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Go-to-market committee: Active Members & Expertise

Aleksey Petrov

  • Telegram: @vk_com

  • Master's degree in Information Technology.

  • 14+ years in e-commerce as a Product Owner and CEO.
  • Experience managing an e-commerce business with annual revenue above $20M and a quarterly marketing budget of approximately $150K.
  • Background in performance marketing, influencer marketing, PR, and measurable growth strategies.
  • Built several Gonka ecosystem products, including joingonka.ai, gate.joingonka.ai, and karman.joingonka.ai.
  • Works on B2B adoption of AI tools and inference services.

Expertise: Product management, performance marketing, growth analytics, customer development, B2B go-to-market, ecosystem products.

Mikhail Chudinov

  • Telegram: @akamitch

  • 20+ years of experience in server administration and high-load systems, including 10+ years managing IT teams.

  • Founder of Gonka.Top, the first community pool in the Gonka ecosystem.
  • Attracted approximately $1.3M in capital to Gonka mining.
  • Operated up to 53 servers with 8×H100 configurations simultaneously at peak.
  • Runs the Gonka.Top YouTube channel, which has generated 146K+ organic views without paid promotion.
  • Experience with technical education, interviews, creator collaborations, and mining community growth.

Expertise: Mining infrastructure, high-load systems, host economics, community growth, technical communication, educational content.

Pavel Petko

  • Telegram: @pavelp221

  • 9+ years of experience across media, analytics, business development, and audience strategy in independent media.

  • Completed the Media Management program at Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.
  • Experience working with European and US public foundations supporting media, NGOs, and civic initiatives.
  • Founder of an analytics project focused on global sports sponsorship market research.
  • Background in media strategy, research, data analysis, PR, and communication of complex topics.
  • In the Gonka ecosystem, contributes to committee coordination, reporting, governance communication, community feedback, and the Gonka Community Blog.

Expertise: Media strategy, research and data analysis, PR, governance communication, reporting, ecosystem communications.

Timur Vyalshin

  • Telegram: @lexti

  • Five years of experience in automotive quality at Hyundai.

  • 4.5 years building the CryptoCommons YouTube and Telegram community.
  • Former advisor to crypto exchange CoinW.
  • Five years of experience as a company CEO, with hands-on startup and operational management experience.
  • Experience with exchange listings, crypto partnerships, and community engagement.

Expertise: Crypto marketing, community growth, exchange relations, listings, participant engagement, operations.

Mikhail

  • Telegram: @empro3

  • PhD track in Business Economics and Finance in the US, with a focus on corporate governance.

  • Led regional marketing for NVIDIA partners, including GPU and physics accelerator launches.
  • Helped grow OCZ SSDs to a leading regional market position, reaching up to 70% market share and approximately $10M in quarterly revenue.
  • Managed marketing budgets of up to $1.5M annually.
  • Contributed to loyalty and audience development programs for the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and Seattle Opera.

Expertise: Strategic marketing, technology and hardware marketing, brand growth, corporate governance, audience development.

Eldar I

  • Telegram: @MageDeFi

  • COO at Gonka.Top, responsible for business operations, member onboarding, sales, partnerships, and participant support.

  • 10 years of operational and management experience, progressing from account management to executive leadership.
  • Three years of experience in Bitcoin mining, data center operations, and mining infrastructure.
  • Strong focus on process design, execution tracking, documentation, and coordination across teams.

Expertise: Operations, onboarding, partnerships, process management, mining infrastructure, stakeholder coordination.

Arseny Myakotnikov

Advisor to the Reddit Pilot

  • Telegram: @arsenm1

  • 10+ years in marketing, including 7+ years in Web3, with CMO-level experience across fintech, Web3, and AI products.

  • Helped attract $300M+ in AUM for a DeFi hedge fund while scaling its active user base from approximately 1K to 15K+.
  • Currently CMO at venture studio dome.net, launching Web3 and B2B SaaS products.
  • Experience managing $100K+ marketing budgets and teams of up to 12 people.
  • Built and scaled his own products, including an InfoFi platform and a Solana trading product with $3M+ in volume.
  • Strong network across crypto communities, KOLs, DAOs, DeFi projects, and marketing partners.

Expertise: Web3 and AI go-to-market, user acquisition, community growth, influencer marketing, partnerships, product launches, marketing analytics.