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Lera Leonteva

Lera Leonteva

Founder & CEO, Leo AI; AI security engineer

New York, New York, United States
Joined January 2026

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Founder and product leader in video AI and adtech — Lera founded Leo AI to apply AI to video marketing and workflows, growing the company into a recognized U.K. adtech startup with reported seed funding and product-facing guides to scale video content production. scworld+2
Security practitioner with hands-on offensive and defensive experience — she is described as a former ethical hacker and OSCP-qualified practitioner who has led penetration testing and red-team engagements and held security engineering and threat-detection leadership roles. scworld+1
Academic and open-source contributor on adversarial machine learning — author of a 2025 paper evaluating adversarial attacks against deployed AI systems, and maintainer of an accompanying public repository demonstrating and benchmarking remote attacks. wiley+2
Community leader and speaker focused on security, AI, and engineering — she has been active for years speaking at conferences and running workshops (including engagements with Code First Girls and national conferences) and participates in industry events and panels. womentech+2

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Active tech community speaking and mentoring (conference talks and workshops). youtube+1