Successfully building, training and managing a crew of 4 with the purpose of breaking the record for fastest rowing crew. Skipper and project manager.Became the fastest crew to row across the Black Sea, 1,200km of non-stop rowing from Mangalia (Romania) to Batumi (Georgia) in 9 days and 18 hours, breaking the 2017 record of 11 days and 6 hours by one day and a half.

Outdoor rental & shop- roof-boxes & roof-rails (THULE);- bicycles & bike carriers;- Kayak & canoes;- Cool boxes (WAECO);

- setting up a sales department for selling event production and event related equipment (trussing, sound, light and special effects):- recruiting sales accounts, training the new hires;- setting up sales objectives;- setting up the tools to provide effective approach of the market – implementing and configuring the CRM that the team would use and the newsletter system to quickly cover a pool of potential customers;- segmenting and prioritizing clients and industries of interest;- reactivating dormant or inactive clients;- developing pricing policy for the products portfolio;

- Coordinating the team of product managers in charge with:- Management of the online research products and solutions portfolio (KPIs analysis, support and maintenance of the documentation containing instructions for project execution, data analysis, the presentations to the client service and end client)- Implementation of new initiatives, in terms of: preliminary analysis and proof of concept, development plan, project management and developing the documents for “production mode”;- Ensuring the management and coordination of the necessary resources for the on-time delivery of the initiatives;

- restructuring the sales activities of the Client Service team;- supervising new projects implementation;- restructuring the company’s activities and cost optimization in order to turn it profitable;- implementing processes to improve the performance of both productive and support departments; downsizing of HR structure;

- Identifying potential customers among local and European companies;- Assessing customers' needs and designing proposals to meet their requirements;- Supporting the US-based teams for multi-national projects;- Contributing to the implementation of the CRM in Romania (salesforce.com)

Promoting the use of sleeve packaging for multi-pack, co-pack, re-pack for FMCG

 Business planning, budgeting and control; Business Development: designing the sales and marketing strategy, coordinating the sales activities of the client service team, supervision of new projects implementation; Coordination of communication activities; Direct coordination of operational and administrative/ support departments (Accounting, HR, IT&C, office administration); Company representation with the professional associations (ESOMAR, SORMA, IRIS, GMR), business networks and authorities;Achievements:- Implemented Client Service specialisation – research consultants within business units have been oriented towards specific sectors (Financial, IT&C, Automotive, Social etc.); as a result acquisition and retention of clients improved significantly - Extended clients & products portfolio as to compensate the loss of a business unit (Target Group Index Romania), thus maintaining the yearly turnover increase rates- Restructured fieldwork operations to become more cost-effective and to provide higher level of data reliability- Implemented cost analysis by projects for better control of direct costs