Alex Gorasov

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Property Investor | AirBnB Entrepreneur | Investment Advisor @ Agora Homes
Alex Gorasov's Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates
About Alex Gorasov

A digital technology professional, entrepreneur and investor with a keen interest in innovative digital ventures, fintech and real estate. Moldovan-born Manchester and LSE alumnus with versatile work experience in UK, Netherlands, USA, Moldova, India, China, UAE and Indonesia.I have built my main expertise through shaping and leading digital POCs, accelerators and startups as an Agile Business Analyst, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Project Manager and Startup Manager within the digital space at Shell. I have worked with stakeholders at all levels including contractors, management consultants, VPs and EVPs, UI/UX experts, data engineers and data scientists as part of development teams in Agile, SCRUM and Waterfall. I have received my training from consultants and directors from the Big 4 firms and MBB while also becoming certified through internal courses at Shell.As a tech professional, I managed the development of various features for a few digital accelerator projects from the ideation phase towards mass production to over 1k users in Shell and bringing over $20M annual savings to wider Shell. Being involved in the initial user research studies, design sprints, persona mapping, user journey creation and prototyping, helped to form solid UX experience and design thinking capabilities. In March 2020 I have joined the software development company, Endava, as a Senior Delivery Manager where I have led SAFe teams deliver innovative solutions for Europe's and Middle East's largest Fintechs. Currently, I am the CPO & Advisor at Swif, an AI driven rewards & loyalty startup, in the founders team and the Head of Product at Pyypl.As an investor, I manage my angel fintech portfolio since the age of 19 in the digital banking and financial ventures niche where I had successful exits from leading UK unicorns such as Revolut, TransferGo, PaySend and other. I primarily invest in early stage startups and VC-backed fintech businesses.As an entrepreneur, I have created a few ventures in the fields of financial technology, venture capital and real estate. My most notorious one is Agora Homes, a property management company in Bali that has been top ranked on all booking websites and has maintained an AirBnB Superhost status for over 3 years.

Alex Gorasov's Current Company Details
Agora Homes

Agora Homes

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Property Investor | AirBnB Entrepreneur | Investment Advisor
Alex Gorasov Work Experience Details
  • Agora Homes
    Founder And Ceo
    Agora Homes Aug 2019 - Present
    Moldova, Uae, Bali
    Agora Homes - An international property company specializing in property management, real estate investments and property related media• Headquarters: Chisinau (Europe), Dubai (Middle East), Bali (Asia)• Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/byagorahomes/ (~400k followers)• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AlexGorasov
  • Youtube
    Content Creator
    Youtube Mar 2020 - Present
    • Content creator on Personal Finance, Real Estate Investing, and Tech Startups.• Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AlexGorasov
  • Swif
    Cpo & Advisor
    Swif Apr 2023 - Sep 2024
    Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Swif
    Head Of Product
    Swif Jun 2022 - Apr 2023
    Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    Part of founding team, leading the Product & Design teams, overall vision, strategy and execution.Key areas and products:• Rewards & loyalty for banks• Mobile iOS/Android app, admin portals• AI & ML algorithms, open banking• Web3 crypto, nft, smart contracts
  • Endava
    Product Lead, Fintech
    Endava Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
    Uae, Moldova
    • Led an Agile program team towards building, implementing, and integrating innovative APIs for a major UAE Fintech.• Managed the product discovery phase for the APIs to enable 3rd party issuing, acquiring, and merchant portals.• Defined and owned the product roadmap while refining and prioritizing a backlog of payment epics, features, stories.
  • Endava
    Senior Product Manager, Fintech
    Endava Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
    Germany, Moldova
    • Led a worldwide SAFe program team of 70+ Android and iOS devs, BAs, POs, DevOps, Testers, UX/UI and Architects through the E2E technical delivery and CRM onboarding integration of a merchant banking portal.
  • Shell
    Startup Manager, Shell Tapup
    Shell Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
    Uk, Netherlands, Usa
    • Managed the franchise model and further roll-out of the digital fuel delivery start-up expansion to UK and US.
  • Shell
    Co-Founder And Agile Product Manager, Shell Digital Hub
    Shell Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
    London, England, United Kingdom
    • Co-founded an innovative data science driven tool for the global lubricants portfolio.• Managed all product delivery phases from ideation to mass production and brought >$20M annual cost saving opportunities to wider Shell to be then awarded multiple innovation prizes.• Led the early-stage user research studies, design sprints, prototyping and demo sessions of the tool.• Modernized the tech savvy data analysis method via SQL by moving and displaying large chunks of SAP data via Spotfire to the tool's UX friendly interface with features incl. trading scenarios, cost saving suggestions.
  • Shell
    Lead Business Analyst And Ux/Ui Sme, Shell Digital Ventures
    Shell Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
    London, United Kingdom
    • Supported and lead top-priority CEO-endorsed digital POCs, accelerators and start-ups. • Mastered agile project management and UX/UI processes by identifying customers’ pain points and needs, mapping personas, user stories and journeys in Agile/KANBAN.• Led the creation, curation and prioritization of product features from business and user needs.• Captured user requirements in VSTS, Jira and translated data and UI requirements to relevant stakeholders.• Modelled AS IS and produced TO BE business processes using standards such as the UML.• Developed SCRUM and PO skills by facilitating Executive Board meetings, daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives, alongside experts from leading consultancies.• Created a project management tracker based on requirements from solution and data architects, data engineers.• Gained new IT and UI Design skills by learning data engineering and data science to explain Alteryx workflows to end users and created a tangible prototype within 5 design sprint days.
  • Shell
    Trading & Supply Analyst, Global Lubricants
    Shell Nov 2016 - May 2017
    London, United Kingdom
    • Managed the global grease portfolio and secured >$1M cost saving opportunities by: identifying key COGS drivers, optimising E2E supply chain network, managing dead stock liquidation and D&S balances.
  • Shell
    Operations Intern, Uk Retail
    Shell Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
    London, United Kingdom
    • Identified $1.2M cost savings post-haste by establishing new electricity consumption benchmarks, eliminating >1.5K telecom charges and renegotiating wastewater contracts at UK sites.
  • Deloitte
    Consultant
    Deloitte Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
    Manchester, United Kingdom
    • Worked with clients on projects within Global Business Tax Services for Tech companies.
  • Ebrd
    Investment Banking Analyst
    Ebrd Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
    Moldova, Uk
    • Conducted an investment feasibility analysis of a top priority project of EBRD in Eastern Europe to construct a 117km long gas trunk pipeline (DN500) by 2018, worth €113,4 million.

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Alex Gorasov's current role is Property Investor | AirBnB Entrepreneur | Investment Advisor.

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Alex Gorasov attended The London School Of Economics And Political Science (Lse), Yale University - Yale School Of Management, The University Of Manchester, East China Normal University.

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