Dmitry Shevelenko is the Chief Business Officer of Perplexity AI, Inc., where he is responsible for the company's operations and leads its business growth, including strategic consumer and enterprise partnerships. Before Perplexity he founded and served as President of Tortoise Inc., a retail and commerce automation startup in Mountain View, California focused on deploying robotic technologies for large enterprise partners.
From 2014 to 2018 he held senior business development roles at Uber, following earlier product leadership roles at LinkedIn and Meta. He is a director of Payfare Inc., a publicly listed fintech company. He has been a director of Lazard since September 2025.
He holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Columbia University.