Our managing team

Pavel Cherkashin

At Mindrock, Pavel is responsible for the vision and strategy. He oversees over $1B in AUM. Earlier in his career, Pavel held senior positions at Microsoft Russia, Adobe Systems and Siebel Systems.

He founded several IT companies that were acquired by the leading global organizations and managed two early-stage venture capital funds.

Grigorii Trubkin

Grigorii manages investment relations in Europe, Russia and the Middle East. Previously, he built a successful regional investor network for Freedom Finance (OTC:FRHC).

Grigorii is a certified financial services professional accredited by the Central Bank of Russia. He holds an MBA from Grenoble Ecole de Management (France).

Managing partner

Managing partner

Ulvi has 14 years of experience in finance and investment. Previously, he managed a commercial real estate portfolio at VTB.

ULVI RASHID

Head of investments

Ulvi now also serves as community vice president for Carnegie Mellon University in California.

Alexey specializes in pooled investments in late-stage technology companies. Earlier in his career, Alexey invested in e-commerce projects, founded in Palo Alto a telemedicine startup, which was later sold to Well, and held executive positions in American Express and Svyaz Bank. He also received an MBA from Skolkovo in 2016.

Alexey Imamov

Venture partner

Kirill Schmidt

Venture partner

Kirill specializes in wealth management. Earlier in his career, Kirill held executive positions in Citibank, Troika Dialog, Renaissance Capital. He created from scratch Nomos-Bank Management Company, was a Managing Director and Member of the Management Board of Uralsib Management Company with around $1.25 billion assets under management.