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• Chairman of the Council of the Unmanned Agricultural Aviation Union.
• Head of the expert group at the Control Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation for UAS development.
• Head of the UAS training and practice centre of the Russian Academy of Personnel Provision for the Agro-Industrial Complex, member of the Academic Council.
• Member of the Expert Council of the Association of Innovative Solutions and Artificial Intelligence.
• Expert of the National Technology Initiative (NTI).
• Member of the working group at the UAS engineering centre of the Timiryazev Moscow Agricultural Academy for the development of professional standards for external agro-UAS pilots.

• Winner in the "Best climate change adaptation project" category, all-Russian "Reliable Partner" competition, 2024.
• Winner of the unmanned aircraft systems award at the XIII Eurasian Unmanned Aviation Forum, 2026.
• 1st place in the "Sustainable agriculture" category, II Eurasian Economic Forum, 2023.
• Laureate of the national "People change the country" award, ASI, 2025.
• Top 50 projects of the "Strong ideas for new times" forum, ASI, 2023.
• Champion of the FAO-ITU regional contest on good practices advancing digital agriculture in Europe and Central Asia, Budapest, Hungary, 2021.
• Winner of the AgroIdea competition, Rosselkhozbank, 2020.
• Winner of the AgTechInventum competition of the German Agricultural Machinery Association, 2020.
• Top 10 regional projects of the Roscongress Foundation, 2021.
• Finalist of the RUSAGRO Tech Challenge, Skolkovo, 2022.
• Nomination at the international "Angel of Sustainable Development" competition, 2022.
• 1st place in the "Own technology" category, AgroCode Awards, 2022.
• Gold medal "Innovation of the Year" at the Agroinvestor award, 2021.

In 1993 he graduated from the Krasnodar Higher Military Command and Engineering School of the Strategic Missile Forces as a mechanical engineer for unmanned aerial vehicles. In 2005 he graduated from Kuban State University, Faculty of Journalism and Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology. In 2010 he completed a programme at the Faculty of Psychology of Lomonosov Moscow State University, "Psychological Foundations of Business Consulting".

Economic justification of UAS and robotic equipment deployment; financial models and payback assessment; building teams and managing cross-industry projects; bringing products to market and developing demand; creating partner and dealer networks; negotiations with top executives and support of long sales cycles.

• Agricultural drones and ground infrastructure, KoMZ JSC: participation in the development and market launch of MRK ROSTOK mobile solution units for agricultural drones, formation of the product line and dealer network. Personal work with crews in the field, negotiations with agricultural holdings and operators, calculation of service P&L. Field treatment contracts in 7 regions of Russia; crew productivity up 40% thanks to the ROSTOK unit.
• Unmanned quarry haulage, GK Tsifra: signed the contract and led the deployment of the first commercial unmanned dump trucks in the EAEU — from feasibility study to receivables collection. Project result by 2025: 3 unmanned dump trucks at the open-pit mine, 17 thousand trips and more than 2 million tonnes of rock mass transported.
• Large industrial IT projects, GK Tsifra: signed a contract worth more than RUB 1 billion with a backbone enterprise of Uzbekistan for the deployment of mining dispatch systems. Managed interaction between engineers, IT specialists, finance specialists and lawyers in three countries.
• Scaling and management transformation: through re-engineering of sales, marketing and finance processes, increased turnover and profit of B2B companies several times over. Company award Best Growth Distributor Worldwide; handled M&A transactions.

Commercial Director of Kozelsk Mechanical Plant JSC. Member of expert groups of the Control Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation and of the Unmanned Agricultural Aviation Union.

Experience of interaction with authorities, universities and industrial clients in Russia and the EAEU, as well as with suppliers and manufacturers in China, South Korea, Canada and Europe.

Executive MBA in strategic marketing, Stockholm School of Economics. Communications engineer, Volga State University of Telecommunications and Informatics.

Specialisation in developing new technology areas, localising production, managing projects with government clients and commercialising innovative solutions.

• Product development department of the digital UAS personnel registry, University 2035 ANO: organising the department's work, introducing interaction regulations, quality and schedule control of the project.
• BAS Glory Air: developing UAS application areas — localisation of production, negotiations with clients and suppliers, budgeting, financial modelling and product commercialisation.
• Moscow City Government: managing UAS application and information system deployment projects — forming requirements, technical specifications and plans, interaction with clients and contractors.

Participated in a cargo delivery project using UAS in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). UAS production localisation: audit and selection of more than 30 suppliers. Supply of UAS components worth more than RUB 250 million. Practical experience in unmanned aircraft operation: more than 3750 flight hours and 2500 flights.

Lomonosov Moscow State University — MBA "Innovation and Business Development"; HSE University — logistics; Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University named after S. M. Kirov — economist-manager. Training in the repair of unmanned aircraft and payloads at the manufacturer's plant: current, medium and emergency repair.

Head of the "Digital Agronomy and Biotechnology" department at the Russian Academy of Personnel Provision for the Agro-Industrial Complex (DPO RAKO APK). Agricultural consultant at Ekomonitoring Agro: assessment of agricultural land, farming system design, digital maps and agronomic support. Team and project portfolio management; strategy, R&D and agricultural drone application technologies.

Development of the AgroProfit concept — an intelligent system for agronomic decision support based on a knowledge base, calculation models and LLM.

Participation in the survey of more than 900 thousand hectares of agricultural land: assessment of fertility and yield potential, soil data analysis, GIS and remote sensing. Management of R&D on the development of an agricultural drone and ultra-low-volume application technologies; organisation of field trials and participation in industry working groups on UAS.

Application of AI in agronomy: knowledge bases, intelligent assistants, analytical models, setting computer vision tasks and validating results. Organisation of 68 trials at the Agropoligon 2021 site; about 25 plant protection scheme trial points at FMRus JSC. Development of programmes and author's courses on digital agronomy, AI and UAS. Co-author of the book "Overview of UAS use in the Russian agricultural sector".

In 2024 — Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Dagestan State Agrarian University named after M. M. Dzhambulatov. In 2020 — postgraduate studies, in 2016 — master's degree, in 2014 — bachelor's degree at the Russian State Agrarian University — Timiryazev Moscow Agricultural Academy, field of study "agrochemistry and agrosoil science".