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Alexander Bralnin is Executive Director, GM Blockchain Platform IT Lead at Sberbank, a position he has held since January 2024. In this role, he leads multiple teams responsible for the development and support of the GM Blockchain platform, which enables operations with digital financial assets and products across both public and private blockchain networks.

Prior to his current role, Bralnin served as Executive Director and Regulatory Technology IT Lead at Sberbank from July 2018 to January 2023, heading a team of more than 190 employees focused on regulatory reporting platforms and inter-systems reconciliation. Responsibilities included platforms for MiFID II trade and transaction reporting, SFTR, EMIR, Russian NSD, tax registers, and Central Bank of Russia reporting, as well as reconciliation and SWIFT matching solutions built on SmartStream TLM/TCM technology and a proprietary platform incorporating ML-based anomaly detection in payments. Before that, he served as Sberbank CIB CTO Business Partner from June 2016 to July 2018. Earlier in his career, Bralnin spent approximately two and a half years at Deutsche Bank in Moscow, holding roles including Program Project Manager and Deputy Head of Regulatory Reporting and Currency Control, where he managed regulatory-driven technology initiatives and a team of 26 employees. His total professional experience spans more than 21 years. No educational details are available in the source content.

Alexander Olkhovoy is a professional associated with Sberbank in Moscow, with experience in the banking sector.

Anton Kotlyar is Executive Director, DeFi Digital Assets, Global Markets at Sberbank CIB, a position he has held since July 2025. Prior to this, he served at Sberbank in two roles: Head of Business Line for Core Banking B2C from April to August 2023, and before that, Head of Business Line for Investment Accrual Products, Cash Accounts within the HNWI Division from October 2019 to April 2023. In the HNWI role, his stated responsibilities included management and development of a multi-asset product and services portfolio for the premium segment, function management of product teams covering brokerage, asset management, life insurance, and cash and accounts, and supervision of analytics, product, marketing, and software teams supporting a digital platform for financial products and investment advisory.

Between his two stints at Sberbank, Kotlyar served as Head of Product Business Development for Digital Assets within the Corporate Investment Bank at Alfa-Bank from August 2023 to July 2025. His LinkedIn profile describes him as an entrepreneur with more than 10 years of experience across capital markets, wealth management, corporate and retail banking, product development, and client journey, with a specialisation in DeFi and digital assets.