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Strengths & leadership profile

Assessment results and leadership philosophy of Russ Khaimov.

Top 5 CliftonStrengths (Gallup)

  1. 01Activator:Turns thoughts into action and is impatient to get started.
  2. 02Ideation:Fascinated by ideas; finds connections between seemingly unrelated things.
  3. 03Strategic:Quickly spots patterns and issues and creates alternative ways forward.
  4. 04Competition:Measures progress against others and strives to win.
  5. 05Includer:Notices who is left out and works to bring them in.

CliftonStrengths Signature Themes report (PDF)

StandOut roles

  • Advisor:A practical problem-solver others turn to for clear, grounded advice.
  • Creator:Makes sense of the world by pulling it apart and building something new.

StandOut assessment report (PDF)

Fascinate archetype

The Rockstar. Fascinate report (PDF)

Leadership philosophy

  • Driving Innovation: Embedding Design Thinking frameworks and GenAI capabilities into enterprise product ecosystems.
  • Scaling Success & M&A: Leading technical due diligence, multi-cloud architectures, and high-impact product launches.
  • Empowering Global Teams: Recruiting, mentoring, and founding global communities of Principal Architects and engineering SMEs.
  • Delivering $3B+ Impact: Crafting bulletproof infrastructure and strategic partnerships that drive measurable enterprise growth.

About Russ

Russ Khaimov is an AI leader, principal architect and technology executive based in New York with more than 30 years of experience. He has been a Principal Architect at Google since 2020, guiding TV networks, streaming services, sports leagues and gaming companies on generative AI and cloud strategy.

Before Google, he held roles at CenturyLink, Level 3 Communications, Verizon, CBS, ABC Television Network, IBM, JPMorganChase and Standard & Poor's, spanning content delivery and cloud, streaming and broadcast media, cybersecurity and trading technology. He has also founded or co-founded three companies (iFi, SEVARI and SuperSpiders.Com).

He holds US Patent 10,924,542 B2 for a content delivery system, received the Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award for the CBS Media Distribution Center, earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Information Security from John Jay College (CUNY) and completed MIT Sloan School of Management's Mastering Design Thinking program. 125 colleagues have written LinkedIn recommendations about working with him, including 18 former managers and senior leaders.