* Assistant Marketing Director, International Distribution Promoted to Assistant Marketing Director within 5 months (started as a sales manager) • Develop positioning and sales strategy for Russian TV products to successfully market them internationally; • Write all texts to promote Russian content and Russian Television and Radio brand internationally:  Short series descriptions for the catalog;  Product presentations;  Press-releases;  News related to product sales and promotion; • Supervise content dubbing into different languages; • Conduct international TV industry, markets, and trends analysis; • Manage festival submissions and content markets’ participation; • Manage sales for Australia and New Zealand

Handled business development and marketing • Attracted investment for film projects – commercial funding from international partners and sources; • Structured/Planned Projects – pitching, financial planning, presentations, execution; • Generated ideas, led and organized brainstorming session; • Wrote a script; • Managed strategic planning - designing creative strategies, understanding international media trends, developing new visions

Opened and managed the company office in Russia • Drafted and negotiated deals for VOD and EST rights; • Evaluated content acquisition deals; • Carried out research on the Russian linear and digital markets; • Created presentations for internal and external parties; • Built and maintained relationships with content providers; • Provided support for linear, on demand and new media related projects; • Developed regional sales strategy - conducted industry analysis, recommended steps to successfully work in Russia; • P&L - created sales targets, monitored budgets; • Managed local digital marketing and distribution of content; • Built effective contact networks; • Provided executive consulting - invited by European Broadcasting Union to present professional overview of Russian TV industry in front of top European public channels executives

Led a governmentally funded project to develop new business opportunities for Finnish audiovisual industry in Russia • Prepared Russian audiovisual industry analysis; • Provided recommendations to Finnish AV companies how to conduct business in Russia; • Managed project budget, scheduled events, met necessary targets; • Supervised a project assistant to create an efficient business process flow; • Made presentations about Russian film industry and organized round tables on how to conduct creative business in Russia; • Established a database of key contacts, including media contacts, interacted with media on a regular basis, disseminated information about FAVEX;

Senior Business Development Specialist, International broadcasting • Managed distribution of one of the top 5 Russian TV channels abroad: negotiated with cable and satellite providers to ensure channel’s participation in their programming grid; • Conducted TV industry analysis, monitored foreign media, TV markets, and competition; • Developed new territories, negotiated with new partners; • Prepared industry reports and marketing presentations; • Managed contracts with partners in USA, Israel, Sweden, and France

• Found and executed new consulting projects in Europe (Monaco, Switzerland, OAE, Norway); • Developed strategic recommendations and process maps that optimized performance and improved positioning within current markets; • Conducted due diligence analysis on requested industries and markets; • Created a wide database of business contacts in Monaco, Switzerland, USA, Japan; • Prepared and launched a spirits company in Monaco

• Initiated and managed all projects related to corporate strategy; • Conducted US mutual funds’ industry analysis; • Prepared knowledge management process maps and participated in system design; • Conducted marketing and sales channels analysis that helped to improve sales; • Managed preparations of executive and board papers; • Moved company CRM to a new level by creating a customer profitability model; • Performed institutional clients’ profiling and recommended new markets and products

• Developed a segmentation model of the major US mortgage lenders • Conducted analysis and prepared recommendations on trends that influence buyers' choice in purchasing technology products in financial services industry; • Performed macro- and micro-economic analysis and monitored financial services markets to spot new trends in product and service offerings; • Analyzed and mapped mortgage technology process; • Conducted quantitative and qualitative market research and prepared recommendations to management on new products and services

• Conducted analysis and prepared recommendations on market growth opportunities; • Developed assessment of market potential, prepared sales forecasts, identified industry trends and conducted competitor analysis; • Led a brain storm on product development

MBA, Strategy and International Business, General Management

Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Specialist Diploma with Excellence

English as a Foreign Language, Department of Foreign Languages, Second Higher Education Diploma