George Surovtsev is the co-founder and CEO of Makini - the universal API gateway for Enterprise Asset Management. It is a part of a new wave of companies broadly referred to as the “API economy”.

Together with the team, in less than a year, he has grown Makini to over $1.5M in revenue, expanding the team to over 50 people. Makini is backed by top Silicon Valley investors behind companies like SpaceX, Uber, and Stripe and in total have raised the largest funding ever received by a company with founders from Kazakhstan.

Prior to founding Makini, George had a successful international career in oil and gas and offshore. The last 2 years before founding Makini he was in charge of data science and innovation projects for a leading offshore company in UAE, preparing it for >$1B acquisition by a conglomerate.

A strong generalist, George's been in functions across operations, technical, commercial, HR, and data science. He is also an AIESECer and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.

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