Oksana Koryak, PhD, CFA

Research Fellow, Warwick Business School & Entreprise Research Centre

08/2013- Present   

• Research project “Entrepreneurial Leadership, Capabilities and Growth” involves both quantitative and qualitative analysis based on a large-scale survey of SME leaders and longitudinal case studies into the decision making of the top management teams of several SMEs.

• Publications: Koryak, O., Mole, K., Lockett, A., Hayton, J., Ucbasaran, D., Hodgkinson, G. "Entrepreneurial leadership, capabilities and firm growth", International Small Business Journal 33 (2015): 89-105.

• Coaching student teams and assessing the final group presentations at Entrepreneurship and Business course.

 

Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for Programme Management, Cranfield School of Management, UK

2010-2013   

• Conducted research into entrepreneurs’ resilience. The work was nominated for best paper at the European Academy of Management (EURAM) in 2014. Prior version presented at Babson College Entrepreneurship Conference in 2013. 

• Conducted research into managerial decision making underlying strategic change programmes. This research was based on a 2-year collaborative research partnership with 9 large organizations. The work was presented at EURAM in 2012 and formed part of the 2 white papers I co-authored.

• Teaching: Executing Strategy through Programmes at the MSc in Programme & Project Management, based on the case study “Envision, strategize, transform: Desso’s journey to sustainability”, developed jointly with Dr. H. Maylor.

 

Vice-President, Leveraged Finance and Sponsor Coverage, ING Structured Finance, Madrid

2002-2004, 2006

 

• Involved in setting up a Leveraged Finance department in Spain.

• Was instrumental in gaining the department’s first MLA & book-runner mandate within the first 6 month and securing Spain’s first ever stapled finance mandate. 9 deals completed in the first 2 years of operations.

• Direct responsibility for working out of a problem loan, which involved liaising with the financial sponsor, the bank syndicate, legal councils and the administrator. Resulted in a successful secondary sale of the bank’s exposure. 

• Developed and maintained client relationships, identified leveraged transactions opportunities, pitched, structured, negotiated and executed leveraged deals. Undertook due diligence review, prepared financial models and managed internal approval and legal documentation process.

• Client segment: Domestic & international financial sponsors.   

 

Senior Credit Analyst, Risk Management, ING Group, Madrid

​2001-2002

 

• Structured new transactions jointly with the relationship managers 

• Performed credit analysis and financial modelling, analysed and submitted proposals for credit approval, prepared recommendations for credit committees, monitored portfolio performance and credit compliance.

• Provided instruction to juniour members of the team

• Client / product segment: Spanish corporate sector, including blue chip corporates, family firms, SMEs as well as complex structured transactions (project finance, corporate acquisitions). 

 

Associate, ING Barings, Structured Finance, Amsterdam

1997-2001

 

• Maintained client relationships and prepared credit proposals. Contributed to structuring, negotiation and execution of project finance and other structured deals.

• Sector focus: natural resources and media