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Bachelor of Science in Commerce
(2015 - 2015)
Executive Program
(2016 - 2016)
2018
2018
- Expanding Tencent to Europe through Investments & strategic partnerships; founding team member of Tencent Amsterdam HQ -- Leading Israel, Turkey, Cyprus, CIS markets for Tencent Games, leading gaming investments in these markets - Built from scratch Tencent Games presence and investments in Central & Eastern Europe (CEE), Russia, CIS for Interactive Entertainment & Games at Tencent - Built a team and coverage in Central & Eastern Europe (CEE), Russia, CIS (sourced, interviewed, recruited, onboarded a diverse regional team) - Investing in: ALL stages and platforms: early stage, growth stage, late stage; minority/ majority investments and full acquisitions; PC, console, mobile - Passionate about gaming, tech, innovation, investing, empowering entrepreneurs, connecting Europe with China
2017 - 2018
2017 - 2018
Fund and family office advising includes: Advisor to the CIO of a large European family office. - Advising on VC investment strategy - Connecting to Silicon Valley top Tech VCs - LP opportunities in VCs - Sourcing / selecting/ Introducing to potential direct investment and future co-investment opportunities
2014 - 2018
2014 - 2018
- Personal investments include: Grabr.io, Home61, AgFunder, ArrowPass - Co-invested with/ followed by: Founders Fund, Foundation Capital, 500 Startups, Partech, Signal Fire, Global Founders Capital (Rocket Internet Ventures), Signal Fire, NFX Guild, FJ Labs.
2015 - 2016
2015 - 2016
- Partner covering Eastern Europe /Russia & CIS/ Israel - bridging talented startup founders from this region with Silicon Valley - focused on consumer internet and consumer mobile startups especially marketplaces, shared economy and on demand services, educational apps and games, health and wellness apps, communication, advertising and monetization, SAAS. - sourced and referred early stage startups to the accelerator program - mentored startups
2011 - 2014
2011 - 2014
Early executive hire, employee #10 and focused on growth; Cut the Rope became one of the world's leading, fastest growing mobile gaming brands, with downloads growing from 40 million to over 600 million and monthly active users growing to over 60 million in over 120 countries and team growing from 10 employees to 100, with multiple successful launches with #1 positions immediately achieved on the AppStore and Google Play and achieving this market leadership in just several years since inception, without outside funding *Hired, trained and managed business development, ad sales, ad operations, international GMs, Marketing & PR. *Led business development and strategic global distribution: - owned relationships with management / key decision makers at leading platforms, OEMs and top global brands (Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, Facebook, Microsoft, etc) - led key global exclusive launches on the Apple App Store, Google Play and Amazon Appstore, secured major featuring support from platform partners - launched several Cut the Rope and other games and became #1 across entire store in ALL global markets and growing major revenue stream; - Secured inclusion and high visibility in platform & OEM partners’ keynotes at high profile industry events such as CES, WWDC, Samsung Unpack, Facebook F8 as well as prominent inclusion in multiple global prime time TV spots; led strategy and expansion onto new innovative gaming platforms and top messenger apps *Drove the launch of advertising sales business from scratch in 2011& grew it to a top revenue source for the company by 2014 *Managed all International expansion and global business growth (led strategy, hiring, strategic partnerships; negotiated multi-million dollar publishing deals in major emerging markets such as China and other key Asian, Latin American and other markets) resulting in Chinese business becoming top revenue source for the company *Speaker at top tech, mobile and gaming industry conferences globally
2007 - 2011
2007 - 2011
OLX is a global player in localized online classifieds, a Naspers company. - Joined Fabrice Grinda, Alec Oxenford and the early OLX team in its' first year - co-founded/launched OLX in Eastern Europeand grew it to one of the largest players in classifieds segment (Under my management OLX went from launch to #2-#3 marketplace in the region in several short years. OLX has then merged with AVITO and is now # 3 classified globally and top internet property locally) - Managed product localization, regional expansion, launch and growth - Led SEM, online marketing and advertising, SEO, offline marketing and advertising campaigns (TV and radio campaigns from creatives, to buying, to launching), monetization - Ran partnerships/business development with leading internet properties and mobile operators. - Stayed with the company through/post acquisition by Naspers
2004 - 2007
2004 - 2007
- Early Yandex employee - Led strategic Sales/Account management of key and international advertising accounts - First business development lead at Yandex (focused on international business development/partnerships, pioneered distribution deals for Yandex search with major smartphone OEMs, leading browsers, etc)
2003 - 2004
2003 - 2004
-Early Google employee @ Google HQ in Mountain View -Responsible for premium advertising accounts (largest tech/ internet companies, brands with largest budgets) - Optimized, maximized and upsold advertising campaigns