{"id":"sergey-astretsov","title":"Sergey Astretsov","content":"**Sergey Astretsov** is a product leader with expertise in data science, machine learning, and decentralized technologies. With over 15 years of experience, he has been involved in launching products for early-stage startups and contributing to the growth of established companies to significant revenue milestones. As of February 2026, he serves as the Head of Product at NEAR AI and is based in San Francisco, United States. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-Q1O6exWrVwMEVsrR) [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-8TzMuSWf49snh8H0)​\n\n## Education\n\nSergey Astretsov earned a Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University between 2011 and 2013. He previously completed a Master of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science at Lomonosov Moscow State University from 2000 to 2005.  [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-hjNMY9gkT33BixEn) \n\n## Career\n\nSergey Astretsov has worked across product leadership, engineering, and data science roles. He became Head of Product at NEAR AI in September 2025, where his work has focused on product development for decentralized and privacy-preserving machine learning systems. Prior to this, he served as Head of Product at Coactive AI from November 2023 to April 2025, overseeing early product strategy and the establishment of product and design functions for tools addressing large-scale image and video data analysis.\n\nAstretsov spent more than nine years at Alation, joining in 2014 as a founding engineer and contributing to the initial development of the Alation Data Catalog, including search and lineage components. He later transitioned into product management roles, progressing from Product Manager to Director, and then Senior Director of Product Management between 2021 and 2023, with responsibility for applications related to search, analytics, machine learning, and data governance.\n\nEarlier in his career, he co-founded and led Clicktree Labs from 2013 to 2014, developing software to detect automated web scraping using behavioral analysis techniques. He began his professional career as a data scientist at OTP Bank in Russia from 2005 to 2007, where he worked on machine learning–based fraud detection and credit risk scoring systems.  [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-hjNMY9gkT33BixEn) ","summary":"Sergey Astretsov is a product leader with over 15 years of experience. He co-founded Clicktree Labs and held key roles at Alation, helping it scale to over $100M ARR. 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