Management

Mr. Rouf has 30 years of experience in global financial markets, working as an investment banker and international financier. He currently advises public and private companies in various industries, including life sciences, AI, blockchain, and semiconductors, throughout North America, Europe, and India.

Prior to joining Nordicus Partners as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Rouf was the President of PWP, Inc., a California-based merchant bank, from 2004 to 2023, where he ran the company’s overall investment banking practice. During this time, he also cofounded RocketFuel Blockchain, a global payment processing platform. From 1997 to 2004, he was the Managing Partner of Impact Capital and financed numerous micro-cap and small-cap companies. Mr. Rouf started his career in the U.S. in 1991 as an Institutional Broker for various brokerage houses in New York and San Francisco, including Wedbush.

Mr. Yankowitz has more than 40 years of experience as a corporate attorney with leading law firms, specializing in securities, financial and merger and acquisition transactions. He has also served as an executive in the real estate, oil and gas and precious metals mining sectors.

Besides being Nordicus Partners’ Chief Financial Officer as well as a Member of the company’s Board of Directors, he is of counsel to the law firm Shumaker Mallory LLP, and was previously of counsel to its predecessor firm Parker Shumaker Mills LLP. He was previously counsel to Kaye Scholer LLP and a partner of Heenan Blaikie and of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP. From 2002 to 2014, Mr. Yankowitz was a director of Proteus Energy Corporation, a California-based private oil and gas production and development company and was its Chief Executive Officer from 2008 to 2014. He is currently chief executive officer of Gold Vault Capital, LLC, which focuses on resource recovery and environmental remediation in the precious metals mining sector. He is a member of the California and New York bars.