Yuriy Demidko

SVP & Chief Information Officer

As Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at DP Fox Ventures, Yuriy leads enterprise technology 
across the company’s various verticals, reducing operational friction by pairing clear processes 
with reliable data and practical AI. He has designed and shipped several proprietary platforms 
in-house, including an AI assistant, a business intelligence tool, specials workflow tools, and a 
variety of AI native platforms, delivering capabilities that typically require outside vendors but doing so at a 
fraction of the cost.


Yuriy brings hands-on technical depth to the role. Before becoming CIO, he spent six years as a Senior 
Software Development Engineer at Apple, where he shipped 44 applications, and gained NoSQL 
database experience at Datastax. He builds governed dashboards, applications, and AI 
workflows that empower teams to succeed, spending time in the stores, listening first and 
converting what works on the ground into plays that scale.


Beyond his work at DP Fox, Yuriy is a recognized voice in automotive technology and applied AI. 
He speaks at industry conferences including NADA, the Digital Marketing Strategies Conference and Modern Retailing Conference, writes regularly on operator-built technology and first-party 
data, and has been featured on various industry podcasts and newsletters.