About Us
Tatiana Erekhinskaya
Kate Panova
Tatiana was born in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, and studied appied math and computer science. In 2005 she joined a lab doing Natural Language Processing (NLP). She got a stake in that business, sold the business to a strategic investor, and got an MBA in the process.
Then Tatiana came to Dallas, Texas to do a Ph.D. in computer science.
Tatiana advanced from a research scientist to Chief Product Officer at Lymba, a boutique NLP company, providing knowledge management solutions to large financial organizations, manufacturers, and governments. She quit her job in summer 2023 to join the AI revolution and dedicate herself to Built By Immigrants full-time.
Kate was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and studied economics and cybernetics in college. She worked as a journalist for big news outlets like Forbes and National Geographic. Kate won a Fulbright grant and came to study web and innovation in journalism at New York University.
While figuring out how to get a green card, Kate founded Rubic.us, a platform for immigrants from the former Soviet countries, which currently has more than 2M users.
She also founded Greatfulmedia.com, a marketing agency helping businesses reach immigrant audiences.