Alexander Bobrowski
Business Development Director / COO, running LitRes consumer and B2B operations at LitRes- Claim this Profile
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Spanish Limited working proficiency
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German Elementary proficiency
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Robert Workman
Alexander's knowledge and approach to his work was exemplary, he was always proactive and focussed on customers' needs. He was effective at prioritising his activities to the benefit of the company, his colleagues and our customers. Alexander was based in Moscow, while I was based in The UK and he always worked on his own initiative, successfully satisfying the expectation of all his customers. It was a pleasure to have Alexander working for me as I could rely on him to deliver high quality results on time.
Alex Suvorov
I've worked with Alexander for quite a long time in Protek. One of my tasks, as a business analysis team leader, was to ensure that customer business requirements are feasible and that they are clear to and well understood by the R&D. And with Alexander this communication was always efficient. His assessments and proposals were highly professional, and his thoughtful and positive attitude facilitated the process greatly. We had good working relations with the R&D team, and that was crucial for bringing our customers a product they want.
Robert Workman
Alexander's knowledge and approach to his work was exemplary, he was always proactive and focussed on customers' needs. He was effective at prioritising his activities to the benefit of the company, his colleagues and our customers. Alexander was based in Moscow, while I was based in The UK and he always worked on his own initiative, successfully satisfying the expectation of all his customers. It was a pleasure to have Alexander working for me as I could rely on him to deliver high quality results on time.
Alex Suvorov
I've worked with Alexander for quite a long time in Protek. One of my tasks, as a business analysis team leader, was to ensure that customer business requirements are feasible and that they are clear to and well understood by the R&D. And with Alexander this communication was always efficient. His assessments and proposals were highly professional, and his thoughtful and positive attitude facilitated the process greatly. We had good working relations with the R&D team, and that was crucial for bringing our customers a product they want.
Robert Workman
Alexander's knowledge and approach to his work was exemplary, he was always proactive and focussed on customers' needs. He was effective at prioritising his activities to the benefit of the company, his colleagues and our customers. Alexander was based in Moscow, while I was based in The UK and he always worked on his own initiative, successfully satisfying the expectation of all his customers. It was a pleasure to have Alexander working for me as I could rely on him to deliver high quality results on time.
Alex Suvorov
I've worked with Alexander for quite a long time in Protek. One of my tasks, as a business analysis team leader, was to ensure that customer business requirements are feasible and that they are clear to and well understood by the R&D. And with Alexander this communication was always efficient. His assessments and proposals were highly professional, and his thoughtful and positive attitude facilitated the process greatly. We had good working relations with the R&D team, and that was crucial for bringing our customers a product they want.
Robert Workman
Alexander's knowledge and approach to his work was exemplary, he was always proactive and focussed on customers' needs. He was effective at prioritising his activities to the benefit of the company, his colleagues and our customers. Alexander was based in Moscow, while I was based in The UK and he always worked on his own initiative, successfully satisfying the expectation of all his customers. It was a pleasure to have Alexander working for me as I could rely on him to deliver high quality results on time.
Alex Suvorov
I've worked with Alexander for quite a long time in Protek. One of my tasks, as a business analysis team leader, was to ensure that customer business requirements are feasible and that they are clear to and well understood by the R&D. And with Alexander this communication was always efficient. His assessments and proposals were highly professional, and his thoughtful and positive attitude facilitated the process greatly. We had good working relations with the R&D team, and that was crucial for bringing our customers a product they want.
Experience
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Litres
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Russian Federation
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Technology, Information and Internet
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100 - 200 Employee
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Business Development Director / COO, running LitRes consumer and B2B operations
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Feb 2011 - Present
Electronic and audio book aggregator, wholesaler and retailer of digital books №1 in Russia. Apps are on top 3 all-time grossing non-gaming apps in Russia (AppAnnie 2021 research). Organic rating higher that all the competition (4.9+ stars). LitRes brand is #1 on top of the mind amongall the content services in Russia. In charge of revenue/profitability, company wide roadmap, goal-tree/KPI plan supporting strategy implementation. Running company's operations on a daily basis - including digital marketing, content, product management, R&D, evaluating and starting new business / product directions. Product strategy (goals, UX, GUI, delivery), managing mobile apps and web products, buiding all the digital and offline-marketing, communication and content strategy, all the analytics based on our big data, all the activities on unstructured texts processing with ML and neural networks, key partnership (content providers, publishing houses, telecom / service providers, hardware vendors and retailers).
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Product & Investment Director
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Jul 2009 - Nov 2010
Establishing and driving Smart Capital - private equity-backed venture fund & business incubator. Guiding seed and pre-seed stage IT / internet startups and letting them break through the "valley of death". Establishing and driving Smart Capital - private equity-backed venture fund & business incubator. Guiding seed and pre-seed stage IT / internet startups and letting them break through the "valley of death".
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МЕДИАЛОГИЯ
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Russian Federation
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Product Management / Business Development Director
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Apr 2008 - Apr 2009
Largest and most innovative traditional and social media monitoring service in CIS. Preparing company expansion from Russia to worldwide market while revamping existing product – media monitoring and measurement system (defining new product concept – GUI, usability, semantic technologies, measurement methodology; promotion and marketing strategy; media partherships & media sources evaluation – newspapers, TV, internet/blogs). Largest and most innovative traditional and social media monitoring service in CIS. Preparing company expansion from Russia to worldwide market while revamping existing product – media monitoring and measurement system (defining new product concept – GUI, usability, semantic technologies, measurement methodology; promotion and marketing strategy; media partherships & media sources evaluation – newspapers, TV, internet/blogs).
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Virtonomics - online business simulation game for entrepreneurs & startups
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Computer Games
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Executive Officer
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Aug 2007 - Apr 2008
Developing the cutting edge online business simulation / gaming and social networking tools for executives, MBA's and economists. Startup company: fast break-even passage; steady revenue growth due to game payments and product placement ads emdedded into the game environment. Best browser game of the year 2007 in Russia. Developing the cutting edge online business simulation / gaming and social networking tools for executives, MBA's and economists. Startup company: fast break-even passage; steady revenue growth due to game payments and product placement ads emdedded into the game environment. Best browser game of the year 2007 in Russia.
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ABBYY
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Director of Business Unit (FineReader Desktop Products)
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Jun 2005 - Aug 2007
Bringing to the market top-notch optical character recognition technologies - through FineReader and PDF Transformer product lines.Steady revenue growth, 2 times profitability growth in 2005-2007.FineReader 9.0 (2007) and PDF Transformer 2.0 (2006) are premium titles that have won dozens of comparative tests and were awarded “best product” logos. OEM version – FineReader Sprint is shipped with 20m+ scanners and MFPs worldwide annually.
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Chief of Services
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Oct 2004 - May 2005
Establishing & developing ABBYY's technical support, training and professional services departments.
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Senior Product Marketing Manager (telecom billing/network inventory solutions)
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Oct 2002 - Sep 2004
Setting product development strategy, bringing product requirements from market to R&D, sales personnel support and training.
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Deputy Development Director
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Oct 2000 - Sep 2002
Managing R&D department (150+ software engineers) while developing the architecture and core of best-of-breed billing system involving complex distributed & parallel processing.
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Education
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1992 - 1998
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Master of Science (MS), System Analysis, Applied Maths -
2012 - 2012
Stanford University
Finance (Stanford Online) -
2012 - 2012
Stanford University
Technology Enterpreneurship (Stanford Online)
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