Alexey Zolotarev

Alexey specializes in high-risk, high-growth FinTech environments, with 15 years of experience in FX trading platforms, iGaming, and financial services. He has also worked across telco (Swisscom), enterprise software (Deutsche Bank), and PE-backed portfolio companies (ESW Capital). His advisory practice focuses on technology-driven businesses where platform reliability, regulatory compliance, and rapid scaling are critical.

Alexey moves beyond AI hype to implement enterprise frameworks that deliver measurable ROI while mitigating compliance and security risks. His approach aligns AI initiatives with governance, risk management, and board-level oversight requirements. He holds certifications in AI Security & Governance and DSPM Fundamentals, and has designed AI-core platforms for personalization, risk modeling, and operational automation.

Alexey has led the technical due diligence and post-merger integration of 4 acquisitions with zero business disruption. As VP of Engineering at ESW Capital (a $4B PE fund), he served as technology operating partner across 3 portfolio companies, delivering 4x P&L growth and a product (DevSpaces) that was later acquired by GitHub. He has led tech strategy for 3 exits totaling $800M.

Key results include: $800M in exit value across 3 transactions, 5.6x technology organization scaling (80 to 450 people), $3.8T monthly trading volume platform support, 35–53% infrastructure TCO reduction, 5x business growth at 2 mid-sized FinTechs, 27% compounding quarterly revenue growth, and 99.9997% platform stability for mission-critical financial systems.

Alexey balances fiduciary responsibility with execution excellence, ensuring technology investments translate into EBITDA improvement and sustainable competitive advantage. He brings the technical depth to evaluate complex systems and the business acumen to guide capital allocation. His $35M tech investment plan at Exness delivered 27% quarterly revenue growth, demonstrating his ability to connect technology spend to measurable business outcomes.

Yes. Alexey is available for fractional board director positions, non-executive director (NED) roles, interim CTO engagements, and strategic advisory. He is based in Limassol, Cyprus, and works with organizations globally. Contact him at alex@nospam.azolotarev.com or connect via LinkedIn.

Pivot Applied AI (aipivt.com) is the operating vehicle through which Alexey delivers hands-on AI transformation engagements. Advisory roles (board, NED, fractional CTO) are conducted personally. Delivery engagements run through AIPIVT. The two are deliberately separated to avoid conflict of interest and to give clients clarity on what they're contracting for.

Alexey is currently in a full-time executive role and accepts a limited number of advisory and board engagements per year. AIPIVT operates on a constrained-capacity model — typically a small number of clients per quarter — to ensure direct founder involvement.

Most AI projects are treated as innovation experiments and funded as discretionary spend. Alexey's approach treats AI as a capital allocation decision: every initiative must show measurable EBITDA impact within two quarters, with funding sourced from infrastructure savings rather than new budget. This framing shifts AI from "cost center experiment" to "shareholder value driver" — and is the basis of board conversations Alexey leads.