Mark Ginzburg
Марк Гінзбург
M. Z. Ginzburg
Born	(1956-09-28)28 September 1956 Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	MTUCI
Occupation(s)	robotics, artificial intelligence, blockchain
Organization	Ukrainian Federation of Robotics
Spouse	Tatyana Ginzburg
Children	Irina, Vladislav, Anthony Matanel
Parents	Zinoviy Ginzburg (father) Nina Ginzburg (mother)
Relatives	Lev Ginzburg, Vitaly Ginzburg

Mark Ginzburg (Russian: Марк Зиновьевич Гинзбург, Ukrainian: Марк Зіновійович Гінзбург; born 28 September 1956) is an American and Ukrainian businessman and public figure, the vice-president of the FC Dynamo Kyiv for innovation.^[1][2][3][4] President of the Ukrainian Federation of Robotics.^[5] Ambassador of the Global BlockChain Business Council (GBBC).^[6]

Biography

He was born in the Jewish family of Zinoviy Meirovich and Nina Borisovna Ginzburg. Engaged in sambo, winning the All-Union Spartakiad among schoolchildren, later became a Master of Sports of the USSR.^[7] After graduating from secondary school No. 118 in 1973, he entered the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, after graduation of which he worked from 1979 to 1988 as an electrical engineer at the Artem Kyiv Machine-Building Plant and then as the Head of the launch-commissioning department of Minlegharchmash. In 1988, he and his family emigrated to the United States. Worked as a taxi driver in New York City for three years.

Since the early 1990s, he has been engaged in development activities in New York and Miami Beach and investment activities in Ukraine. In 1992, he founded one of the first five American-Ukrainian enterprises, the construction holding "MTN", and later, in 2009, the Ukrainian investment holding "UIH", which built several hundred thousand square meters of commercial real estate in the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv region (shopping and office centers, a hotel in the center of Kyiv and a hotel-restaurant conference complex at the Kyiv Reservoir). In 1996, he invested in and built the first 100% private enterprise in the oil refining industry of Ukraine – the MTN Poltava Gas Condensate Processing Plant.^[8] Since 2002, he has been fully focused on conducting business in Ukraine. In 2007, after negotiations with Donald Trump, he tried to build a skyscraper at European Square according to the project of architect Norman Foster, but the global financial crisis of 2008 prevented this.^[9][10] But he still has these plans for the future.^[11]

Since 2017, he focused on the digitalization of Kyiv and the implementation of blockchain technologies at the state level (Kyiv Smart City, state registers, state procurement, and the like), as well as the implementation of artificial intelligence.^[12] In July 2017, he participated in the Richard Branson summit on Necker Island, which gathered world leaders in the field of innovation. On 25 September of the same year, for the first time in world history, he organized and carried out the sale of real estate for cryptocurrency using a smart contract and blockchain technology. The founder of the technology media property TechCrunch, Michael Arrington, was the buyer of the apartment.^[13] The agreement was made through the mediation of the international platform Propy, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and the State Agency for Electronic Government of Ukraine. On 18 May 2018, he participated as a speaker at the annual TEDx conference held in Ulaanbaatar with the topic of the report "Eradicating corruption in the highest echelons of power using blockchain technology".^[14] In 2021, he organized and carried out the world's first NFT sale of tickets for football matches, which later became widespread among some football, basketball and ice hockey clubs in the world.^{[15][16][17][18]}

Working with Hong Kong companies Hanson Robotics and AngelVest, during another visit to Hong Kong in August 2018, interviewed gynoid Sophia, directly in the same laboratory where she was created.^[19] In October of the same year, he has organized Sofia's official visit to Ukraine.^[20] As a result, on 11 October, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman signed a memorandum of cooperation between the government of Ukraine and the Hong Kong companies Hanson Robotics and AngelVest regarding the development of robotics and artificial intelligence in Ukraine.^[21] The next day, 12 October, on his initiative, the final of the All-Ukrainian competition of ideas and startups "Artificial Intelligence and Robotics" took place.^[22] At this event, the members of the jury, in addition to him, included David Chen, CFO of Hanson Robotics and CEO of AngelVest, and Sophia the robot gynoid. More than 400 teams and startups from all over Ukraine submitted applications for participation in the competition, and 12 finalists demonstrated a high level of international development. According to the unanimous opinion of the jury, 3 projects that meet the high standards of Silicon Valley were chosen as winners. In July of the same year he was invited as a representative of the city of Kyiv to the forum of mayors of cities of the New Silk Road in Astana, Kazakhstan. In 2019,he was appointed Ambassador to Ukraine of the Global BlockChain Business Council (GBBC).^[23]

He is engaged in educational activities in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics, and is the president of the Ukrainian Federation of Robotics. He gave lectures at Ukrainian universities, including Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv Institute of International Relations, Odesa National Polytechnic University, Kyiv Cooperative Institute of Business and Law, University of Banking and Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University.^[24][25][26] In May 2022, he noted that his son would perform a concert in the United States in support of the Kyiv hospital "Okhmatdyt".^[27] The concert took place in New York, the proceeds from which went to the account of the aforementioned Ukrainian Center for the Protection of Mothers and Children.

Collects works of art, including works by Picasso, Chagall, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Modigliani, Dali, Warhol, etc. In September 2011, at a New York auction, Guernsey acquired an archive of 2,562 black-and-white photos of The Beatles with negatives and copyrights, taken between 1960 and 1964 by Astrid Kirchherr.^[28]

Literature

• "Football", No. 13 (1917), 18–21 February 2021. P. 9–10.

References

External links

• Page on Twitter
• Channel on YouTube