Adrian Amariei
Influence attitudes and behaviors with automated, personalized SMS and voice messages.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Skills: | Business, Databases, Design, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, French, German, Languages, Leadership, Product design, Public speaking, Sales, Software Engineering, Writing |
| Next step: | seeking tech and commercial partners to leverage customer services with automated SMS and voice. Ideal US verticals: e-commerce, insurance and healthcare. |
| Location: | Bucharest, Romania |
| Groups: | Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) |
| Visas: | EU, US |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Giving back, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Meeting new people, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Trading services |
| Schools: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
FEATURED STARTUP
Axonite
Axonite
B2B, B2B2B, B2C SaaS with automated, personalized SMS and text-to-speech.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Profitable
FULL BIO
After management consulting on Wall Street (1996-1998), I co-founded www.imediation.com, a US/French company that reached a valuation of $300M from top notch VCs: Apax, Intel Capital, GE Capital, DB, Vivendi, Morgan Stanley. iMediation expanded on 3 continents within 2 years of operations and made Wall Street Journal first page in January 2002. Was featured by CNN as "business un-usual". Repeatedly covered by Fortune, Forbes, Wirtschaftswoche, and "Les Echos".
Following the exit from iMediation I burned (own) $2.5M to develop Voxtime, a “ahead-of-its-time” technology: yield and revenue management applied to mobile telephony. Instead of a resounding success it was a hard lesson. It took me 3 years to turn the lemons into lemonade with a Software-as-a-Service (Axonite) that saves my clients about 70% in OPEX related to customer support and enterprise communications. Axonite creates immediate profitable customer relationships with personalized 2-way enterprise messages and alerts via Text to Speech, SMS, and email. Since 2005 Axonite sales have grown by 300% every year.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Axonite |
| Position: | Founder |
| Time period: | February 2002 - Present |
| Description: | It took me 3 years to turn the lemons into lemonade with a Software-as-a-Service (Axonite) that saves my clients about 70% in OPEX related to customer support and enterprise communications. Axonite creates immediate profitable customer relationships with personalized 2-way enterprise messages and alerts via Text to Speech, SMS, and email. Since 2005 Axonite sales have grown by 300% every year. |
| Employer: | Voxtime |
| Position: | Founder |
| Time period: | January 2000 - December 2003 |
| Description: | Following the exit from iMediation I burned (own) $2.5M to develop Voxtime, a “ahead-of-its-time” technology: yield and revenue management applied to mobile telephony. |
| Employer: | iMediation |
| Position: | Co-founder |
| Time period: | March 1998 - December 2000 |
| Description: | www.imediation.com is a US/French company that reached a valuation of $300M from top notch VCs: Apax, Intel Capital, GE Capital, DB, Vivendi, Morgan Stanley. iMediation expanded on 3 continents within 2 years of operations and made Wall Street Journal first page in January 2002. Was featured by CNN as "business un-usual". Repeatedly covered by Fortune, Forbes, Wirtschaftswoche, and "Les Echos". |
| Employer: | Wall Street |
| Position: | Management consulting |
| Time period: | September 1996 - December 1997 |
| Description: | Consulted for Chase. In charge of a program across 3 lines of Chase business. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 1996 |
| Degree: | MBA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Patents: | several PCT: negotiation agents |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Currently interested in cognitive science and how to use enterprise communication (SMS, voice) to influence customer attitude and behavior. |
Adrian's Startups (3)
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Voxtime
yield and revenue management applied to mobile telephony. In essence a complex 3rd degree price discrimination engine to optimize ROA of a mobile operator.
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iMediation
iMediation was sold to Haht Commerce in 2002. It made 6M a quarter by managing complex marketing and distribution e-commerce agreements.
Adrian is Following (7)
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Yoga Retreat
Yoga Retreat is an hour of spoken yoga instruction on CD, from one of the UK's top teachers, Joan Stonehouse. It's designed to supplement taught classes as you move toward independent practice.
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LiveOut
LiveOut makes the process of finding student housing so much easier! We currently list almost all student property available at Oxford, Oxford Bookes, Warwick and Coventry Universities.
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Adrian's Contacts (9)
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Paul Gruber
A proven Motivational Speaker, with extensive experience in business development, and Life Coaching. Masterful facilitator of Brainstorming, and Mastermind Groups.
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Miles Lennon
I'm an NYC-based user experience designer, product manager and aspiring entrepreneur. I love design, technology, MMA, and food.
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Rebeca Hwang
Korean-Argentine finishing her PhD at Stanford. Addicted to startups and entrepreneurship. Life ADD & Loves travelling.
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