David

DAVID DANELIA
Geneva, Switzerland

[open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) · DOB: 20 May 2001 · Nationality: Ukrainian
LinkedIn · Telegram · GitHub

PROFILE

Founder, product owner and portfolio manager. I ran and sold a B2C sales business (~$1M annual revenue, ~50 employees),
founded a mobile RPG studio through fundraising with ~20 funds, and have managed multi-asset portfolios since 2020. Strong
in product ownership, roadmaps, budgets and financial modelling, with hands-on Python and data skills and strong AI
knowledge. Creative by nature, with world-building, narrative and IP design behind a full game.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Product & Operations: Product Ownership · Roadmap & Prioritisation · B2C Sales Operations
Production: Team Leadership (20-person studio, ~50-person sales team) · Cross-Functional Coordination · Roadmap &
Milestone Planning · Vendor & Budget Management
Creative Direction: World-Building & Lore · Narrative Design (5 story arcs across 8 regions) · Character & IP Design · Music
Direction
Business Side: Fundraising · Investor Relations · Pitch Decks · Financial Modelling
Technical: Python · Data/Financial Tooling · AI/LLM Tools & Agents · Presentation Design
Languages: English (fluent) · Russian (native) · Ukrainian (native) · French (B1, actively developing)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Product Owner · Dream Making Mar 2023 – Jun 2025
• Owned the product and operations of a B2C sales call center, reaching ~$1M annual revenue in 2024.
• Led a team of ~50 employees.
• Built the business to run fully autonomously within a few months of launch, in full auto mode without my presence.
• Led the sale of the business and the exit.

Founder, CEO & Producer · Horizon Games Aug 2023 – Mar 2025
• Founded and led a 20-person mobile RPG studio from concept through active fundraising, personally producing the game
across every layer of development.
• Owned the full creative architecture as producer: directed world-building and lore across 8 distinct regions and 5 narrative
arcs, with tightly-linked character, IP and music direction — story and lore functioned as the core design pillar the entire
product was built around, not a layer added afterward.
• Directed product roadmap, go-to-market strategy and cross-functional team leadership alongside complete financial
ownership (budgeting, modelling, cash management).
• Ran the fundraising, engaging roughly 20 interested funds; built the investor data room, pitch decks and financial models,
and represented the studio at competitive pitch events and the WePlay Ventures accelerator.

Independent Portfolio Manager · Salients & Partners Jan 2023 – Present
• Construct and manage discretionary, multi-asset, multi-strategy portfolios for a private client base, spanning long-term
positioning, swing trading, intraday/momentum trading and cash management across equities, crypto, FX, commodities
and precious metals, with tactical intraday use of US Treasuries (TLT).

• Grew flagship client allocation from an initial $50k (2023) to $180k (as of July 2026); dedicated tactical trading
sub-strategy grew from $5k to $35k since its December 2025 introduction.
• Track record includes NVDA entered January 2023 at $15.60 (+1,055% unrealised) and XMR exited January 2026 at +603%.
• Built proprietary Python-based analytical infrastructure covering flow monitoring, options analytics, SEC filings parsing
(10-K/10-Q), cross-sector screening and backtesting.
• Produce client-facing performance attribution, risk commentary and portfolio reporting.

Founder & Author · The Salients (independent macro research channel) Ongoing
• Founded and write a cross-asset macro research channel, grown organically to an audience of hundreds of market
participants through deliberately infrequent, high-conviction publishing.
• Documented, timestamped call history including a BTC downside scenario, a hawkish-Warsh-but-dovish-data thesis, an
inflation-cooling call roughly two months ahead of consensus, a contrarian long-dollar position, a wheat long taken against
an oil sell-off and war-negotiation headlines, and a flagged war-escalation risk against prevailing optimism.

Portfolio Manager · Adamant Capital, Kyiv Jan 2020 – Dec 2022
• Promoted from Sales Manager to manage multi-asset client portfolios (equities, crypto, FX) at a 100+ person asset
management firm.
• Ranked as the desk's top-producing manager; over one 3-month stretch, personally generated approximately 60% of total
company revenue.
• Delivered daily market briefings; trade signals and allocation calls were adopted firm-wide as the standard framework for
colleagues' client positioning.

Sales Manager · Adamant Capital, Kyiv 2017 – Dec 2019
• Achieved record-breaking monthly results, leading to rapid promotion to Portfolio Manager.

PORTFOLIO & LINKS

Game Production (Financial & Operational) · Research Editions · GitHub