javidan

Institutional Partnerships / Strategic Advisory / Business Development

Multilingual business development and strategic advisory professional with over 10 years of experience building institutional relationships and executing transactions across CIS, GCC, and European markets. Track record spans private equity, investment advisory, wealth management, and cross-border mandates serving institutional and UHNWI clients, with career transaction exposure exceeding USD 200M. Culturally fluent across CIS and Gulf economies. Operating across four languages: Russian, Azerbaijani, Turkish, and English.

Personal crypto investor since 2017. Now looking to bring institutional BD and relationship infrastructure to the digital assets space — specifically business development, partnership, or investor relations roles. Remote or Dubai/Baku-based.










Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $120,000

Hourly rate: $60

Nationality: 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan

Residency: 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates


Experience

Strategic Advisor
Blacktower Street Investment Advisors GmbH (Zurich, Switzerland)
2025 - 2026
• Developing the institutional investor pipeline and managing relationships with sovereign wealth funds, family offices, banks, and insurance companies across CIS, GCC, and Europe for a Swiss boutique with USD 600M+ in assets under advice. • Developed go-to-market strategies for Central Asia and the UAE, mapping priority institutional targets and positioning the firm’s investment advisory, wealth management, and risk capabilities to prospective clients. • Direct engagement with leading Swiss private banks and asset managers, including Julius Baer and Vontobel, in structuring and coordinating client investment solutions. • Within the first months, onboarded one of Azerbaijan's largest banks as a client and advanced negotiations with the 3rd largest bank in Kazakhstan, with two additional mandates in progress across Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Head of Strategic Partnerships
Family Office (Dubai, UAE)
2023 - 2025
• Originated and managed an AED 75M+ ultra-luxury development mandate end-to-end – from initial prospecting and valuation through principal negotiation and contract execution. • Sourced, structured, and closed approximately AED 110M in transactions across equities and alternative asset markets, serving as the principal's trusted advisor on strategic investment opportunities. • Advised on cross-border transactions involving multi-jurisdictional entities across Swiss, German, Serbian, Emirati, and Cypriot regulatory and corporate frameworks. • Built a network of C-suite principals, UHNW investors, and institutional counterparties in the Gulf that became the principal’s primary channel for co-investment opportunities.
Non Executive Director
Port of Zira
2020 - 2022
• Advised the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and CEO on commercial strategy and client acquisition for a USD 120M+ marine infrastructure complex serving oilfield and shipping companies in the Caspian Sea region. • Originated the facility’s first major client – one of the largest drilling rigs in the Caspian – and closed a service agreement worth USD 3.8M.
Business Development Director
ADO-G Group of Companies (Baku, Azerbaijan)
2020 - 2022
• Secured partnerships and onboarded 57,000 m² of hospitality and residential projects valued at USD 40M+. • Directed enterprise-level business development across construction, oilfield services, trading, defence systems, and automotive verticals. • Ran domestic and international commercial operations across all group verticals, with responsibility for strategy and deal execution from market analysis through contract award.
Business Development Manager
ADO-G Group of Companies (Baku, Azerbaijan)
2017 - 2020
• Identified an untapped opportunity in the automotive aftermarket and built a new division from scratch – signed 20+ enterprise clients in year one and generated AZN 1M+ in revenue. The division became a recurring profit centre for the group. • Maintained long-term relationships with key domestic and international partners, generating consistent repeat business across the group’s verticals.

Skills

business-development
consulting
non-tech
partnership
research
strategy
english
azerbaijani
russian
turkish