Serge is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in investment banking, equity capital markets, and venture capital. He has honed his skills in corporate finance, specializing in transborder M&A and private placement transactions. However, Serge’s true passion lies in taking companies public through IPOs.
Thanks to his extensive experience working with large clients and achieving impressive accomplishments, Serge was appointed as the Head of Family Office. In this role, he was tasked with creating a venture portfolio for the beneficiaries, a
challenge he embraced with great enthusiasm. After five years in this position,
Serge took a short break before joining a highly successful brokerage firm as the Head of Venture Business.
Using everything he has learned over the years, Serge is well-positioned to help build Ameetee into a thriving and prosperous business.
Serge’s academic credentials include a B.A. degree in Economics and Finance from Carleton University, Canada.
Mila Khrapchenko, currently co-founder and co-CEO of Ameetee, is a seasoned professional in structured finance and complex solutions, both for corporate and retail clients. She built and led a structured finance business at one of the largest privately owned Emerging markers banks, creating and leading a team of 13 professionals and running a book of approximately $2 bn dollars.
Later, together with Sergey Shlyuger, also co-founder and co-CEO of Ameetee, she created venture business line at BCS Financial Group, which not only succeeded in launching the first product within 4 months from the start but also had one of the best cost/income ratios within the Group.
Mila’s passion for venture capital resulted in 30+ early-stage VC personal investments across the globe where she often assists with fundraising, networking and strategy advice. She is a member of such angel investor communities as AngelsDeck and New Economic Investors Club.
She holds MA Degree in Econometrics from Moscow State University.
Christian has had an interesting and varied career of over 25 years in Financial Service. He is the AI Engagement Strategist in our Advanced Solutions team managing the internal and external engagement strategy for our AI practice. He is also the EMEA Lead for Digital, championing our Digital agenda, showcasing new ways of working and advanced technologies in the region. He has been a core part of BNY Mellon’s digital culture change from the start, working on digitizing BNY Mellon, Digital Assets and AI.
Alongside his main role, Christian maintains many pastoral activities. He has been instrumental in setting up our Sustainability employee action group, growing the membership 5x in the first year, and aligning it to corporate goals. In addition, he greatly enjoys mentoring, and has been mentoring formally for the last 10 years, both within the Bank, and with his University Alumni connections.
He has been at BNY Mellon since 1998 working in a variety of change roles and product management roles and progressively moving into digital roles.
Christian studied Archaeology at Liverpool University which has been super helpful.
As CEO of PEAC Solutions, Mr. Stephenson is focused on expanding and further integrating PEAC’s global footprint to deliver financial solutions to manufacturers and distribution partners worldwide. With over three decades of experience in the financial services industry, he has held a variety of senior leadership positions, including eight years as the CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of DLL, where he played an integral role in creating one of the world’s largest vendor finance companies. He has also served as Chairman on the Board of the Equipment Leasing and Financing Association (“ELFA”) in the United States and was honored with the Chairman’s Award from the Associated Equipment Distributors (“AED”), an industry association that serves as a resource to machinery dealers around the world. Mr. Stephenson is also a former member of the Leasing Life “Power 50”, which highlights the most influential figures in the European leasing and asset finance market. Most recently, he was cited as the “CEO of the Decade (2010-2020) by the MonitorDaily, a leading industry publication for the equipment finance and leasing market in the United States. In addition to being an innovative industry leader, Mr. Stephenson is a strong advocate for corporate social responsibility and frequently speaks at industry events across the globe. He is a proud alumnus of Florida State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.
David Cutler is the Director of Project Management at WCG for the EAC service line. David provides leadership to the WCG EAC organization and serves as a subject matter expert for management of endpoint adjudication committees. In his current role, David leads WCG’s EAC Project Management group with a focus on developing and managing expert committees in alignment with industry and regulatory best practices.
David has over 15 years industry experience and prior to joining WCG David worked in a variety of leadership roles in healthcare, academic, and nonprofit organizations building healthcare delivery programs and managing research teams. David spent the early part of his career developing and managing operations for NEURO-NET, a program aimed at improving long term outcomes for patients with catastrophic injuries. Prior to his focus on EACs, David’s work in clinical research was at a large public hospital building clinical research infrastructure enabling underserved patient populations to gain access to industry sponsored clinical trials and public/private grant funded research initiatives.
David holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California Santa Cruz and a Master of Arts in Counseling, Health Psychology from Santa Clara University.
Maria is the Head of Formulation Development at Recipharm. Maria has a master’s degree in chemical engineering towards pharma and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Stockholm Royal Institute of Technology.
Maria has 15 years of experience in formulation development from academia, research institutes, and industry such as KTH, RISE, and Nanologica. She has worked with pre-clinical development and early clinical phase development (CTM) with a broad range of dosage forms including sterile products. She has a particular interest in encapsulation and controlled release of APIs in formulations as well as coating technologies and experience in formulations with peptides and proteins.
Dr. Uwe Hanenberg, Head of Product Development, Oral Solid Dose (OSD) at Recipharm. Uwe is responsible for implementing and executing the OSD product development strategy that assures science driven, timely development of new products or services.
Uwe has 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry with Bayer, Altana, Grünenthal and Catalent. He has held several leading positions in quality, manufacturing and packaging, product development, project management within the science & technology sphere. His areas of expertise are oral formulation development, oral manufacturing technologies, stick pack technologies and pharmaceutical contract services and project management.
