Alex A.

I am a seasoned project manager and director with a lot of experience in startups worldwide. I have invented, inspired, managed, or directed many projects that changed lives indeed. Among them to name few are: (i) Distance Learning in Africa. Classes of top professors from top universities transmitted online via satellites to African campuses; (ii) Visa Card in Africa. Well, one might not believe it nowadays, but fifteen years ago your Visa and Mastercard was just a useless piece of plastic throughout Africa. You were able to pay with them in handful top Hotels and have fun by watching them calling somewhere in Europe for transaction authorization; (iii) Payment processing in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstanis pay for mobile and home phones, utility bills, transport card top-ups, transfer money to their e-wallet, and between such wallets via terminals throughout the country. But if you’d look back, you might see a lot of frustrated people with dead mobile phones after a few offices accepting payments are closed till the next morning; (iv) Satellite internet. I am not as rich as Ilon Mask and I do not possess satellite launch facilities, nevertheless, my efforts changed a lot of lives in many countries. PlanetSky services provided broadband high-speed asymmetric internet anywhere it was needed at times of dialup nightmare. Today I am ready for the next challenge and looking for a proper one. I spent the last five years in logistics and see a lot of room for improvements in some areas. Under ‘areas’ I mean business processes as well as geography.