Before joining Intel, Kirill served as Vice-President at Altera Capital, a $500m multi-strategy fund covering TMT and Consumer sectors across various asset classes. Prior to Altera, he worked at Alfa Capital Partners, a $700m private equity fund investing in mid-cap companies in Russia and CIS. He began his career in the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse in New York, advising multinational and Russian companies on a variety of M&A and capital markets transactions, representing over $2bn in value. Kirill graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University in 2005, with a degree in Economics and a program in International Relations.