UAE  •  NL

Quantitative models
built for your business

Operational audit, optimization frameworks, asset factorization, CSI. Built specifically for your business. No external platforms. No generic templates. Custom, secure, on-site.

Forecasting & Modelling
Core Methodology
Custom-Built
Security & Independence
On-site Only
No External Data Transfer
Energy, Oil & Gas, Renewables
Real Estate
Asset-Heavy Businesses
Supply Chain & Logistics
How it works

A structured path from data to decisions

Every engagement follows a consistent four-step methodology, built around your specific business, your data, and your objectives.

Step 01

Define Objective

We start by understanding your business goals, constraints, and data landscape, and establish a clear analytical objective before any model or infrastructure is built.

Step 02

Audit & Classify

We inventory all assets, align them with your KPIs, and establish data collection and monitoring infrastructure, including signal and sensor-based inputs (CSI) where relevant.

Step 03

Factorization

We decompose your business into measurable factors, breaking losses, risks, and opportunity drivers into quantifiable components that can be modelled and optimized.

Step 04

Model & Deliver

We build and deliver the model. All IP is yours. Code, documentation, and analytical frameworks stay with you, with the option to train your internal team for full independence.

What we do

Services

Asset Optimization & Monitoring

Optimization of asset portfolios and resource allocation, identifying the highest-value configuration given your constraints, objectives, and risk tolerance. Includes real-time monitoring infrastructure for physical and financial assets, CSI and signal-based inputs, anomaly detection, and performance dashboards built to your operational environment.

Business Performance Modeling

A quantitative model of your business strategy, translated into measurable factors, stress-tested against historical data, and used to identify where performance can be improved.

Risk Assessment & Hedging

Quantitative risk modeling that identifies, measures, and structures hedging strategies for market, operational, and counterparty risk across your portfolio or business lines.

BI & Analytics

End-to-end business intelligence platforms designed, built, and deployed entirely within your office. All tools and data remain behind your firewall, with no dependency on external platforms or third-party vendors.

Why GERA Innovates

What makes this different

Four answers to the questions every serious client asks before committing to an advisory engagement.

Your data never leaves your office

We work on-site, within your environment, on your hardware. There are no uploads to external platforms, no third-party cloud storage, and no remote access to your systems. Your data remains entirely under your control from the first day to the last.

Fully independent. No affiliations.

GERA Innovates is not affiliated with any bank, investment fund, software provider, or technology vendor. Every recommendation is derived solely from your data and your objectives. No referral fees, no platform incentives, no hidden conflicts of interest.

Our own models, not generic AI

Every model is built from scratch, specific to your business, your data, and your objectives. We do not use off-the-shelf AI tools, pre-built templates, or third-party platforms. The output is proprietary, fully interpretable, and validated against your historical data. Not a product adapted from a generic solution.

All IP stays with you

At the end of every engagement, the models, code, documentation, and analytical frameworks are entirely yours. No ongoing licensing fees, no dependency on our continued involvement. We also offer the option to train your internal team so the work delivers value long after we're gone.

Selected work

Portfolio

Examples of the type of engagements we take on. Outcomes are described; client identities are kept confidential.

Client details are kept confidential. The descriptions below reflect the nature of the work and the outcomes delivered.
Real Estate

BI analytics platform for a diversified property portfolio

Designed and deployed a business intelligence platform for a fund managing a large mixed-use residential and commercial portfolio. The system consolidated data across asset classes, geographies, and holding structures into a single analytical environment, built and operated entirely within the client's infrastructure.

Key outcome
Actionable intelligence for allocation decisions and performance benchmarking across the full portfolio
Energy & Logistics

Predictive maintenance platform for an international energy provider

Built a predictive maintenance system integrating IoT sensor data, anomaly detection algorithms, and operational history for a large-scale energy infrastructure operator. The platform identified failure patterns before they occurred, enabling proactive maintenance scheduling and resource planning.

Key outcome
Measurable reduction in unplanned downtime and extended operational lifecycle of critical assets
Quantitative Portfolio Management

Portfolio management strategies for institutional investors

Developed quantitative portfolio management strategies for a group of institutional investors operating across the United Arab Emirates and The Netherlands. Work included factor investing model construction, automated rebalancing logic, and an analytics layer providing real-time visibility into exposures and performance attribution.

Key outcome
Real-time factor attribution and exposure analytics across UAE & Netherlands markets, with automated rebalancing and full factorization of portfolio risk and performance
About the founder

German Romanov, Founder

German Romanov is a mathematician with a background in academic applied mathematics and a career spanning investment banking, institutional portfolio management, energy markets, and real estate. He trained in rigorous quantitative methods before applying them across some of the most analytically demanding environments in international finance and infrastructure.

His energy sector work has included engagements with organizations of the scale of TotalEnergies, building predictive systems, asset monitoring platforms, and optimization frameworks for complex industrial operations. Alongside this, he has worked with equity and real estate investors across the United Arab Emirates and The Netherlands, developing portfolio strategies, BI platforms, and risk models tailored to each client's specific structure and objectives.

GERA Innovates was founded on a straightforward premise: that serious businesses deserve analytical work that is mathematically sound, independent, and built specifically for their situation. German works directly with each client. Not through a team of junior analysts, not through standardized templates. The work is his, and it stays with the client.

Background
Academic applied mathematics
Core sectors
Energy, Real Estate, Equity & Finance
Core Methodology
Forecasting & Modelling
Independence
No bank, fund, or vendor affiliations
Team

Growing the team

Position open
Position open
Position open
Common questions

Frequently asked

Straightforward answers to the questions most clients ask before getting started.

Large advisory firms and AI platforms share a common limitation: your data has to leave your environment before they can help you. For a large firm, it goes into standardized templates and generalist processes. For an AI tool, it goes to an external server. We operate entirely within your office, on your hardware, using your data. Nothing is shared externally, and the analytical work is built from scratch for your specific situation, not adapted from a framework designed for a different business.
We operate entirely within the client's environment. All tools are installed on client hardware, behind the client's firewall, and under the client's IT security policies. We are not affiliated with any external software provider, which means there is no embedded technology phoning home, no licensing infrastructure requiring external connectivity, and no dependency on third-party services. The environment we work in is the one you control.
You do. All models, code, software, and documentation produced during an engagement are fully your property. There are no ongoing licensing fees, no usage restrictions, and no requirement to continue working with us to maintain access to the work. We can also train your internal team so that the systems and frameworks we build remain operationally effective long after the engagement ends.
Pricing reflects four components: (1) a personal framework tailored to your privacy and operational requirements, which takes time to design correctly; (2) data security infrastructure to ensure compliance with your policies; (3) an independence premium, since we receive no referral fees or subsidies from external software or financial providers, so the fee reflects the full cost of unbiased work; and (4) work hours and any hardware costs. We discuss this transparently in the initial conversation.
Two types. The first is a business owner with a significant stake in one or several companies who wants deeper analytical visibility into what is actually happening, and why. The second is a larger or asset-heavy company or fund that already has internal capabilities but needs a narrower, recurring service: model maintenance, performance review, or specialist analytical input on specific decisions. Both benefit from the independence and on-site approach.
Academic-grade applied mathematics applied to practical business problems. That means models are internally consistent, assumptions are explicit, and results are interpretable, not black-box outputs. It also means experience: work that has been tested across international clients in energy, finance, and real estate. And it means client-specific: every model is built for your situation, not adapted from a template designed for a different business in a different context.
With a short, no-obligation conversation. We discuss your sector, your objectives, and the challenges you're trying to address. At the end of that call, you'll have a clear picture of how we could help and what that would look like in practice. There is no cost to the initial conversation, and no commitment required. You can reach us by phone, email, or the contact form below.

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