Karina Lapina
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Русский Native or bilingual proficiency
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Английский Professional working proficiency
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Немецкий Limited working proficiency
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Польский Limited working proficiency
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Bio
Yuriy Znatokov
Karina amazed me with her industry insights and original techniques in product definition shaping, product management and startup development. She is very thorough in everything she does and can be depended upon to get the job done. She had vision to see the benefits and the passion to turn that into a competitive advantage for Hive.id. Eager professional. I would recommend her with any project that requires the very best in Product Management execution.
Sergey Petrenko
I was impressed by Karina’s energy and enthusiasm when I hired her for a position of regional network manager of Yandex.Ukraine while I was serving as CEO of this company in 2010. During following years, Karina had been promoted through positions of manager of quality of services and product manager to the position of manager of startup relations, being responsible for a whole specter of relationships between Yandex and startup ecosystem in Ukraine. Working as a product manager in Yandex, Karina showed up herself as a real perfectionist and excellent communicator, permanently solving a lot of problems of product development in the globally distributed team. When we both left Yandex after 2014, we cooperated a lot in startup ecosystem activities in Odessa and Ukraine. I have to emphasize that Karina was responsible for a considerable share of startup activities in Odessa. Just to name a few, she was an acting manager for Garage48 hackathons in Odessa for three years, a manager for SeedStars regional stages for two years and the host and the producer for Pitch-n-Pizza startup competition. As far as I know, she also served as a mentor in several incubation programs, such as RadarTech with Kyivstar and EGAP Odessa. Karina is a hardworking, strong performing professional in product management and startup development. I am glad to recommend her, and I am happy to furnish more details if you would like additional information.
Yuriy Znatokov
Karina amazed me with her industry insights and original techniques in product definition shaping, product management and startup development. She is very thorough in everything she does and can be depended upon to get the job done. She had vision to see the benefits and the passion to turn that into a competitive advantage for Hive.id. Eager professional. I would recommend her with any project that requires the very best in Product Management execution.
Sergey Petrenko
I was impressed by Karina’s energy and enthusiasm when I hired her for a position of regional network manager of Yandex.Ukraine while I was serving as CEO of this company in 2010. During following years, Karina had been promoted through positions of manager of quality of services and product manager to the position of manager of startup relations, being responsible for a whole specter of relationships between Yandex and startup ecosystem in Ukraine. Working as a product manager in Yandex, Karina showed up herself as a real perfectionist and excellent communicator, permanently solving a lot of problems of product development in the globally distributed team. When we both left Yandex after 2014, we cooperated a lot in startup ecosystem activities in Odessa and Ukraine. I have to emphasize that Karina was responsible for a considerable share of startup activities in Odessa. Just to name a few, she was an acting manager for Garage48 hackathons in Odessa for three years, a manager for SeedStars regional stages for two years and the host and the producer for Pitch-n-Pizza startup competition. As far as I know, she also served as a mentor in several incubation programs, such as RadarTech with Kyivstar and EGAP Odessa. Karina is a hardworking, strong performing professional in product management and startup development. I am glad to recommend her, and I am happy to furnish more details if you would like additional information.
Yuriy Znatokov
Karina amazed me with her industry insights and original techniques in product definition shaping, product management and startup development. She is very thorough in everything she does and can be depended upon to get the job done. She had vision to see the benefits and the passion to turn that into a competitive advantage for Hive.id. Eager professional. I would recommend her with any project that requires the very best in Product Management execution.
Sergey Petrenko
I was impressed by Karina’s energy and enthusiasm when I hired her for a position of regional network manager of Yandex.Ukraine while I was serving as CEO of this company in 2010. During following years, Karina had been promoted through positions of manager of quality of services and product manager to the position of manager of startup relations, being responsible for a whole specter of relationships between Yandex and startup ecosystem in Ukraine. Working as a product manager in Yandex, Karina showed up herself as a real perfectionist and excellent communicator, permanently solving a lot of problems of product development in the globally distributed team. When we both left Yandex after 2014, we cooperated a lot in startup ecosystem activities in Odessa and Ukraine. I have to emphasize that Karina was responsible for a considerable share of startup activities in Odessa. Just to name a few, she was an acting manager for Garage48 hackathons in Odessa for three years, a manager for SeedStars regional stages for two years and the host and the producer for Pitch-n-Pizza startup competition. As far as I know, she also served as a mentor in several incubation programs, such as RadarTech with Kyivstar and EGAP Odessa. Karina is a hardworking, strong performing professional in product management and startup development. I am glad to recommend her, and I am happy to furnish more details if you would like additional information.
Yuriy Znatokov
Karina amazed me with her industry insights and original techniques in product definition shaping, product management and startup development. She is very thorough in everything she does and can be depended upon to get the job done. She had vision to see the benefits and the passion to turn that into a competitive advantage for Hive.id. Eager professional. I would recommend her with any project that requires the very best in Product Management execution.
Sergey Petrenko
I was impressed by Karina’s energy and enthusiasm when I hired her for a position of regional network manager of Yandex.Ukraine while I was serving as CEO of this company in 2010. During following years, Karina had been promoted through positions of manager of quality of services and product manager to the position of manager of startup relations, being responsible for a whole specter of relationships between Yandex and startup ecosystem in Ukraine. Working as a product manager in Yandex, Karina showed up herself as a real perfectionist and excellent communicator, permanently solving a lot of problems of product development in the globally distributed team. When we both left Yandex after 2014, we cooperated a lot in startup ecosystem activities in Odessa and Ukraine. I have to emphasize that Karina was responsible for a considerable share of startup activities in Odessa. Just to name a few, she was an acting manager for Garage48 hackathons in Odessa for three years, a manager for SeedStars regional stages for two years and the host and the producer for Pitch-n-Pizza startup competition. As far as I know, she also served as a mentor in several incubation programs, such as RadarTech with Kyivstar and EGAP Odessa. Karina is a hardworking, strong performing professional in product management and startup development. I am glad to recommend her, and I am happy to furnish more details if you would like additional information.
Experience
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Startup Wise Guys
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Estonia
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Scouting
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Feb 2018 - Present
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Founder
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Jan 2016 - Present
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Black Sea Summit 2016
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Events Services
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Co-founder, Startup Stage Coordinator
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Jun 2015 - Present
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Unit Coordinator
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Dec 2016 - Feb 2018
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Startup activities manager, region Ukraine
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Mar 2014 - Aug 2015
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product manager
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Aug 2011 - Mar 2013
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Head of regional observers department
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Feb 2010 - Aug 2011
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руководитель отдела розницы
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May 2008 - May 2009
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импорт-менеджер
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Sep 2000 - May 2008
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Education
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ОГУ, Одесса
романо-германский факультет