Vladimir Antikarov is Principal at Verea Group LLC.

With over 20 years of experience, Mr. Antikarov has served as a senior member of the corporate finance practice with the Monitor Group (1992-2005), now Monitor Deloitte, and as Senior Advisor to the CFO of Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (2005-2012). His client engagements have included work with AT&T, Merck, Lockheed Martin, Avaya, Thomson Reuters, Philips, Roche, Valle, Votorantim, Telefonica and Axel Johnson.

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Mr. Antikarov holds an MBA in Finance from Boston University and was a Fulbright Scholar. A frequent professional panelist and invited speaker internationally, he is conversant in several languages and fluent in English, Spanish, Russian and Bulgarian. Mr. Antikarov and his wife, working at the U.S. State Department, reside in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, DC.

Mr. Antikarov is the co-author, with Tom Copeland, of the bestselling book, Real Options, A Practitioner’s Guide, used by MIT, Harvard, the Wharton School and many other business schools. The book has been published in six languages and was the number one business book on Amazon UK.

The revised edition offers corporate decision-makers the ability to assess the profitability of their ventures and decide which avenue of expansion or investment to go down and, crucially, when to take that leap. The reader goes on a journey through real options, from the basics to more advanced topics such as options and game theory. It provides expert guidance on how to implement the theory to maximize investment opportunities by utilizing uncertainty as an asset and reducing downside risk.

A member of numerous professional associations, most recently Mr. Antikarov has been elected by his professional colleagues as Regional Director of the 6,000+ member Washington DC chapter of PRMIA, the Professional Risk Manager International Association.  PRMIA’s mission is to provide a free and open forum for the promotion of sound risk management standards and practices globally and is represented  by over 65 chapters in major cities around the world.