Yannis Sarantis Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Greece

Blueground offers fully-furnished and thoughtfully equipped apartments globally for mid-term stays. As Sr. Director of Business Intelligence, I have helped to build the company’s Business Intelligence team and worked on strategic projects such as pricing and asset selection. We’re hiring!• Leading Blueground’s initiatives to develop predictive models to optimize our pricing strategy.• In charge of developing the company’s KPIs top-down.• Built Blueground’s Business Intelligence team to help the company scale through data-driven decisions.• Worked on centralizing and standardizing decision-making around pricing and asset selection.

Palo Alto

• Developed pricing strategy that contributed 6% to monthly revenue. • Managed data team, mapped company OKRs to live dashboards, owned forecasting.• Reduced customer churn by 60% for flagship service (redefined processes & scope).CATEGORY GROWTH MANAGER (2016-2017)• Managed team of 10 and P&L for all employee-delivered, seasonal services (15 offerings).• Designed services end-to-end (pricing, playbooks, utilization) to reach profit targets.• Developed marketing strategy to increase user engagement (25% of subscribers purchased add-ons monthly).

San Francisco Bay Area

Mapped out entire customer airport pickup journey, shadowed call center agents, identified root cause of delays. • Launched “Phase 1” of solutions: wireframed dispatch dashboard, upgraded IVR flow and app communication.• Reduced average call handling time (~30 seconds) by enabling call recognition and integrating database. • Managed call center for customer support and airport pickup lines (18 employees).

Greater Boston Area

1 of 2 promoted out of 12. Advised 8 institutional clients on planning, asset allocation, and manager selection.• Sourced idea to hire new private growth equity manager and increase client’s investment return by 5% annually.• Synthesized complex information, conducted analysis, and developed proposal to restructure client’s entire equity portfolio; defended recommendation to client’s Investment Committee, which was accepted. • Led due diligence on Canadian private oil and gas energy fund, not previously followed by firm. SENIOR CONSULTING ASSOCIATE (2011)• Elected leader of Excel & Modeling team (~20 people): launched time-saving database, improved firm-wide templates, revamped quarterly analysis processes reducing work time by ~40% for 8 team members. • Improved operations of struggling team, while client relationship was at stake (worth $0.5mm annually).

Masters In Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Technology, Entrepreneurship, Energy & Environment, and Design clubs• VP of Career Development for Technology.

Bsc, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: BRIO Scholarship Organization, Hellenic Student Association, Tutoring, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society•.