Timur graduated from the Institute for the Humanities and IT (IGUMO) in 2013 holding a degree in Financial Management. Prior to Investcafe, he had been working for a long time for a large Moscow-based IT company as analyst and manager. Timur has a great experience in assessing start-ups in IT and telecommunications industry. He has a 5 - year experience in stock market portfolio management of consumer and telecom companies. Timur also took part in S&P seminars devoted to Russian macroeconomics. He is fluent in English and has first-level FFMS certificate.