Katya Tolochkova is a CIMA-qualified FP&A and Commercial Finance Director with over 20 years of experience across global FMCG and commercially operated businesses, based in Hampshire, UK. She holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence, and brings both the mathematical grounding and the practitioner fluency to lead AI adoption conversations.

Her background spans British American Tobacco at FTSE 100 scale across 175 markets, Oracle EPM implementation delivering an 80% reduction in reporting cycle time, and building commercial finance functions from scratch. She specialises in forward-looking financial planning, driver-based FP&A, and finance transformation.

Katya's particular interest is in how AI tools are reshaping financial planning, forecasting and decision-making, and in closing the gap between what the technology can do and what finance functions are actually using it for.