Sergey Plotnikov

Sergey joins Tabard as a Venture Partner and covers our West Coast activity from Seattle.
He is also a Senior Director of Business Development at PitchBook, where he works closely with corporate and venture capital investors, startups and entrepreneurs.
With a strong analytical focus, Sergey helps executives and management teams with industry analyses, competitive company positioning, fundraising, and private company transactions to more effectively execute their strategies.
Prior to PitchBook, Sergey lived in Atlanta and worked at Curing Capital, a healthcare and technology focused investment and consulting firm.
He covered technology companies in the lower middle market space and maintained extensive relationships with financial sponsors and strategic investors.
Sergey first got involved with startups and entrepreneurs while at New England College, where he founded and successfully ran two student organizations focused on investing and venture capital.
He also worked closely with Dean Kamen, as a Program Coordinator at FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology).
Dean is best-known for inventing Segway, and he holds more than 440 patents for innovative medical and technology related devices.
At FIRST, Sergey collaborated with various engineers, inventors and entrepreneurs.
Sergey earned his B.S.
Degree in Accounting from New England College, while taking various Math, Calculus and Statistical courses.
He spends his free time in the outdoors backpacking and snowboarding.
He also serves as a volunteer for a few local Arts and nonprofit organizations in Seattle.