Michael supervises the investment selection process, leads risk-taking and portfolio management operations.

He pioneered the concept of risk-averse, diversified capital markets reinvestment of quasi-equity released out of hard assets like real estate, yachts and planes and developed a few years’ verifiable track record, proving its viability.

The dual process of alpha generation and risk management, Michael put “under the hood” of the DPRG IM turn-key product undergoes real-time fine-tuning and innovation with more and more quantitative tools and digital “big data” analysis become available.

Michael has more than 25 years of capital markets experience, managing global equity and fixed-income investments “on the buy side” in various capacities, as well as 10+ years in developing, marketing and selling real estate with a few million square meters built and sold behind his belt.

Michael is a CFA Charterholder. He earned his B.S. majoring in Computer Science and Banking at Moscow State Academy of Economics and Statistics and completed full-time MBA in Finance at the University of San Francisco, McLaren School of Business.

Michael is a true cosmopolitan, having lived and worked in California and NYC for five years, shares his time between Cyprus, London, Moscow and Marbella (Spain). He is a big fan of leisure & competition events travel, sports and a healthy lifestyle, practicing ashtanga-yoga, playing tennis and doing Triathlon.
He raises two sons, both sharing passion for football.