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Prishtina, Kosovo, Ko

Increased market presence whilst serving as Chief Marketing and Corporate Development for prestigious international creative studio offering 17+ years’ experience, 350+ Visual Identities, 1000+ clients, and 70+ publications internationally recognized. Direct activities surrounding B2B division, including handling corporate client’s relations and overseeing the marketing implementation utilizing traditional outlets, social media platforms and creative marketing strategies.

Kika Hills, situated in the municipality of Kamenica, Kosovo, is a luxurious resort that offers a unique blend of a 5-star exclusive resort, an eco village, and a themepark. Nestled at an elevation of 1200m, this remarkable destination boasts a 100-room hotel adorned with exceptional amenities, along with 48 private residences. With its breathtaking natural surroundings and impeccable service, Kika Hills presents an ideal getaway for holiday seekers in the region. Spanning across a vast area of 230 hectares, Kika Hills promises an abundance of joy and entertainment.

Provided key support as Senior Consultant for global payment services, logistics management, and tactical consulting firm for internationalization strategies, with merger advice, promotion, and control as well as mediation and strategic partner identification.

Personal investment fund dedicated for purchase of domains, digital assets, cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects. During early days of entrepreneurship (2001 and up), acquired top domains mainly catering to technology, Albanian and the Balkans: commodities, services and other business concepts. 300+ active domains, 30+ sales of premium domains.Invested in Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies in the very early stages of the block chain concept.Prime realestate investments in Chicago IL, Prishtina Kosova, Kamenica, Kosova, Gjiri Lalezit, Albania and Saranda, Albania. Roaster includes residences, retail stores and strategic land lots.

Raised revenue by $30mil+ for IPTV solution and infrastructure provider, expanded presence to 50+ countries, increased quality of services offered, innovated new products, built new UI/UX interfaces and became the number one household brand through ShqipTV, PolTV and BosnaTV Sub brands for the immigrant diaspora in North America, EU and Australia.Leadership- Advise the board.- Advocate / promote organization and stakeholder change related to organization mission.- Support motivation of employees in organization products/programs and operationsVision- Ensure staff and Board have sufficient and up-to-date information.- Look to the future for opportunities.- Interface between Board and employees.Decision Maker- Formulate policies and planning recommendations to the board.- Decides and guide courses of action in operations.- Make hard decisions to point the company on the right path.Manager- Oversee the company operations.- Implement plans.- Manage human resources of organization.- Manage financial and physical resources.- Manage and oversee technology resources.Program, Product and Service Delivery- Oversee the design, marketing, promotion, delivery and quality of programs, products and services.- Extensive marketing campaign concepts, strategies, promotions and advertising.- Product production, management, UI and UX for the company products. 4 generations of set top boxes and iptv streaming apps.Finacials, Fundraising and Partnerships- Oversee fundraising planning and implementation, including identifying resource requirements, researching funding sources, establishing strategies to approach investors and submitting proposals. I oversaw, concluded and raised over $8mil in seed funding.- Calculate risk on different venture opportunities.- Manage performance and target KPI- Hand in hand engagement on company finances, P&L and accounting.- Initiate, conduct, acquire and manage hundreds of B2B relations on behalf of the company.

Launched marketing campaign for fresh food processing and door to door delivery company that has since become a household name, capturing 60% of the national market and over 230,000 happy customers. After a successful launch, the business was acquired by another party.

Negotiated, Directed the technology and business development for a 8 year-$9mil Revenue Share Agreement encompassing technology advances along with content investment and acquisition for state-of-the-art IPTV platform with Kosovo Telecom JSC (Government owned institution). A direct foreign investment in Kosovo.

Prishtinë, Kosovo, Xk

Appointed by the owners of Artmotion (3rd largest private Cable operator in Kosovo) to head and facilitate the sale/acquisition of the business into a multi-million € deal. After 6 months of negotiations, overseeing teams, day to day activities, P&L, Balance sheets, Receivables, drafting the agreement and legal proceedings, the transaction successfully completed.

Acquired and restructured leading Publisher with Digital Asset Management suite, restored company via increasing profits and generating of +150mil views on YouTube/month. The company has generated +5bil views, published 160,000+ digital assets (spotify, iTunes, Google Play, Shazzam, Pandora etc), 120+ global customers.

Led marketing activities for BosnaTV division of IV, LLC with service for North America, EU, and Australia, providing homeland programming content for immigrants residing in US. Consulted and oversaw the handover of BosnaTV (on June 2014) on a multi-million-dollar acquisition by a leading Telecom Provider backed by Hedge Fund Group KKR.

A multimillion dollar investment to ignite the PolTV project. Concluded and raised $3.2mil from the well respected, very successful, young entrepreneur Dylan Bates. PolTV achieved a deal that was never done before, it brought together the largest private Polish media group TVN S.A and the goverment owned Telewizija Polska S.A in a package deal for the first time in North America, as well as 20 other content providers. Immediately, PolTV became a household brand of Polish diaspora in North America and was competing with the largest providers such as Dish Network, Comcast and Time Warner.

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Contributed and concluded business development and technological expertise to JointVenture between Intercom Ventures, LLC, Joe Hand Promotions and Katalyst LLC in high stakes operation to stream Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Licensed fights to North America and International commercial venues, with great success for a one-of-a-kind achievement delivering a live event fight from Las Vegas, NV to Macau, China using IPTV/Fiber.VIPTV, LLC is a division of Intercom Ventures, LLC who develops all internal proprietary softwares and Set Top Boxes for IV customers and platforms www.viptv.comA lot of hats to be worn. I built and manage a team of amazing senior level developers, software engineers, SoC engineers, network engineers and UI/UX designers.- Define company strategy, vision and product roadmap based on input from market, customers and best practises.- Managing 50+ engineering team members and contractors. Driving priorities across services, cloud-infrastructure, network infrastructure, integration, apps, hardware and budgeting.- Service integration with world finest companies such as Salesforce, Analytics, UI experience, Social Media management, SaaS solutions, cloud computing and infrastructure, networking, web configuration and much more.- Research of technology for creating a better customer experience and environment. Specializing in SoC set top boxes for IPTV, OTT and other IP solutions.- Software development for the company including client middleware, backend administration, radius, billing, authentication and SaaS.- Server, router and switch management.- IP network infrastructure management.- Overseeing and holding financial responsability for a Multimillion dollar annual budget for vendors, products, services, R&D, cloud and networking expenses.- Extensive B2B sales and partnerships- Member of the decision making team.

A prestigious Spa located in the heart of magnificent mile in Downtown Chicago. I was appointed as their Marketing & Advertising Manager until the business was acquired by a third party. Delivered advertising that instantly elevated premier Dita Day Spa in Chicago, IL to competition on a level with premier names such as Elizabeth Arden and Mario Tricocci.

Carrollton, Tx, Us

At age 20 served as one of the youngest engineers in team and delivered one of the first UMTS data networks in northeast region for, then Cingular (now ATT). Worked on cell sites, configuring backend transport networks, updating B-Nodes, backbone management and E911 call routing.

My first venture after moving to United States. A VOIP company catering the Albanian diaspora in North America. Over 3000 customers in 1 year and was approached with an acquisition offer, which I accepted. LDT a Michigan corp, acquired the company in 2004.

A VOIP company with over 50 physical locations in Kosova and Albania. After the war in Kosovo, most telecommunications infrastructure was out of order. I seized the opportunity and started building the first VOIP platform using private satellite IP uplinks and later through local IP carriers, so customers could reach internationally for their communication needs. Total revenue $2.2 million. This venture allowed me to finance myself and in Dec, 2001 moved to Phoenix, AZ USA to further enhance my education and explore the new opportunities in the new world.

Bachelor'S Degree (Continued), Information Technology

Associate'S Degree, Computer And Information Sciences

Highschool

Mathematics