Daniel Klein, MBA, BsME (Metallurgy) & JD

Founder & CEO

Daniel is a highly accomplished attorney and consultant with several decades of professional experience across the legal, financial, and industrial sectors. A graduate of New York Law School and London Business School (MBA), he is uniquely positioned as a U.S. Registered Patent Attorney with an extensive track record of practicing within the CIS region. Daniel has moved to Kazakhstan to pursue opportunities in mining in 2024/

His professional foundation is rooted in a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University, where he held a specific concentration in metallurgy. This technical expertise allows him to bridge the gap between complex geological data and commercial viability, a skill he has applied while providing strategic legal services to global mining giants such as Barrick Gold CIS. His engineering background was further refined during his early career at Schlumberger, where he managed strategic marketing and business development within the high-tech industrial sector.

Throughout his career, Daniel has balanced technical and legal rigor with significant P&L responsibilities and Venture Capital leadership. He previously served as the European Division Managing Director for an American corporation, (Hypercom POS terminal manufacturer)  overseeing staff across Moscow, London, Paris, and Budapest. His financial expertise includes serving as an Investment Officer for a Siemens-subsidiary VC fund, where he developed investment strategies and drafted complex business plans including NPV, IRR, and DCF analyses. Daniel also was the Russian desk for Budapest´s M&A advisory Moellendorf & Co. Securing dozens of  buy and sell mandates for extensive M&A actibitz.

As a veteran of the CIS business landscape, Daniel has a proven history of institutional building, having successfully established and managed professional service firms and legal entities in four CIS countries, as well as the USA and UAE. His deal-making expertise spans over $200 million in potential transactions, including M&A, real estate due diligence, and the procurement of intellectual property. At Klein’s Mines, he leverages this cross-border experience to bridge North American investment with large-scale industrial and mining opportunities in Central Asia.