Kirill Patyrykin

Kirill Patyrykin is Managing Director of Surety Marine Ltd., a digital specialty insurer focused on marine and financial risks.

He began his insurance career in claims management in 2008 and served as Managing Director of SKY RE from 2013 to 2022. His work combines specialist underwriting expertise with artificial intelligence and automation to improve risk assessment and portfolio management. 

He is also Co-Founder of Kvilon, an enterprise AI venture serving the insurance industry. His peer-reviewed research includes a 2026 study on functional deception in commercial large language models and its implications for AI-assisted decision-making.