Developing commercial opportunities
Developing markets, customer relationships and partnerships, drawing on institutional sales, strategic-client pre-sales and international growth work.
Arik Shimansky
Turning complex opportunities into commercial outcomes.
I work across institutional finance, technology and international business, bringing experience in commercial development, investments and transaction structuring.
My career includes roles as Director at Citi and Senior Consultant at Thomson Reuters, alongside investment and commercial leadership in other businesses.
Based in Portugal, I work internationally and am open to commercial engagements, partnerships and senior roles.
01 / Commercial engagement
Where I can contribute
Transactions and strategic decisions
Assessing opportunities, developing transaction structures and working through commercial negotiations, informed by institutional finance, investment responsibilities and board-level strategy.
Working alongside established teams
Bringing senior commercial experience to businesses, founders, investors or advisory firms where it complements technical or operational expertise. This could be a senior or fractional role, a paid advisory engagement or a specific collaboration.
02 / Selected experience
Institutional experience. Entrepreneurial perspective.
At Citi, I worked in multi-asset institutional sales and first-of-kind transaction structuring. At Thomson Reuters, I supported strategic clients through complex sales processes. As Managing Partner at Capital International, I directed investments, worked on board-level strategy and served as acting CEO of an algorithmic trading company.
I have also co-founded a business serving financial-services firms, worked on go-to-market and international growth as Strategy Director at MoneXdiam, and led sales at Everimpact in climate technology.
03 / Contact
A conversation about the opportunity.
If you are developing a business, evaluating an opportunity, building a commercial partnership or considering someone for a senior role, I would welcome a conversation where my experience may be relevant.
04 / Research and writing
Science, software and independent inquiry.
My education in mathematics, physics and quantum chemistry informs an ongoing interest in intelligence and complex systems. I use AI and software tools to build prototypes and test ideas, including my experimental Personal Cognitive Architecture.
Synaptic Quanta is the independent ideas lab I founded. It brings together my research into consciousness and adaptive intelligence, including small adaptive systems. My published preprint, Valence Under Temporal Constraint, explores when valence could help guide action; its claim about felt experience depends on an explicit affective premise.