Our CEO and “mom” of the Platform is Dr. Ludmila Yadchenko (Ludmila Jadčenko). Ludmila has been working in the financial and business consulting sector for over 15 years, starting as an investment analyst for one of the leading international real estate consultancy companies. Later on, she led teams of analysts and established and managed her own consulting business.

Under Ludmila’s guidance and management, major investment projects have been successfully developed and implemented in diversified industries. These projects range from the processing of agricultural products to innovative high-value-added products. The services rendered encompass independent expert evidence on project feasibility, vast market research, financial modeling, and forecasts, among other aspects.

Ludmila holds a PhD in Economics obtained from the University of Latvia and a bachelor’s degree in Law. In 2008, she was awarded the title of Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS).

Before launching FUNDAUS, Ludmila participated as a retained expert in other financial platforms, developing and launching them “from scratch.” Her responsibilities included developing internal logics and accounting systems for the platform, preparing technical tasks for IT developers, team building, and management. Later on, Ludmila was involved in several outsourcing-based orders for crowdfunding platform development and servicing as a financial expert and advisor.

Janis Plotnieks is a young but highly experienced certified real estate professional, investor, and entrepreneur. Over the last decade, he has successfully developed and launched various real estate projects, including residential buildings, villages, and warehousing development projects. These projects cater to major international brands as well as private investors.

In addition to his real estate expertise, Janis has a background in running successful marketing and HR companies. He remains actively involved in these ventures. Janis holds a Business Administration diploma from Riga Business School (Riga Technical University). Within the FUNDAUS project, he is responsible for real estate project management, coordinating investor relationships, and providing valuable insights to the marketing team.

Mari-Liis Soe is a dedicated professional with over 16 years of experience in the heavily regulated financial sector. She is recognized as a Financial Professional and Compliance Expert specializing in Financial Crime Prevention.

Her fundamental knowledge is combined with long-term expertise in complex areas such as anti-money laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), combatting the financing of terrorism (CFT), and economic sanctions compliance. Mari-Liis has counseled her clients in a variety of projects, managing gap analyses, compliance program reviews, risk assessments, remediation efforts, investigations, and historical transaction reviews. Her clients include large, complex global financial institutions, global payments institutions, mid-sized banks, and Fintech and digital assets companies.

Before joining FUNDAUS, Mari-Liis held senior Compliance positions within the Baltics, Nordics, and Benelux regions (SEB Bank, Swedbank, Coop Pank, Nordea Bank, ING Bank). She provided day-to-day management of their compliance programs and assisted with remediation efforts, often in the context of regulatory or criminal enforcement actions. Mari-Liis has also trained and advised the financial services industry on AML, sanctions, CFT, and other regulatory compliance issues.

With strong legal and business acumen, she delivers solutions and controls aimed at optimizing performance across dynamic environments. Mari-Liis harnesses strong communication skills to monitor and report on compliance issues to both internal and external stakeholders, conveying complex legal and commercial terminology alongside business requirements in an easily understood format.

She is a former member of the Estonian Banking Association and a Board Member of the Baltics ACAMS Chapter.

Jana has been closely involved in the creation and development of FUNDAUS from day one. She is an integral part of the core team, collaborating with the CEO to generate the business model, address licensing issues, draft legal documents, and plan further activities. Jana holds a Master's Degree in Law from the University of Latvia and High School Turiba. With 20 years of legal experience, she has held various positions in banking and financial institutions. Her expertise spans financing, financial instruments, AML, GDPR, maritime law, ship finance, banking, and corporate law.

In 2018, Jana established her own legal bureau, BONAMEUS, which has been the primary legal and compliance advisor for FUNDAUS since its inception.

As part of her role at FUNDAUS, Jana conducts high-level due diligence on all customers (investors and project owners) and provides legal assessments for projects offered for financing on the FUNDAUS platform.

Jelena is a finance and compliance professional with over 10 years of experience in financial markets, including top management positions in the fields of risk management, compliance, and AML in financial institutions. She holds a degree in Accounting and Economics obtained from Southampton (U.K.), supplemented with further diplomas and certificates in risk-related spheres, including Basel III (CRDIV/CRR/PRO), International Association of Risk and Compliance Professionals Diploma (CRCMP), and IGCA Certificate in AML and Sanctions Compliance.

Jelena's multilateral expertise covers the development and management of AML/KYC systems within financial institutions. She excels in risk identification, assessment, and management, both for clients and company operations. Additionally, she is involved in monitoring and updating financial institution policies and procedures, as well as regulatory reporting under CRD/IFR/MIFID/MIFIR/EMIR. Her experience extends to capital adequacy assessment, recovery plan preparation, calibration of indicators, business continuity policies, plans, and testing. Jelena has also participated in annual internal audits of a financial institution.

Given her comprehensive knowledge, Jelena's valuable strengths include a deep understanding of risk management and business continuity, a structured and systemic approach to risk-related procedures, and strong analytical skills with a focus on key issues and details.

At FUNDAUS, Jelena is primarily responsible for timely updates and validation of risk documentation, as well as ongoing control of the proper implementation of risk management procedures in the company. As the Chief Risk Officer (CRO), Jelena is a member of the Risk Committee, contributing her expertise across related fields.

Marina has been an integral part of the professional FUNDAUS team from the very moment of the company's foundation. Under Marina's guidance and with her ultimate care, all mandatory internal procedures of the Platform have been developed in accordance with the regulations and pertaining to licensing of the Platform by Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Estonia as financial services provider as well as the set of documents for our agent company, FUNDAUS TRUST AGENT OU, that was required to receive the operating license in the area of service of trust services.

The highest standards of FUNDAUS policies and procedures, in accordance with international AML requirements and best practice of financial market participants are backed with Marina's previous more than 10-year-long experience in commercial banks, being a responsible for customer onboarding and due diligence. During this time, Marina has been involved in different processes related to AML in credit institutions, starting from development of policies and procedures, followed by in-depth client investigation and compliance supervision. With a passion for continuous improvement of her professional knowledge and skills, Marina follows and reports on all recent and prospective amendments in the field of AML regulation and never misses an opportunity to participate in vocational trainings and seminars.

Marina is also involved in all the processes related to GDPR and provides other advice and support in compliance. From 2019 Marina is a partner in BONAMEUS, Latvian legal bureau, which is an advisor and supporting company for FUNDAUS in legal and compliance issues.

Anne-Jana has been involved in various fields of civil, corporate, tax and financial law for around 9 years as a lawyer, legal advisor and legal counsel, encompassing 2 years of valuable experience in AML/CTF in a business service, business advisory and accounting company and 4 years of heading a compliance department in an international brokerage company.

Holding a master`s degree in law, obtained from Tallinn University of Technology, one of the most innovative universities in Estonia and keeping to constantly upgrade knowledge in compliance and AML related issues, Anne-Jana is equally qualified in application of local and international legal acts and enactments and proficient in employing smart technological solutions for compliance and KYC, as offered by certified service providers.

At FUNDAUS, Anne-Jana is responsible for execution of internal procedures and policies, including Compliance procedure and plan of compliance checks, and monitoring the applicable legal regulation to keep the internal documents of the company up-to-date. Besides that, she is involved in staff suitability assessment procedures in compliance with the EBA and EFSA requirements, communicates with the EFSA and supports the Board in compliance issues, including provide recommendations to the staff concerning the compliance matters.

As a DPO, Anne-Jana ensures communication between the company and data subjects and with the Data Protection Inspectorate, advises and supports the Board and the staff on data protection issues to efficiently prevent data breach incidents.

Edvards is a digital marketing professional with ten years of experience within the digital advertising field. Edvards has extensive experience coordinating and leading web development projects in various industries with the key aspect on design, user interface and user experience.

Throughout the years Edvards has helped companies navigate the digital waters which includes everything from creating user acquisition strategies, developing creative part of advertising, media buying and also assisting on website conversion rate optimization.

Important to mention that most of the projects Edvards has helped to build is from ground-up and launched into the market. Last five years Edvards has been leading boutique digital marketing and web agency working with clients locally and internationally.