Igor Khmel
BANKEX Co-Founder and CEO - Igor is a Fintech entrepreneur with extensive experience in product development, operations and digital strategy implementation in corporate and innovative start-up environments. Igor holds degrees in mathematics & physics, economics, and business, including an MBA from Stanford GSB. His professional track-record includes management consulting at McKinsey and Deloitte, and investment & trading at Citadel Hedge Fund. Additionally, he has had significant exposure in the FinTech ecosystem, building a number of startups in California. Igor founded Sberbank Lab, a fintech laboratory at the largest bank in Eastern Europe, which he left after three years to build his own fintech project ‒ BANKEX.
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