Theodor Panayotov is the CEO of Ethermind, a company that builds AI twins of an organization's best experts — capturing tacit knowledge that lives in people's heads, not in documents, and placing it within the flow of work so entire teams perform better without friction. Ethermind operates across nuclear energy, pharma, and defense in both public cloud and classified on-prem environments. Theodor is also a PhD researcher at Sofia University's GATE Institute, studying tacit knowledge externalization for AI agent systems.
Previously co-founded Coursedot — bespoke tech and management training for multinationals, government, and intelligence agencies through a global network of 4,400+ expert trainers.
Singularity University Graduate Studies Program alumnus (NASA Ames). CCIE #19430. Patent holder in emissions reduction for heavy industry and psychometric models.
Chairman of the Board at TUES, Bulgaria's top IT high school, backed by Bosch, Software AG, and others.
Father of three. BJJ, skiing, kitesurfing.