Citi
Director · 2007–2011
Multi-asset sales to financial institutions in Israel and South Africa, including first-in-kind innovative transactions.
Work
Different domains. A recurring kind of problem.
We draw on experience across institutional finance, portfolio investment, technology, strategy, climate measurement and venture development.
The settings differ. The recurring work has been to understand unfamiliar or changing situations, connect information that normally sits in separate domains, and turn that understanding into something people can act on.
Arik Shimansky’s experience
Capital International
Managing Partner · 2012–2014
Managed portfolio investments, provided board-level strategic direction and acted as CEO of an algorithmic-trading company.
Thomson Reuters
Senior Consultant · 2015–2018
Managed pre-sales with strategic clients through complex sales processes and received several innovation prizes.
MoneXdiam
Strategy Director · 2019–2020
Created the business plan, strategic direction, go-to-market and international-growth strategies as part of the leadership team.
Everimpact
Chief Sales Officer · 2022–2023
Led sales for city carbon monitoring and monetisation and direct emissions measurement in shipping.
Active work
Strategy and opportunity
Work with leadership teams, founders and investors on difficult decisions, new opportunities and situations where the existing framing no longer produces a useful answer.
Transactions and ventures
Selective development and structuring of opportunities where there is a credible route from underlying value to an executable transaction or business.
Applied research and systems
Personal cognitive architecture and Digital Umwelt
An experimental personal AI architecture for memory, goals and attention, alongside a developing layer to preserve context across AI models and applications.
Explore the system →Geopolitical forecasting
A structured forecasting system using explicit probabilities, causal analysis and historical replay. Validation is in progress.