Alexander A. Lushnikov

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Liquid Icons; Co-Founding Partner, Gérard Basset Foundation

Alexander Arthur Lushnikov (“Sasha”) is a London-based entrepreneur. He is the Co-Founder & COO of Liquid Icons and Co-Founding Partner at the Gérard Basset Foundation.

Sasha is a former early employee at Monzo Bank where he worked with its Executive Team as well as the FCA, PRA & The Bank of England to obtain a full UK banking license, turning Monzo into a fully-authorised, unrestricted bank. Prior Monzo, he was a part of the UK landing Growth Team at Bloomberg Ventures in London – a venture capital arm of Bloomberg LP. During his subsequent summer internship at the firm, he won The Best Intern in Europe & EMEA Award and became 1 of 3 best interns at Bloomberg LP in the world.

Sasha is a Member of the World Shotokan Karate-Do Federation (WSKF). He is an International Referee WSKF who holds 3 Dan WSKF under Shihan Hitoshi Kasuya (Chief Instructor, WSKF; 9 Dan WSKF) and won Silver Medal at the 2012 WSKF World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan as well as Bronze Medal at the 2009 WSKF World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.

Sasha has graduated with a Political Economy degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was awarded the Elite Athlete Prize for his athletic achievements three consecutive times in three consecutive years – for the first time in the university’s history. While at St Andrew's College Cambridge, where he was awarded with the Academic & Extracurricular Excellence Award as the finest-performing student in the history of the College.

In June 2022, Sasha Lushnikov and his colleague Romané Basset from the Gérard Basset Foundation have been selected and included in the Harpers Wine & Spirit 30 Under 30 – the inaugural list of drinks trade’s future leaders.