Ivaylo Penev, CFA

Ivaylo Penev is member of the Board of Directors at ELANA Fund Management and heads the Asset Management department of the company.

He began his professional career in finance and investment back in 2001 at First Eastern International Bank (current International Asset Bank).  After short tenure as an accountant he was given a position at Liquidity, Markets and Investments division with focus on FI and FX trading. In 2004 he joined ELANA Group team, initially as part of the Global Markets department at the broker ELANA Trading.  As of mid-2007 Ivaylo Penev joined the Asset Management department of ELANA Fund Management.

Ivaylo Penev holds Master’s degree in Finance & Banking from the University of National and World Economy-Sofia and MBA from Vienna University Executive Academy.  He is a CFA Charterholder.  Penev has lectured at American University in Bulgaria (Blagoevgrad), Atanas Burov Foundation Summer School on Capital Markets as well as at Finance Master’s programme of the New Bulgarian University-Sofia.