Yana Prikhodchenko

Yana Prikhodchenko is chief executive of Cointelegraph, the crypto news and media publisher. Phemex News reported her in that role on 23 March 2026, when Cointelegraph announced her as a speaker at Paris Blockchain Week 2026, and again on 2 April 2026, when she opened Cointelegraph Connect: Cannes and argued that artificial intelligence has made start-ups quicker to launch while the harder problem remains building solutions that address real problems, hold healthy unit economics and find a market.

The company-supplied biography used for Paris Blockchain Week 2026 credits her with four years leading Cointelegraph Global, a span the equivalent 2025 biography put at three years, and with more than 15 years of leadership experience at international companies in insurance and banking before that; the specific earlier employers and dates are not confirmed here. The same biography describes Cointelegraph Global as now encompassing Cointelegraph Media, the Formula Marketing Agency, Cointelegraph Accelerator, the LONGITUDE event series and Cointelegraph Research.

Prikhodchenko has represented the company from the stage at its own LONGITUDE conferences. Opening LONGITUDE Abu Dhabi in December 2025, she told attendees, in remarks published by Cointelegraph and republished by KuCoin News on 12 December 2025, that "the region's speed, energy, and vision keep impressing the world" and that the Middle East "is now a global blockchain hub, with 30%+ crypto adoption and growing".

At Proof of Talk Paris 2026, held 2–3 June at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in the Louvre Palace, Prikhodchenko moderated the Day 2 panel on the Hecto Main Stage, "The Tokenisation of Everything: RWAs, Institutions, and the Next Market Structure". She chaired the session rather than arguing a position of her own. The programme lists Julien Clausse, John Nahas, Joseph Bruzzesi and Nenter Chow as the other participants; no title is given for any of them here, because none was independently verified for this profile.