# Ivan Danishevsky > Esports pioneer. Data-platform founder. Long-term builder. Reluctant nomad. > **In daily pursuit of common sense.** `ivan.gg` · `ivan.md` · 🇺🇦 Ukrainian · **no fixed base** · full-time nomad · 100+ countries logged --- ## $ whoami I started in esports before the industry had a name. Built tournaments, communities, platforms, an analytics business, a national federation. Several companies founded, several sold or merged. Today I work on **AI**, **streaming data**, **education**, and tools that help knowledge last longer than the people who made it. I am Ukrainian, and history made the choice for me — so I live as a **true, full-time nomad**. Not the Instagram kind. The _"airport, laptop, visa, meeting, broken process, fix the system"_ kind. No home base, no operating base, just the next country and the work that follows. The real ones are rare — if you are one, **say hi**, I'd like to compare notes. Common sense, applied daily. I find the nuance everywhere — expos, conferences, hotels, apps, AI workflows, dashboards — and ship a small fix the next morning. Across **Awerti** and the rest of the portfolio, that compounding *is* the work. --- ## ## stats ``` 27+ yrs building · since 1998 10+ companies founded 5 sold, merged, or acquired 2,000+ tournaments organized 100+ countries logged 🏆 Esports Award · 2023 ``` --- ## ## ventures · active ### `AWERTI` — Founder · Chairman · 2016 → present The holding behind the live-media data layer. Streaming analytics, esports intelligence, live-media data. Best-in-class metrics, transparent data, trustworthy reach. - [`escharts.com`](https://escharts.com) — Esports viewership · award-winning · industry reference - [`streamscharts.com`](https://streamscharts.com) — Twitch + multi-platform streaming analytics - [`chesswatch.com`](https://chesswatch.com) — Chess streamer & tournament viewership - [`dohuya.com`](https://dohuya.com) — Chinese live-streaming analytics · DouYu + Huya > Cited by **The New York Times**, **Forbes**, **Fortune**, and **The Washington Post**. > Used by leagues, publishers, organizers, and brands worldwide. ### `Esports Ukraine` — Founder · President → Honorary President · 2016 → 2025 → Founded the federation. Got esports recognized as an **official sport in Ukraine 🇺🇦** by ministerial order, on a request I personally filed. President for nine years. Honorary President since 2025. --- ## ## ventures · exited | Year | Company | Outcome | | ---------- | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------ | | 2020-2022 | **WePlay Holding** | Board · Advisory · award-winning prod | | 2019-2021 | **gg.ua** | Tournament platform · sold 2021 | | 2018-2019 | **scri.ms** | Team-vs-team scrims · acquired 2019 | | 2015-2016 | **Game Show Ent.** | Esports TV · merger w/ E-TV | | 2005-2018 | **Fraza.ua** | Co-founder · CTO · 13 yrs · top-5 UA |
Earlier roles, investments & engineer-roots era - **EcoFactor** (2020 → ) — investor · advisory · #1 EV charging network in 🇺🇦 - **Garena Online** (2012-2015) — Head of Esports · EEU region · Singapore · Bangkok - **qCar** (2010-2012) — patent-pending in-vehicle stack · TV-featured - **Inverse** (2009-2013) — boutique web studio · UA market - **1998-2009** — Gamer.zp.ua (1998, the city's first gaming site), Future Electronics web (1999), Pictograph (1999-2001), Forbis-Design (UA's first PHP e-shop franchise stack, 2002-2004), Alexa-Internet (2003-2005), Xemi.info hosting (2002-2009), Otique.com (2006-2007), Vybory.ua (2012). _Where the engineer instinct got built._
--- ## ## awards - 🏆 **2023** · Esports Coverage Platform of the Year — **Esports Awards** _(WON)_ - 2024 · Esports Coverage Platform of the Year — Esports Awards _(nominated)_ - 2022 · Esports Coverage Platform of the Year — Esports Awards _(nominated)_ - 2021 · Esports Coverage Platform of the Year — Esports Awards _(nominated)_ - Press in **Forbes** · **TechCrunch** · **Bloomberg** · industry trade press - Speaker invitations across 10+ countries --- ## ## on stage - **Ukrainian Financial Forum** · 2019 · Demo Day — esports investing - **Qatar Esports Federation · Media City** — Awerti · live audience data - **University talk · Mongolia** — esports as an industry - **WePlay! events** — production-grade tournaments, panels - **Hackathon talks** · **podcasts** · **policy panels** · board discussions --- ## ## field log · 100+ countries ``` 🇦🇱 🇦🇩 🇦🇷 🇦🇺 🇦🇹 🇧🇭 🇧🇾 🇧🇪 🇧🇴 🇧🇦 🇧🇼 🇧🇷 🇧🇬 🇰🇭 🇨🇫 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 🇪🇬 🇪🇪 🇸🇿 🇪🇹 🇫🇯 🇫🇮 🇫🇷 🇬🇪 🇩🇪 🇬🇷 🇭🇺 🇮🇸 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇮🇪 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇰🇿 🇰🇪 🇰🇷 🇽🇰 🇰🇼 🇰🇬 🇱🇦 🇱🇻 🇱🇮 🇱🇹 🇱🇺 🇲🇰 🇲🇬 🇲🇾 🇲🇹 🇲🇺 🇲🇩 🇲🇨 🇲🇳 🇲🇪 🇲🇿 🇲🇲 🇳🇦 🇳🇵 🇳🇱 🇳🇿 🇳🇴 🇴🇲 🇵🇪 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 🇶🇦 🇷🇴 🇷🇺 🇸🇲 🇸🇦 🇷🇸 🇸🇨 🇸🇬 🇸🇰 🇸🇮 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇸🇪 🇨🇭 🇹🇯 🇹🇭 🇹🇴 🇹🇳 🇹🇷 🇹🇻 🇺🇦 🇦🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇺🇿 🇻🇺 🇻🇳 🇾🇪 🇿🇲 🇿🇼 ``` Travel as **research method**, not personality trait. A country explains itself through airports, pharmacies, schools, roads, hotels, payments, forms, and what happens when something goes wrong. --- ## ## off-clock - **Volcanoes** — multiple active eruptions seen up close, by helicopter where roads can't reach - **Polar** — Arctic and Antarctic expeditions · icebreakers · pack ice - **Whales** — snorkeled with sperm whales and humpbacks in open ocean - **Diving** — wrecks, reefs, the quiet layer - **Drones** — flown a lot, sunk a few (lost a couple to volcanoes, one in Bolivian salt flats) - **Dota 2** — played from every continent, **Antarctica included**, usually on Starlink - **Snowboard** — since 15 - **Cars** — Tesla, manuals, track days, transcontinental drives - **Karaoke and the studio** — recordings on request, for friends with serious patience --- ## ## principles ``` 01 Evidence before performance 02 Common sense is underrated 03 Users are not decoration 04 Institutions need translation 05 Metrics need ethics 06 Travel teaches systems 07 Optimization is a daily habit ``` > If influence cannot be measured, it will usually be exaggerated. > If it can be measured badly, it will be manipulated. > If it can be measured responsibly, it can become useful. > Most of my work looks like the relentless pursuit of common sense. > Nuances in expos, conferences, hotels, apps, AI workflows, dashboards — > small optimizations, found daily, applied across Awerti and the rest of > the portfolio. **The compounding is the moat.** I consult, advise, and quietly fix things across whatever crosses the desk — expos, events, content production, conferences, businesses, AI rollouts that shouldn't be dumb. Most systems fail not from one big flaw but from a hundred small ones nobody bothered to name. **Naming them is half the job.** --- ## ## reach ```yaml email: 1@ivan.gg assistant: 2@ivan.gg linkedin: linkedin.com/in/faeton sites: ivan.gg · ivan.md languages: 🇬🇧 EN · 🇺🇦 UA · 🏳️ RU status: Looking for partners, allies, world-changers nomads: If you're a real full-time nomad — let's meet ``` If you are building something **useful**, **measurable**, and **honest** — and you treat common sense as a daily discipline, not an afterthought — I am interested. --- `END OF FILE` · built with common sense · `rev.05 / 2026`