Company
Team
The senior leadership behind ASG: the executive team and the non-executive directors.
The people leading ASG. The executive team pairs communications and radio engineering with automotive systems experience; the non-executive directors bring outside board oversight. Fuller profiles are being prepared.
Executive team
- Alexander Lazutin Managing Director
Alexander is responsible for the commercial direction of the business, spearheading the application of ASG in the automotive industry. He can often be seen at events and trade missions, representing the company around the world.
His background is a mix of software development, business operations and finance. Joining the cofounders in 2021, he laid the groundwork for applying ASG effectively in the automotive industry and beyond, actively invested in the business.
- Andrey Shtykov Product Head
Andrey is one of the cofounders of ASG, assembling an expert team around him and delivering innovative R&D solutions in physical electronic systems. Specialising as an electronics and radio physicist, Andrey has added over 25 years of automotive experience, mostly in E/E architectures and components.
He brings strong technical acumen and has proven to bring reliable solutions to complex R&D challenges across a range of industries, including automotive.
- Igor Ablaev Tech Lead
Igor is an automotive expert, spending many years specialising in automotive harness and electronic communication. He founded the 'smart harness' structure that was later integrated into a number of test vehicles in the early 2010s.
Throughout ASG development, Igor has been pivotal in assembling the full architecture of the vehicle and allowing ASG to be able to simultaneously control many moving systems at the same time.
Non-executive directors
- Paul Reynolds Non-executive Director
Paul is an automotive industry veteran with a track record of bringing emerging global technology to market, with a particular focus on early-stage, venture-backed businesses. His career spans ADAS, connected-vehicle data and autonomous-driving software at Verizon Connect, Wejo and Oxa, and he is currently involved in autonomous-vehicle ride-hail programmes globally.
At ASG, Paul brings strategic governance and commercial oversight to the executive board through the company's next phase of growth, informed by his experience commercialising self-driving and driver-assistance technology across the automotive and mobility sectors.
- Davide Montosi Non-executive Director
Davide is an engineering leader with more than 25 years of experience in automotive software, electronic systems and control technologies, particularly in the high-performance and luxury sector. He began his career at Ferrari, developing software and advanced control systems for Maserati and Ferrari road cars, before joining McLaren Automotive in the UK, where he progressed from Head of Controls to Electronic Systems & Controls Director, leading electronic-component roadmaps and the delivery of E/E architecture hardware and software across multiple vehicle programmes.
He went on to lead software and electronics technology development at Silk–FAW as a member of the executive team, then served as Director of Software & Electronics Technology at Aston Martin from 2021 to 2026, building the software and electronics organisation and leading its transition towards software-defined vehicles. He holds several patents as inventor for vehicle control systems.