Aleksandar is a creative strategist and visionary thinker who works where technology meets human life. After three successful exits and twenty-five years of shaping digital innovation and AI, he now leads the DARI Foundation, an institution dedicated to preparing humanity for life alongside superintelligent AI and safeguarding what it means to be human in that future.

His journey began far from the usual paths of tech leadership. Born into a Gastarbeiter family in Germany, he first made his mark as a teenage rapper and producer, collecting gold and platinum records and a golden Effie. When the music world was heavily hit by digital disruption, he saw not a crisis but a chance and turned toward technology.

Delivering his first major digital project for EXPO2000, he introduced one of the earliest AI chatbots and brought live video streaming to a global audience. It marked the beginning of decades of breaking new grounds across industries. He defined and implemented digital strategies for banks, pharma giants, retailers, industrial leaders, luxury brands. After selling his digital strategy think tank to Publicis Groupe, he joined the leadership of the creative tech powerhouse Razorfish.

In 2014 he co-founded AVA, widely described as Europe’s answer to Palantir. AVA predicted and monitored security risks for global players such as DHL, Bayer, and Swiss Re, and supported the London Police in the fight against organized child exploitation.

Aleksandar has contributed to shaping long-term thinking in education and public policy. He served on the AI board of Cornelsen, Germany’s leading educational publisher, and sits on the global advisory board of the Edgelands Institute at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center. He expanded his macroeconomics training at Stanford GSB and Singularity University, and holds global patents in AI.

Throughout his life runs a distinct pattern. Aleksandar has an unusual ability to sense what is emerging long before it becomes visible. This and his capacity to instill optimism and hope helped him guide leaders, corporations, and governments through radical technological shifts that reshaped entire markets and ways of living.

With the DARI Foundation Aleksandar follows a long neglected inner call to use this ability to help humanity build long-term readiness and resilience for a world soon reshaped by superintelligent AI. In a century defined by AI, he works with DARI to ensure that being (a) human remains a sovereign, purposeful, and dignified experience.