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Alexander Valerievich Filatov (4 February 1975) - is a managing partner at TON Labs - a Swiss-headquartered ecosystem developer for the Telegram Open Network blockchain platform. Alexander is an entrepreneur and former corporate executive with 25 year experience.
Alexander started his career in 1994 at the Russian HQ of the Procter & Gamble corporation in marketing. In 2000 he was moved to the European HQ of P&G in Geneva and led food & beverage business of P&G in Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.
After finalizing his Exectuve MBA in Business School Lausanne in 2004 Filatov returned to Russia, where he held a number of executive positions in strategy, investment banking and M&A. Later he served as a CEO of three manufacturing corporations: RM (2010-2011) - large Russian automotive group, RM-Terex (2012-2013) - joint venture between RM and Terex corporation, and Chelpipe (2014-2015) - manufacturer of industrial pipes and oil equipment.
In early 2016 Alexander left the corporate world and moved into the private equity and venture capital field where he made a series of investments. After graduating from a Singularity University later that year he co-founded a diversified venture fund Industry 4.0., focusing on exponential technologies (blockchain, AI, big data, robotics, VR/AR, digital medicine etc.). In 2017 the fund exclusively focused on the Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain project and syndicated a substation investment into TON during the two fundraising rounds. After that Filatov and his partners established TON Labs - an international group of companies with Swiss headquarter developing infrastructure solutions for TON (SDK, toolchain, compilators), as well as holistically fostering development of a comprehensive ecosystem around TON.
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