TEAM
MIHAIL MALKOV
Managing Partner (CEO)
mihail.malkov(at)essedel.com
Mihail Malkov has worked in private equity in for over 25 years. He is the founder and a managing partner of Essedel Group. Mr. Malkov has been responsible for sourcing, investing, monitoring and exiting several portfolio companies. Mr Malkov is fluent in Finnish, Russian and English. He has also a proven ability to manage the various stages of the investment process, wide experience of board positions, good negotiation skills and many years of experience in private equity business environment.
ANDREI NOVITSKY
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Andrei Novitsky has been active in private equity as well as legal advisory work in Russia and Scandinavian countries for more than 20 years. Prior to joining Essedel Capital Partners Mr. Andrei Novitsky was a legal counsel in one of the largest private equity groups in Scandinavia responsible especially for the fund formation and investment compliance related questions. Prior to that Mr. Novitsky worked for over 5 years as a legal counsel in a law firm specialized in Russian market advising on the numerous M&A transactions in Russia and elsewhere. Andrei is fluent in Finnish, Russian and English and has good knowledge of Swedish language. Due to his history in legal advisory work both in Russian and Scandinavian markets Andrei is also responsible for the structuring of the Fund and its investments in cooperation with the outside advisors.
EKATERINA ELIZAROVA
Investment Director
ekaterina.elizarova(at)essedel.com
Ekaterina Petrova (Elizarova) has an extensive experience in financial consulting at such international and Russian consulting companies as KPMG and Financial Consulting Group (FCG) where she has been working since 2007. She was involved as project manager in financial modeling, asset valuation and financial due diligence. Her main projects were financial models and business valuation of companies operating in agro, telecom, media, retail, pharmaceutics and other sectors of Russia and CIS.
Ekaterina joined Essedel team in 2011 and was involved in all projects and performed wide scope of works including due diligence, modelling, analysis and financial control, preparation of presentation materials. Ekaterina was a member of the board in portfolio company.
Ekaterina holds diploma with honors of mathematics at Moscow State University
IRINA JAKOVLEVA
Investment Director
irina.jakovleva(at)essedel.com
Irina Jakovleva is a formidable member of our team with investment experience of over 20 years. Irina also serves as director in our investment companies.
Advisory Board Member
Mr. Ramm-Schmidt is senior partner at Merasco Capital Ltd, an investment bank specializing in mergers and acquisitions. He is one of the top CEOs in Finland and sits on several boards of directors. Prior to joining Merasco, Mr. Ramm-Schmidt was CEO of the brewing corporation Baltic Beverages Holding Ltd (BBH). Between Mr. Ramm-Schmidt joining BBH in 1997, and the end of 2006, the company beer sales rose from 300 million litres to close to 5000 million litres, and the Russian market share from 16% to 40%. Under his management BBH became the market leader in Russia, the Baltic countries, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, and one of the leading breweries in the world.