Atanas Kiryakov is the president of Graphwise - the merger of Ontotext and Semantic Web Company. He is the founder and CEO of Ontotext and the product manager of GraphDB until 2010. Kiryakov is a top expert in semantic databases, knowledge graphs and Graph RAG and the author of scientific publications with over 3000 citations. He is a member of the boards of Sirma Group Holding and GATE Big Data Institute, as well as a co-founder of the Linked Data Benchmarking Council (LDBC) - the association of the graph database vendors.