Mr. Shevelenko is the Chief Business Officer of Perplexity AI, Inc., where he is responsible for all operations of the company and leads all aspects of its business growth, including strategic consumer and enterprise partnerships. Prior to joining Perplexity, Mr. Shevelenko founded and served as President of Tortoise Inc., a retail and commerce automation startup based in Mountain View, California, focused on deploying robotic technologies for large enterprise partners. From 2014 to 2018, Mr. Shevelenko held senior roles in business development at Uber, where he helped scale global partnerships and new mobility initiatives, following earlier product leadership roles at LinkedIn and Meta. Mr. Shevelenko serves as a director of Payfare Inc., a publicly listed financial technology company, and has served on a special committee of its board overseeing the successful evaluation of its acquisition by Fiserv. As a cofounder and senior executive of high-growth technology companies, he routinely reviews and assesses complex financial statements, and he holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Columbia University.