Pavlo Tanasyuk

Pavlo Tanasyuk is the Founder and CEO of a UK space startup called Spacebit, which Forbes recently featured as “Mystery Startup”. Additionally, he is CEO of BlockVerify. Initially, he ran a highly successful payment system company MoneXy which he later sold and invested the proceeds in space projects and the setting up of Spacebit. Pavlo’s passion has led Spacebit to sign a joint agreement with Astrobotic to begin commercial and scientific lunar exploration with the first mission in 2021 on the Peregrine lunar lander; marking the first payload from the UK to reach the Moon surface. He earned a degree in Management and Information Systems from LSE and holds MPhil in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge Business School. Pavlo is active as a researcher on blockchain technology and its social implications. He presented his work at a number of major international conferences including World Economic Forum in Switzerland.