Nemean Services

Commercial Advisor | Nemean Services (Part of the MITMARK Group)
Helping to refine the GMT and sales engine for one of the most elite digital asset security firms in the game.

Nemean Services blends military-grade protocols with financial services expertise to deliver unmatched digital asset security, compliance, and recovery. Backed by a team of ex-Special Forces, intelligence pros, and finance veterans, Nemean is the trusted third-party partner for institutions serious about protecting and recovering digital assets.

Commercial Advisor

Block Scholes

Revenue generation + CMO + Swiss-Army-Knife of Sales
Institutional-grade data, analytics and research platform delivering interactive tools, advanced quantitative models, and custom visualization capabilities to professional traders, retail market participants, and the public sector.

Head of Business Development & Growth

Aint.Social Media 

Chief Storytelling Officer || Creative Communication 

95% AI Agentic + 5% Human Creative = Growth

Founder

AgriDexPlatform

AgriDex is a B2B blockchain-based marketplace and supply chain SaaS solution for the global food and agriculture industry.

Investor

ONEMRIA

Established in 2022 in London by two Ukrainian women, ONE MRIA is a platform built to continuously promote Ukrainian talent, produce economic value, and give back via charitable initiatives.

Co-Founder

Prelude Capital

Emerging and established hedge fund research and acquisition. Business development.

Research Analyst

Kedge Capital

Investment Research Analyst

Operational Due Diligence

Business Development || Communication for Growth || GTM || 🔮 Chief Storytelling Officer 💬 || Web3, DeFI, TradFi || Entrepreneur || Angel Investor

Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to sell them.

For over a decade, I’ve built relationships in the most competitive, high-stakes environments—hedge funds, startups, and venture capital—where the right words can open billion-dollar doors. I’ve sat across from hedge fund managers, HNW investors, and tech founders, selling ideas, raising capital, closing deals, and making people say yes.

And through all of it, one thing has been clear:

Winning is about communication.

→ Can you sell your vision so investors bet on you?
→ Can you build trust so clients buy before you pitch?
→ Can you persuade so effortlessly that influence becomes second nature?

My entire career has been built on one thing: making people listen, trust, and take action.

☺︎ I’ve raised capital from VC and HNW investors.
☺︎ I’ve doubled revenue for high-growth startups.
☺︎ I’ve built business development and GTM strategies that unlocked global growth.

I know how to position, pitch, and persuade—whether it’s selling to investors, closing high-value deals, or making sure your name is remembered in the right rooms.

Elena Kirova

Leadership Without the Ladder? 

In an era where algorithms redraw the boundaries of work overnight, fractional leadership is reshaping the executive landscape, offering a flexible, performance-driven alternative to traditional management. 

As companies adapt to the rapid pace and unpredictability of the #AI age, modular, results-focused leadership models are outpacing legacy hierarchies and delivering faster, measurable impact. 

With a global market now exceeding $5.7 billion and adoption speeding up, especially in hybrid and remote environments, fractional executives are proving that ownership, accountability, and adaptability matter more than titles or tenure.

Curious how this shift is influencing culture, organisational velocity, and the future of work? 

🔊Dive deeper in the full article and join the conversation in the comments 🔫

#fractionalleadership #fractionalexecutives #entrepreneurship #futureofwork #gigeconomy #networkedorganization

Leadership Without the Ladder. No blot, only performance. The End of the Meeting-About-the-Meeting Era Somewhere in a glass-walled boardroom, another 

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Aldermore Bank

Manager Treasury Markets Operations

BGC Partners

Responsibilities include:
Daily price quoting across multi currencies and products (IRS, FRA, XCCY basis CE3 and ZAR)
Trade execution of all products across all platforms voice, phone and e-platform.
Accurate and efficient execution of desk orders using best execution process.
Client relationship building, introduction of new clients to the desk and maintenance of these relationships.
Monitoring market news and movements to ensure customers best interests protected.
Timely input of trade details
Resolution of client queries liaising between clients, MO and BO.
Active team player always covering multi desks during sickness and holiday periods and generally being involved as needed.

Broker

GFI Group

Responsibilities include:
Daily price quoting across multi currencies and products (FX Forward CE3, TRY and RON and TRY Xccy Swaps)
Trade execution of all products across all platforms voice, phone and e-platform.
Accurate and efficient execution of desk orders using best execution process.
Client relationship building, introduction of new clients to the desk and maintenance of these relationships.
Monitoring market news and movements to ensure customers best interests protected.
Timely input of trade details
Resolution of client queries liaising between clients, MO and BO.
Active team player always covering multi desks during sickness and holiday periods and generally being involved as needed.

Credit Suisse

Responsibilities include:
Work as number two within team giving support to manager.
Understanding and involvement in projects for MiFID II regulatory reforms.
Daily front office exception controls report monitoring and supervision, including late trades, unapproved trades & unallocated trades, resolution and escalation where required.
Daily trade P&L and risk deep dives /monitoring- supported the remediation of potential $0.5K miss matches, identifying and remediating abnormal P&L projections versus trading activity.
Daily interaction with trading and sales desks to address query management, valuation discussions, building client relationships and general trade management support.
Introduced CAV LCH compression approach to CS EM desk, facilitating decisions of the impact across trade packages for execution of clearing, back loading and trade execution. 
Front to back co- ordination and implementation of the EMG Rates cross currency TriOptima process. Embedded an on-going semi-annual process to improve firms risk profile.  Influenced initial savings of approx. $87m of Swiss leveraged ratio
Supported the firm wide strategic footprint and cost saving targets by setting up COE (Poland) outsourced model, including travel, hiring, cross training and management of the office.

STSi Trade Management AVP

Responsibilities include:
Set up and management /oversight of a team of four in CS COE Wroclaw (Poland), including performance reviews, cross training and delegation of key deliverables.
Complex trade bookings of all products, including validation of trade economics, application set up, verification and novation’s where required.
Daily front office exception controls report monitoring and supervision, including late trades, unapproved trades & unallocated trades, resolution and escalation where required.
Daily trade P&L and risk deep dives /monitoring- supported the remediation of potential $0.5K miss matches, identifying and remediating abnormal P&L projections versus trading activity.
Daily interaction with trading and sales desks to address query management, valuation discussions, building client relationships and general trade management support.
Introduced CAV LCH compression approach to CS EM desk, facilitating decisions of the impact across trade packages for execution of clearing, back loading and trade execution. 
Front to back co- ordination and implementation of the EMG Rates cross currency TriOptima process. Embedded an on-going semi-annual process to improve firms risk profile.  Influenced initial savings of approx. $87m of Swiss leveraged ratio
Structured Trade review including discussions with Trading, Product Control, Risk system IT and QS. Connection of dots to understand how trade booking impacts downstream flow and what process changes need to be completed. Partnership with QS team and desk to establish appropriate valuation models fit for purpose; identify gaps and challenge parameters / variables used in models to support selection criteria.
Supported the firm wide strategic footprint and cost saving targets by setting up COE (Poland) outsourced model, including travel, hiring, cross training and management of the office.

Emerging Markets Trade Management AVP

Citi

Responsibilities include:
Management and development of a team of six.  Ensuring smooth running of day to day controls and processes.
Supported strategic hiring initiatives, including the on boarding of new employees to address skill requirement gaps of the role.
Facilitated and chaired weekly management meetings provide direction, delegation of tasks, influencing and remediating road blocks / issues.
Improved desk relationships and internal team partnership through clear direction and coaching.
Management of daily fund allocation, Fx trades to top tier clients, fund and asset managers.
Liaison with senior members of the FX Sales desk regarding issues and escalation.

Supervisor FX Sale Assistants  AVP

Responsibilities include:
Full management of team of four.  Ensuring smooth running of day to day controls and processes.
Strategic hiring of key personnel
Swapswire, successful onboarding of clients, interfacing with credit and client account on boarding teams
Facilitated and chaired weekly management meetings to address problem focus areas and troubleshoot issues.
Trusted advisor / support coverage for top earner on the Hedge Fund sales desk, key contact for the salesperson to remediate and manage all query management with clients, front office, middle office and back office. Facilitation of trade booking and accurate execution / settlement in trade lifecycle.

Supervisor Rates Sales Assistant  AVP

Responsibilities included:
Manual calculation of structured derivative products including:
Range Accrual CMS Spread Caps/Floors/Straddles
Quanto Swaps Snowball Swaps
CMS Spread Range Accruals CMS Caps/Floors
Cross Currency FX Swaps Inflation Swaps
Checking trader bookings and P&Ls to ensure accuracy.
Collation of the daily deal blotter for the Exotic trading desk at the end of each day for the traders use.
Making the initial check of trade confirmations against deal economics.
Performing the daily audit reconciling between the different systems used for the deal bookings.  
Collation of bookings between the variety of systems used such as Murex (trader input system), CDS (trader input system), Oasys and Risktools (Risk management system). Implemented reconciliation of systems to ensure coupon calculation accuracy.
Maintenance of the weekly deal statistics and collation of these for team management.
Communication with high profile clients who require particular care throughout the life of the trade, covering the settlements, confirmations and MTM values.
Maintenance of the Front Office diary advising the traders of forthcoming deal events.

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