Senior Director Growth & Innovation, RBC Lumina

• Realized cost savings and revenue generative capacity realization by leading the development and scaling of the enterprise's Generative AI platform

• Delivered the bank's first production Generative AI products & solutions for staff and clients, through development of an enterprise approach for incremental adoption of Generative AI. 

Senior Director AI Growth & Innovation

• Exponentially increased the value of RBC's AI & ML platform by enabling novel business solutions.

Senior Director Head of Product, RBC AI & ML platform

• Led product development to scale the bank's AI & ML platform, achieving high user adoption and NPS.

• Founding member of HSBC’s first corporate backed venture

• Simplified global trade through an data and AI-powered B2B network platform for corporates.

• Delivered the company’s first platform economy revenue.

Head of Data and Co-Founder, Applied Innovation

• Led the Applied Innovation group's Data, AI & Machine Learning domain, delivering significant new business value via new data & AI powered solutions.

R&D Lead, Financial Intelligence Unit

• Accelerated technology adoption within risk management domains, delivering innovative solutions in AML, big data, and cybersecurity.

2023's growth in Generative AI directed his focus towards community building solutions through new, lower-cost & higher impact methods

During his PhD, Ilya raised money for and delivered Europe's first research platform for at scale analytics of social media data through a unique partnership with Twitter. This platform was used for capital market prediction, geopolitical event tracking and macroeconomic modelling

Prior to this, Ilya worked on a number of data driven businesses both as a founder and as part of a founding team. He has worked on new digital publication and alternative credit scoring businesses, as well as building and subsequently selling a social network company in the UK.

Early in his career, Ilya built data powered business solutions across alternative lending, healthcare, capital markets, digital publication, and social networking domains

Prior to developing a focus on transforming Financial Services through Data and AI, Ilya held M&A and capital markets at N M Rothschild & Sons, VTB Bank Europe, Merrill Lynch and Fulcrum Asset Management