Vadim Brinzan

Prior to joining HandsOn Ventures in 2004, Mr. Brinzan is an investment banker at Merrill Lynch And Co. Inc. Prior to joining HOV, Brinzan served as a Director in Merrill Lynch's Principal Investing group in New York (2001-2007), where he helped manage a multi-billion dollar portfolio of Merrill Lynch investments in public and private companies in consumer finance, financial services, business process outsourcing, and other sectors.
Brinzan started his career at Merrill Lynch in Mergers & Acquisitions group in 2001 specializing in diversified industrials and power and energy sectors.
Previously, Brinzan worked as a management consultant with Oracle Corporation in the U.S.
(1999) and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Russia and other CIS countries, where he played leading roles in mass privatization projects in Ukraine and Moldova (1994-1996), as well as advised companies in various industries and sectors in Russia (1996-1999).
Mr. Brinzan holds an MBA degree with honors from Harvard Business School and a M.S.
in Physics with highdistinction from Moldova State University.