OVERVIEW
Founded in 2016, our Group is aimed at promoting the Family’s next generations, uncovering their potential, helping their personal development, based upon skills and knowledge, their active life position, education, humanitarian functions, business innovation and similar fundamental concepts through financial coverage of individual’s and Family’s needs.
The head office is in Lucerne and is subject to Swiss regulations and oversight by the relevant financial regulatory and supervisory organizations.
OUR OBJECTIVES
The primary daily objectives of GS Finances are:
- Ensure effective management of all the Family Members' assets
- Guarantee customized investment strategies
- Monitor effective costs and other controls
- Provide transparent processes and minimize risks
The cornerstone of our Family Office is transparency and in order to maintain it, GS Finances, in collaboration with its partners, created a highly developed technological platform that allows the Family Members to have complete control over each and every asset and investment. The platform also ensures compliance with appropriate regulations, laws and tax requirements.
WHAT WE DO
GS Finances is a Multi-Family Office with an initial focus on supporting the Founders’ Family lifestyle, tax, legal and accounting matters. We also provide the Family’s Group Entities with investment research, performance monitoring, supplementary risk management and other advisory and administrative services. We guarantee our Founder tailored and cost efficient setup. This allows the Family control over their wealth through technologically effective platforms as well as access to investment opportunities and services that may not be otherwise available in an open market. Our areas of expertise are:
Investment Advisory
Direct Deals
Risk Management and Investment Oversight
Foundation
Sea Vessel and Aircraft Management
Private and Commercial Property Management
Corporate and Tax Administration of Structure
Accounting
Treasury
OUR PEOPLE
Due to the sensitive and private matter of our business we clearly understand the importance of people. GS Finances safeguards the Family’s interests through with an experienced management team and capable, trustworthy employees. Our team's diverse expertize in multiple fields allows timely adoption of strategies in the rapidly changing business environment. Our partners are ambitious entrepreneurs and global market leaders that add value to the Family Office team and enable even more personalized and forward thinking approach to achieving targets.
ALLA ALENIKOVA
Chief Executive Officer / Head of Advisory Committee
Alla Alenikovacomes with over 20 years of experience in the financial field. She worked for top institutions in various jurisdictions devising and implementing strategies and organizing the livelihoods of UHNWIs and their families. It has been the focus of Alla’s career to make sure the interests and needs of the clients are fully addressed from managing complex active investment assets and projects as well as passive ones, to thinking through educational programs for second and third generations, art collections and philanthropy.
Alla’s earlier experiences included various roles including internship on Capitol Hill. She has received a Bachelor’s Degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and Master’s Degree from the London School of Economics.
In her current role as CEO Alla oversees the work of all teams in various jurisdictions and works alongside them to ensure the success of all undertakings of Family Office. The Group is working on the bases of its new Technological Platform that allows full transparency across all accounts, business and personal, ensuring proper reporting in accordance with local tax and legal rulings. In addition, through Alla’s network and experience, she is focused on bringing partners together for co-investment opportunities to capitalize on discovered niches and creating prospects for further income generation and results.
Alla works out of the Swiss office, located in Lucerne that began its operation in August 2019. Structurally it is part of the Foundation. Currently the office has 5 employees and is posed for further expansion. The office serves the needs of the Family for all investment projects and mandates, all aspects of cash management as well as provides full control from the management, operational and compliance levels. The office also delivers lifestyle support to the Founding Family.
Dmitry Bobrovskiy
Head of Investment Team
Dmitry Bobrovskiy has over 10 years of professional experience and he is responsible for overseeing investment portfolio comprised of a wide range of asset classes: from equities and bonds to real estate projects and direct deals. Together with his team, he performs the entire investment process, including initial analysis, due diligence, structuring and assessment of tax & legal risks for wide spectrum of investments in compliance with Swiss Regulations. During his work at GS Finances Dmitry has delivered the deployment of internal investment platform, risks monitoring tools and implemented investment procedures set to achieve the goals for the portfolio on a regular basis. In addition, Dmitry’s experience includes 35+ executed direct deals with total value of over € 0.7 bn, which helped to deliver target performance over the course of the last several years. Dmitry holds Master’s Degree in Investment and Finance from Queen Mary University of London and a Bachelor’s Degree in Management and Economics from Moscow State University. His earlier professional expertise is complemented by projects in consulting sphere (as part of Deloitte), industry specific experience from FMCG, Oil&Gas and Financial sectors. He is located in Lucerne, Switzerland since February 2020.
Daniel Durrer
Head of Operations and Compliance
Daniel Durrer has over 20 years of financial services industry experience across investment banks, providers of alternative investments solutions and asset managers. He joined GS Finances in August 2019.
Most recently, he was a Director of Operations and Investment Controlling at a large asset manager. In this capacity, he established and ran the operations and investment controlling, working with the CIO, CFO and Compliance to ensure best practice across all operational areas.
Previously, he was Head of Operations and Compliance Officer at Mastic Investment Advisory AG, building up and managing the operations team for a commodity hedge fund. He was also a member of the risk- and regulatory committee.
Daniel is a Certified Business Economist and holds an Executive MBA from University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur, Switzerland.
Anna Kouchouk
Head of Cyprus Office / Corporate Administration
Anna Kouchouk has over 10 years of corporate administration experience with Family Offices. She joined GS Finances in May 2021.
Her previous position was at Foratec Cyprus Ltd group of companies, working with different jurisdictions like BVI, Lichtenstein, Italy; dealing with incorporation / liquidation of companies, corporate administration and compliance of holding, investment companies; cooperating with professionals from various departments within the organization.
Anna currently manages Cyprus office of GS Finances, with her main responsibilities being corporate administration and legal assistance within the Family Group Structure including Foundation and investment projects as well as daily operational management of various family assets across jurisdictions, working closely with the CEO.
Anna holds a State diploma in Economics and Finance with Izevsk State University, Russia.
Stefan Tezlow
Head of Luxembourg Office
Stefan Tezlow has gathered in Big Four consulting firms more than 15 years experience in Asset Management industry. He is holding accreditation of Chartered Certified Accountant in UK and Expert Comptable in Luxembourg. Most recently he has been responsible for Luxembourg and European operations of a global firm, being in charge of all accounting, tax and legal aspects of the client’s business.
In his current responsibilities, Stefan is leading the Luxembourg office with main focus to ensure accounting coverage for all jurisdictions included into the Family Office Group as well as all tax and legal aspects of Luxembourg’s operations. The office has 5 employees and provides accounting & fiscal services under IFRS and Luxembourg GAAP, preparation of interim, annual accounts as well as administration of bank accounts in Luxembourg. The team is also charged with reviewing front and back office transactions related to the investment activity of the Family Office. Given the significance of Luxembourg jurisdiction for the Group, a great deal of time is spent on a close cooperation with local providers in relation to tax, corporate and legal matters to ensure full compliance with local regulations.