Alex Domashenko, MBA

Experience

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  Art Capital

  May 2004 - Nov 2009

  • Assembled, trained, and managed a team of sales professionals and traders. • Devised budgets and motivation plans• Monitored and guided teams’ activities.• Developed the strategy, product line (equities, local bonds, Eurobonds etc.) and marketing plan.• Expanded a client base to include institutional clients (mutual funds, banks, insurance companies).• Initiated and actively contributed to CRM implementation. • Actively traded equities and bonds on the Ukrainian Stock Exchange using a self-developed analytical system, which led to a 5-fold growth of the trader’s book (from USD 600K to USD 3,000K) and generated USD 700K in profits.• Established and maintained relationships with both new and existing clients. • Significantly improved the process of collecting and processing data, which dramatically reduced research and evaluation time.• Personally developed, coded, and implemented a data-processing program.• Prepared regular market overviews and research.

  • Head of Securities Sales and Trading dept

    Oct 2007 - Nov 2009

  • Securities Trader

    Jan 2005 - Oct 2007

  • Stock market analyst

    May 2004 - Jan 2005
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  Astrum Investment Management

  Dec 2009 - Dec 2010

  Head of Securities sales

  • Assembled and successfully led a team of sales professionals.• Created budgets and motivation plans. Monitored and controlled activities.• Developed the department’s long- and short-term strategies, product line, and marketing plan.• Achieved a 150% growth of a gross margin by the department.• Successfully increased team efficiency through the implementation of a CRM system.• Negotiated with a wide range of clients, including HNW individuals, mutual funds, insurance companies, and banks. Show less

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  Raiffeisen Aval Asset Management

  Jan 2011 - Jun 2013

  Head of Investment Management

  • Played a key role in achieving top positions in ratings by the company’s mutual funds. The Money Market Fund was recognized the best-performing open-end fund in Ukraine for 3 consecutive years:a) 14.12% in 2011 (closest competitor: 10.83%).b) 13.44% in 2012 (closest competitor: 12.76%).c) 15.00% as of June 2013.• Initiated the inception and led the development of two highly successful mutual ETFs, unique for the domestic financial market:a) “First Golden Fund”. Launched in September 2011. Aimed to provide a 99% peg to gold and the opportunity to hedge against currency and country risks. AuM grew to UAH 8M by June 2013.b) “Foreign Currency Fund”. Launched in June 2012. Yielded 8.50%. Aimed to hedge against currency and counterparty risks. AuM grew to UAH 15M by June 2013.• Contributed to the company’s product enhancement process, which led to a 2.75x expansion of AuM (from UAH 37.8M to UAH 104M) and advanced the bottom line correspondingly.• Managed 13 mutual funds with different investment strategies, including bonds, equities and balanced.• Led trainings for the sales team, deepening product knowledge and supporting AuM growth.• Actively negotiated with prospects and existing clients.• Improved both the regularity and the quality of reporting to clients, risk managers, executives, and shareholders. Show less

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  UNIQA Ukraine

  Apr 2014 - Nov 2023

  Head of Investment Management/Treasury/Capital Markets Department

  1. Achievements in Investments:• Designed and implemented an investment management architecture. Defined relevant procedures and functions.• Devised an investment process and performance measurement. Identified risks• Established regular investment committees that improved transparency and the quality of governance and decisions• Introduced an asset allocation strategy based on portfolio immunization and cash flow matching• Developed a proprietary risk-valuation model for assessing counterparty risks• Maintained the investment process and ensured its relevance to the current environment• Executed investments in fixed-income instruments2. Achievements in Treasury:• Introduced liquidity and working capital optimization strategies• Administered cash flow forecasting, liquidity planning, and payment scheduling processes• Managed liquidity, FX, market, credit, counterparty, and other investment risks• Monitored the execution of payments3. Achievements in Finance:• Controlled the implementation of an investment accounting system (SimCorp, SAP)• Supervised the transition from IAS 39 to IFRS 9 accounting standards and reporting.• Devised a business-continuity plan and arranged the re-profiling of the risk management.• Negotiated credit lines with banks.4. Achievements in Management• Improved collaboration with Risk Management, Capital Management, Controlling, Financial accounting and other departments within the group.• Built and maintained relationships with external agents (banks, brokers, financial institutions, regulators etc.)• Coordinated actions within internal agents (management, controlling, accounting etc.)• Supervise investment accounting and reporting (IFRS), payment execution and back-office teams.• Oversaw investment accounting and reporting processes to ensure timely delivery of accurate and transparent financial statements (Balance, Income, Cash flow etc.)• Prepared regular budgets and controlled its execution Show less

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  IWealth

  Jan 2023 - now

  Founding Partner
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  INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTS & CONSULTING

  Jan 2023 - now

  Chief Executive Officer

  Certified Investment Management Analyst(R) with 20 years of expirience in portfolio management, fixed income, equities, financial analysis, asset-liability management, modelling, valuations, forecasting, investment accounting and reporting. A leader with a track record in management and strategic transformation.