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Copenhagen, Dk

København Ø., Dk

Signum delivers insight and guidance for strategic decision-making in the Life Sciences industry. Signum services all operators in the pharma industry across the Nordic region. Signum offers multi-dimensional insights into all healthcare data for the pharmaceutical industry. Solutions range from BI, custom apps, and web solutions. www.signumlifescience.comSignum is part of the Lif Group - the Danish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry, www.lif.dkAs director of product and innovation, I am responsible for identifying and implementing the opportunities that new and advanced technology solutions offer our customers and Signum as a whole. This ranges from data sources, data science, machine learning, AI, and custom software solutions. This is relevant for both customer projects and internal business process improvements to make Signum an even smoother customer-oriented business. Signum is defined by its experts in the pharmaceutical industry, thus, although I own all facets of product development from conceptualization to launch, my function is to serve both customers and internal stakeholders for maximum impact. To accomplish this, I collaborate intensively with the data science team and internal stakeholders to develop user stories, wireframes, and workflows for desired functionality and features.

Land & property development in close proximity to the city of Copenhagen.

Nemo is an AI SaaS company that offers prescriptive analytics software solutions to B2B and B2C markets in the gaming industry.As a Founder & Chief Product Officer, I am responsible for setting the vision, user experience concepts and value-proposition, pitching business case proposition, managing investor relations, developing strategic product roadmaps, and conceptualizing go-to-market strategies to achieve business growth objectives. I supervise a highly talented cross-functional team of 9 specialists and control the annual business budget.To secure the funding (pre-seed) startup capital, I formalized corporate strategy, business model, financial model, pitch deck, and market fit-gap data analysis. I developed the company's brand and messaging strategy that matched the product's unique selling proposition. This involved implementing tactical social media outreach, SEO optimization, and PPC campaigns, scaling online community users from zero to 9K+ installations, built an active online community of daily users and scaled the site to 210K visitors in the first 6 months.Acting as a Senior Product and Project Manager, I led all facets of product development from conceptualization to launch by collaborating intensively with the design team to develop user stories, wireframes, and workflows for desired functionality and features. My efforts have yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding and a 15% customer conversion rate.#ML #AI #API #ElectronJS #Python #Product backlog #SCRUM #Agile #MVP #Reddit #Google Analytics #PPC #SMM #UX #UI #Requirements #BI #USP #Head of Growth #Omnichannel #Chief Growth Officer

20 Thousand Leagues is a Scandinavian B2B software venture that offers clients custom software development, content marketing, digital transformation, and change management services. It also provides agile software development services in the areas of Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence for EdTech, Media, and Robotics companies.In my role as a Founder and Executive Officer, I am responsible for devising corporate strategy, establishing strategic partnerships, developing sales and go-to-market initiatives, and managing product development to ascertain exponential revenue growth.To ensure the successful launch of an end-to-end software outsourcing agency, I devised brand and visual identity, go-to-market, and sales and marketing strategies that established a competitive market positioning. Leveraging my in-depth industry experience, I provided consulting expertise to companies with 500+ people on turnaround and authored a 70-page consulting report on optimization and efficiency fit-gap analysis. This has resulted in company strategy turnaround, business process optimization, cost reduction, and improved customer service. I lead the innovation and execution of B2B software development services and new business development activities. The initiatives and strategies I have executed thus far have been pivotal in ensuring the agency's profitability, increasing brand awareness, and creating opportunities for sales and revenue generation.#AdTech #PropTech #Managing technology #innovation #Business Models #CM #IT Governance #Enterprise Architecture #Business Processes #BPM #UML #mgmt consulting #digital transformation

Allerod, Copenhagen Region, Dk

Global Mediator is a Danish IT provider of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions specialized in Microsoft Dynamics and Navision, as well as business transformation and data and business process management solutions.My role as a Chief Strategy Officer involved spearheading high-impact and cohesive strategy planning and execution, value proposition development, and company turnaround to accelerate organizational performance.Capitalizing on my in-depth corporate strategy expertise, I authored a 160-page turnaround strategy, expounding on new value-adding services (VAS) to reposition the company in the marketplace. This boosted the company's growth by over 200% from 2018 to 2021, resulting in the business garnering a prestigious Børsen Gazelle award for its growth for 3 consecutive years from 2018 to 2020.I directed the functional reorganization project of internal corporate structure, transforming the company from a line to a matrix organization to better reflect a VAS service business. The initiative repositioned the business to establish a competitive market advantage. To support change management strategy objectives, I overhauled sales and market USPs, online and offline customer networks, and marketing channels.#IoT #BPM #Turnaround #Matrix organization #Value Stream Mapping #Brown Paper Exercise #VAS #mgmt consulting #digital transformation

Miami, Florida, Us

GSEG is an OTC Markets (NYC, US) listed company with businesses operating in six verticals across sectors in the EU, Asia, and the US.Having worn two hats, I was responsible for directing company-wide strategy definition, mergers and acquisitions, marketing initiatives, and vendor engagement to meet the company's growth objectives. I oversaw 15 freelancers and contractors and maintained annual budgets.As a Chief Product Officer, I played a key role in raising pre-seed capital for the startup venture and expanding the business to the Chinese market. I set up local development office, including commercial, admin, and legal functions. I also established a full software team of 14 people and directed the end-to-end development of an industry-leading, scalable cross-platform software entertainment solution. In my role as a Chief Strategy Officer, I identified potential M&A targets and other strategic partnership opportunities through industry tradeshows, conferences, and other networking events. Consequently, enabling me to build valuable business relationships and create opportunities for revenue generation. Through these efforts, I have secured partnership and oversaw a full turn-key integration into OurGame, a Beijing-based Chinese media giant with 550M customers across Asia. GSEG won the bid for the OurGame contract out from under DraftKings, a 2.2Bn valuation company at the time (today 14Bn).#White label #SaaS #B2B2C #Turnkey #China #fantasy sports #igaming #CSO

Miami, Florida, Us

As a Chief Product Officer, I played a key role in raising pre-seed capital for the startup venture and expanding the business to the Chinese market. I set up a local development office, including commercial, admin, and legal functions. I also established a full software team of 14 people and directed the end-to-end development of an industry-leading, scalable cross-platform software entertainment solution. #Head of Growth #Omnichannel #Data Science #API #React #Python #Product backlog #SCRUM #Agile #MVP #UX #UI #Requirements #BI #USP #Head of Growth #Omnichannel

London, England, Gb

Ciklum is a global Digital Solutions Company for Fortune 500 and fast-growing organizations alike around the world and consists of 3.6K employees.Having served as an Engagement Director, I was responsible for managing strategical and tactical processes throughout the business engagement, including business unit services development, product ownership, and commercial activities to meet organizational growth objectives. I supervised 6 direct and 6 indirect reports and managed multimillion-dollar annual revenues.In this role, I took a startup to professional services business at scale and laid the foundation for sales and marketing USPs. I built a technical consulting agency and management consulting pre-sales unit and led the change management process of major business transformation from a technical software garage into a professional services organization. Moreover, I spearheaded the end-to-end product and services strategy for the commercial division, including defining a feature roadmap for internal supporting software.In order to drive sales and marketing efforts, I administered sales coaching and executed a blue ocean strategy to navigate unexplored territory in an uncontested market space and identified market growth and revenue generation opportunities. These contributed to a significant increase in sales volume that led to scaling the commercial division from 30 to 220 people.I am also proud to have facilitated the turnaround of PMO from 75% failure rate to 85% success rate in 2 years, increasing the division's revenue, and improving quality and productivity by 4X within 6 months among my key accomplishments. My role has been pivotal in establishing a scalable platform from which the company has grown to 850 people today.#SDLC #Funnel #Product ownership #proxy-product owner #presales #leadership #customer engagement #mgmt consulting

London, England, Gb

Responsibilities- Consulting 180 development clients about their SCRUM / agile processes for quality and performance improvements.- Consult clients on outsourcing, tools and management of offshore team.- Writing and handling RFI/RFPs for large client opportunities.- New business & customer clarification calls, coaching of technical consultants, definition of advanced technical consulting products for software development teams.- Development, defining and implementing new best-practices for the customer service BU.

København V, Denmark, Dk

Results- First municipal cloud hosting solution in Denmark for COP15- First municipal IT offshore outsourcing solution outside of Denmark to Ukraine- Turn-around of software project for COP15 lead-in period- Successfully launched site within the limited budget Responsible: software solution turn-around, digital communication strategy, press events, reporting to head of section and communications relevant to mayor for "World Climate Community" launched as part of the climate conference in Copenhagen, December 2009.

Full time consultant with Capacent, former KPMG Consult, partaking in public sector projects: - Danish National Police, defining scope, planning and documenting test scenarios for POLTACHO-VIRK a system used in road-side checks of all medium to large cargo vehicles in Denmark.- Co-wrote an answer to an RFP for a public bid to the Danish National Social Security Agency (Sikringsstyrelsen).Responsibilities:- test case solution for Danish National Police- test case development together with Danish National Police stakeholders- Documenting work processes, process flows, business logic in ARIS Business Architect- Participating in RFI and RFP approvals* Reference from business unit partner of Capacent, available upon request(.pdf format).

JMGH is a large Danish-based real-estate management and investment company. The company was established in the 1800s and has grow organically to own and operate 7 unique buildings in the historical center of Copenhagen as well as large warehouse facilities in the region of larger Copenhagen.

Farum, Dk

Full time employment and as intern.Qualiware provides a software tool for business management optimisation, speciliased in corporate data mining, knowledge management and business warehousing (BI, BW, EA, SOA, QA, SOX, BPM, UML). - Updating and identifying potential clients- Assisting senior management in pre-sales and at conferences in Europe and US.- Relaunch of company visual brand and identity (product and company brand)- Assisting consultants in implementing product in client environment.* Reference from CEO of Qualiware available below.

Gurgaon, Haryana, In

Although a part time student job I worked full time as a research lead on several occasions on both internal and external projects. Deliveries: - A 120 page outsourcing report on the Eastern European and Asian market for mainframe resources; both private and public resources alike, for a major Danish bank looking to offshore outsource development centers of competence.- Outsourcing magazine for clients and prospective clients in the industry. Planned, interviewed, ghost wrote and handled setup of KRING's offshore outsourcing magazine GLOBAL SOURCE, which was a marketing and expert magazine wrapped into the brand of KRING.* Reference from CEO, Michael Munck, of KRING Technologies available upon request(.pdf format)

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

B2C phoner with Viasat/MTG in the sales department. Received extensive coaching on hand by various coaches, foremost lessons taught by Kurt Næstedt in sales psychology and techniques.

M.Sc., It, Ebusiness

Mag.Inf, Information Studies

Russian, Russian Language And Culture