Alex Blagirev Head of Data & AI | Chief Data Officer | Data Governance & AI

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Partner, Strategic Initiatives

Singularity Venture Hub (Part of ASI Ecosystem)

Apr 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)

Led 12+ strategic partnerships focused on LLM (ASI-1) integration, decentralized AI infrastructure, and applied AI use cases. Built and scaled a decentralized LLM ecosystem, enabling distributed inference, agent-based execution, and governance-by-design.

Strategic Initiative Officer

SingularityNET

May 2023 - May 2025 (2 years 1 month)

Led strategic initiatives focused on the development of decentralized AI infrastructure within SingularityNET, the world's largest Web3-based AI alliance uniting AI researchers, platforms. Drove ecosystem-wide AI development programs, coordinating applied AI, data, and platform initiatives across multiple partners and verticals. Initiated and launched the "Knowledge Layer which serves as a core abstraction layer between data, models (LLMs), and AI agents, addressing limitations of pure model-centric approaches and enabling knowledge-centric AI architectures. Shaped multi-chain commercial strategy expanding ASI adoption across institutional and DeFi partners. Built and led a Value Engineering team accelerating AI product adoption across DeFi

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Deputy CEO

Sensorium Corporation

May 2019 - Jul 2022 (3 years 3 months)

Launched an award-winning mobile app (300K+ users) with first commercial Gen. Ai with early access to ChatGPT 3.5 with over 30 virtual AI personas. Launched from scratch a Web3 corporate media platform with over 500k MAU. Delivered $30M+ in revenue and positioned Sensorium among the most traded metaverse tokens of 2021 - 2022.

Executive Lead for CIS

R3

Sep 2017 - Jul 2019 (1 year 11 months)

Launched R3's CIS expansion, convening 300 banking executives and initiating certification for 100+ Corda developers in Moscow. Signed several new members for R3 alliance across leading players. Led projects including a 39-bank KYC network, a Syndicated Loans Market for national projects, and launched a Center of Competence with leading universities.

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Chief Data Officer / Chief Innovation Officer

Bank Financial Corporation Otkritie

Sep 2013 - Nov 2017 (4 years 3 months)

One of the earliest Chief Data Officers in the region, responsible for building the bank's end-to-end Data Management & Governance function. Designed and implemented data governance frameworks, data quality programs, metadata management, and enterprise data architecture. Built an award-winning Data & Analytics practice, later used as a reference by HP, SAS, Oracle, Attacama and SAP. Led large multidisciplinary teams across Data Engineering, BI, and Advanced Analytics. Led the largest personal data merger in the banking market through cross-institutional M&A. Launched regular hackathons (OpenFights and others), scouting startups and integrating into the banking ecosystem. Secured industry recognition as Most Innovative Bank in CEE.

Head of BI for Finance / Treasury / Chief Financial Architect

AlfaBank

Oct 2010 - Oct 2013 (3 years 1 month)

Built PnL driver models and IFRS reporting framework (zero-cost pilot); delivered 30+ management reports in 9 months, improving budgeting and enabling up to $100M cost savings. Led 56-person DWH team, launching new enterprise DWH in 6 months under tight deadlines; introduced event-driven IFRS architecture cutting development costs by 30%+ and saving 600+ MD annually. Implemented digital PnL & OPEX control systems across HQ and branches; each branch gained real-time performance dashboards. Designed FX risk mitigation architecture aligned with regulatory & economic capital requires.

Auditor

PwC

Feb 2006 - Jan 2010 (4 years)

Specialized in the Banking/Leasing/Construction and Commercial Estate (~ 20 audit engagements)

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