Head of Product at Bronson
New York, United States
Vladimir Gaylun
Council Member
Vladimir Gaylun is Head of Product at Bronson AI, a legaltech startup, with more than 15 years of experience in product leadership, digital transformation and applied AI across legaltech, energy, steel and consulting. Since November 2025, he has owned the product vision and roadmap for a portfolio of six AI products covering the full case lifecycle, from intake and qualification to settlement, for a national mass-tort and class-action firm with more than 100,000 cases. The portfolio spans case management, medical-records retrieval and review for proof of injury, FOIA evidence collection, case inventory, intake and inbound mail. From February 2025 to May 2026, he also served as Director of AI at the Yale Center for Environmental Justice, where he led the launch of an AI-based civic engagement platform and AI Virtual Assistants that empower 50 million US citizens to draft, personalize and submit public comments on environmental regulations.
At NexMind, a GenAI SaaS legaltech startup, he served as Lead Product Manager from April 2023 to June 2024. He defined the go-to-market strategy and launched the core product lines, driving $1.5M in ARR and securing international expansion. He built a sales playbook and interviewed users to enter the UK market, capturing $40K in sales in three months, and he owned the AI Legal Assistant from concept to a 0-1 launch that produced 20 pilot users and early adoption. From January 2021 to December 2022, he was Chief Executive Officer of QINST, a B2B fintech startup applying quantum computers to portfolio optimization. He owned the product lifecycle of the quantum computing SaaS from concept through go-to-market, secured $100K in funding, led a team of quantum engineers and financial analysts to build and launch the MVP, and secured a pilot with a top-5 European bank.
From August 2021 to July 2022, he was Head of Product and Deputy Chief Digital Transformation Officer at MMK Group, a $10B steel company, where he led a team of 30 and managed a $150M budget. After finding that over-reliance on large customers limited growth, he convinced executives to build a two-sided digital marketplace and launched it in six months, driving $100M in revenue. He built a company-wide product strategy and roadmap of 20 products, including AI predictive maintenance, digital twins, and robots and autonomous vehicles, which increased EBITDA by 4.5%. He also established the product development and engineering structures, including an AI innovation lab, that raised product success rates to 90%.
At Rosneft, an $80B oil and gas company, he was Head of Product, IT from April 2018 to April 2021, leading a team of 200 and managing a $1.5B IT budget. The enterprise and customer-facing platforms he launched generated more than $100M in revenue and more than $250M in cost savings. After identifying that the retail business was losing market share, he won executive approval for an AI-driven customer app, which grew transaction size by 20% and revenue by $60M. He developed a product strategy and roadmap of 25 products, including AI predictive maintenance, an IIoT platform, quantum sensors and drone surveillance, increasing EBITDA by 3%. He drove the move to a private cloud and led the acquisition of data centers, which cut product launch times by 20%. He planned the strategic partnership with GE and led the cross-functional teams that launched the GE Predix IIoT platform, reducing maintenance cost by 10%. He also led $150M in IT investments, supervising portfolio companies and organizing due diligence and deal structure, and he raised customer satisfaction to 95%, a 20 percentage point increase, by setting up a Service Office Department with defined service KPIs.
At NexMind, a GenAI SaaS legaltech startup, he served as Lead Product Manager from April 2023 to June 2024. He defined the go-to-market strategy and launched the core product lines, driving $1.5M in ARR and securing international expansion. He built a sales playbook and interviewed users to enter the UK market, capturing $40K in sales in three months, and he owned the AI Legal Assistant from concept to a 0-1 launch that produced 20 pilot users and early adoption. From January 2021 to December 2022, he was Chief Executive Officer of QINST, a B2B fintech startup applying quantum computers to portfolio optimization. He owned the product lifecycle of the quantum computing SaaS from concept through go-to-market, secured $100K in funding, led a team of quantum engineers and financial analysts to build and launch the MVP, and secured a pilot with a top-5 European bank.
From August 2021 to July 2022, he was Head of Product and Deputy Chief Digital Transformation Officer at MMK Group, a $10B steel company, where he led a team of 30 and managed a $150M budget. After finding that over-reliance on large customers limited growth, he convinced executives to build a two-sided digital marketplace and launched it in six months, driving $100M in revenue. He built a company-wide product strategy and roadmap of 20 products, including AI predictive maintenance, digital twins, and robots and autonomous vehicles, which increased EBITDA by 4.5%. He also established the product development and engineering structures, including an AI innovation lab, that raised product success rates to 90%.
At Rosneft, an $80B oil and gas company, he was Head of Product, IT from April 2018 to April 2021, leading a team of 200 and managing a $1.5B IT budget. The enterprise and customer-facing platforms he launched generated more than $100M in revenue and more than $250M in cost savings. After identifying that the retail business was losing market share, he won executive approval for an AI-driven customer app, which grew transaction size by 20% and revenue by $60M. He developed a product strategy and roadmap of 25 products, including AI predictive maintenance, an IIoT platform, quantum sensors and drone surveillance, increasing EBITDA by 3%. He drove the move to a private cloud and led the acquisition of data centers, which cut product launch times by 20%. He planned the strategic partnership with GE and led the cross-functional teams that launched the GE Predix IIoT platform, reducing maintenance cost by 10%. He also led $150M in IT investments, supervising portfolio companies and organizing due diligence and deal structure, and he raised customer satisfaction to 95%, a 20 percentage point increase, by setting up a Service Office Department with defined service KPIs.
Earlier at Rosneft's IT subsidiary, from May 2014 to April 2018, he served as Director of the Directorate, IT and Head of PMO, IT. He repositioned an underdeveloped consulting practice in partnership with sales, doubling revenue to $60M, and managed a portfolio of proprietary products that included an IT service automation platform. He mentored a team of 10 Product Managers and established an Investment Division that oversaw M&A projects from strategy to deal closure ($10M). Before that, he was Director of Management Consulting Practice at Asteros from September 2013 to May 2014, leading a team of 10 consultants and driving more than $1M in AI project acquisitions and delivery. At Ernst & Young, from August 2009 to September 2013, he was a Senior Consultant and project manager in IT Strategy, delivering 15 transformation, process optimization and cost benchmarking projects with a combined contract value above $10M. His career began at ABB, where he was Project Manager from September 2008 to August 2009 and led the implementation of a unified workflow system across ABB subsidiaries.
Beyond his professional roles, Vladimir Gaylun led the Yale AI Association and won the Grand Prize at the YQuantum Hackathon. During his MBA, he served as President of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub, connecting more than 1,000 people in the ecosystem through events and activities, and he built and launched Entourage, an AI-powered community platform for business schools. He was selected from 1,500 candidates for the Venture Capital Senior Executive Talent Development Program at Venture University and from 2,200 candidates for the Founder-in-Residence Program at the Antler accelerator. He also mentors young entrepreneurs and tech talent through FutureLab.my. He holds a Master of Advanced Management from the Yale School of Management, an MBA from the Asia School of Business in collaboration with MIT, and a Bachelor and Master of Computer Science in hardware engineering from the Institute of Cryptography, Telecom, and Computer Science.
His technical expertise spans AI and generative AI products, quantum computing applications, cloud technologies and private cloud migration, IIoT platforms, digital twins, predictive maintenance, robotics, and product strategy and roadmapping.
Beyond his professional roles, Vladimir Gaylun led the Yale AI Association and won the Grand Prize at the YQuantum Hackathon. During his MBA, he served as President of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub, connecting more than 1,000 people in the ecosystem through events and activities, and he built and launched Entourage, an AI-powered community platform for business schools. He was selected from 1,500 candidates for the Venture Capital Senior Executive Talent Development Program at Venture University and from 2,200 candidates for the Founder-in-Residence Program at the Antler accelerator. He also mentors young entrepreneurs and tech talent through FutureLab.my. He holds a Master of Advanced Management from the Yale School of Management, an MBA from the Asia School of Business in collaboration with MIT, and a Bachelor and Master of Computer Science in hardware engineering from the Institute of Cryptography, Telecom, and Computer Science.
His technical expertise spans AI and generative AI products, quantum computing applications, cloud technologies and private cloud migration, IIoT platforms, digital twins, predictive maintenance, robotics, and product strategy and roadmapping.