader position to Member of the Board and Head of Investment Banking Department. In 2002, Alexey Panferov was hired by MDM Bank (4-th largest privately owned bank in Russia) to head its IB Department which included M&A, Capital Markets, Trading, Research, FX, Money Markets and Commodities. As a Member of the Board he was also in charge of Treasury and Asset Management. During 4.5 years under Alexey’s management MDM’s IB Department became a market leader in several areas including trading and capital markets. The number of employees grew from 45 to 115 people while net annual income rose more than 10 times.

Education: Bachelor’s degree from MIREA 1993 (technical), Moscow International Institute for International Business Development (MIMB) 1995 (economics); IBSS, San-Diego 2000 (banking).

Andrey Dobrynin
Managing Partner

Andrey joined Debt Capital Markets division of Dresdner Bank AG in Frankfurt in 1997. He quickly proved himself a capable client manager and in 1.5 years time was appointed Head of Origination in Moscow office of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. During two years following the 1998 crisis Andrey was responsible for debt restructuring and distressed debt trading. In 2000 he moved to London office of DrKB to work for Debt Capital Markets and Derivatives division with responsibility for debt origination and structuring in Eastern Europe. In 2002, Andrey was invited by MDM Bank to create and head International Capital Markets division. Within 4 years MDM took the leading position in arranging international debt placements for Russian mid-caps. In April 2006, Andrey joined Alfa-Bank (the largest privately owned bank in Russia) as the Head of IB & Merchant Banking Origination. During his banking career Andrey arranged tens of various transactions for Russian banks and mid-cap companies for the total amount of more than US$ 5bn including high-yield, mezzanine finance and structured debt. These deals included legal restructuring of companies, developing and financing their M&A strategy, rating advisory and building investor relations divisions.

Education: degree from Yaroslavl State University 1997 (economics), Vassar College, NY 1994-1995 (merit based scholarship), Philips-University Marburg, Germany 1996-1997 (merit based scholarship), INSEAD, France 2001 (4-week course for DrKW employees)

Oleg Mashtalyar
Managing Partner, CEO

Oleg joined NRG from MDM-Bank where he held position of Deputy Chairman of Management Board and Head of Credit committee. Oleg has over 13 years of experience in banking and crediting. As head of credit department of MDM-Bank, Oleg had credit portfolio under management of up to USD 6 bn, with the total number of deals of over 5 thousand.
Oleg graduated from Moscow State Technical University n.a. N.E. Bauman (MSTU)

Artur Galstyan
Managing Partner

Artur joined NRG from A1, where he served as CFO of the fund, responsible for the financial and operational change within portfolio companies.  Artur regularly managed the sale of portfolio companies at A1.  In 2002-2003 he implemented operational change and corporate governance in Eurochem as a CFO within the MDM group of companies. In 2000-2002 as a CFO at Access Industries Eurasia, Artur was responsible for forming a vertically integrated coal mining company and resolving tax issues in Russia and Kazakhstan.

Artur received a degree from the State Financial Academy in Moscow with a specialization in International Banking.

Egor Klimenko
Managing Partner, Investment Department

Egor's responsibilities include assessment of investment projects, supervision of transaction execution, and working out development strategies for portfolio companies.

Egor has more than 5 years of experience in various financial positions. Before joining NRG, he was Director of Corporate Finance at SARS Capital Co., where he worked on projects in banking industry and FMCG. Before that, Egor was a Partner with Mobitex Company where he was involved in a number of transactions in the timber industry, chemical and mining industries. In 2002-2004, Egor worked at the Corporate Finance Department of Uralsib Company (then Nikoil), where he was involved in M&A transactions and strategic consulting in retail, energy and power, transportation, telecommunications and other industries.

Egor’s projects included consulting RAO UES of Russia on restructuring issues, acquisition of Altaikhimprom chemical works in Altai region, sale of the Elitel timber works in Leningrad oblast, as well as consulting on the acquisition of PICK Szeged meat processing factory in Hungary.

Egor holds the degree in Economics from the Moscow State Institute of International Affairs (MGIMO) majoring in International Financial Markets.