Alexander Sotnikov

Alex worked as a Compliance and Delivery Manager at Deutsche Bank, a Senior Consultant at Bridgewater, and an IT Manager at UBS and Credit Suisse. Since 2017, he has been supporting crypto startups as a Delivery Consultant, Product Owner, and Compliance Manager.

In 2018, as a COO, Alex built a white-label product from scratch that brought in $1.5 million in revenue within the first year.

Areas of expertise:

• Delivery management and process maturity (Agile/SCRUM, SAFe, Data-Driven Delivery, Engineering Excellence)
• Digital compliance and audits (CISA ISACA certified), including ICT, SOC 2, GDPR, MiCA, DORA, FCA, ADGM, NIST frameworks, ISO/IEC 27001, and ISAE 3402
• Hands-on experience with SEC and SOC 2 Type II external audits: contributed to several successful audit cycles over the past year
• AML/CTF policies and risk assessment: helped launch a fully FATF-compliant global crypto exchange and neobank from scratch
• Market abuse (MABS) and insider trading: policies, procedures, and internal trainings
• Personal data (PII): policies, procedures, and awareness training