Laert Karaashev

Current

Lead Analyst at RUSNANO
Partner at Internet Start-Up

Past

Senior Consultant, Strategic Consulting Department at Jones Lang LaSalle
Senior Analyst, IB / M&A at Financial corporation OTKRITIE
Analyst at The Sputnik Group

Financial Analyst at Multinational Logistics Partnership (MLP)
Analyst at Unitours Travel
Statistician-Analyst (Intern) at PPE-Group (Data Direct)

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Education

New Economic School
Akademija Narodnogo Hozjajstva pri Pravitelstve Rossijskoj Federacii
Moskovskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet im. M.V. Lomonosova

AESC MSU

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Industry

Nanotechnology

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Laert Karaashev’s Summary

Qualifications and professional achievements are related to the previous experience in private equity, M&A, real esate.

Laert Karaashev’s Specialties:

- Private Equity & Venture Capital
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Real Estate Finance & Investments
- Internet Start-Ups

Laert Karaashev’s Experience

Lead Analyst

RUSNANO

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

November 2008 — Present (9 months)

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies
Partner

Internet Start-Up

(Internet industry)

September 2008 — Present (11 months)

Internet Start-Ups
Senior Consultant, Strategic Consulting Department

Jones Lang LaSalle

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JLL; Real Estate industry)

August 2008 — October 2008 (3 months)

Working as part of a consulting team on corporate real estate strategy development:
- Portfolio Planning;
- Business Location Advisory;
- Workplace Solutions;
- Performance Improvement.
Senior Analyst, IB / M&A

Financial corporation OTKRITIE

(Investment Banking industry)

November 2007 — July 2008 (9 months)

- working as part of a team on M&A and advisory deals, supporting the origination and execution of mandated transactions by interpreting financial and market analysis;
- private and public company valuation (DCF/comparables);
- participation in financial due diligence process;
- both the preparation and delivery of client presentations;
- independently preparing reports, business plans, information memoranda.
Analyst

The Sputnik Group

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

July 2007 — October 2007 (4 months)

- analytical support for buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions: market research, financial modeling, investment memoranda;
- analytical support for fundraising and monitoring for private equity projects.
Financial Analyst

Multinational Logistics Partnership (MLP)

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Commercial Real Estate industry)

November 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 8 months)

- financial modeling;
- valuation and investment analysis of real estate projects;
- company business valuation;
- conducting industry and market analysis & researches;
- writing investment memorandums, business plans and delivering investor presentations;
- preparation of weekly & monthly reports.
Analyst

Unitours Travel

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

January 2005 — October 2005 (10 months)

- market research, tracking and forecasting of market tendencies, competitors analysis;
- control of advertising activity, planning and implementation of marketing actions;
- pricing policy, price-lists configuration, financial and economic planning, budgeting;
- designing of a program complex for automation of all business-processes of the company;
- creation and promotion of the company’s new web-site.
Statistician-Analyst (Intern)

PPE-Group (Data Direct)

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Research industry)

October 2004 — December 2004 (3 months)

- working with data warehouses, database segmentation, processing and management of the large volumes of data (MS SQL, SAS, Oracle);
- data mining, data analysis and modeling (from target audience descriptive analysis to the development of behavioral models for different clients groups);
- scoring models construction;
- market researches: Russian consumer portrait, marketing actions analysis, drawing up analytical reports.

Laert Karaashev’s Education

New Economic School

Masters in Finance , Corporate Finance, Investments , 2008 — 2010 (expected)

www.mif.nes.ru
Akademija Narodnogo Hozjajstva pri Pravitelstve Rossijskoj Federacii

Master in Financial Management , Financial Management , 2005 — 2006

not completed
Moskovskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet im. M.V. Lomonosova

Bachelor , Applied Mathematics , 2000 — 2005

Lomonosov Moscow State University
Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty, Economics group, Probability Theory Department
AESC MSU

Physics / Mathematics 1998 — 2000

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Laert Karaashev’s Interests:

AREAS OF INTEREST: - Corporate Finance, Valuation, Financial Modeling; - Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity & Venture Projects; - Structured Finance; - Real Estate Finance & Investments; - Internet Start-Ups (development & management); - Aim to pass through CFA qualification. HOBBIES: - Football, basketball, reading.