Advisor and connector. Built from investing. Focused on execution.
We work where capital meets operations — with founders, operators, and their investors.
HASKIL — Hebrew for insight, wisdom, and prudence. It also reads as “has skill.” Where insight becomes action.
Strategy only works when the organization and leadership can deliver it. That’s where we operate — translating strategy into capital, places, and organizations, and bringing together the people and partners to make it real.
Irina Zavina-TareFounder
HASKIL operates at the intersection of capital, development, and leadership.
Founder Irina Zavina-Tare has sourced, structured, and managed investments — and worked inside the operating businesses that bring them to life.
As an advisor, we bring clarity to strategy, capital, development, and execution. As a connector, we bring together the leaders, partners, and platforms required to deliver it.
Advisor and connector. Strategy and execution are not separate.
Experience across investing, development, and operations.
Clarity on what works — and who can actually deliver it.
Senior hires, organizational design, development advisory, and strategic partnerships.
We work where capital meets operations — with founders, operators, and their investors.
Until recently, Irina was a Partner at Highridge Search, a firm she co-founded to provide bespoke advisory focused on leadership and hiring across real estate investment, development, and hospitality.
Prior to Highridge, she led her own investment and development advisory practice focused on lifestyle-driven hospitality and mixed-use projects, including lodging, multifamily, food and beverage, and neighborhood-oriented concepts. She worked closely with developers, investors, and operators on expansion strategy, project planning, acquisitions and dispositions, valuation, programming, and capital raising.
Irina has held investment and business development roles at Gansevoort Hotel Group, Credit Suisse Asset Management, and American Express. She began her career as an investment banking analyst in Merrill Lynch’s Global Telecom and Media Group in New York, focusing on M&A and corporate finance transactions, followed by a role in Strategic Alliances at Level 3 Communications.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Chicago, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is also certified in leadership assessment methodologies and integrates these into her advisory and selection work.
Organized by the three modes of our practice — and the leadership work that runs through all of it.
“Irina writes about leadership at the moments that test it — decisions, transitions, and the patterns that shape how leaders act under pressure.”
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