At Bleeding.Technology we track over 100,000 web 3.0, NFT, DeFi & crypto startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Russian Federation based CEO’ operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Yaroslav Belkin
Founder & CEO of Belkin Marketing
Yaroslav Belkin established Belkin Marketing as Founder & CEO in 2007. With his extensive experience in PR and GR, he chalked another milestone in 2018 with the Cointelegraph team where he worked as Head of Marketing for Cointelegraph events and Chief Marketing Officer at NewsBTC Media Group. Mr. Belkin focuses exclusively on Digital Marketing and Marketing Strategies with extensive experience in ICO Marketing and PR. As ICO Advisor with a meticulous sense for details, he is well known in major US, European and Asian regions. He is regularly mentioned in crypto news media as one of the top providers of ICO Marketing services. While he has gained animosity with his no-holds-barred reviews as an ICOBench Expert, Yaros welded close friendships with similar advocates for truth and transparency: Ameer Rosic, Ivan On Tech, and many more stalwarts of the blockchain and crypto community.
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About Belkin Marketing, NEWSBTC, Utopian Capital: International Marketing Agency
Vladimir Tikhomirov
CEO & Founder of MyWish
Crypto enthusiast and serial entrepreneur, Vladimir has over 10 years of experience leading IT businesses. Former Product Manager in Motorola Soluitons (for 7 years). Vladimir is a founder of DDG – software development center with 50 employees. Ph.D in Computer Science.
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About MyWish: Smart-contract as a service Smart: contracts library, graphic interface, scheduled contract calling
Tania Cherniсk
Founder & CEO of Arcona
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About Arcona: Arcona is an information space that unites the virtual and real worlds.
Alexandr Safonov
CEO & Co-Founder of BUTTON Wallet
Alexandr Safonov is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at BUTTON Wallet.
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About BUTTON Wallet, Moscow State University: BUTTON Wallet is multi crypto currency wallet with exchange in Telegram
Ruslan Tugushev
CEO of Storiqa
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About Storiqa: Storiqa is a smart marketplace powered by blockchain.
Dmitry Nazarov
CEO of Genesis Vision
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About Genesis Vision: Genesis Vision is a platform for the private trust management market that combines exchanges, brokers, traders and investors in a network.
Nikita Akimov
Founder and CEO of Dare App (by Eristica)
Founder of Eristica. He is an avid entrepreneur and marketing guru. He is a graduate of Mobile Only Accelerator (MOX) which is the number 1 startup accelerator in Asia. Akimov is a winner of the startup competition Winter Capital & McKinsey. He is also an advocate of decentralization and democratic anonymous organizations (DAO). He is a Graduate of the Department of Mathematical Methods for Economic Analysis at Moscow State University
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About Dare App (by Eristica): Entertainment app where people challenge others to do amazing things on video & earn rewards

Artem Tolkachev
CEO of Tokenomica
Artem heads legal services for technology projects. Prior to joining Deloitte, he managed his own legal practice and worked as an attorney at a law firm and at an international bank. Artem is the chairman of a Blockchain community in Russia as well as a legal expert at IIDF (Internet Initiatives Development Fund) and IDI (Internet Development Institute). He has gained extensive experience while working on finance, technology, educational, touristic, organisational and content projects.
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About Tokenomica: The technology solution for raising capital that allows issuance and secondary trading of smart securities both in fiat and crypto.
Igor Lebedev
CEO of SONM
Igor is a specialist in computer science with 15 years of IT experience, including seven years developing software for the enterprise. He is an expert in classic system architectures for OLTP. MDM. DIVH, OLAP. and 61 system classes, databases, as well as some specialized architectures for the fog computing and microservices. smart contracts and the blockchain. automated trading systems and microelectronics. He has finished several projects in Prognoz and EPAM. Igor Lebedev is the head of the SONM development team since July 2017. He has made a significant contribution to the product vision and development process. His expertise has helped the team to define and evolve a product strategy and technology stack off of which the SONM platform is based. Igor has built an outstanding developers team that moves forward the project and brings to the world the real working general purpose fog-computing platform. The product is already available as testnet MVP version. evolving according to the roadmap.
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About SONM: SONM’s blockchain-based decentralized fog computing platform.
Vladislav Bulochnikov
Co-Founder & CEO of Chatex
Vlad Bulochnikov is the Co-Founder and CEO at Chatex.
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About Chatex: Chatex is the simplest wallet in the messenger.

Mikhail Mikhailov
CEO of PlusCoin
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About PlusCoin: Decentralized cash back service
Denis Vechkanov
Co Founder & CEO of Introa
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About Introa: Introa business intelligence system for property market analysis & construction management.
Nikolay Shkilev
CEO and Founder of Private Business Club
Has 20 years of experience in large-scale transaction projects. He has many awards and titles in the IT business. Self-Made Russia award. Tech guru. Super TOP award etc. Founder and CEO of Private Business Club. His Holding received “Enterprise of the Year” award in the Kremlin. Has a business in various directions.
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About Private Business Club, Top ICO Advisors: Private Business Club is offer investment ideas beyond classic wealth management
Anatoly Smorgonsky
CEO of OIN.Space
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About OIN.Space: OIN.Space is blockchain-based consumer trust ecosystem allowing to confirm authenticity of any purchase.
Anton Mishin
CEO of NTok-X
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About NTok-X: NTok-X is world’s first ecosystem for decentralized education and personal token sales.
Julia Sergeeva
CEO of Brem
Development of the direction Residential real estate. Experience in real estate – 8 years. She occupied leading positions in the largest companies-builders of Europe. She was engaged in the development of regional sales and the organization of financial support for transactions.
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About Brem: Brem is the future of the real estate market.
Sergei Sevriugin
CEO of REGA
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About Bellwood Systems, Bellwood Systems, REGA, REGA: REGA Risk Sharing Platform – innovative insurtech platform based on blockchain and smart contracts.
Olesya Egozina
Co-Founder, CEO of OkayCrypt
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About Cryptonomos, OkayCrypt: World’s first scoring ecosystem for Bitcoin
Dmitry Laptev
Group CEO of XZEN
10+ years of experience in corporate and private banking. Successful experience in creation of banking products and organization of sales systems. CFA 1 level.
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About XZEN: Global financial platfrom on blockchain
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