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Andrii Seleznov (born November 5, 1984) is a Ukrainian-British digital entrepreneur, engineer, motivational speaker and expert in digital technologies. .

Career
Andrii Seleznov is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Petiole LTD, a UK-based company he registered in 2017. Petiole LTD supports activities for crop production and develops mobile applications and digital solutions for plant science. The main mission of his company is bringing Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Cloud Processing in agriculture. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Prior to founding his company, Seleznov had worked on senior-level engineering positions in international technological companies in the United Kingdom, United States and Ukraine.

In 2016 Seleznov was endorsed by Tech Nation, the non-governmental organisation for digital technologies policy in the United Kingdom, and got the UK Tier 1 Exceptional Talent Visa in Digital Technologies.

Startups
In 2011 Seleznov founded Arendus, a geospatial information service (GIS) for rent payments for land, address plan and a digital plan of land use in Boryspil City Hall, Kyiv region,Ukraine.

In 2012 he founded Selorium, a startup for planning and work with land and housing digital data in Herytsaiv District, Chernivtsi Region, Ukraine.

In 2013 he created Petiole Leaf Area, a mobile application for leaf area measurement. In June 2015, Seleznov was selected among the Finalists at GIST Tech-I Competition, initiated by the US State Department and implemented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In November 2015, Petiole was listed among 20 of the world's hottest start-ups of the year by CNBC

In 2015, Seleznov founded Fishy Buoy, a water sensors network to monitor the quality of water for different purposes. FishyBuy helps small and middle-size fish farms in the aquaculture business. A network was based on sensors, fixed into buoys. Each sensor provides actual water data (temperature of the water, dissolved oxygen levels, pH). Fishy Buoy is a third-place winner of National Ukrainian Hackathon on Agrarian Innovations, organised in September 2016.

In 2016, he worked on Emelya, an automatic manager for stoves at commercial kitchens. Technology is based on a Computer Vision algorithm. It helps in cafes, restaurants and institutional kitchens to switch off burners on a stove that were left working when not being used.

In 2018, Seleznov founded Alfatrener, a company that creates white-label mobile applications for psychologists, life coaches and business coaches. Alfatrener transforms off-line courses into digital learning mobile applications.

Scientific work
Seleznov is co-author of the article "Geostatistics and neural networks in assessing mineral wealth"