Tetiana Tomash, international financial expert
Tetiana is a seasoned financial expert with 28 years of banking experience in leadership positions within risk management, audit and corporate finance. She started her career back in 1995, at the very dawn of the Ukrainian banking sector and developed her expertise as the market matured from “cowboy times” of 1990’s to the best corporate governance practices and digitalization of financial services nowadays. Tetiana worked in a big 4 audit company from 1999 to 2005 specializing in financial sector audit, she worked with the commercial banks, the National Bank of Ukraine and also on international assignments. Later she joined IFC Ukraine Banking Corporate Governance Project aimed at implementing OECD Corporate Governance Principles in the Ukrainian banking sector. As a result of this project a number of private banks managed to attract international investments. She also worked as a consultant on a number of projects for microfinance institutions promoting responsible financial inclusion practices. In 2008 Tetiana joined one of the biggest private banks in Ukraine where she performed in the leading roles in all three lines of defense: first as Chief Audit Executive for over 4 years establishing the third line from scratch; later she moved to business and headed Corporate Lending function and was responsible for the loan portfolio of about USD 1 bln. In 2016 she took the Chief Risk Officer position at the date of acquisition of another similar size bank and led the merger and transformation of risk management function. She is the expert in due diligence and business development. In 2017 Tetiana moved to the Netherlands where she continued working in international companies in the financial sector in leading positions within corporate finance, audit and risk management. With the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine she decided to switch back to international projects related to rebuilding of Ukraine and started working with Gazelle Finance as Investment Director for Ukraine.
Mother of three, Tetiana lives in the Netherlands with her family.

Anna Datunashvili joined Gazelle Finance in July 2022 and serves as Business Development Manager. Anna brings over 6 years of diverse financial experience with multiple companies, including accounting, investor relations, financial analysis, internal audit, treasury and crypto operations management.

Prior to joining Gazelle Finance, Anna worked at Bitfury Group in the Finance Department as a Finance Coordinator. She was in charge of all treasury-related activities, such as monitoring and managing bank relationships and liquidity management; cash management; debt facility management; analyzing all financial data; monitoring all transactions and preparing appropriate reports for same; balance sheet/income statement reconciliations; participation in month-end, quarter-end, and year-end audits and group audits.

Prior to joining Bitfury Group, Anna was an advisor at BDO Georgia. She worked with a variety of local and international companies, performing the following tasks: bookkeeping in accounting software, preparing and submitting monthly tax returns, daily financial or tax consultation, bank transfers, preparing monthly or quarterly financial reports, and payroll & HR administration service.

Anna also worked for Bank Republic, Société Générale (SG) Group, as an assistant in the Retail Credit Risk Analysis Department.

Anna holds a B.A. with honors in Economics from Tbilisi State University with a concentration in Macroeconomics. A native Georgian speaker, Anna is fluent in English and Russian.

Marianna Arakelyan joined Gazelle Finance in May 2022 and serves as an administrative director/ESG analyst. Marianna brings over 11 years of administrative experience from working at telecommunication and production companies in Armenia.

Prior to joining Gazelle Finance, Marianna worked at Bacon Product LLC as an HR specialist/team leader. At Bacon Product she was monitoring all Human Resource functions and was involved in project and covenant compliance monitoring, environmental and social compliance, development of HR polices, compensation review of the team, trainings, and development plans.

Prior to Bacon Product LLC, Marianna initially worked as an office manager/executive assistant to CEO at Ucom LLC, one of the largest telecommunication companies in Armenia. As an office manager she was organizing and coordinating administration duties and office procedures, as well as assisting the organization’s HR and finance functions by keeping personnel records up to date, arranging interviews and updating financial documents.

Marianna holds a Master’s degree from Yerevan State Linguistic University.  She has successfully completed “Staff Management Academy” course by Gortsq LLC.

Marianna is fluent in Armenian, Russian and English languages.

Arthur Hayrapetyan Joined Gazelle Finance in February 2022 as an Investment Officer in Yerevan, Armenia. Arthur has more than 5 years of professional banking experience and has held various positions at two leading Armenian banks Ameriabank CJSC and HSBC Bank of Armenia CJSC.
Prior to joining Gazelle Finance, Arthur worked as a Branch Supervisor at HSBC Bank. He had a significant contribution in arrangements of several cooperations with different companies, as well as leading a team of 12 members. During 4 years working at HSBC Bank he won 2 nominations, by becoming the Employee of the month and the Best employee of Retail Department for Year 2020.

Prior to working at HSBC Bank Arthur worked as a Loan Officer at Ameriabank CJSC.

Arthur holds Master’s Degree in Public Finance Management from Public Administration Academy of Republic of Armenia, as well as B.A in economics from the Armenian State University of Economics.

Arthur is fluent in Armenian, Russian and English languages.