A life across systems

Arik Shimansky works across strategy, emerging technology, institutional systems and developing research. His career began in banking and financial markets, where he worked with complex products, transactions and institutional clients. As a Director at Citi in London, he was responsible for multi-asset sales to financial institutions in Israel and South Africa and structured first-of-kind transactions.

He subsequently worked across investment, technology and climate-related businesses. As Managing Partner at Capital International, he managed portfolio investments, provided strategic direction at board level and served as acting CEO of an algorithmic trading company. At Thomson Reuters he managed pre-sales with strategic clients and received several innovation prizes. He later served as Strategy Director at MoneXdiam and Chief Sales Officer at Everimpact, whose work focused on measuring and monetising carbon reductions for cities and shipping.

In 2023 he founded Synaptic Quanta, a deliberately small advisory practice. He works with boards and executive teams on strategic decisions where complexity, technology and organisational architecture intersect, and continues to originate and structure selected cross-border transactions.

Arik holds a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MSc in Quantum Chemistry from the University of the Witwatersrand. His current work includes AI strategy, artificial-system architecture and research into the evolutionary emergence of valence.