DEVELOPMENT FINANCE
PRIVATE CAPITAL
POLICY

Max is a commercial and operational leader with a career built at the intersection of development finance, private capital, and policy.

He began at a San Francisco investment group partnered with the Nakhodka Free Economic Zone on an infrastructure initiative supported by the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), as part of a planned $100 million regional commitment. The experience provided him early hands-on exposure to cross-border project finance and supply-chain execution.

Turning to compliance, Max worked alongside Protiviti—the risk and regulatory consulting firm built from Arthur Andersen's former practice—securing multiple multimillion-dollar Sarbanes-Oxley engagements, including the largest in Silicon Valley at the time and establishing a new companywide benchmark.

In 2006, he co-founded Execuforce, scaling the IPO, regulatory-compliance, and leadership-search firm to more than $1 million in revenue in its first year.

Most recently, Max has been focused on energy and critical-minerals projects in emerging markets, engaging the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and European Investment Bank (EIB), as well as private equity and venture capital firms and global commodities trading and engineering companies.

Max holds an M.A. in International Policy Studies and a B.A. in International Relations from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.