Alex Kandybin is a founder of Quantum Wargaming and is based in the USA (New York, NY, and Kennebunkport, ME).  He is a former Lead Partner and Vice President of Booz & Company (Booz, Allen & Hamilton) and an Executive at IBM. Alex has also worked as an Adjunct Professor (Innovation Strategy) at the Columbia Business School.

During his 25+ years in strategy consulting, industry, and academia, Alex has developed expertise in innovation, business strategy, and quantum computing capabilities.

Alex holds two US patents and authored many scientific and business articles. Some of his publications in Forbes, Strategy + Business, HBR, and MIT Sloan Management Review are listed below:

• Alexander Kandybin, “Innovation Requires Both Challengers And Defenders. Which Are You?,” Forbes, September 2016
• Alexander Kandybin, “Diagnosing Dislocation,” Strategy + Business, Autumn 2016.  Learn to recognize different types of disruption threats and design the best strategic response.
• Alexander Kandybin and Vessela Genova, “Big Pharma’s Uncertain Future,” Strategy + Business, Spring 2012. 
• Alexander Kandybin, “Which Innovation Efforts Will Pay?,” MIT Sloan Management Review, Fall 2009, Vol.51 No.1
• Les Moeller and Alexander Kandybin, “Down – Following Consumer,” Harvard Business Review, January – February 2009
• Alexander Kandybin and Surbhee Grover, “The Unique Advantage,” Strategy + Business, Autumn 2008. To succeed in a mature industry, the trick isn’t being first – it’s being hard to copy.
• Alexander Kandybin and Martin Kihn, “The Innovator’s Prescription: Raising Your Return on Innovation Investment,” Strategy + Business, Summer 2004.
• Alexander Kandybin, Martin Kihn, and Cesare Mainardi, “Reinventing Scale: How to Escape the Size Trap,” Strategy + Business, Second Quarter 2002, Issue 27.
• Tim Laseter, Alexander Kandybin, and Pat Houston, “Marketing and Operations: Can This Marriage Be Saved,” Strategy + Business, First Quarter 2002, Issue 26.

Alex led many large-scale business transformations to improve competitiveness, raise innovation effectiveness and build advanced digital capabilities, including AI/ML and quantum computing.

Education

• • MBA with High Distinction from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business
  • Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Moscow Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology