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Ivan Shyshov

Investment and financial management, project portfolio management

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Professional profile

A leader with over 8 years of experience in investment, finance, and project-portfolio management in the energy sector and consulting.
Specializes in the full cycle of investment and project management, financial analysis, financial and operational modeling. Implements artificial intelligence tools to automate analytical and managerial processes.

Over 5 years in leadership roles at key energy-sector companies.
Successfully managed functional areas including: investment, finance and economics, project management office, business analytics and modeling.
Was responsible for the full cycle of investment and project-portfolio management (over 40 projects a year with a total CAPEX budget of UAH 1–5B), financial management (budgets of UAH 10–40B a year, more than 30 financial-responsibility centers), and improving operational efficiency through the implementation of digital models and management-analytics tools.

3 years in consulting, senior consultant at a Big Four firm (PwC).
Delivered and managed projects in consulting, audit, risk assessment, M&A, and pre-investment analysis (due diligence). Successfully delivered more than 40 projects for large Ukrainian companies and international groups across various industries (oil and gas, energy, chemicals, metallurgy, food, construction, agriculture, retail, transport, IT).

Experience and practice

  • Financial and operational modeling
  • Investment management
  • Investment project appraisal
  • Project management
  • Operational efficiency
  • AI-driven process automation

Built the full cycle of investment management (from collecting and prioritizing initiatives to delivering projects) at an industrial enterprise (annual program of ~40 projects with a budget of UAH 1B+, a 45% rise in execution, the average payback period cut from 4 years to ~1.5 years).

Implemented a digital twin — a dynamic model for managing natural-gas production (~45 fields, ~1,500 wells, 90+ production facilities).

Built an optimization model for the energy supply of an industrial enterprise (~UAH 30M saved on energy costs per month).

Developed a financial model for a bioethanol plant with a capacity of ~100 tons a day (an assessment of investment feasibility and operating profitability for the owner and lenders/investors).

Coordinated a comprehensive project to develop a new gas field in de-occupied territory (in 10 months, a new gas treatment unit with a capacity of 3M m³/day and a 30 km pipeline were built).

Developed an AI tool for automated preparation of a daily industry digest (developed a bot that independently aggregates industry news, insights, analytical publications and reports, validates information sources, compiles a structured digest, and distributes it daily to the team and top management — saving analysts’ time and creating a unified information field for the team).

Certifications and professional memberships

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
    Project Management Professional (PMP)

Education:

  • Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University

    International economics

  • Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas

    Oil-and-gas engineering and technologies

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