A Global Leadership Team with Proven Expertise in AI, Data Analytics and Enterprise Data Architecture
With over 50 years of combined experience, our core team has successfully delivered complex, cross-industry projects for more than two decades - blending deep technical expertise with pragmatic, results-driven execution
- Sergei Shestakov
CEO -
Peter Bilzerian
U.S. Managing Director -
Nareg Soghomonian
Chief Commercial Officer -
Artem Marchenko CIO
Founder & CEO
Sergei Shestakov
Sergei Shestakov is the Founder and CEO of MPP Insights, where he leads the design of large-scale, high-availability data and analytics systems for enterprises operating in zero-downtime environments.
He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence earned in 2001, with early academic work focused on planning-based AI agents long before agentic systems entered the mainstream. Over the past 20+ years, Sergei has built and operated mission-critical infrastructure across banking, telecommunications, healthcare, logistics, and public sector systems, where reliability, compliance, and uptime were non-negotiable.
His work has consistently focused on embedding intelligence directly into data platforms to remove application-layer bottlenecks, increase fault tolerance, and scale analytics under real-world load. He has authored multiple research papers, including ACM-recognized work on database-centric computing, and has presented internationally on high-performance data architectures.
Sergei has been quoted by Interesting Engineering, Digital Trends, and the International Business Times for his expertise in AI infrastructure, system reliability, and enterprise analytics.
At MPP Insights, he sets the company’s technical direction, product architecture, and R&D strategy across ETL, BI, OCR, NLP, and AI-enabled analytics platforms. His current focus is advancing massively parallel processing architectures that move beyond traditional compute constraints while maintaining strict standards for governance, security, and operational resilience.
Sergei is known for a systems-first leadership style grounded in operational rigor, long-term thinking, and building platforms designed to endure in production, not just perform in theory.
He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence earned in 2001, with early academic work focused on planning-based AI agents long before agentic systems entered the mainstream. Over the past 20+ years, Sergei has built and operated mission-critical infrastructure across banking, telecommunications, healthcare, logistics, and public sector systems, where reliability, compliance, and uptime were non-negotiable.
His work has consistently focused on embedding intelligence directly into data platforms to remove application-layer bottlenecks, increase fault tolerance, and scale analytics under real-world load. He has authored multiple research papers, including ACM-recognized work on database-centric computing, and has presented internationally on high-performance data architectures.
Sergei has been quoted by Interesting Engineering, Digital Trends, and the International Business Times for his expertise in AI infrastructure, system reliability, and enterprise analytics.
At MPP Insights, he sets the company’s technical direction, product architecture, and R&D strategy across ETL, BI, OCR, NLP, and AI-enabled analytics platforms. His current focus is advancing massively parallel processing architectures that move beyond traditional compute constraints while maintaining strict standards for governance, security, and operational resilience.
Sergei is known for a systems-first leadership style grounded in operational rigor, long-term thinking, and building platforms designed to endure in production, not just perform in theory.
U.S. Managing Director
Peter Bilzerian
Peter leads U.S. strategy and operations at MPP Insights, guiding market expansion, managing key enterprise relationships, and aligning client goals with the firm’s data engineering and analytics capabilities. As an investor in the company, he plays a direct role in shaping long term direction, partnerships, and the continued growth of the U.S. practice.
Before joining MPP Insights, Peter led data engineering and business intelligence initiatives at Bank of America, contributing to an estimated twenty million dollars in cost savings through process optimization and strategic improvements. Peter also invests in and advises early stage companies, with a focus on data and analytics.
His background spans strategy, analytics, and venture building, giving him a grounded understanding of how organizations adopt modern data infrastructure and convert it into operational value.
At MPP Insights, Peter focuses on clear execution paths for enterprise clients, coordinated delivery between the U.S. and Armenia, and the development of reliable and scalable data systems. His work emphasizes structured decision making, strong project governance, and outcomes that compound over time.
In his free time, Peter is an avid chef and food critic - with his longstanding instagram community since 2017, called Bon AppePETE. He lives in Richmond, Virginia with his family and two dogs, Louie and Ollie.
Before joining MPP Insights, Peter led data engineering and business intelligence initiatives at Bank of America, contributing to an estimated twenty million dollars in cost savings through process optimization and strategic improvements. Peter also invests in and advises early stage companies, with a focus on data and analytics.
His background spans strategy, analytics, and venture building, giving him a grounded understanding of how organizations adopt modern data infrastructure and convert it into operational value.
At MPP Insights, Peter focuses on clear execution paths for enterprise clients, coordinated delivery between the U.S. and Armenia, and the development of reliable and scalable data systems. His work emphasizes structured decision making, strong project governance, and outcomes that compound over time.
In his free time, Peter is an avid chef and food critic - with his longstanding instagram community since 2017, called Bon AppePETE. He lives in Richmond, Virginia with his family and two dogs, Louie and Ollie.
Chief Commercial Officer
Nareg Soghomonian
Nareg leads business development strategy at MPP Insights, guiding marketing expansion, strengthening client relationships and aligning enterprise needs with the company’s data engineering and analytics capabilities. With more than fifteen years of experience in business development and operations for IT services firms, he plays a central role in shaping MPP Insight’s long term direction and growth trajectory.
Before joining MPP Insights, Nareg helped drive the transformation of an early-stage IT services organization, overseeing marketing and sales processes, scaling up the team from 10 engineers to nearly 60, and contributing to the company’s successful acquisition. His background spans organizational scaling, team building, and the development of services models that evolve in step with client needs.
At MPP Insights, Nareg focuses on creating clear and sustainable growth paths across the company’s specialized industries, ensuring seamless coordination between delivery teams, and developing commercial frameworks that support reliable and scalable data analytics services. His work emphasizes strong communication, disciplined execution, and building partnerships rooted in transparency and long-term value.
Nareg values problem-solving, continuous learning, and collaboration. He approaches leadership with a philosophy centered on listening carefully, asking the right questions, and fostering trust-driven relationships that endure. Outside of work Nareg enjoys hiking, listening to music and playing the guitar.
Before joining MPP Insights, Nareg helped drive the transformation of an early-stage IT services organization, overseeing marketing and sales processes, scaling up the team from 10 engineers to nearly 60, and contributing to the company’s successful acquisition. His background spans organizational scaling, team building, and the development of services models that evolve in step with client needs.
At MPP Insights, Nareg focuses on creating clear and sustainable growth paths across the company’s specialized industries, ensuring seamless coordination between delivery teams, and developing commercial frameworks that support reliable and scalable data analytics services. His work emphasizes strong communication, disciplined execution, and building partnerships rooted in transparency and long-term value.
Nareg values problem-solving, continuous learning, and collaboration. He approaches leadership with a philosophy centered on listening carefully, asking the right questions, and fostering trust-driven relationships that endure. Outside of work Nareg enjoys hiking, listening to music and playing the guitar.
CIO
Artem Marchenko
Artem is Chief Information Officer at MPP Insights, with extensive experience leading complex IT programs across a wide range of industries. He has successfully delivered mission-critical initiatives - including the design and operation of a high-speed, fault-tolerant, geographically distributed platform for a major telecom operator - ensuring scalability, resilience, and real-time performance at scale.
He leads the development of the company’s enterprise BI system, encompassing data ingestion (ETL/ELT), transformation, semantic modeling, visualization, and embedded data governance - enabling trusted, self-service analytics across the organization.
A champion of applied AI, Artem drives the integration of cutting-edge technologies - including ML, generative AI, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and autonomous agents - into the BI and operational stack to enhance decision intelligence, automate insights, and support context-aware user experiences.
Guided by principles of operational excellence, security, and responsible innovation, he ensures technology strategy remains tightly aligned with business value.
He leads the development of the company’s enterprise BI system, encompassing data ingestion (ETL/ELT), transformation, semantic modeling, visualization, and embedded data governance - enabling trusted, self-service analytics across the organization.
A champion of applied AI, Artem drives the integration of cutting-edge technologies - including ML, generative AI, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and autonomous agents - into the BI and operational stack to enhance decision intelligence, automate insights, and support context-aware user experiences.
Guided by principles of operational excellence, security, and responsible innovation, he ensures technology strategy remains tightly aligned with business value.