While I was born in Akadem Gorodok, Siberia (a soviet experiment in fostering a scientific town and community), I’ve spent most of my life living in the UK. I studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Oxford University. An incredible degree. Two very different disciplines combined together, our oldest ‘sciences’ born in Ancient Greece, and both relying on abstract and analytical reasoning. Yet verbal and persuasive or concrete, decisive and numerical.

Having lived in different cultures and contexts, I have always been interested in interfaces, societies, behaviour and alternative perspectives.

In my work, I often translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders and use my ability to synthesise vast amounts of information and model different outcomes, dependencies and frameworks to make strategic decisions.

I’ve now spent over a decade working in digital technology. In particular I’ve sought to understand and explore how tech can help decentralise power, enabling people to lead more autonomous and empowered lives. Technology and innovation are tools which can be used to empower or exploit.

I’m driven by a desire to change the world for the better or at least leave it better than I found it in some tangible way, so that’s what I’m up to. Alongside this, I have a fondness for trees, mountains, fire, walks and long conversations over wine or tea. And an unhealthy obsession with truth.