Adrian
COO/Managing Director - Romania - iCEO #50916

Experience

Executive leader with experience in scaling up operations, teams and vision. Strong communication skills and understanding of human dynamics/behaviour. Led cross functional teams within complex stakeholders matrices. Strong technology background with pragmatic commercial experience. Worked in fintech, gaming, data, media, mobile. Interested in purposeful, creative and complex endeavours.

Major Achievements

• At Company X I have reduced infrastructure costs by 20%, accelerated client on-boarding by 30% and increased overall profitability by 10-15% by optimising the underlying AWS platform operations, moving to one version of code base, improving the efficiency of cross-functional communication, putting in place and documenting workflow processes and rationalising the supporting software. • As CEO of Company Y I doubled the revenue from £2m to £4m in 2 years and led its brand growth through high profile marketing activities leading to it earning the “Most Innovative Company in London” recognition (BBC Focus, 2016) for its innovative projects using emergent technologies. Sold to a company in Dubai. • Secured $1m seed funding for Company Z by finding angel investors from own network, helping with the pitch and closing off the investment. Helped Company Y with their £1.5m raise by pitching to investors. • At Company X I have optimised their Agile practices and workflows for engineering, QA, Product, CX, DevOps and Sales that led to enhanced deadline accuracy (increased to 90%) and commercially prioritised roadmaps. I have led this through a proper understanding of client and market needs facilitated by being the main point of escalation for their clients and clear and transparent KPIs.

Industry Sector Competencies

Software

Telecommunications

Outsourcing

Engineering

Media

Professional Objectives

Function: CTO, Project/Product Manager, Innovation Manager, CEO

Interim Manager: Yes

Permanent Position: Yes

Operational: Yes

Availability: Full time, part time, coaching on demand

Prefered Locations: UK, Europe

Additional Professional Interests

Non executive director assignments

Countries Covered

UK

USA

Operational Competencies

AI strategy (Expert)

Technologies to market (Professional)

Business development (Professional)

Acquisition and shadow management (Expert)

New product or service launch (Professional)

Company rescue or turnaround (Expert)

Close down or sell off (Expert)

Pre or post investment audit (Expert)