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Brought 6-digit GM to Avangate from partner-delivered services with a double-digit growth YoY.Saved time and eliminated hassles by creating a solid cross-team working framework for the growth services unit, including Sales, Marketing, Financial and Legal teams. Also set the path to future alliances according to company goals and helped Sales evangelize the growth services to potential digital customers at industry events.As a Senior Manager of Alliances, my main goals were identifying and recruiting new Avangate services & technology partners; negotiating and onboarding new partners; building joint pipelines and joint go-to market plans; support and enable Sales and customers to drive company revenues.Along with that, I'm was the subject matter expert on managed affiliate services and managed marketing services - both inbound and outbound marketing, SEM, branding, working directly with our OPM and agency partners.

Established and grew the managed affiliate services from in-house to partner managed to generate 6-digit yearly revenue for the company while continuing to work closely with the affiliate team for the business development of the Avangate Affiliate Network.Grew the affiliate sales for our software & SaaS customers with both the in-house team and external affiliate OPM partners. With hands-on proven experience in affiliate program management, I was responsible with managing the professional affiliate projects that were run for Avangate customers, including presales activities, addressing potential clients and educating them via speaking engagements at industry events and through in-house created content: blog posts, webinars, case studies.

Bucharest, Romania

Multiplied the yearly afiliate network revenue 20 fold and the number of active affiliates in the network 17 fold within 4 years of being the business line owner of the Avangate Affiliate Network.With very few dedicated resources I coordinated all business development activities and worked closely with a cross-functional team (Sales, Marketing, Support and Integration) for:- affiliate program management guidance;- affiliate recruitment & migration;- affiliate activation;- partner matching between publishers and merchants;- facilitating personalized affiliate campaigns;- email marketing & other promotional activities towards affiliates;- offering solutions to merchants for solving affiliate related issues.Worked with worldwide recognized software partners like Bitdefender, CNet, Iolo, IObit, Kaspersky, Softpedia, increasing their affiliate revenues. Also helped Sales acquire new prospects by evangelizing the benefits of the Avangate Affiliate Network at affiliate events and through content marketing activities.

With the editors relationships I had established in my previous role, I managed to widen the PR distribution for Avangate.I was also actively involved in the company's marketing projects:- competitive analysis and other market research activities;- direct marketing activities (emailers, direct contact);- copywriting for the company online properties - website, blog, social media, ads;- writing articles, white papers and other content marketing materials.

Managed to close 5 new advertising partnerships for the print magazine with 5-digit revenues for the company.As an Editor-in-Chief at PC World Romania, I was in charge of:- overseeing the editorial activities for the magazine, the site (www.pcworld.ro) and the brand's special projects;- managing the editorial team both for the magazine and the website;- interfacing with companies in the industry for editorial and marketing issues;- representing the company at local and international events;- doing special reports and interviews on international events;- working together with the Online Manager in order to better structure and monetize the information on the website;- coordinating the PC World Romania Testing Lab.

Grew the unique visitors number 150% YoY and managed the websites overhaul for IDG Romania.As an Online Manager at IDG Romania, I was:- supervising all activities regarding the company's sites and newsletters (www.pcworld.ro, www.computerworld.ro, www.networkworld.ro, www.idg.ro, www.idgpartners.ro);- working together with the company's editors-in-chief on the site and newsletters layout, usability and functionality;- managing a local basic development team;- interfacing with an outsourced development team;- managing partnerships on online advertising on IDG Romania's sites and newsletters;- doing monthly reports and implementing proactive solutions in order to improve the sites' and newsletters' metrics;- coordinating a major layout and content upgrade for the company's main sites during the summer of 2007 (www.pcworld.ro, www.computerworld.ro, www.networkworld.ro);- taking part at internal corporate meetings and sharing knowledge with colleagues around the world.

Engineer’S Degree, Communications And Information Technology Engineering

I specialized in Radio and Optics Communications. My final paper was about an application that analyzes a MPEG-2 Transport Stream.

Master’S Degree, Communications, Multimedia Production