Dmitriy Manakov

Dmitriy Manakov is a Senior Partner at Prometheus Capital Partners, a Moscow-based private equity fund founded in 2010 that invests both its own and third-party capital across Russia and the CIS. According to his Bloomberg and firm profiles, he is a former McKinsey & Company consultant with extensive industrial and analytical experience, and previously served as Head of the Office of the CEO at TNK-BP (TNK-British Petroleum), one of Russia's largest oil companies at the time.

His educational background is rooted in the sciences: he is a physics graduate of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Moscow Physical-Technological University), and he went on to earn a physics degree and an MBA from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, USA.

At Prometheus, Manakov works alongside a small partnership of roughly six partners spread across Russia, the United States and Panama, including Chairman Levan Vasadze (a Georgian businessman) and Senior Partner Tom Kosco. The firm concentrates on middle-market companies in retail and consumer-facing services, food production, and consumer-related manufacturing, pursuing acquisitions and control/growth positions rather than early-stage venture bets.

• Invests in middle-market companies in Russia and the CIS, deploying both proprietary and third-party (LP) capital.
• Sector focus: retail and other consumer services, food production, and consumer-related manufacturing — i.e., established, cash-generative consumer businesses rather than technology startups.
• Style is private equity / buyout-and-hold, taking meaningful (often control) stakes in operating companies, consistent with the partners' operating and consulting pedigrees (McKinsey, TNK-BP).
• The firm's demonstrated approach favors acquisitions of real operating assets (e.g., pet-food producers, consulting/IT-services businesses, and consumer/beverage brands) that can be improved operationally.