Summary
Igor Kurilin is a multidisciplinary technologist and strategist with over a decade of experience spanning exchange connectivity at Bloomberg, quantitative finance, telecom investment, and entrepreneurial product launches. He combines an MBA and MSc-level training in risk management and computer science with hands-on software and embedded systems roots, having led DSP and Java research teams as well as end-to-end product builds. Igor’s background uniquely bridges technical delivery, financial modeling and cross-border M&A—he’s executed mobile payment commercialization and global PPP valuation tracks while shipping production connectivity systems. Based in Hong Kong, he operates at the intersection of TMT, finance and high-tech, comfortable translating complex regulatory and market risk into practical engineering solutions. A founder who scaled a rapid-response marketplace and a former quantitative analyst, he brings both operator grit and academic rigor to large, distributed programs.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at Columbia University - Columbia Business School
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategy, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategy at Sungkyunkwan University (성균관대) in collaboration with MIT Sloan School of Management
PhD researcher, computer science, PhD researcher, computer science at Saint-Petersburg State University
Master's Degree, Finance and Financial Management Services, Master's Degree, Finance and Financial Management Services at The University of Hong Kong (香港大學) / HKU
English, Russian, Korean, Chinese