Dubai, United Arab Emirates
CEO / COO / CTO with 20 years’ experience in highly challenging Digital, Product and Software Engineering environments. B2B (airline distribution, data storage, security, corporate communication) and B2C (online gaming, music social networking). Proven growth results and leading towards multi-company exits. Strong team-building skills in multi-cultural, competitive environments leading to high-growth. Global experience, having worked in France, Japan, Bulgaria, and the US.
Consulting activity covering a various scope of domains including: - Travel Industry: Strategy, Distribution Landscape, NDC, Technology and Supplier market survey and analysis, Business Development for EMEA, APAC airlines, M&A. Advisory includes UpLift, PROs, large travel agency groups - AI verticals (Board Member GoodVision) - Bulgaria: product development, subsidiary establishment (R&D, Marketing, Support, etc.), - M&A and Financing advisory, - Other: Digital and Cloud transformation, Advanced Technologies, Strategic Management, Interim C-Level.
An impactful strategical transformational role to create in a record time a 180 people team in Bulgaria covering Engineering, Ops, HR, Finance, Creative, Marketing, Product, Data, Machine Learning while securing a 2B daily transaction backend, upgrading and bringing efficiency in Engineering, Security and Operations. In the meantime, drove the transition from a pure multi-datacenter on-premise hosting strategy to a multi-cloud Best Of Breed landscape to bring to dozen of millions of world wide distributed users a low latency singing real time product to bring fun and joy, because this is what music is about. The cherry is to make Data, Machine Learning, Audio, Video and Augmented Reality a dream come true in a diversified iOS/Android/Web environment while enabling effective content sharing through Snap, FaceBook, TikTok, WhatsApp, and many others. Drove the creation of a state of art internal CRM system to bring live app-notification world wide. A happy journey leading teams from Pacific Time zone to Eastern Europe time zone through the various Smule sites.