Vadim Gurinov Jr.

Vadim
Gurinov Jr.

  • Private markets, investments, fintech and digital assets
  • Columbia University — BA Financial Economics, graduated 2026
  • New York · London · Dubai
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About

Investments and strategy at a single-family office, working in New York. Experience across private markets, commodities trading and early-stage fintech, with a degree in financial economics from Columbia.

Experience

  1. 2023 — Present

    Analyst, Investments & Strategy

    Single-Family Office Private investments & portfolio companies Dubai, UAE & London, UK

    • Source, diligence and participate in direct and co-investment opportunities across the portfolio, spanning digital assets, sports finance and legal finance.
    • Work on supporting a fintech neobank venture in Southeast Asia on strategic positioning and business development — contributing to go-to-market planning, partnership sourcing and corporate materials.
    • Assist with capital raises: investor outreach, decks and fundraising materials.
  2. Jun — Jul 2025

    Finance & Trade Operations Intern

    BGN Global energy & commodities trading Istanbul, Türkiye

    • Worked with the finance team on bookkeeping, reconciliations and client invoicing for trades.
    • Built classification and tracking models for trade tickets and orders, giving the desk visibility of position exposures.
    • Generated daily P&L statements and variance analyses, identifying key performance drivers and costs.
  3. 2023 & 2024

    Corporate Finance & Strategy Intern

    Lionsoul Global Digital assets wealth-tech venture London, UK

    • Worked alongside a McKinsey & Company team to produce analyses and presentations of findings, insights and recommendations.
    • Developed models to analyse survey and market data, and integrated API structures to automate data flows — improving the accuracy and efficiency of customer-preference and market-trend models.
    • Led in-depth market studies on digital-asset activity within TradFi sectors, informing the firm’s strategic positioning.
    • Collaborated in process-flow design workshops; completed advanced CFI training in accounting, financial modelling and digital assets.
  4. Jul — Aug 2022

    Digital Assets & Corporate Strategy Intern

    Pintar Ventura Group Digital payments & bookkeeping fintech for MSMEs Jakarta, IDN & London, UK

    • Researched the digital-asset space to identify emerging trends and investment opportunities.
    • Analysed stablecoin models and explored the feasibility of a stablecoin for PVG’s infrastructure.

Education

Columbia University

2022 — 2026

BA, Financial Economics · New York, USA

  • Micro & macroeconomics, econometrics, financial economics, accounting, corporate finance, investment strategies.
  • Member of the Columbia Emerging Markets Student Group.
  • Certificates: Data Analysis in Excel, Accounting Fundamentals and Reading Financial Statements (CFI); Cryptocurrency Technology (Princeton); CS50 Computing in Python I (Harvard).

Harrow School

2017 — 2022

A-Levels · London, UK

  • A-Level: Economics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Russian, Fine Art.
  • Appointed House Prefect and The Guild.
  • Senior British Mathematics Olympiad (Silver) and Chemistry Olympiad.
  • Awarded an Art Scholarship and founded the Harrow School Sculpture Society.

Tools

  • Microsoft Office
  • Capital IQ
  • Figma
  • Canva
  • Adobe
  • VS Code
  • Xcode

Code

  • Python
  • R
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Swift

Languages

  • English — native
  • Russian — native
  • French — intermediate

Beyond

Torf Fires

Founded and ran an awareness project on global wildfires — built the site and blog, and convened a conference with three experts, including the US National Director of Fire Management, for an audience of 60+.

Teaching & mentoring

Taught and tutored maths to local primary school students through Shaftesbury Enterprise, and completed the Opidon peer-mentor training programme alongside student peer mentoring.

Art for CoreArts

Digitally painted and sold a collection of NFTs, raising funds for CoreArts — a charity supporting teenagers with mental-health issues.

Off-hours

Rugby played at school level, intramural football, golf — and a long-running habit of art and design that has never quite left.