Vadim Gurinov Jr.

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

2023 — Present
Analyst, Investments & Strategy

Single-Family Office Private investments & portfolio companies New York, Dubai & London
- Source and diligence direct and co-investment opportunities across digital assets, sports finance and legal finance; build financial models and assess return potential and risks.
- Drive strategy and business development for the office’s fintech neobank across Malaysia, Indonesia and India, spanning go-to-market planning and partnership sourcing.
- Assist with capital raises: investor outreach, decks and fundraising materials.
Jun — Jul 2025
Finance & Trade Operations Intern

BGN Global energy & commodities trading Istanbul, TUR
- Worked with the finance team on bookkeeping, reconciliations and client invoicing for trades.
- Built trackers to classify trade tickets and orders, giving visibility into position exposures.
- Generated daily P&L statements and variance analyses, identifying key performance drivers and costs.
2023 & 2024
Corporate Finance & Strategy Intern

Lionsoul Global Digital assets wealth-tech venture London, UK
- Supported a McKinsey & Company team on product launch and pricing strategy; built models analysing 1,000+ survey responses from family offices and (U)HNWIs on product interest and willingness to pay, turning the outputs into slides for senior management and investors.
- Built a live dashboard integrating crypto and equity market data feeds, consolidating company assets, portfolios and key performance metrics in real time for firm-wide use.
- Conducted market studies on digital-asset adoption among US and European banks and asset managers, benchmarking comparable companies to inform the firm’s strategic positioning.
Jul — Aug 2022
Digital Assets & Corporate Strategy Intern

Pintar Ventura Group Digital payments & bookkeeping fintech for MSMEs Jakarta, IDN & London, UK
- Researched crypto payment adoption among Indonesian MSMEs and consumers, and the local digital-asset landscape.
- Analysed stablecoin models and assessed the feasibility of launching a stablecoin integrated into the group’s payments 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 elected into The Guild as Cultural Prefect.
Silver certificate in Senior Mathematical Challenge (UKMT) and Chemistry Olympiad.
Awarded an Art Scholarship and founded the Harrow School Sculpture Society.

Tools

Excel
PowerPoint
Word
Capital IQ
Figma
Adobe CC
VS Code
Xcode

Code

Python
R
HTML
CSS
Swift

Languages

English — native
Russian — native
French — intermediate

Beyond

Torf Fires

Founded and ran an awareness project on global wildfires.

Teaching & mentoring

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

Art for CoreArts

Digitally painted and sold a collection of NFTs, raising funds for CoreArts Charity.

Off-hours

Rugby played competitively at school level, intramural football, and golf.

VadimGurinov Jr.

About

Analyst, Investments & Strategy

Finance & Trade Operations Intern

Corporate Finance & Strategy Intern

Digital Assets & Corporate Strategy Intern