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EXPERTISE FORGED IN MARKETS
Our team is a collective of seasoned professionals from the front lines of global finance. We bring together decades of experience in investment banking, quantitative research, and risk management, united by a shared discipline and a commitment to executing strategies with precision for our institutional partners.
Founder & CIO
Pavel Goltsblat
15 years in institutional investment management. Led quantitative strategies at a Vienna-based family office. Early investor in several protocols at unicorn valuations. Based: Vienna.
Co-Founder & COO
Jacob Eder
Managed operational infrastructure for a multi-billion-euro asset manager. Oversees legal structuring, compliance, and client service architecture. Based: Vienna.
Institutional Lead
Elina Kreutzer
Leads institutional client coverage across Europe and the Middle East. Specializes in complex mandate structuring and Islamic finance-compliant investment structures. Based: Vienna.
Research Lead
Roman Gavrilov
Former sell-side strategist. Developed proprietary screening methodologies for mispriced assets across public and private markets. Research notes distributed to clients and select institutional partners. Based: Moscow, Russia.
Sr. Strategist
Eugene Darwish
Focuses on special situations and distressed opportunities across European and MENA markets. Background in restructuring advisory. Maintains active dialogue with corporate advisory teams at major investment banks. Based: Dubai, UAE.
APAC Research Lead
Kenji Mori
Anchors Goltsblat Finance's Singapore presence. Prior experience in equity research at a Tokyo-based securities firm. Leads coverage of Japanese and Southeast Asian private equity, technology and healthcare sectors. Based: Singapore.
Compliance
Daria Kovalenko
Manages regulatory compliance across all operational jurisdictions. Prior roles at major European banks and regulatory consulting for alternative asset managers. Based: Moscow, Russia.
Specializes in on-chain analysis and protocol research. Expertise spans Layer 1 blockchain evaluation, DeFi protocol risk assessment, and tokenomics modeling. Contributes to Goltsblat Finance's proprietary on-chain intelligence platform. Based: Singapore.
Chief Economist
Dr. Arjun Mehta
Former central bank economist. Specializes in monetary policy transmission, currency dynamics, and emerging market risk. Quarterly macro outlooks inform strategic asset allocation decisions. Based: Vienna.
Governance
Ingrid Falken
Oversees governance architecture for client structures. Background in corporate law and family governance. Advises several European family offices on governance best practices and next-generation preparation. Based: Vienna.
Quant
Denis Kravets
Develops and maintains quantitative models and risk analytics infrastructure. Background in computational finance and machine learning. Leads algorithmic screening tools and portfolio construction analytics. Based: Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Venture
Artur Liepin
Early-stage venture and growth equity with emphasis on technology and healthcare. Manages relationships with venture funds and directly sources deal flow from founder networks. Prior operational roles at two technology startups. Based: Riga, Latvia.
The firm's true capital is its people — a curated team of strategists, analysts, and risk engineers spanning Vienna, Moscow, Singapore, Dubai, and beyond. We architect actionable insight from market complexity. Partnering with Goltsblat Finance is a selective process, reserved for institutions that share our discipline and long-term perspective.