Alex’s core expertise is in derivative functionalities and hedging strategies used in various forms of insurance against asset depreciation. He has a degree in Finance with distinction from a top tier Canadian University and a Master’s degree in Finance from Cass Business School in London, UK. While working at KPMG Canada, Alex gained extensive knowledge of valuations and financial risk management.

With the strong belief that cryptocurrencies are the wave of the future, he joined BITRUST as CEO in 2017, aiming to integrate his business and financial knowledge into the expanding crypto industry.

Segey has built his career in IT, working as an IT specialist, developer, and manager, coordinating the work of international teams. Sergey also has experience working for one of the largest banks in Europe an experience that afforded him a closer insight into the financial world and its ever-changing nature. Sergey joined the BITRUST team in 2017 to join the journey to helping others feel more comfortable in the world of cryptocurrencies, making it more transparent and safe.

Mikhail is an IT Professional with a solid track record within the reinsurance and banking industry. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Riga Technical University. Over the last 5 years he has led the development and engineering activities for core business applications of Fortune Global 500 companies. Mikhail is actively engaged in product requirement elicitation, solution design, product development & delivery (applying practices from Agile methodology and Scrum framework) as well as production operations.

Mikhail has a passion for Blockchain technology and joined BITRSUT as Head of Product Development. In this position, he will be responsible for setting up a product development team and eventually launching BITRUST platform.

Alexey Vinar graduated from the Novosibirsk State Technical University with a degree in Software Development. His career began as a producer at one of the leading digital agencies in Russia, where he gained experience of working with well-established global companies such as IKEA, GoPro, Discovery Channel, Burton and others. In 2017 Alexey joined the BITRUST team as the Head of Development.

His department is engaged in developing smart contracts and web services for the BITRUST platform. Alexey is convinced that there are no impossible tasks when it comes to software development and any idea, no matter how crazy it may sound at first, can be materialized. To run BITRUST, he personally recruited an entire team of talented developers.

Oleg Lupikov graduated from Novosibirsk State University of Telecommunications and Informatics with a degree in Business Informatics. He worked as a leading front-end developer in the agency, ranked in the top 5 by Awards. In addition to that, Oleg has a vast experience in launching new start-ups and owns several IT companies of his own. His core strength, however, is the design of user-friendly interfaces. Oleg joined BITRUST in 2017 and is the Head of R&D Department.

An experienced Operations Manager with an excellent track record in the financial services industry, Arthur has a deep knowledge of the technological advances needed to complement business growth, strategizing an operational level to stay one step ahead of the competition.

At his previous job Arthur managed a foreign exchange portfolio, was involved in strategic trading of FX spots and options across G10 currencies, and performed daily portfolio management tasks including hedging and position management. As our Head of Operations, Arthur’s goal is to build the operations team from the ground up, creating the necessary structure and allocation of roles and responsibilities across functions, defining key processes.

Arthur holds a Master’s degree in Finance from Cass Business School in London. After graduation he pursued a career in business management and development in the industrial sector and from 2013 was a business development manager at Latteps Limited.

Being a long-term supporter of blockchain technology and a firm believer in the success of the crypto economy, he joined the BITRUST team as Head of Business Development in 2017. Arthur is eager to add the valuable knowledge and experience gained throughout his career to further enhace the success of the BITRUST project.

Alex holds a Bachelor degree in Management Sciences from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. After graduation he pursued a marketing career in the industrial sector and from 2012 was a marketing director at Intergaz Limited.

In 2017 he joined the BITRUST team in order to contribute to the development of the marketing strategy for the project. Alex is a blockchain enthusiast and a firm believer in the success of the crypto economy and that cryptocurrency will change our financial system for the better.

After graduating in Real Estate Finance from the University of Cambridge, UK, Dennis pursued a career with a strategy consulting boutique firm and a large recruitment company.

In 2010, believing he could do it better himself, Dennis decided to set up his own business. Starting with the first specialist market — front office banking — Denis co-launched Albert Cliff Limited. In 2017 he joined the BITRUST team in order to contribute to the development of the cryptocurrency market, with the goal of making it more predictable for everyday users. Denis is a blockchain enthusiast and strong believer that cryptocurrency will change our financial system for the better.

Amir is a graduated from UC Berkeley with honors in Philosophy/ After spending over 15 years on Wall St. in various capacities from financial advisor to prop trader, Amir decided to transfer his focus to the blockchain. In 2018 Amir started the Elevate Group to create a platform where new investors could access pre-vetted blockchain investments. Elevate's first investment vehicle is a bitcoin mining farm located in Siberia, Russia. Amir's passion for blockchain has grown since then and he firmly believes that the capital market being created by the blockchain is a far more lucrative and vibrant financial market, providing investors with a better place to invest their money. Amir has joined Bitrust to help create a derivatives platform whereby investors can hedge their crypto-currency holdings. Amir is an equity owner in Bitrust as well as a member of the executive team.

After graduating from the University of Cambridge with first-class honours, Nikos remained at the Judge Business School as a Researcher in Data & Analytics, where he researched trends in big data and data architecture as well as learning to code. He started his professional career in the Commercial Real Estate team at Lloyds Banking Group in 2015 before moving to Fortwell Capital in mid-2016. He leveraged his coding experience to develop a number of sophisticated models and tools. Nikos always retained a strong academic interest and simultaneously worked as a part-time researcher for the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance over the course of 2017, focusing on the Alternative Finance sector. He co-authored two academic reports published in 2017 and 2018 respectively. In 2018 he joined the BITRUST team to find a practical application for his knowledge in the Alternative Finance space.

Co-founder at Linker Coin / CEO at BlockBank; John (Jeonggon Mun) is working as an ICO technical analyst and a blockchain developer. John had successfully finished his own ICO, Linker Coin. Currently, he is the CEO of BlockBank and also advising various ICOs around the world. He obtained his Master of Financial Engineering at UC Berkeley. He also has 10 years of working experience in quantitative development, Market Making & HFT trading in leading multi-national investment institutions. John’s finance and engineering background supported him strongly in blockchain industry and gained deep knowledge in Smart Contract development and managing cryptocurrency exchanges.

Tudor has worked as a a front-end developer, both for a leading web development company from Germany and as a freelancer, having previously studied electrical engineering. Besides this, he speaks 4 languages and is always eager to learn about new technologies.

After entering the blockchain space he helped cofound Bountyhive — the largest bounty platform for ICOs, where he now serves as CEO.

To date, Tudor has collaborated with more than 40 different ICOs, which have collectively raised over 300.000 ETH as well as more than 200.000 supporters.

In 2018 he joined BITRUST as an Advisor to offer his expertise in marketing and funding a successful ICO.

Ivan has 4 years of active experience in digital marketing and more than 1 year in ICO promotion. While employed as Head of Sales at Crynet, a marketing agency, he assisted numerous ICO projects to reach their goals. Since then Ivan became ever more involved in blockchain world.

In March, 2018 he joined BITRUST Team as a Marketing Advisor to help with ICO promotion.