Krasen Hinkov Email & Phone Number

Bulgaria

AlfaStar is a venture capital investment fund focused on finding and supporting exceptional founders of early-stage start-ups and disrupting innovators, working together to bring great ideas into the world and transform them into successful, growing businesses.🚀 We are on a mission to finding and supporting practical ideas to impact both businesses and individuals to invent the sustainable quality life of tomorrow. ⭐️ Our vision is to seek to balance how businesses and individuals work in service of each other for win-win outcomes. About AlfaStar Ventures: an EuVECA AIFM (alternative investment fund manager), specialising in early-stage VC and based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Currently managing AlfaStar Capital EuVECA, an open-ended private venture capital fund.

Sofia, Bulgaria

Business restructuring and focus on disruptive B2B and B2C multimedia services.

Overall responsible for the business operations of the biggest independent music licensing service in Bulgaria. The service is part of Toxity Group portfolio.

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

In times of radical change academia, startups, VCs and enterprise should cooperate in innovation effort to solve complex problems and create value. Our Digital Innovation Hub creates pipeline for very early stage development of innovative concepts, products and solutions.

Bonus Paket is a platform that introduces generally new approach towards corporate events and work=life balance programs. Together with the team we focused on product development and business model innovation. Based on the result and the interest by potential clients, I think we are moving in the right direction. Bonus Paket е принципно нов подход към корпоративните събития и програмите work-life balance. Работим с екипа в посока business model innovation и продуктово развитие. Мисля, че нещата се получават много добре и интересът е голям. Повече вижте тук: https://www.bonuspaket.bg/

Sofia

We created this company with a single purpose to help cultivating innovation culture in Bulgaria. We believe in the systematic approach towards innovation and we are helping companies to adopt innovation methodologies in their daily business. This way they can adopt practical skills in product development and problem solving thus achieving sustainable growth.

What is Beemr:Beemr is a platform that shows the offers of shops, restaurants and all other merchants on the smartphones of the of the buyers/clients. For this to happen, the merchants offers are uploaded in the system and the clients install the mobile app on their smartphones.How Beemr works:Beemr connects the merchant and clients smartphone, via Bluetooth Smart technology. A special device which can be "seen" from the phone is installed in the shop and the client can get the info for the actual offer when passing by the merchant PoS.The technology works within 100 meters, does not consume the batter and requires the Bluetooth to be switched on. For smartphones without Bluetooth Smart remains the option to get the actual offers via geo location.

Overall responsibility for the company management & operation, strategy development and market & financial performance. Major achievements: 2013 company performance is an all time record in terms of revenue and profit. The company upgraded its major games (planned activity from the previous year) and introduced CRM. The declining revenue trend from 2012 was changed to growth and YE 2013 it was double digit.

The division with 20+ team was responsible for strategy and new business development of the operator. It was a direct report to the CEO with 20M+ euro revenue contribution. My responsibility was focused on the following three teams:- Online Team: overall responsible for the online presence of the company with major focus on e-sales, e-servicing, self-service and mobile services. - Innovation Center: standalone unit focused on fostering internal innovation and cooperation with universities and external partners - Partner Business Center: team responsible for VAS services, industrial partnerships (open innovation) and Multimedia/OTT services.Some Major Projects: Online transformation (redesign, restructuring and new online strategy), Online Advertising, Lithium Implementation, BTL Billing (non-telco payments in the invoice - focused on m-commerce and m-gambling), Mtel Innovation Center Launch, IoT (e-health, m-payments, e-government, e-education), Smart City Trial with IBM.Additional coordinating responsibilities: TAG Group Online Committee (Mtel responsible), TAG Group Products&Services Committee (Mtel representative)

Responsible for the product portfolio development of Mtel in its full scale total telecom provider strategy. Main responsibility for P&S roadmap planning and its contribution to the company budget. Responsible for 40+ division team grouped in six teams: Mobile Services, Fixed/Converged Services, Multimedia Services, Planning&Innovation, VAS and Industrial Partnerships.During this period the operator made a major transformation from mobile-only dominant player to full-telco provider. The division team was responsible for planning, delivering and lifecycle management of the products in the new converged portfolio. Also major effort was the portfolio alignment with the newly acquired fixed operators.Some Major Projects: 100+ product upgrades and new features, Devices Customization Program (apps, setting, etc.), Services Usability Improvement Program, Business & Residential Email, PC Backup & Protection, Call Center 0700/0800 Service, Office Complete (full FMC solution for offices), Home Complete, CVPN, Mtel IPTV, Mtel Developer (Apps Program), Mtel Industry Partnerships Program, Smart Initiatives (City, Cars, Health, etc.), Mtel Cloud Additional coordinating responsibilities: TAG Group Products&Services Committee (Mtel representative), Vodafone Partner Markets contact point for VF services implementation in Mtel.

Responsible for Multimedia, VAS and Online services within the Telecom Services & Products Division headed by Evgeni Karakanovski. Also acting as deputy division director for the whole structure. With a team of 15+ experts the focus was in the following five areas:Online portals (web and mobile) management, Content acquisition and management for all services, Multimedia and TV services development, VAS services management and Industrial partnerships development. The main goal was to add value on top of the core telecom products (voice & data) and the units contributed 10M+ euro revenue with a steady growth YoY.Major projects (100+): TAG Multimedia Strategy (development and execution), TAG CDP (Content Delivery Platform), Music Space (the biggest portal for Bulgarian independent music); SMS games and Mobile Gambling; VAS Settlement and Reporting System; Mtel IPTV; Content Partnerships (50+): Universal, Sony BMG, Gameloft, EA, net-m, ODG, WWE, etc.; OTT Partnerships (100+): Facebook, ICQ, Opera, iMediaShare (now Flips), OVI, etc.;Additional coordinating responsibilities: TAG Group Products&Services Committee (Mtel representative),TAG Internet Services (Stream Lead)TAG Multimedia Strategy Team (P&S responsible) Vodafone Partner Markets contact point for VF services implementation in Mtel.

With a team of four, responsible for all multimedia and entertainment services (50+) of Mtel, gathered on one portal infrastructure - Vodafone live! service. This top class technology was implemented as part of the partnership agreement between Mtel and Vodafone. The ecosystem overachieved the forecasts in the business case both in terms of users and sales. The implementation project with 200+ team members was one of the shortest implementation in VF live! roadmap (approximately 6 months) and was acknowledged as a best practice case study for such projects. The launch event was recognized as one of the best in VF live! history. As part of the launch proposition - liveTV streaming was introduces over the newly deployed 3G network.This was one of the most challenging and exciting periods of my carrier!

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Master'S Degree, Foreign Economic Relations

Masters, Aircraft Engineering

Masters Degree

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