CEO of banking platform Tuum Sergey Anikin left the company

Angel investor, a former employee of Skype, Microsoft, and Pipedrive Sergei Anikin, left the banking platform Tuum. A former chief revenue officer of payments platform DT One Myles Bertrand becomes the new CEO of the startup. He will focus on expanding Tuum’s client base and product offering and growing the team and international footprint to become a global market leader.

Sergei Anikin was the CEO of Tuum from June 2022. Currently, he serves as a Chairman of the Board at Estonian Katana (manufacturing and inventory software for businesses), where he has worked since 2021.


Before Tuum, Anikin was a Vice president of engineering at Pipedrive from 2013 to 2018 and CTO from 2018 to 2022. Besides, Anikin was an Engineering manager at Skype and a Principal engineering manager at Microsoft.


The former CEO of Tuum Vilve Vene back then commented about Anikin's assignment, that there was no one else she would have trusted to run Tuuma except Anikin. She also added that it was not easy to convince him. 


Anikin commented: he realized that he was able to be supportive during a difficult time and knew how to step aside in time. He feels satisfaction and gratitude for the opportunity to work at Tuum. Regarding the future plans, ex-CEO of Tuum noted that he does not have something in mind yet.


Tuum was founded in Tallinn in 2019 by Jan Lakspere, Ove Kreison, Rivo Uibo, and Vilve Vene. It is a cloud API-based core banking platform. Tuum’s platform allows financial service providers (banks or fintech startups) to introduce new lending products, new payment facilities, or new banking core to their customers or embrace legacy migrations in a short time. The startup has offices in Tallinn, Berlin, and Malaga.

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