Katya Samotoi

8-12 cross-functional meetings daily. Insights scattered across Slack, Notion, and endless email threads. Product roadmap decisions buried somewhere between the morning standup and afternoon retrospective.

At Sembly AI, we help professional teams transform meeting chaos into revenue clarity. The data tells the story:
✅ Customer feedback → Product features in 2 weeks (not 2 months)
✅ Every meeting becomes a searchable decision log
✅ Meeting prep drops from 20 hours to 2 hours
✅ Strategic decisions - 100% retention vs typical 60% loss

From London to Berlin to Rome, we’re helping professional teams stay aligned, move faster, and protect their pipeline from information loss.

Open to quick chat? I'd love to show you how other teams are saving 15+ hours monthly while keeping every revenue-critical decision visible.

Managing Director

As the managing director my role was to oversee the operations of all departments for the 7 DTC brands.

Together with the team we grew from 1000 to 16m in revenue bootstrapped.

Scaled a team from 4 to 42 people remotely. 

I also launched the creator agency, where we build brands for large creators and influencers.

Optum

* Lead procurement and inventory management/optimization of Factor products across 30+ home infusion pharmacies. 
* Consolidate demand forecasting and supplier communication apparatus to include S&OP principles, allowing for streamlined operations between Optum and its supplier partners.
• Process optimization efforts decreased expiring inventory by 88% in Year 1 post-implementation.
• Stock balancing efforts produced a 25% increase of internal transfer activity in Year 1 post-implementation.
• Increased turns from 0.9 to 1.3 as a result of optimization and proper utilization of existing inventory.
• Managed forecast and inventory transitions during two primary supplier integrations. 
* Serve as internal SME for Factor procurement & inventory on cross-functional and cross-organizational teams. 
* Create stock status and other relevant reporting to inform on product availability for organization-wide distribution. 
* Calculate future demand by leveraging historical data, industry trends, contractual commitments, and patient referral targets.  
* Collaborate with pharmacies during critical supply shortages and recalls to mitigate impacts to patient infusion schedules. 
* Develop and communicate forecasts to manufacturers and wholesalers; updated quarterly rebate status to internal organization and external partners in accordance with contractual agreements.    
* Communicate supply, demand, allocation and purchase information to internal and external stakeholders.

Senior Analyst, Procurement & Inventory

Sprint

Managed planning and direction of financial and decision support for Sprint Omnichannel Sales. Collaborated with team of cross functional partners to execute quarterly/annual subscriber forecasts and opex budgets, monitored expenditures, and evaluated potential opportunities related to omnichannel interests. Modeled and executed repeatable/sustainable KPI/S&OP reporting dashboards for executive consumption. Provided functional strategy, mentored actively, promoted transferable skill sets, and promptly stepped out of the way to allow great people to excel and advance.

Manager, Finance

Performed technical analysis to determine present and future financial performance. Recommended actions for financial plans, acquisition activity, trended future requirements, and operating forecasts. Evaluated budget performance, expenditures, and operational effectiveness. Supported efforts of postpaid National Channels' strategic initiatives, including retailer profitability analysis, retailer sales performance analysis, contract negotiation and other ad-hoc initiatives pertinent to organizational success.

Financial Analysis Manager II

Self Employed

Consulted with consumer products organizations, start-ups and growth-oriented enterprises re: streamlining supply chain strategies through use of data-driven analytics, effective S&OP processes, demand/supply balancing, distribution, and organizational structure. Streamlined executive KPI reporting by assessing current data repositories, recommend and implement improvements. Support integration of supply chain processes while balancing sales objectives with operational and financial constraints. Communicated financial impacts of supply chain and relationship to working capital, inventory turns, and cash flow.

Executive Supply Chain Management Consultant

Centralized Supply Chain Services, LLC

Financial and Pricing analysis for 3400+ restaurant optimization of the mainline distribution network for Applebee's and IHOP brands.  Net result: consolidation of 2800 Applebee’s / IHOP restaurants from 56 DC’s to 36, resulting in system-wide savings of $8.4MM on inbound transportation and distribution costs. Leverage existing software platforms to automate landed cost, freight, market basket price index, and unapproved spend reports.  Create static reporting methodology transferrable from region to region in support of executive strategy.  Member of team supporting GS1 US Standards initiative to improve traceability throughout the supply chain.

Sr. Manager, Distribution/Inventory/Analytics

Applebee's

Led demand management activities for the world's largest casual dining restaurant chain.  Responsible for menu, campaign, and product testing analytics and demand planning activities that drove purchasing initiatives to support 18 domestic DC's and 1980+ restaurants.  Identified efficiencies utilizing data warehouse application to provide supply chain visibility of adoption curves, incremental product usage vs. baseline, and implementation of processes to minimize inventory exposure.

Manager of Product Forecasting

Bushnell Outdoor Products

Led demand management activities for a global consumer goods corporation.  Originated and chaired S&OP process, implemented collaborative and strategic initiative checklist for executive consumption; created environment to enable more unified and agile end-to-end continuity of supply.  Led demand planning function through seven aquisitions of competing and complementary brands.  Implemented scorecard methodology to provide executive management visibility to metrics of most importance in a contract manufacturing, 4-month lead time environment.

Manager, Demand Forecasting and Supply Planning

Senior supply chain management and finance professional emphasizing value creation and threat avoidance by leveraging competencies in leadership, supply chain management, financial analytics, customer analytics, S&OP, demand forecasting, process optimization and change management.     

Skills and Experiences include:
- Supply Chain: Demand Forecasting, Inventory Optimization, Distribution Optimization, RFP
- Supply chain improvements implementation, balancing financial, operational, and sales constraints
- Communicate financial impacts of supply chain and relationship to working capital, inventory turns, and cash flow
- Financial/Analytics: Financial Forecasting, Pricing/Margin Analysis, ROI  
- Executive-level S&OP origination and execution  
- IT/Software: RFP, due diligence, selection, implementation & training of software applications; Overseas Implementation 
- Streamline executive KPI/S&OP reporting; assess data repositories, recommend and implement improvements
- Management: Matrix to team of 20 

Specialties: Leadership/Mentoring. End-to-End Supply Chain Optimization, Financial Analytics, Organizational Improvement through S&OP

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