Regulatory intelligence is our discipline. The energy build-out is our focus.
The energy build-out is the defining infrastructure project of this era — and its bottleneck isn’t engineering. It’s approval: the permits, the process, and the politics of thousands of local jurisdictions, each one different, each one decisive. Kite exists to protect the path through them. We combine practitioners who have carried projects through contested approvals with AI that can cover every jurisdiction at once — so the expertise goes further, and keeps getting better.
Compliance isn’t rule-reading — it’s interpretation and experience. Kite works with senior regulatory experts whose judgment is built into how the platform reads jurisdictions, standards, and hearings — and who review everything that ships.
Evgenii Shershnev
Head of Compliance
Evgenii Shershnev brings deep expertise in product certification and global regulatory standards across a wide range of verticals. With a background in materials science and mechanical engineering, his experience spans consumer electronics, advanced manufacturing, and construction technologies, with roles at companies including Corsair, Mighty Buildings, and GE. At Kite, he helps translate regulatory complexity into structured intelligence that companies can act on early in the product lifecycle.
Miles Harrison has led regulatory and certification efforts for consumer electronics and connected devices at companies including Fitbit, Microsoft, and Humane. He brings deep experience navigating global compliance requirements across safety, EMC, wireless, and market access for modern electronic products. His work has helped companies bring complex connected devices to market while meeting the demands of evolving international standards.
John Backer is a Managing Partner at On Tap Consulting and brings over twenty-five years of executive experience building and scaling hardware businesses. His expertise spans new product introduction (NPI), manufacturing operations, and financial strategy to accelerate product time to market. With experience across consumer electronics, medical devices, capital equipment, e-commerce, and food products, he brings a broad perspective on common pitfalls and effective strategies for scaling hardware companies.
Alexey Dubov is a serial entrepreneur who has been backed by investors including Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures. As a Co-Founder at Mighty Buildings, he experienced firsthand the challenges of navigating certifications and compliance while bringing new construction technologies to market. He played a key role in developing major regulatory standards with UL, ASTM, and ISO, giving him a builder’s perspective on how regulatory systems shape innovation in the physical world.
AI does the coverage; people own the judgment. Senior review on everything that ships — and everything public-facing runs in our customers’ names, not ours.
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