ANDREI V. AROFIKIN
As a Senior Advisor to The Scowcroft Group, Andrei Arofikin provides strategic and transaction advice to clients targeting Russian market and investment opportunities. Working as an in-country member of The Scowcroft Group team, he provides due diligence, business and political risk assessment services as well as general business support for client efforts in the region.
Andrei Arofikin is Managing Director for Investment Banking for Merrill Lynch CIS. Furthermore, Arofikin is a Chairman of the National Project Institute, a major Moscow-based think tank focusing on applied policy projects in economic deregulation and development of civil society. Mr. Arofikin is also a founding member and a Board member of Club 2015, a Russian association of top managers and entrepreneurs widely credited for advice on government strategy and policy in recent years, and Chairman and President of Millisecond Technology Corporation, a U.S.-based company developing pioneering liquid product treatment technologies for pharmaceutical and food industries.
From 2001 through 2006, he was a managing partner of NaviGroup engaged in international venture capital operations and corporate finance and strategy advice for Russian and international companies. From 1995 through 2001, he worked as a Vice-President and Director at Credit Suisse First Boston’s Russian and former Soviet Union (FSU) business running Equities, and later Investment Banking and Global Energy operations in the region. While at Credit Suisse First Boston, Mr. Arofikin was among the pioneering international bankers responsible for introducing major international investors to Russian, Ukrainian and FSU emerging capital markets.
From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Arofikin was a banker at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development setting up the operations of Russia Small and Medium Enterprise Fund, private equity and lending operation supporting the development of emerging private enterprises in the country.
He received an M.A. degree in Economics from Moscow State University and an MBA from University of Wisconsin Madison.
As a Senior Advisor to The Scowcroft Group, Andrei Arofikin provides strategic and transaction advice to clients targeting Russian market and investment opportunities. Working as an in-country member of The Scowcroft Group team, he provides due diligence, business and political risk assessment services as well as general business support for client efforts in the region.
Andrei Arofikin is Managing Director for Investment Banking for Merrill Lynch CIS. Furthermore, Arofikin is a Chairman of the National Project Institute, a major Moscow-based think tank focusing on applied policy projects in economic deregulation and development of civil society. Mr. Arofikin is also a founding member and a Board member of Club 2015, a Russian association of top managers and entrepreneurs widely credited for advice on government strategy and policy in recent years, and Chairman and President of Millisecond Technology Corporation, a U.S.-based company developing pioneering liquid product treatment technologies for pharmaceutical and food industries.
From 2001 through 2006, he was a managing partner of NaviGroup engaged in international venture capital operations and corporate finance and strategy advice for Russian and international companies. From 1995 through 2001, he worked as a Vice-President and Director at Credit Suisse First Boston’s Russian and former Soviet Union (FSU) business running Equities, and later Investment Banking and Global Energy operations in the region. While at Credit Suisse First Boston, Mr. Arofikin was among the pioneering international bankers responsible for introducing major international investors to Russian, Ukrainian and FSU emerging capital markets.
From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Arofikin was a banker at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development setting up the operations of Russia Small and Medium Enterprise Fund, private equity and lending operation supporting the development of emerging private enterprises in the country.
He received an M.A. degree in Economics from Moscow State University and an MBA from University of Wisconsin Madison.