Alex lives and works full time in Ukraine, with a unique firsthand insight into defence tech innovations deployed onto the battlefield.

He works at Vermeer with their visual navigation for unmanned systems, deploying it into combat alongside the military. He also works as venture partner at Darkstar; evaluating hundreds of lethal and dual use capabilities with experts in-country and maintains an extensive network across the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Security Service and Ministries built upon trust, honesty and reliability.