Alex Zaretsky Email & Phone Number

Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL

Help scale-ups (businesses with $1+ M annual revenue) grow faster Strategy, product & growth advisorySelected clients:- Smartcat.ai (Enterprise B2B SaaS) - language AI platform for any global enterprise- TrashBots.co (EduTech B2Schools) - coding and robotics educational platform for K-12- Simple (Mobile B2C)- weight loss mobile app with over 15M downloads.

• Brainika.co – helping neurodivergent kids learn school Math, educational games on Roblox (shut down operations but all the games are available for FREE, access via brainika.co website)
• Identified the target customer segment and willingness to pay by doing hundreds of customer interviews and testing value proposition messages in Facebook campaigns
• Raised $400K pre-seed round from FJLabs VC and multiple angels
• Hired and managed a game development team of 8 game designers, game developers, 3D modelers, and backend developers that launched 3 Roblox games within nine months
• Negotiated strategic partnership with ZeptoLab, creators of OmNom brand with 30 bln views on YouTube and over one bln downloads of their app
• Chosen as one of 25 enterprises globally into the 1st batch of LEGO accelerator to support autistic children and those with ADHD

Miami, Florida, US

ONLINE ENGLISH TUTORS FOR KIDS AGED 4 TO 12We help children master English from an early age at the level of a native speaker by connecting the best ESL teachers in the United States and the United Kingdom with parents worldwide. Our customers are in 20+ countries.For conversation practice, we also provide English lessons in Minecraft and Roblox with.

Moscow, RU

• Travelata - package tours OTA. By the end of 2022: $150mln annual sales and profitable since 2017.
• Grew the business from an idea to $100 mln in sales profitable business with 250 employees
• Built one of the TOP travel brands: over 50 mln visits to the website and more than five mlnmobile app downloads
• Served as the first Product Manager and then Head of Product of the company running five cross-functional product teams with 35 frontend, backend, iOS, and Android developers, designers, and QA specialists
• Conducted hundreds of interviews to select and hire product managers. Created a company guidebook for the recruiting process in R&D and marketing based on the book “Who” by Geoff Smart
• Defined business strategy to win the market and translated it into product and growth strategy that resulted in a CAGR of over 100% in 2016-2019

US

• Consulted companies across various industries on strategy, M&A due diligence, and target searchfor acquisition, business development methodology, organizational structure, and business processes optimization, headcount.
• Managed a client team of 4 navigators in identifying and implementing operational improvements in one of the world's largest steel mills
• Optimized large capital projects in a refinery for a major oil company
• Defined growth by acquisition strategy for a large international mining equipment manufacturer
• Performed headcount optimization for an energy company
• Investigated environment for local manufacturing and recommended approach for new business development for a major international medical devices company

US

• Developed and implemented a new sales system targeting large corporate clients for a major bank
• Managed a client team and IT sub-contractors through the implementation of the new system

Santa Clara, California, US

• Developed innovative Algorithms for the latest Intel chips:De-Interlacing, Motion Estimation, Frame Rate Conversion, Scaling, Color Processing, Image Enhancement, etc.
• Led integration of image processing algorithms into Intel micro-processor, coordinating work of SW and HW engineers
• Lectured and guided groups of engineers on algorithmic issues
• Hold a patent for Frame rate conversion

US

• Managed multi-disciplinary projects: SW,HW,Algorithms,Architecture design, Optics,Mechanics
• Managed a team of engineers and sub-contractors
• Collaborated with client’s Marketing and Engineering multi-site teams overseas
• Negotiated requirements specification agreement with a client

• Developed miniature video cameras for endoscopes
• Developed and implemented image processing algorithms:De-Mosaicing, Color Correction, Image Enhancement, AGC/ABC, 3D, etc.
• Programming experience:Real-Time DSP programming (TI 6414), Software optimizations, SW architecture design
• Hold several patents

Mba, Finance, Entrepreneurship And Innovation

B.Sc., Computer Engineering

M.Sc., Electrical And Computer Engineering