Marianna Simonian

Founder & CEO at VARD.tech
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Yerevan, Armenia, AM
Languages
  • Russian Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English Full professional proficiency
  • Armenian Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Chinese Elementary proficiency

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Marianna is a dedicated specialist with a focused approach. She is a good communicator and listener, and is always willing to take any new challenge up for a learning experience, with a focus on delivering great results. A real pleasure to work with, would recommend her any day.

Yuliya Boland

Marianna is an initiative, enthusiastic expert, open to new things. She helps to find the best approaches to the initiation and development of startup, knows and uses product tools that help structure the work. I would like to note that during the joint work on the startup in the team, Marianna acted as a mentor, which helped us move forward a lot.

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Credentials

  • Foundations of Foresight
    DUBAI FUTURE FOUNDATION
    Sep, 2023
    - Oct, 2024
  • Foundations of Emerging Technologies
    DUBAI FUTURE FOUNDATION
    Mar, 2023
    - Oct, 2024
  • Machine Learning Foundations
    Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)
    Oct, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Machine Learning Exploration for Startups
    Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)
    Jun, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Kickstart 2021 Participant
    Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)
    Mar, 2021
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

    • Data Infrastructure and Analytics
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Founder & CEO
      • Apr 2022 - Present

      Blooming data with collaborative analytics backed up with AI. Blooming data with collaborative analytics backed up with AI.

    • Business Consulting and Services
    • Country Manager
      • Oct 2022 - Present

      Seed Group, a company of the The Private Office of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum, is a diversified group of companies operating in industries including technology, healthcare, tourism & hospitality, and real estate and acts as a springboard for new as well as established businesses and start-ups willing to expand their footprint in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. The aim is to elevate the Dubai Industrial Strategy 2030 to make Dubai a global platform for knowledge-based, sustainable and innovation-focused businesses. Show less

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director, Dubai Chapter
      • Sep 2023 - Present

      Director of Women in Big Data Dubai, with the aim to support and elevate diversity and growth in data and analytics in Dubai. Director of Women in Big Data Dubai, with the aim to support and elevate diversity and growth in data and analytics in Dubai.

    • United States
    • Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Member
      • Sep 2023 - Present
    • United States
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Founder
      • Mar 2022 - Present

      Women in STEAM community, we support females in IT, entrepreneurship, science, technology. We help females to find mutual support for growth and development, educate them and mentor. Women in STEAM community, we support females in IT, entrepreneurship, science, technology. We help females to find mutual support for growth and development, educate them and mentor.

    • Russian Federation
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Head of the program «HR for startups»
      • Feb 2023 - Aug 2023

      Taking a lead of the track 'HR for startups' for 2nd and 3rd grade of students in a course 'Start a startup from scratch'. Facilitating master classes on different aspects of HR for tech company both small and big. Conducting meetings with experts around the world to share their expertise with students.

    • Academic Tutor
      • Sep 2021 - Jan 2023

      Higher School of Economics is ranked as the best university in Russia by Forbes- Facilitated seminars for a two-year course ‘Start a startup from scratch’, engaging overall 60 students twice weekly;- Coached participants on the principles of startup creating, business planning and financing, helping them develop 16 successful startup initiatives.

    • Russian Federation
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • People Analytics
      • Oct 2021 - Feb 2023

      MTS is one of the largest telecom companies in Russia and CIS with over 50.000 employees - Developed a data-driven recruitment analytics model, surpassing prior attempts by two colleagues with greater technical skills, resulting in 20% improvement in efficiency of hiring; - Initiated effective salary benchmarking exercise based on ML models with the help of IT across +20 regions yielding an average 8% reduction in labor costs; - Optimized automated solutions for HR projects, including recruitment, exit interviews & ESG research, leading to a 25% increase in project efficiency. Show less

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • People Analytics
      • 2019 - Sep 2020

      YVA.ai is an HR analytics startup - Arranged data-driven visualizations to identify organizational trends, focused on a model of 89% reduction in employee turnover; - Constructed comprehensive reports for worldwide clients outlining findings from the burnout study, with detailed actionable steps that led to a 80% reduction in employee turnover; - Collaborated with data and ML teams to create new features for a high-scaling startup, including nonhierarchical leadership model, real-time 360 survey, communication patterns of employees. Show less

    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Founder
      • 2012 - 2020

      FAVOT is a startup media - Launched a media from scratch with 15+ editors, and reached a 15.000 monthly views for a 6 months; - Developed & coordinated a work of 500+ distributed authors in Russia & CIS, with the result of creating a full-circle content within 3-4 months. FAVOT is a startup media - Launched a media from scratch with 15+ editors, and reached a 15.000 monthly views for a 6 months; - Developed & coordinated a work of 500+ distributed authors in Russia & CIS, with the result of creating a full-circle content within 3-4 months.

    • Denmark
    • Security and Investigations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Business Partner
      • Jun 2016 - Dec 2018

      Ansnei - personal security startup - Attended WebSummit in Lisbon, connecting with over 100 potential investors to identify new funding sources, resulting in a 25% increase of investor leads; - Developed product from ground up, managing 5 remote engineers to reach 50 global clients within 6 months; - Established B2B sales of the product in Copenhagen embassies, resulting in a 30% success rate. Ansnei - personal security startup - Attended WebSummit in Lisbon, connecting with over 100 potential investors to identify new funding sources, resulting in a 25% increase of investor leads; - Developed product from ground up, managing 5 remote engineers to reach 50 global clients within 6 months; - Established B2B sales of the product in Copenhagen embassies, resulting in a 30% success rate.

    • Book and Periodical Publishing
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Cosmo Agent
      • Jan 2014 - Feb 2015

      One of the most ambitious girls in Russia by Cosmopolitan Russia, leader of 'Girl power' movement. One of the most ambitious girls in Russia by Cosmopolitan Russia, leader of 'Girl power' movement.

Education

  • Quantic School of Business and Technology
    Executive MBA
    2022 - 2024
  • Higher School of Economics
    Master's degree, HR-analytics
    2019 - 2021
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)
    Bachelor's degree, Faculty of Economics
    2011 - 2015

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