Alex Blagirev

Alex Blagirev

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Head of Data & AI | Chief Data Officer | Data Governance & AI Platforms Leader
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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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.
  • SingularityNET
    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.
  • R3
    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.
  • AlfaBank
    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.
  • PwC
    Auditor
    PwC
    Feb 2006 - Jan 2010 (4 years)
    Specialized in the Banking/Leasing/Construction and Commercial Estate (~ 20 audit engagements)
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    Foundations on UX
    Google Academy
    Dec 2024 - May 2025 (6 months)
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    Probabilistic Graphs
    Jan 2023
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    Generative AI with LLMs
    Jan 2023
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    Data Science
    Jan 2023
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    Foundations on UX
    Jan 2023
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    Gamification
    Jan 2023
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    Generative AI with LLMs
    DeepLearning
    Nov 2022 - Jan 2023 (3 months)
  • S
    Probabilistic Graphs
    Stanford
    Oct 2022 - Jan 2023 (4 months)
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    Gamification
    Wharton
    Sep 2022 - Jan 2023 (5 months)
  • Johns Hopkins University
    Data Science
    Johns Hopkins University
    Aug 2022 - Jan 2023 (6 months)
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    Advanced diploma in accounting and business
    Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (UK)
    Jul 2007 - Jun 2011 (4 years)
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    Engineer IT
    Russian State University of Innovations and Business
    Sep 2001 - Jan 2023 (21 years 5 months)
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    INARCTICA
    Jan 2025 - Dec 2025 (1 year)
    Core Al leadership role. Empowering Al Landscape and Al Strategy. Leading the design and execution of the enterprise Al landscape, including LLM platforms, Al agents, ontology-driven reasoning systems, and Al governance frameworks. Defined Al architecture standards ensuring explainability, scalability, and alignment with business outcomes. Bridged Data, Al, and Product teams to operationalize Al across core business processes.
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    QIWI PLC
    Sep 2022 - Aug 2024 (2 years)
    Executed Web3 M&A deals on a crypto on-ramp/off-ramp payment provider (over $35M). Designed and implemented a crypto treasury under SOX, growing turnover from zero to over $100M. ESG, Regulatory compliance, Fintech Growth.
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    UK Global Talent Exceptional Talent
    Jan 2023
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    AIXR, UX Design Awards & AWE Global: VR Experience of the Year, Best Mixed Reality Experience, Best Mobile App
    Jan 2023
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    Most Innovative Bank in CEE
    Jan 2023