Business Leaders Question the Limits of Profit-Driven Growth
— The American Business Expo XMAS 2025 redefines leadership, emphasizing trust, ethical capital, and sustainable growth in the post-AI economy.
Traditional profit-first business models are reaching a breaking point, as a profit-only form of capitalism increasingly creates more harm than long-term value amid global uncertainty, business magnates warn. On December 28, the business landscape shifted as more than 1,000 entrepreneurs, executives, and investors converged in Miami for the American Business Expo XMAS 2025 to redefine the benchmarks of leadership and sustainable growth.
Designed as a high-level business forum, the event combined a multi-track conference with a formal awards ceremony, where the first one was structured around two parallel tracks. On the Main Stage, discussions centered on how technology and governance must align to sustain growth beyond short-term returns. The investment panel “What to Invest in for 2026,” moderated by Val Zolot, examined U.S. real estate dynamics through the lens of durability and forward-looking capital allocation. Artificial intelligence and digital transformation were addressed as strategic forces reshaping business models, particularly in the “AI - Business - Future” panel on AI and tokenization. Dmitrii Kotov’s keynote, “The Return of Matter - How Energy, Metals, and Physical Reality Are Restoring Meaning to Capital,” reframed capital strategy around tangible assets and industrial value. The Main Stage concluded with remarks from Irina Golmgrein, who described reputation as the “new currency of trust in the post-AI era,” underscoring that ethical authority has become as decisive as financial capital.
Running in parallel, the Business Stage translated these strategic principles into operational practice. Sessions focused on how sustainable growth is executed across platforms and organizations, with Ilya Lantsman and Ilya Veitsman discussing YouTube as a scalable business asset, Anna Slitskaia outlining brand development within the Amazon ecosystem, and Jay Bourgana examining expansion strategies through acquisition versus internal build.
The award сremony at the American Business Expo XMAS 2025 offered a practical reflection on how companies are redefining long-term value in an uncertain economy. Across sectors, the recognized projects treated profitability as the result of trust and strategic clarity. In executive leadership, Anna Cherednyk, named Top Executive of the Year in Facility Management, was recognized for developing an operational efficiency index that improved cost control and enabled scalable growth across restaurant operations. Her work illustrated how well-designed systems can translate leadership decisions into “durable business outcomes.”
A similar logic guided the Entrepreneur of the Year in Accounting & Audit recognition awarded to Yuliia Vyshyvaniuk. By positioning tax compliance as a strategic growth tool for U.S. businesses, her work demonstrated how governance and foresight can create stability and “room for expansion,” even in volatile conditions.
In the digital economy, trust emerged as a central theme. Shweta FNU, awarded Digital Transformation of the Year in E-commerce Platforms, led platform modernization initiatives at Amazon and TikTok, strengthening governance and consumer confidence in health and wellness commerce. Her projects reflected a growing understanding that “sustainable digital growth depends on reliable systems” as much as advanced technology.
All recipients were evaluated by an expert jury using a structured 10-point scoring system, with jury members drawn from finance and trading (Aneesha Sharma, Angelina Shyltsyna, Jinye (Anthony) Zhang, Aashish Verma), software and technology (Anton Khapankou, Vadym Shevchenko, Aleksandr Moiseev, Sai Sruthi Puchakayala), healthcare and medicine (Dinara Sokolova, Tatevik Melkumyan, Oleh Ruban), and business and entrepreneurship (Shyryn Bekbol, Andrii Gerashchenko, Oleksandr Trotsenko), among others.
This emphasis on cross-industry dialogue was echoed by Anton Chekhov, CEO of Edeal Inc. and the forum speaker, who said that “the true value of the American Business Expo XMAS 2025 lies in the people: the rare opportunity to meet like-minded entrepreneurs in person and engage in conversations that are energizing, broaden perspectives, and often provide more value than dozens of online meetings.”
Taken together, the Expo showed that durable value is created when business aligns the interests of society, investors, and customers: an alignment that will increasingly define the standard of leadership in 2026.
