Irina Goryacheva, General Director
Irina Goryacheva is general director of Almaz Capital Advisors (Moscow office) and responsible for the organizational and administrative functions of the firm. Prior to joining Almaz she served as director of organizational development for the Evraziyskiy Group, ran a management consulting firm, Attracta, which she founded; was an executive recruiter with Ward Howell International and H.Neumann Intenational, where she specialized in building finance and investment teams with C-level executives. As operations/program director, Irina also organized and managed several innovation, venture capital and technology events including Russian TechTour 2004 & 2009; Innovation Forum "Go, Russia!" 2010 and VC Trip to Russia 2010.
She earned a M.S., Economics from the Russian Academy of Sciences and a B.S. in socio-economic geography from Lomonosov Moscow State University.