Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Winning financial services companies will know their clients better than they know themselves through AI Financial Personalization - guiding every decision, individually tailoring each product, and maximizing attention.
BEAM is a white-labeled engine that accelerates financial services companies’ revenue, loyalty and efficiency through AI Financial Personalization.
Senior Director, Growth & Innovation, RBC Lumina (Enterprise Data and AI Platform)
Realized significant business value by enabling innovative data and AI solutions by leveraging and expanding RBC’s enterprise Data and AI platform.
Scaled RBC’s adoption of Generative AI across functions and lines of business, realizing significant cost savings and new revenue capacity by scaling the bank’s Generative AI enablement suite.
Senior Director, AI Growth & Innovation, RBC Brain (Enterprise AI/ML Platform)
Created exponential growth in the strategic value of RBC’s enterprise AI/ML platform by spearheading innovative, bank-first solutions across Personal, Commercial, Capital Markets, and Wealth Management business lines as well as Functions.
Senior Director, Head of Product, RBC Brain (Enterprise AI/ML Platform)
Achieved broad business value with high user satisfaction within nine months by leading product development of the bank’s enterprise AI/ML platform to simplify and accelerate creation of new value from enterprise data.
Founding member of HSBC’s first corporate backed venture
Simplified global trade through an data and AI-powered B2B network platform for corporates.
Delivered the company’s first platform economy revenue.
Head of Data and Co-Founder, Applied Innovation
Delivered millions USD annually by rapidly solving critical business problems with innovative bank-first data/AI-powered solutions, significantly accelerating business operations across HSBC’s global business lines and functions.
R&D Lead, Financial Intelligence Unit
Realized significant business value and accelerated innovation adoption by developing advanced solutions in AML, big data analytics, NLP, cybersecurity, and digital identity through HSBC’s Global Security & Fraud Risk Innovation Labs.
2023's growth in Generative AI directed his focus towards community building solutions through new, lower-cost and higher impact methods
During his PhD, Ilya raised money for and delivered Europe's first research platform for at scale analytics of social media data through a unique partnership with Twitter. This platform was used for capital market prediction, geopolitical event tracking and macroeconomic modelling
Prior to this, Ilya worked on a number of data driven businesses both as a founder and as part of a founding team. He has worked on new digital publication and alternative credit scoring businesses, as well as building and subsequently selling a social network company in the UK.
Early in his career, Ilya built data powered business solutions across alternative lending, healthcare, capital markets, digital publication, and social networking domains.
Prior to developing a focus on transforming Financial Services through Data and AI, Ilya held M&A and capital markets at N M Rothschild & Sons, VTB Bank Europe, Merrill Lynch and Fulcrum Asset Management