Andrey Kostyuk is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor, and mentor with a background in finance, real estate, and venture capital investments. With over 28 years of professional experience, Andrey has served as a Board Member and Chairman of Advisory Board in several private merchant banks, managed alternative investment funds, and founded Taurus Aurum Group and AAlchemy Ventures Limited. He is an expert in EIC Accelerator (SME Instrument) at EASME of the European Commission and a mentor for ESADE BAN and GU's McDonough School of Business. Andrey has studied in prestigious institutions like ESADE Business & Law School, Georgetown University, and the London Business School, specializing in various fields like taxation, accounting, audit, marketing strategy, private equity, and family office management. He is also a certified specialist in property evaluation, brokerages and dealing, and asset management, and has been a member of several associations like ESADE BAN, IESE BAN, CYBAN, and ACA. Andrey is passionate about working with Russian/CIS scaleups and helping them go global and start doing business in the EU through AAlchemy's deep mentoring and business acceleration program supported by Deloitte Cyprus.