Vadim Kostomarov-Sterlin Email & Phone Number

Spain

Adsgram is the first Telegram Native Ads system for Telegram mini apps. https://adsgram.ai/

Tel Aviv, Israel

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Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel

- Led product with $30M+ annual revenue and team of 50 people;- Implemented new product improvement process which generated 10+ new product features;- Increased MoM revenue by 30%.

Delaware, United States

• Verisium is a B2B SaaS MarTech solution for consumer brands to easy and quickly launch loyalty programs
• Raised 3M$ from Kaspersky
• Agreed with Kaspersky BoD about unique spin-off agreement (rbc.ru) which has no analogs in the VC industry
• Backed by Plug&Play Japan & OneDollar VC acceleration, twice interviewed at Ycombinator on a final interview
• Tested 30+ hypothesizes, made a pivot from Anti-Counterfeiting to a MartTech solution
• Launched 10 promo campaigns, including a global project with leading chemicals manufacturer in Germany, France, Switserland and Spain

Moscow

• Build from zero an IoT blockchain platform for anti-counterfeiting with 2.5+ million registered itemsKaspersky - Product Manager, Investment & Innovation
• Raised 2M$ in three investment rounds for a new project and created 50% ROI exit opportunity for Kaspersky
• Managed team of 20 people (12 tech / 8 business) and 7 IT products
• Presented product on 30+ international events in the USA, UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, and other countries
• Launched distribution via Kaspersky sales channels
• Press: Forbes, Vogue, Microsoft, GQ

Moscow

• Initiated and led omnichannel contact centre transformation
• Initiated and led AI chat/voice bot project
• Increased CSI by 10% and delivered 190% project ROI by launching delivery calls tracking system
• Led IT transformation projects aimed to improve customer experienceCompany background: Lamoda is a leading fashion e-commerce company (part of Global Fashion Group, www.global-fashion-group.com) covering Russia.

Moscow

• Created organizational design mapping between 'AS-IS' and 'TO-BE' models for a major Russian bank
• Conducted a research of IT and Ops performance benchmarks among leading banks
• Developed corporate government structure for a large energy company to manage construction projects

Moscow

• Developed SQL queries for large data sets (IvyDB OptionMetrics database, size over 400GB)
• Created scripts in R to process large data sets
• Calculated Implied Volatility smiles and moments of implied returns distribution for set of 2000+ tickers over 1996-2013 sample over the option contracts with different maturities. Used various econometric approaches.

Moscow

• Led projects of 1C automation system implementation
• Led project on order processing system implementation in a 5 million in sales food wholesale company
• Implemented a project management system, which allowed to increase quality of service and reduce load on the company staff
• Developed company’s new corporate style and created web-site

Moscow

• Ethnic diversity and Tension
• Calculated ethnical polarization measure in North Caucasus Region
• Prepared scripts in MatLab and Wolfram Mathematica

Moscow

• Internship in consulting department, Technology Integration group.
• Worked at the project of Microsoft CRM implementation into a government department
• Created models for 7 business processes
• Collaborated with the client (>10 joint meetings) to prepare functional requirements for IT system

Monitoring and solving problems with corporate IT System (2000+ computers)Compiling of technical requirements for a development of a service desk system

Master Of Science (Msc), International Economics And Finance, In Academic Cooperation With Lse

Consistently ranked as one of Russia’s top universities, #251 in World University Rankings by Times Higher Education

Education record

Workshop held by McKinsey BTO. Selected for a highly competitive workshop Horizon 2015 organised by McKinsey Business Technology Office..

Education record

Workshop held by The Boston Consulting Group.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Informatics, 9,1

Activities and Societies: HSE Case clubConsistently ranked as one of Russia’s top universities, #251 in World University Rankings by Times.