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Andrii Hrytseniuk
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Andrii Hrytseniuk

CEO of Brave1

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CEO of Brave1, the platform the Ukrainian government established in 2023 to connect industry, combat units, ministries and universities into a single defense innovation engine. A mathematician by training with more than twenty years in IT, he was chief information officer at Ukraine's largest banks and worked at the Ministry of Digital Transformation before becoming Brave1's CEO in 2025. Under him Brave1 has helped codify more than 600 products to NATO standards and opened Ukraine's defense market to foreign companies through Test in Ukraine, Brave International and Brave Prime.

If you are not in Ukraine, you are not in defense. And Brave1 is the easiest door to enter Ukraine.
Andrii Hrytseniuk — Episode 16

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Episodes with Andrii Hrytseniuk

If You’re Not in Ukraine, You’re Not in Defense — Andrii Hrytseniuk with Sam Cook and Rob Lee, Episode 16
Episode 16 · September 7, 2026

“If You’re Not in Ukraine, You’re Not in Defense”: Brave1 CEO Andrii Hrytseniuk

The CEO of Ukraine’s defense innovation platform — a former bank CIO — on problem statements instead of requirement documents, six laws and fifty decrees rewritten, 600 products codified to NATO standards, and why he is certain the majority of strikes will be fully autonomous next year.

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