Mark Ginzburg

Mark Zinovyevich Ginzburg
Марк Зіновійович Гінзбург
M. Z. Ginzburg
Born	Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR
Nationality	jew
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	MTUCI [he]
Occupation(s)	robotics, artificial intelligence, blockchain
Organization	Ukrainian Federation of Robotics
Spouse	Tatiana Ginzburg
Children	Iryna, Vladyslav, Anthony
Parents	Zinoviy Ginzburg (father) Nina Ginzburg (mother)
Relatives	Lev Ginzburg [uk], Vitaly Ginzburg

Mark Zinovyevich Ginzburg (born September 28, 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[edit]

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 [it].^[7] After graduating from secondary school No. 118 in 1973, he entered the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, after which he worked as an electrical engineer at the Artem Kyiv Machine-Building Plant [uk] from 1979 to 1988, and then as the head of the 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 near 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 [uk], 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.^[13] On September 25 of the same year, for the first time in history, real estate was sold for cryptocurrency under a smart contract, the founder of the online publication TechCrunch, Michael Arrington, was the buyer of the apartment.^[14] 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 [uk]. On May 18, 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".^[15] In 2021, he organized and carried out the world's first NFT sale of tickets for football matches [no], which later became widespread among some football, basketball and hockey clubs in the world.^{[16][17][18][19]}

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.^[20] In October of the same year, the robot organized Sofia's official visit to Ukraine.^[21] As a result, on October 11, 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.^[22] The next day, October 12, on his initiative, the final of the All-Ukrainian competition of ideas and startups "Artificial Intelligence and Robotics" took place.^[23] 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. More than 400 teams and startups from all over Ukraine submitted applications for participation in the competition, and 12 finalists demonstrated a high level according to Silicon Valley standards. According to the unanimous opinion of the jury, 3 projects that meet the high standards of Silicon Valley were chosen as winners: 482.solutions, 3D Factory in the Box and Zpoken. In the same year, he was invited from Kyiv to the forum of mayors of cities of the New Silk Road in Astana. In 2023, he became an ambassador of the Global BlockChain Business Council (GBBC).^[24]

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 [uk], Odesa National Polytechnic University, Kyiv Cooperative Institute of Business and Law [uk], University of Banking [uk] and Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University.^[25][26][27] In May 2022, he noted that his son would perform a concert in the United States in support of the Kyiv hospital "Okhmatdyt".^[28] 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.^[29]

Family[edit]

• Wife — Tatyana Vladimirovna Yasinskaya (born December 4, 1959), master of sports of the international class [ru] in sports acrobatics, multiple champion of the USSR and Europe, winner and prize-winner of international competitions. He lives with his sons in Hewlett Harbor, New York.
• Daughter — Irina Markovna Ginzburg (born 1983), film producer, lives in Los Angeles.
• Son — Vladyslav Markovych Ginzburg (born 1987), CEO of Blockparty, a company operating in the field of NFT and blockchain technology in the US market.^[30][31][32] And his company is one of the leaders in this direction.^[33][34]
• Son — Anthony Mathanel Ginzburg (born 2005), pianist, performs on the stage of Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, laureate of international competitions of young pianists.^[35] In the summer of 2022, he became a laureate of piano competitions in Salzburg (2nd place), Amsterdam (2nd place), Paris (1st place). He is also in the top-100 in the world for memorizing the number of digits after the decimal point of pi, naming 2,500 digits by memory.^[36] On March 23, 2023, he improved to 3,141 digits in 20 minutes.^[37]
• Father's cousin is the Nobel laureate, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg.
• He is the great-nephew of Lev Borisovich Ginzburg [uk].

Literature[edit]

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

References[edit]

Links[edit]

• Mark Ginzburg told why the Trump Tower did not appear in Kyiv
• Interview of Yevgeny Chernyak with developer and cryptocurrency investor Mark Ginzburg
• Mark Ginsburg: Blockchain is a technological retribution that will catch up with corruption
• Ginzburg, who once boasted of his friendship with Kadyrov , selling Lady Di's diamond necklace to aid Ukraine
• Page on Twitter
• Channel on YouTube