Nine domains. One operating system.

In their own words

I am an economist who builds. VIG exists because the Bulgarian residential market is a market where the capital is abundant, the buildings are good, and the operators who can genuinely take a plot from land memo to notarial exit without a single bad handoff are fewer than you would expect. When I started VIG I had one rule that has not bent: if we cannot own the decision, we do not sell the outcome. That rule has cost us deals. It has also cost us zero investor redemptions. I speak to every investor at the Private Investor tier and above personally before they commit capital. Not because I enjoy it — because any problem in Bulgarian real estate that is going to show up in year three is a problem I can smell in the first call. The rest of the team builds. My job is to pick the right plots, structure the capital correctly, and make sure nothing in the pipeline sneaks past the filter.

Prior experience

• Economist — structured private capital vehicles across CEE
• Built VIG as a platform, not a fund — vertical integration as the thesis
• Direct investor conversations the primary IR channel

In their own words

My job is to make sure the path from "curious about Bulgaria" to "wiring capital to a VIG SPV" is clear, compliant, and free of surprises. I studied financial services economics because I wanted to understand how capital actually moves between jurisdictions, not just the textbook versions. That degree turns out to matter more for investor onboarding than most people think — the Bulgarian diaspora investor in Frankfurt is not the same investor as the UK-resident pension-age allocator, and the same product structure can feel different to each. I spend most of my time where investors meet the structure: tier design, onboarding experience, tax memo accuracy per jurisdiction, and making sure the first subscription feels as legible as the tenth. I also run the investor-profile process on the onboarding side, because the profile is how we make sure we are matching the right product to the right investor — not the other way around.

Prior experience

• Designed the Starter / Private / Professional Investor tiering
• Built the onboarding flow: profile, call, diligence pack, documentation
• Liaison for non-BG investor onboarding (UK, DACH, diaspora)

In their own words

I came to VIG from the other side of the table — delivering large mixed-use projects with bank financing. What I learned from that side is that the operators sellers and banks want to work with are the ones who do not re-trade, do not move goalposts, and do not surprise anyone with a last-minute request. Every single one of those behaviours is an option VIG does not exercise. My job on the business-development side is to keep that reputation intact in every deal we pursue, because the compounding value of being known as "the operator who closes clean" is the real moat in a mid-sized market like Sofia. I run sponsor and co-investor conversations, land seller relationships, and the bank-financing side of the capital stack. The rest of the team could underwrite every deal perfectly — if sellers do not come to us first, none of that underwriting matters.

Prior experience

• End-to-end delivery of a 120M-euro integrated Bulgarian resort
• Secured 50M-euro construction and mezzanine financing from Bulgarian and regional banks
• Cross-border banking relationships across CEE

In their own words

I have been practising real-estate law in Bulgaria since before Bulgaria joined the EU. That length of context matters because the rules have changed twice in that period, and the good practice has changed with them — most operators are still running on the pre-AIFMD version of investor documentation. At VIG I lead all investor-facing documentation: SPV articles, subscription agreements, shareholder rights, milestone-release schedules, and the cross-border notarial process that most non-BG investors are genuinely encountering for the first time. I also own the regulatory-roadmap work. The path from "private fund and project SPVs today" to "authorised AIF tomorrow" is a legal process, not a marketing one, and getting the sequence right is what keeps us credible both to regulators and to the investors trusting us with capital today. I answer investor legal questions directly — no filter.

Prior experience

• 22 years of Bulgarian real-estate transactional practice
• REIT structuring experience across Bulgarian and EU frameworks
• Cross-border compliance for non-resident investor structures

In their own words

I look at VIG's capital stack the way a bank credit officer looks at a borrower: what would I need to see before I was comfortable? That discipline is why VIG caps leverage below a hard ceiling, commits first-loss equity, and keeps every SPV financially isolated. My day splits roughly three ways — building and maintaining the underwriting model for each active and candidate project, owning the quarterly reporting cadence to investors, and running the conversations that investors want to have about fund-level economics, fees, and carry. I came out of corporate banking because I wanted to be on the operator side of the table after ten years of being on the underwriting side. I am the named investor-facing contact for financial and compliance counsel — any question about fees, waterfall, hurdle, or carry lands with me, and I answer in writing.

Prior experience

• Corporate banking at Raiffeisenbank — project-finance origination and underwriting
• Private-fund management experience before joining VIG
• Named investor-facing contact for financial and compliance counsel

In their own words

I am an engineer by training and a builder by instinct. At VIG I own site execution — every active project, every milestone, every line item between permit-in-hand and notarial transfer. The memory that shapes how I run construction is that most residential projects in Sofia that fail do not fail because the market moved; they fail because a thousand small decisions get made in the wrong order. Milestone-controlled capital release is how we force discipline into that process: money moves when evidence moves, not when a contractor says a milestone is close. I run a weekly site-to-finance rhythm with Natalia so that what happens on the ground and what shows up in the report are the same thing. Investors see what I see, lagged by two weeks at most. Nothing is softened; nothing is spun.

Prior experience

• MSc Engineering — full-stack construction background, ground up
• Full-chain construction command across Sofia residential projects
• Oversight of VIBRIX (construction) and VISTATE (land) execution