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The Grid Dynamics executive team consists of founding members as well as a more recent addition of industry veterans whose leadership abilities are well suited to take Grid Dynamics to the next level.

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Leonard Livschitz

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Leonard Livschitz

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Leonard Livschitz has served as a director of Grid Dynamics’ board of directors since 2006 and the Chief Executive Officer of Grid Dynamics since 2014. Prior to joining Grid Dynamics as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Livschitz co-founded the LED solutions company Luxera, serving as director from 2010 to 2014 and as President and Chief Executive Officer from 2010 to 2014. Prior to that, was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Ledengin. Mr. Livschitz has over 25 years of experience in the high tech industry. He has held executive and management roles in sales, marketing, business development, and R&D with Philips Lumileds Lighting, Ledengin, Visteon Lighting and Ford Motor Company. Mr. Livschitz holds a Masters of Science degree in Systems and Control Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and a Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Kharkiv State Polytechnic University, Ukraine. We believe Mr. Livschitz’s extensive experience in and knowledge of the high tech industry, as well as his experience with executive and management roles and responsibilities at Grid Dynamics, provide him with the necessary skills to serve as a member of the board of directors.

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Anil Doradla

Chief Financial Officer

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Anil Doradla

Chief Financial Officer

Anil Doradla joined Grid Dynamics in November 2019, bringing over 20 years of diverse experience across the finance industry, Wall Street, and the technology world. He most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Airgain, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRG), a provider of advanced antenna technologies that enable high-performance wireless networking. Prior to Airgain, Anil Doradla worked on Wall Street as an equity research analyst at William Blair, covering a broad range of the technology sector that included ITO and BPO Services, Semiconductors, Technical Software, and Wireless Communications. In that role, Mr. Doradla performed in-depth analyses of public companies across a range of market capitalizations that included several IPOs. Before William Blair, Mr. Doradla held a variety of senior finance, strategy and technology roles with Caris and Company, Deutsche Bank AG, AT&T Labs, and LCC International.

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Yury Gryzlov

Chief Operating Officer

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Yury Gryzlov

Chief Operating Officer

Yury Gryzlov joined Grid Dynamics in 2007 as the company’s first QA Manager, and quickly established himself as a talented and versatile operations manager. As the company grew, Mr. Gryzlov took on ever-increasing responsibilities, leading to his current role as Chief Operating Officer, where he is in charge of all facets of the company’s operations, including budgeting, legal, HR, IT, office management, pricing, and recruiting. Previously, Mr. Gryzlov served as VP of Operations in Europe, and was responsible for all aspects of our people strategy, including: hiring, developing, and retaining Grid Dynamics personnel offshore. Prior to that, Mr. Gryzlov was the Deputy Director of the Saratov Engineering center, where he managed all of the daily operations. He holds a Masters of Science degree in Biophysics from Saratov State University, Russia.

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Rajeev Sharma

Chief Technology Officer

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Rajeev Sharma

Chief Technology Officer

Rajeev Sharma is the Chief Technology Officer at Grid Dynamics. He has 25+ years of engineering and leadership experience. Mr. Sharma was awarded the Scientist of the Year award for his work on the Design of Agni-III Solid Rocket Propulsion systems. He holds a Master’s degree in Management & Systems Design from MIT Sloan and a Master’s degree in Space Engineering & Rocketry (BIT MESRA) from Birla Institute of Technology.

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Vadim Kozyrkov

SVP of Engineering and Strategic Account Development

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Vadim Kozyrkov

SVP of Engineering and Strategic Account Development

Vadim joined Grid Dynamics in February, 2014. He has over 20 years of technology and program management expertise. His experience spans a broad range of projects – from custom-built applications to large ERP implementations for automotive and aerospace customers in the USA and South Africa. Immediately prior to joining Grid Dynamics, Mr. Kozyrkov was President of Aculocity LLC, which under his management he grew tenfold over seven years in both headcount and revenue while maintaining consistent profitability. Before Aculocity, he worked for GMSA, based in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and the GVW Group based in Chicago. Mr. Kozyrkov graduated from Moscow State University in 1987 with a Masters of Science in Physics. In 1994, he earned a PhD in Physics from the University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. In 2000, he received an MBA from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

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Valery Zelixon

Senior Vice President of Sales

Valery Zelixon

Senior Vice President of Sales

Valery Zelixon brings 30 years of experience in driving business transformation through the use of technology. His background includes technology and business consulting, startups, solution development, software and technology services sales, and leadership. Throughout his career, Valery played both individual contributor and organizational leader roles, leading teams in such companies as EMC and Wipro. For the last 6 years, Valery built and led a hunting sales team at EPAM, as Vice President and Head of North American Sales. This high-performing hunting sales team made significant contributions to the growth of EPAM.

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Rahul Bindlish

VP of Strategic Business Development

Rahul Bindlish

VP of Strategic Business Development

Rahul Bindlish has 27+ years of experience in IT services and consulting. He specializes in helping Tier-1 enterprises with their digital initiatives to improve business performance and drive industry leading growth. Throughout his career, Mr. Bindlish has been recognized as an innovative leader who excels in building high-performing teams and developing customer relationships. He is currently the Vice President of Strategic Business Development at Grid Dynamics. Mr. Bindlish holds a Master’s degree in Business and Management from the Asian Institute of Management.

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Vasily Sizov

VP of Sales and Account Management, Americas

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Vasily Sizov

VP of Sales and Account Management, Americas

Vasily Sizov is the VP of Sales & Account Management, Americas at Grid Dynamics. After joining the company in 2016, within two years Mr. Sizov had quadrupled the business portfolio he was responsible for and introduced vital improvements to company-wide business processes in just two years. Currently he is responsible for the business performance of all established accounts, ensuring they exceed corporate performance targets. Before Grid Dynamics, Mr. Sizov was the Head of Enterprise and Industrial Software at Skolkovo Foundation, responsible for international business development. Prior to Skolkovo, Mr. Sizov held CIO, key technology and managerial positions for several companies in software engineering as well as manufacturing industries. He has a Master’s Degree in Applied Mathematics from Cherepovets State University (Russia), an MBA in Strategic Management from World Technological University (Russia), and a CIMA Diploma in Business Performance Management (UK).

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Igor Yagovoy

VP of Engineering Management, North America

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Igor Yagovoy

VP of Engineering Management, North America

Igor Yagovoy is the VP of Engineering Management, North America at Grid Dynamics. In this role, he leads the development of the engineering organization by nurturing technical talents, helping the professional development of personnel, overseeing discipline and training, and encouraging the building of communities of practice. After joining the company in 2010, Mr. Yagovoy originally held various roles focused on technology, delivery, and people management. He built the global QE practice from scratch, managed and grew several major accounts, and led an international, omnichannel business unit. Prior to joining Grid Dynamics, Mr. Yagovoy served in companies that provided software engineering services and led programs for customers in the telecom, financial and e-commerce industries.

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Sergey Taraday

VP of European Operations

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Sergey Taraday

VP of European Operations

Sergey Taraday is the VP of Operations in Europe at Grid Dynamics. He joined the company in 2013. Over the past few years he has scaled all the existing locations in Europe and launched several new locations as well. Mr. Taraday is responsible for all facets of the company’s European operations, including department coordination. He holds a degree from O.M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

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Georgiy Podsvyetov

VP of Engineering Operations, Europe

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Georgiy Podsvyetov

VP of Engineering Operations, Europe

Georgiy Podsvyetov joined Grid Dynamics in 2014 as a Senior UI Engineer. He is currently a Vice President of Engineering Operations in Europe, successfully curating engineering processes. Georgiy lives and operates in Lviv, Ukraine, and is responsible for all facets of the company’s European operations. He graduated from National Technical University ‘Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute’ in 2008 with a bachelor’s in Applied Mathematics.

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Eugene Steinberg

Technical Fellow, Head of Digital Commerce

Eugene Steinberg

Technical Fellow, Head of Digital Commerce

Eugene Steinberg is the founding engineer at Grid Dynamics and a head of a Digital Commerce practice. As a Principal Architect and Consultant, Mr. Steinberg has delivered some of the most extensive Grid Dynamics programs, from inception to production to maturing. Mr. Steinberg has many interests, including digital commerce platforms, application of AI/ML to commerce, information retrieval, enterprise search, natural language processing, computer vision, as well as general science & art of building scalable distributed systems. He earned a Ph.D. in Applied Math from Saratov State University.

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Ilya Katsov

VP of Technology

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Ilya Katsov

VP of Technology

Ilya joined Grid Dynamics in 2009 to lead data-related consulting practices and major client engagements. He currently leads the technology consulting group, and supervises the development of advanced solutions related to data science, data engineering, cloud, and industry-specific operations. Prior to joining Grid Dynamics, Mr. Katsov worked at Intel Research on emerging wireless communication technologies. He is the author of several scientific articles and international patents, and also authored the book, Introduction to Algorithmic Marketing: Artificial Intelligence for Marketing Operations (2017).

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Maria Vainer

VP of Human Resources

Maria Vainer

VP of Human Resources

Maria Vainer currently holds the position of Vice President of HR at Grid Dynamics, where she oversees employment-related functions, such as People Operations and Strategies, Culture & Engagement, Rewards, and Recognition, within Grid Dynamics globally. Before joining Grid Dynamics, Maria held several leadership positions at Return on Intelligence, managing the employee’s lifecycle, including resource planning, recruitment, talent development, and performance management. Maria holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Finance and a Master’s in Technical Cybernetics. She was awarded Senior Certified Professional certification by SHRM in 2016.

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Board of directors

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Lloyd Carney

Chairman of the Board

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Lloyd Carney

Chairman of the Board

Lloyd Carney was the former Chairman/CEO of ChaSerg Technology Acquisition Corp. a Nasdaq listed company. Previously, he was CEO of Brocade and member of the Brocade Board of Directors, Brocade was acquired by Broadcom. Before joining Brocade, Lloyd was CEO and member of the board of directors at Xsigo Systems, a private technology leader in the data center virtualization market with solutions for cloud computing and software-defined networking. Xsigo was acquired by Oracle. Previous to Xsigo, he was CEO of Micromuse, a Nasdaq listed network management software company which was acquired by IBM. Lloyd also has extensive experience in the IP networking industry. He served as COO at Juniper Networks where he oversaw the engineering, product management, and manufacturing divisions. Lloyd also served as President of the core IP, wireless Internet, and the enterprise divisions at Nortel Networks, which generated multi-billion dollars in revenue. Lloyd holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and an Honorary PhD from the Wentworth Institute of Technology. He also earned a Master of Science degree in Applied Business Management from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He serves on the following Boards: VISA (BOD/Audit Committee Chair), Nuance (BOD/Chairman of the Board), and Vertex (BOD/Audit Committee).

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Leonard Livschitz

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Leonard Livschitz

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Leonard Livschitz has served as a director of Grid Dynamics’ board of directors since 2006 and the Chief Executive Officer of Grid Dynamics since 2014. Prior to joining Grid Dynamics as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Livschitz co-founded the LED solutions company Luxera, serving as director from 2010 to 2014 and as President and Chief Executive Officer from 2010 to 2014. Prior to that, was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Ledengin. Mr. Livschitz has over 25 years of experience in the high tech industry. He has held executive and management roles in sales, marketing, business development, and R&D with Philips Lumileds Lighting, Ledengin, Visteon Lighting and Ford Motor Company. Mr. Livschitz holds a Masters of Science degree in Systems and Control Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and a Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Kharkiv State Polytechnic University, Ukraine. We believe Mr. Livschitz’s extensive experience in and knowledge of the high tech industry, as well as his experience with executive and management roles and responsibilities at Grid Dynamics, provide him with the necessary skills to serve as a member of the board of directors.

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Eric Benhamou

Director

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Eric Benhamou

Director

Eric Benhamou a director since inception, co-founded Bridge Communications, a specialist in computer network technologies in 1981. Bridge Communications later merged with 3Com Corporation, a networking equipment vendor, in 1987. Thereafter, he became Chief Executive Officer of 3Com, serving there from 1990 to 2000, and as chairman until 2010. As 3Com’s Chief Executive Officer, he led the company in acquiring US Robotics, the owner of Palm, Inc. the maker of the groundbreaking Palm Pilot. Palm, Inc. was thereafter spun off in 2000, and Mr. Benhamou served as its Chief Executive Officer until 2003. In 2003, Mr. Benhamou founded Benhamou Global Ventures (“BGV”), a venture capital firm focused on technology companies, specializing in cloud software, artificial intelligence cyber security, and mobile applications. Mr. Benhamou has been a member of the board of directors of Silicon Valley Bank since 2004. He has been a member of the board of directors of Finjan Holdings, a cybersecurity firm, since 2013. He served on the board of Cypress Semiconductor as chairman for over a decade, until 2017. He also serves on the board of several privately held technology companies, including Ayehu, an IT automation and orchestration platform, Totango, a provider of customer success software, Virtual Instruments, an IT infrastructure performance management platform, and 6dbytes, a food robotics company. He holds an M.S. from Stanford University’s School of Engineering and a Diplôme d’Ingénieur and a Doctorate from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, Paris. Mr. Benhamou taught entrepreneurship in various business schools around the world for over 10 years, principally at INSEAD, Stanford University and IDC’s Herzliya’s Arison School of Business, where he was a visiting professor. He also served on the Advisory Board of Stanford’s school of Engineering and the Board of Governors of Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. We believe Mr. Benhamou is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his extensive operational and management experience in the technology industry as well as his public company governance experience and his venture capital background.

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Marina Levinson

Director

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Marina Levinson

Director

Marina Levinson brings more than 30 years of corporate leadership experience in technology, cybersecurity and business process transformation, including over 12 years as global CIO of NetApp and Palm. She is the founder and CEO of CIO Advisory Group, LLC, which provides executive technology advice to C-suite leaders, PE and VC firms, and startups. In addition, she is a partner at Benhamou Global Ventures, an early stage VC firm focused on Enterprise IT investments. Ms. Levinson is on the board of directors of Personal Capital, a private company in the digital wealth management space. Previously she served on public boards of Ellie Mae, a leading provider of innovative SaaS solutions and services for the residential mortgage industry and Carbonite, a leading provider of data protection services for businesses and consumers.

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Michael Southworth

Director

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Michael Southworth

Director

Michael Southworth has served as the General Manager of the Intelligent Self-Service business at Verint Systems, Inc., a leading provider of customer engagement solutions, since February 2016. From June 2014 to February 2016, Mr. Southworth was Chief Executive Officer of Contact Solutions, a company acquired by Verint in February 2016 and led Contact Solution’s business transformation, including strategy planning, risk mitigation, executive recruitment and change management. For over two decades, Mr. Southworth has directed companies from the start-up phase through major periods of growth, leading numerous equity and debt financings and over $5.0 billion in mergers and acquisitions. Prior to Contact Solutions, Mr. Southworth was Senior Vice President of Global Wireless Solutions at Corning. In addition, he held senior financial roles at a number of technology companies including MobileAccess Networks, Telemus Solutions, Lucent Technologies, Chromatis Networks, and the X-Stream Network. Mr. Southworth began his career in the Silicon Valley office of PriceWaterhouse Coopers where he managed IPOs and advised clients on tax and accounting matters. Mr. Southworth holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Finjan Holding, Inc. and Quality of Life Plus. We believe Mr. Southworth is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his extensive operational and management experience with multinational technology growth companies and expertise in equity and debt financing.

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Weihang Wang

Director

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Weihang Wang

Director

Mr. Wang has served as a non-employee director of Grid Dynamics’ board of directors since 2017. Mr. Wang has been a Director of ASL, the former parent company of Grid Dynamics, since 2009 and was re-designated from a Non-Executive Director to an Executive Director in May 2014. Mr. Wang has also served as the chairman and a director of Teamsun, ASL’s ultimate holding company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, since 2014, and currently is also the sole director of Hong Kong Teamsun. Hong Kong Teamsun is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Teamsun. Mr. Wang previously also served as the chief executive officer of Teamsun from 2014 to July 2019. Prior to his re-designation as the chairman and chief executive officer of Teamsun in 2014, Mr. Wang was the general manager of Teamsun, and the vice-chairman and general manager of Teamsun’s first board of directors. Mr. Wang holds an Executive Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Tsinghua University in the PRC and a Master’s Degree in Semiconductor Materials and Microelectronic Technology from the Information and Electronic Engineering Department of Zhejiang University in the PRC. Mr. Wang was awarded as China Software Industry Outstanding Entrepreneur Laureate and China Software Industry Prestige Award Laureate by China Software Industry Association in 2009. He was also awarded the “Innovation Outstanding Personality of Chinese Brand Award” in 2011. We believe Mr. Wang’s leadership roles in the IT industry and background in technology and engineering enable Mr. Wang to provide valuable insight to the board of directors regarding business strategy and industry trends.

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Yueou Wang

Director

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Yueou Wang

Director

Mr. Wang has served as a non-employee director of Grid Dynamics’ board of directors since 2017. Mr. Wang has served as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of ASL, the former parent company of Grid Dynamics, since September 2016 and September 2015, respectively. Mr. Wang joined ASL in 2011 as Financial Controller, Chief Financial Officer and Joint Company Secretary. Mr. Wang is currently a director of certain ASL subsidiaries and an associate of ASL (i.e., the directorship of i-Sprint). He was a director of Teamsun from December 2017 until February 2020. Previously, Mr. Wang was the Chief Financial Officer and a board secretary of Guangzhou Headway Technology Co., Ltd., and a regional finance manager (China) of Wistron Information Technology & Services Corporation. Mr. Wang holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Accounting from Jinan University, a Master’s degree in Business Administration from University of Wales, United Kingdom and an Executive Master’s degree in Business Administration from Research Institute of Tsinghua University. We believe Mr. Wang’s financial management expertise, including his expertise in the IT industry, provides him with the necessary skills to serve as a member of the board of directors and enables him to contribute valuable insight regarding financial and strategic business issues.

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Shuo Zhang

Director

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Shuo Zhang

Director

Shuo Zhang has served as a non-employee director of Grid Dynamics’ board of directors since 2017. Ms. Zhang currently serves on the boards of directors at several public and private companies, including S.O.I.TEC Silicon on Insulator Technologies SA, Telink Semiconductor and PDF Solutions. She is also actively involved with private venture capital firms in the Silicon Valley and currently serves a China Advisory Partner for BGV. From December 2007 to September 2015, Ms. Zhang served in various senior management capacities at Cypress Semiconductor, including corporate development, general management and worldwide mobile sales. Prior to Cypress, Ms. Zhang served in many different product, marketing and sales management roles in Silicon Light Machines, Agilent Technologies, Altera Corporation, and LSI Corporation. Ms. Zhang holds a Bachelor’s Degree in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University and a Master of Science in material science and mechanics from Penn State University. We believe Ms. Zhang is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to her experience in general management, marketing, sales and strategic business development.

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Patrick Nicolet

Director

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Patrick Nicolet

Director

Patrick Nicolet is the Founder and CEO of Line Break Capital Ltd, a technology company specialized in the Enterprise Data Value Chain that was launched on January 1st, 2021. Prior to that, he spent over twenty years working at Cap Gemini — including seven as a Group Executive Board member — assuming several global leadership positions. In December 2020, he concluded his latest mandate as Group CTO during which he oversaw the Group’s Technology, Innovation and Ventures agenda, as well as the global Cybersecurity and IT functions. Beginning his career as an entrepreneur, he’s led the creation of the first Swiss incubator — Y-Parc — for which he’s been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Global Leader for Tomorrow at Davos (the precursor to the Forum for Young Global Leaders). It was the first private-public partnership in Switzerland that specialized in technology transfer services and that soon became a renowned science park. During that time, Patrick acted as an advisor on Innovation to the government of Switzerland. Patrick’s professional path provides him with a unique perspective on technology transformation and his experience allows him to devise and implement robust strategies that stand the test of time; anticipate new trends with tangible value; and advise stakeholders at all levels from a market and business standpoint. His experience between both the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds enables him to maneuver between the two with flexibility and precision. Driven by a strong belief in planet-centric design and values to match, Patrick can initiate change and implement long-lasting solutions that deliver impactful results. He brings along an extensive network of experts in the fields of technology, finance, and business. Patrick is a Swiss citizen and currently resides in the Swiss German part of the country with his wife. A real sports enthusiast, he practiced judo, tennis, and rugby at competition level, and enjoys water activities such as scuba diving and kite surfing whenever he gets the chance. Patrick received his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the Université de Lausanne in Switzerland in 1984. He then completed 1300 days of duty in the Swiss Air Force where he obtained the Grade of Major, with no active duty left. His past and current investments include NAX (New Asset Exchange – Decentralized Finance) CYSEC (Confidential computing on premise, in the cloud and hybrid), Olympe (Distributed data at speed and at scale), Crossbraced (Accounting optimization – Instantaneous cash flow vision), and Pace Revenue (AI-Driven Revenue Optimization). Patrick is also an Operating Partner at Benhamou Global Ventures since December 2021.

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