A serial entrepreneur with multiple companies launched with successful exits. Founded and managed an oil & gas engineering business in Central Asia. Grew the company from a regional distributor for leading producers to an engineering company and then to the execution of complex EPC projects. Broad business development and investment experience in growing engineering companies, Real Estate and IT startups. Big fan of the decentralised business model as the most effective in the 21st century.
Ph.D. Technical sciences. Deputy Head of Programmatic Committee at IAB Ukraine, board member IAB Ukraine. More than a decade in developing adtech products in team leader and senior positions. Managing partner and CTO at Adtelligent, established in 2008, one of America's fastest-growing private companies according to Deloitte's Technology Fast 500TM 2022. The company’s core team evolved with the adtech market even earlier than oRTB was invented. Yuriy's team provided industry-leading SaaS solutions (SSP, DSP, HBP, DAI for CTV, DooH).
Max has 18 years of experience in leading IT positions. He was head of CRM in the leading and most innovative Ukrainian bank (PrivatBank). He was responsible for the implementation of unified communication tools for 20 million bank clients. After PrivatBank, Max obtained the position of CTO in Middleware Inc., the company that owns a cloud-based business processes orchestration solution, Corezoid, which enables the digital transformation of enterprises. Followed by the Corezoid team, Max successfully created digital process deployment solutions for Western Union, Mastercard, Pepsico, Piraeus Bank, Metro, Unilever, etc. Max currently co-owns the digital banking, FinTech, and customised CRM solutions provider 42flows.tech as well as Chatbots.Studio, strategic partner of Visa.
Volodymyr has about 30 years of experience in IT science with a passion for research and development. Starting in the 90's, he walked through most of the IT areas as an engineer,architect, consultant and business/product development. The most notable points in his career are as R&D Head at Golden Telecom (2000-2004), Network Architect at Cisco Systems (2004-2009), consulting services for broadband providers and governments (2009-2011), Business Development Manager at Cisco Systems (2011-2015), Cloud Services Development (2016-2019), Cloud Infrastructure support and optimisation for one of the US Top-3 telecom companies (2022-2023). Having wide experience in various areas, he works effectively at the intersection of business and technologies, combining his knowledge to build unique and reliable solutions.
Taras has 20+ years of IT telecommunications management. Taras began his career developing online billing systems at Golden Telecom. Starting from 2010, Taras was CEO of Sitronics, the largest Ukrainian system integrator partnered with SAP, Oracle, HP, IBM, Dell, Cisco, Juniper etc.From 2017, Taras led Globberry, a global group focused on telecom solutions. Teams headed by Taras did the largest workspace virtualisation project for 600+ workstations based on VMWare and Citrix; 3+ MegaWatt capacity and TIER III ( TIA-942) fault tolerance data centre; nationwide DWDM and IP MPLS networks for telco (20mln subscribers); nationwide Backhaul and Metro DWDM networks for telco; NFV infrastructure management solution for the largest telecom operator in the Middle East (12 datacenters hosting customer's mobile network core and broadband network VNFs); private LTE network for the largest oil company in Kazakhstan etc.
Expert/advisor in cybersecurity strategy board of the Ministry of Defence Ukraine. With a background in cryptography, Eugene has spent 15 years building systems with elevated security and performance requirements: firewalls for high-volume payment processing systems (Raiffeisen Group), infrastructure for secure processing of confidential data at state scale (classified), real-time secure privacy-preserving decision support systems in banking (IBCH), security solutions for state-size power grid control systems (UaEnergy, EDF, others NDA), implementations of state-restricted data security tools and appliances for protecting confidential data (classified). At Cossack Labs, UK based data security boutique, Eugene, as a co-founder, drives the development of data security products and solutions used by thousands of innovation-driven tech businesses around the globe like MacPaw, Bear, IOHK/Cardano, Merrill Corp, EPAM and many others. Eugene and Cossack Labs’ team are building secure data processing components and a privacy layer of the myGaru solution.
Marc Dautlich is an expert in data protection and cyber risk management. As a Partner in Bristows on Data protection, privacy & cyber, Marc has a strong focus on cross-border privacy compliance programs, machine learning, IoT, cloud applications. He advises on cybersecurity incidents, regulatory investigations, and disputes related to data breaches and privacy misuse. Marc has represented global advertising and data analytics companies in high-profile cases from ICO and also defended against GDPR breaches.