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Mr. Zykov has significant experience advising companies on mergers, acquisitions, and various other strategic alternatives.

Prior to co-founding ARGO Capital Advisors, he spent 5.5 years in the Consumer Group at Stephens Inc., a family-owned, middle-market investment bank. At Stephens. Mr. Zykov focused on M&A, debt and equity financings for small-cap and mid-cap companies across food, agriculture, consumer products and services, and restaurant sectors.

Before Stephens, Mr. Zykov worked at Jefferies’ M&A team in New York where he advised on a wide range of M&A transactions across various industries with a total deal value of over $1.5 billion. His experience includes broad and targeted buy-side and sell-side transactions, mergers, divestitures, take-privates and fairness opinions.

Mr. Zykov began his career in Corporate Development at New York Life Insurance Company focusing on strategic and M&A initiatives for the company’s business units.

Mr. Zykov received BS degrees in Economics and Management from MIT and holds an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.