With over 30 years of experience in corporate and HNWI banking, AIF management, entrepreneurship, angel investing and mentoring, Andrey co-founded AAlchemy Ventures Limited, a company that helps Cypriot startups and foreign scaleups launch and grow their business in the European Union and North America markets.

Andrey holds MSc in accounting and audit, MBA, Ph.D. in economics, and is DBA candidate at Grenoble School of Management with his thesis devoted to how mentoring startup founders influences venture performance. Andrey is EMCC-certified mentor and coach at Practitioner level, and also holds multiple diplomas and certifications in appraising, service design, negotiations, and other relevant fields of knowledge.

Andrey is passionate about fostering innovation, collaboration, and social impact in the startup ecosystem acting as startup mentor and serving on boards of selected startups, and on the Endowment Board of Big Change, a charitable foundation that supports young underprivileged people to thrive in life. He is a member of and a mentor for several business angel networks and alumni associations, and a former expert for the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission. You can find more about his work here: https://www.startupmentor.online/