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An online service in Russia to find and book travel.
Startup type: Company
Status: Active
Stage: Beta
FULL BIO
Dynamic and analytical entrepreneur focused on the use of data and technology to create value in high growth industries.
Currently building Ostrovok.ru - the online platform for Russian-speakers to find and book travel which is backed by General Catalyst Partners and several other top-tier online travel investors.
Previously co-founder of YouNoodle, Quid, early employee of Slide, and mathematician at Oxford University.
I'm responsible for our product and marketing. All 'spare time' spent on finding the very best people possible to join us.
Employer:
YouNoodle, Inc.
Position:
Co-founder
Time period:
September 2007 - Present
Description:
Media partnerships and business development. Built the Startup Predictor model. Created and manage partnerships with leading media properties including BusinessWeek, Fast Company, UK Telegraph, San Francisco Chronicle, Techcrunch and Venturebeat.
Employer:
Slide, Inc.
Position:
Data and Analytics
Time period:
July 2006 - September 2007
Description:
Product analytics and data management; virality analysis; data insight; data infrastructure, product analysis, product development, business development, financial modeling, product spec writing, mysql and excel coding, API distribution, product and logging QA. While I was at Slide we grew from under a million registered users to more than 150 million people interacting with our products every month.
Employer:
Global Equity Partners
Position:
New ventures analysis
Time period:
July 2005 - September 2005
Description:
Analysis of the games of skill market; analysis of the betting platform market; analysis of games of skill web designer; financial modelling; investment decision presentations.
Employer:
Meinl Bank
Position:
Derivative Analyst
Time period:
July 2004 - September 2004
Description:
Carried out Monte Carlo simulation to price equity options; categorised risk in highly structured interest rate products; carried out Value at Risk analysis.
Employer:
Oxford Entrepreneurs
Position:
President and founding team member
Time period:
January 2004 - April 2006
Description:
Headhunted and led a committee of 14 of 3-year old Society with already 3000 members; raised in excess of £150,000 from sponsors and founding patrons; organised tens of events each involving at least 200 students and entrepreneurs; made contact and successfully invited entrepreneurs such as Sir Alan Sugar and Dame Anita Roddick to speak to members for free; helped create replica societies at 3 other universities; co-ordinated the set up of and advised 5 student start-up companies that together had revenues in excess of £20,000 in their first year; secured PR coverage from The Times, The Economist, New York Times, Guardian. In 2004 the DTI highlighted OE as “one of the top three organisations in the UK for supporting innovation and enterprise”.
New online media startup headed up by the founder of PayPal, Max Levchin. Backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and the Founders Fund.
SpeedDate.com is one of a slew of new online, webcam enhanced, speed dating sites. SpeedDate.com allows singles to go on multiple real-time 3-minute online dates from home using a webcam, microphone and instant messaging.
Loopt is a mobile social mapping application. Using cell phones and mobile devices, it displays the locations of a users friends along with their presence status.
Banking & Finance graduate from Loughborough University. A successful HSBC banker with a breadth of group experience in corporate, investment and retail banking, credit and risk and human resource management.
Ostrovok.ru
