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Entrepreneur, strategist, and architect of systems

For over 25 years, he has done one thing consistently: take ideas that seem impossibly large and turn them into operating businesses. Across multiple markets and industries, he has founded, scaled, and led international ventures from concept through to full operational maturity - building not just companies, but the infrastructures that sustain them.

His work lives at the intersection of vision and execution. He has led major investment attraction initiatives, structured strategic alliances across corporate groups and institutional stakeholders, and built capital mobilization platforms designed for rapid, resilient scaling. Where others see complexity, he sees architecture.

Now he brings that architecture to food.

As the author and visionary of the One Billion People system, he is designing the next generation of industrial food infrastructure - a concept built not for a single market, but for the scale of human need itself. The premise is simple and radical: food security is an engineering and capital problem, and both are solvable.

At BioSingularity, he serves as the force that connects vision to capital, and capital to scale:

  • Structuring the investment platforms that fund global agroclusters

  • Building the strategic partnerships that open national markets

  • Translating complex agricultural systems into compelling, bankable business models

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CEO & Co-Founder

Illia Kyrychenko

An entrepreneur with over 35+ years of experience in business management across multiple industries, including the creation and scaling of own ventures, international projects, as well as expertise in international PR, television projects, and trading of agricultural and other commodities

  • Responsible for capital raising for BioSingularity projects and advancing the mission of One Billion People. Contributes to structuring investment solutions and establishing international partnerships.

  • Involved in the launch of the European office in Rome and in preparing engagement with leading international institutions, including the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP), and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

  • Represents the company at the level of government authorities, institutional investors, and key market stakeholders. Focus regions: Switzerland, Turkey, Italy.

  • Leads negotiations with government bodies, funds, and private investors, shaping frameworks for project implementation.

  • Builds and maintains working relationships with key stakeholders in target countries, including regulators, partners, and industry participants.

  • Participates in negotiating market entry conditions in new countries, including engagement structures and key project parameters.

  • Ensures coordination with international stakeholders, including contractors, technology partners, and off-takers, during project preparation and launch phases.

Global Expansion & Partner

Gela Todua

30+ years of experience in agribusiness and agricultural engineering

  • Founder of AGROKRAFT GmbH, an international agro-engineering and manufacturing company.

  • Founded and scaled an industrial agricultural holding (20,000 ha) in Russia; successfully exited in 2006.

  • Built AGROKRAFT Germany as a developer and manufacturer of integrated agrosystems (not a dealer or assembler).

  • Developed field-ready agrosystems performing multiple operations in a single pass, reducing CAPEX, OPEX, downtime, and labor demand.

  • Industrial machinery line engineered for 100,000+ ha holdings in partnership with Svarog West Group, bridging European industrial farming and African deployment.

  • Since 2023, leading engineering adaptation for African agro-clusters, with machines operating in Angola, Mozambique, Togo, and Zimbabwe.

  • Delivered lower cost per hectare, fewer machines per area, higher predictability, and field-repairable designs compatible with local tractor fleets.

  • Founder of AGROKRAFT GmbH, an international agro-engineering and manufacturing company.

  • Founded and scaled an industrial agricultural holding (20,000 ha) in Russia; successfully exited in 2006.

  • Built AGROKRAFT Germany as a developer and manufacturer of integrated agrosystems (not a dealer or assembler).

  • Developed field-ready agrosystems performing multiple operations in a single pass, reducing CAPEX, OPEX, downtime, and labor demand.

  • Industrial machinery line engineered for 100,000+ ha holdings in partnership with Svarog West Group, bridging European industrial farming and African deployment.

  • Since 2023, leading engineering adaptation for African agro-clusters, with machines operating in Angola, Mozambique, Togo, and Zimbabwe.

  • Delivered lower cost per hectare, fewer machines per area, higher predictability, and field-repairable designs compatible with local tractor fleets.

Agri Machinery & Industrial Digital Design

Vladimir Schreiner

Visionary and architect of a new global food paradigm

For over 27 years, he has operated at the intersection of agriculture, technology, and systems thinking - not simply growing crops, but redesigning the architecture of how nations feed themselves.

His proof of concept: co-founding Svarog West Group and scaling it from zero to 100,000 hectares into one of the most efficient agrarian holdings in Eastern Europe - merging industrial agriculture, digital infrastructure, and managed production economics under one roof. Forbes recognized it as the #1 Most Technological Agri-Company in Ukraine. The company was successfully sold in 2018.

The scale he achieved redefined what precision agriculture looks like at an industrial level:

  • EBITDA $700/ha

  • Wheat yield 8.8 t/ha - soybean 3.5 t/ha

  • 5,000+ workers and 800+ smart machines unified into a single real-time data spine with full field-to-finance visibility

  • Created a fully integrated vertical value chain from Seed to Cultivation to Storage and Processing to Trading (over 1 million MT capacity)

Beyond corporate scale, he built Ukraine's largest agricultural cooperative - 40,000 rural shareholders integrated into value-added production, aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals - demonstrating that food sovereignty is achievable at the community level too.

Now he is operating at a different order of magnitude entirely.

BioSingularity - the system he is building today - transforms agriculture from a fragmented global industry into a network of sovereign, self-regulating food ecosystems, where:

  • every hectare is an algorithm

  • every process is data

  • every country is a self-sufficient food system

His approach synthesizes agronomy, engineering, artificial intelligence, and financial architecture into a single operating model - deployable across borders, climates, and economies.

The mission is civilizational in scope: a global network of agroclusters that eliminates food dependency, stabilizes national economies, and makes hunger a solvable engineering problem.

For over 27 years, he has operated at the intersection of agriculture, technology, and systems thinking - not simply growing crops, but redesigning the architecture of how nations feed themselves.

His proof of concept: co-founding Svarog West Group and scaling it from zero to 100,000 hectares into one of the most efficient agrarian holdings in Eastern Europe - merging industrial agriculture, digital infrastructure, and managed production economics under one roof. Forbes recognized it as the #1 Most Technological Agri-Company in Ukraine. The company was successfully sold in 2018.

The scale he achieved redefined what precision agriculture looks like at an industrial level:

  • EBITDA $700/ha

  • Wheat yield 8.8 t/ha - soybean 3.5 t/ha

  • 5,000+ workers and 800+ smart machines unified into a single real-time data spine with full field-to-finance visibility

  • Created a fully integrated vertical value chain from Seed to Cultivation to Storage and Processing to Trading (over 1 million MT capacity)

Beyond corporate scale, he built Ukraine's largest agricultural cooperative - 40,000 rural shareholders integrated into value-added production, aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals - demonstrating that food sovereignty is achievable at the community level too.

Now he is operating at a different order of magnitude entirely.

BioSingularity - the system he is building today - transforms agriculture from a fragmented global industry into a network of sovereign, self-regulating food ecosystems, where:

  • every hectare is an algorithm

  • every process is data

  • every country is a self-sufficient food system

His approach synthesizes agronomy, engineering, artificial intelligence, and financial architecture into a single operating model - deployable across borders, climates, and economies.

The mission is civilizational in scope: a global network of agroclusters that eliminates food dependency, stabilizes national economies, and makes hunger a solvable engineering problem.

Strategic advisor

Andrii Hordiichuk

Designs and implements precision technology maps for 1+ million ha across Ukraine and Kazakhstan, delivering double-digit yield increases

  • Led R&D of 100+ soybean varieties at Svarog West Group, achieving national yield records and industrializing value chains for pumpkin, coriander, lentils, mustard, and medicinal crops.

  • Developed a biochemical crop-growth model (nutrition as an algorithm), improving crop resilience and quality while reducing input costs by ~25%.

  • Built a global breeder network across all inhabited continents, importing elite germplasm and running thousands of field trials to localize genetics.

  • Trained agronomy leads for 50+ large agricultural enterprises, with protégés now managing technology adoption across major land banks.

  • Led R&D of 100+ soybean varieties at Svarog West Group, achieving national yield records and industrializing value chains for pumpkin, coriander, lentils, mustard, and medicinal crops.

  • Developed a biochemical crop-growth model (nutrition as an algorithm), improving crop resilience and quality while reducing input costs by ~25%.

  • Built a global breeder network across all inhabited continents, importing elite germplasm and running thousands of field trials to localize genetics.

  • Trained agronomy leads for 50+ large agricultural enterprises, with protégés now managing technology adoption across major land banks.

Chief Bio Architect

Volodymyr Stepanchuk

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