Arseniy Scheltsin · Moscow
I build digital platforms and industry infrastructure, and work on the rules they live by
Fifteen years where the state meets the digital market: the Internet Development Institute, RACIB, the Federation Council digital economy board, NashStore, the AI Competence Centre. CEO of Digital Platforms ANO.
CEO of Digital Platforms ANO
Section of the Digital Economy Council at the Federation Council
Led projects at the Internet Development Institute, 2015–2018
Took part in founding RACIB, 2017
Launch of the NashStore app store, May 2022
Columnist for Forbes and Gazeta.Ru
01 · Biography
Trajectory
Five roles in fifteen years. Details and sources are in the biography.
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2019 – now
Chief executive officer · Digital Platforms ANO
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2017 – 2018
Co-founder, director · Russian Association of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain
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2015 – 2018
Director of project activities · Internet Development Institute
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2013 – 2015
Internet communications department · United Russia, central executive committee
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2008 – 2013
Founder, developer · Own internet ventures
02 · Projects
What I have built
Platforms · 2022
NashStore: launching a Russian Android app store under external restrictions
The store launched on 16 May 2022 with around a thousand apps in the initial catalogue and a team of twelve.
MoreArtificial intelligence · 2025
Catalogue of AI deployments in Russia
1,352 cases as of September 2026; a Habr analysis of why in production the wrapper wins, not the model.
MoreGovernment and regulation · 2021
Expert work in the Digital Economy Council at the Federation Council
The official membership of the “Digital regions” section is published on the Federation Council website.
MoreIndustry partnerships · 2017
RACIB: building an industry platform for the crypto and blockchain market
The association was created in 2017 and became the voice of the industry on blockchain adoption, ICOs and regulation.
MoreGovernment and regulation · 2015–2018
Internet Development Institute: project work between the market and the state
Three years of project work, recorded by independent sources in the role of director of project activities.
MoreArtificial intelligence
AI Competence Centre
A platform of the largest Russian AI developers for shared standards, deployment cases and promotion of Russian solutions on friendly markets.
More03 · Areas
Areas of work
Digital platforms and ecosystems
How a platform comes together: participants, access rules, economics and launch. NashStore, the Russian software marketplace.
Regulation of digital products
The rules digital markets live by: bills, industry positions, work with regulators. IRI, RACIB, the Federation Council.
AI: from pilot to production
What separates a pilot from operations: data, accountability, economics. A catalogue of 1,352 deployments, the Competence Centre, an industry study.
Russian software and technology resilience
Replacement, compatibility and resilience of the IT landscape. IRI import-substitution pilots, the alternatives catalogue, Prizma.
Education and talent
Talent for the digital economy: digital chairs, programmes with IRPO, MBA teaching, civil-servant training.
Research and public analysis
Papers, industry studies and analyses built on first-party catalogue data.
04 · Media
On air and in the press
Research, education, teaching
Research
Papers in journals of the Higher Attestation Commission list on computer science and regional economics.
Education
- MBA in Strategic Management of Information Systems
- MSc in Innovation Management
- BSc in Business Informatics and Applied Mathematics
- Speciality 2.3.8, Informatics and Information Processes
Teaching and talent
MBA lecturer, IT upskilling for civil servants, programmes with IRPO, expert review of digital-chair programmes, student internships and placement in IT companies.
Get in touch
Job and partnership offers, speaking invitations, comment requests. Résumé available on request.