Reset Camp

The Reset Camp: A Transformative Retreat for Modern Minds!
Struggling with a fast paced lifestyle, burnout or a daily routine? Get a chance to disconnect
from the chaos of a modern world through our beginner-friendly, Vipassana-inspired retreat
aimed at reviving your mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
🧘‍♂️Why Reset Camp?
● Adapted for beginners, zero experience required!
● Learn ancient Vipassana techniques for modern resilience.
● Nurture your body with gourmet meals crafted by our chef specialising in food for
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● Limited spaces for personalised attention.

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Directimo

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CREOATE

Utopia Analytics

Utopia Analytics is a leading provider of AI content moderation with a full suite of products: AI Moderator, AI Claim handler, AI Support Hero, AI Text Analytics and AI Consulting.

Carbon

Carbon is helping companies build globally distributed product and engineering teams
As a technical hiring partner in strategic nearshore markets, it enables global companies to scale product & engineering teams outside of HQ.

MEETOPTICS

MEETOPTICS is making photonics more accessible by helping thousands of engineers and researchers find the optics they need.

Getting specialised optical components for photonics technologies can be complex and time-consuming. With over 100 000 optical components, each with tens of specifications crucial to performance and thousands of suppliers, you could spend days or weeks searching for the right components to build your setup or new photonics device.

MEETOPTICS has a clear objective: making the search for photonics technologies easy and accessible.
MEETOPTICS is a central platform with a highly customizable search engine designed especially for researchers and optical engineers, making it easy and fast to find, filter and compare optical components from suppliers around the world.

ActioGlobal®

Actio Global is a boutique consultancy supporting the digital transformation of leading global organizations such as Unilever, Danone, Angelini Pharma and Adevinta.
Actio Global has developed a proprietary, hands-on methodology that it deploys in order to support its clients in building agile high-performance organizations.

Paternity leave 

Spending time with my two young children and learning about balance, patience and self-awareness

Stay-at-Home Parent

Adevinta

Adevinta is the leader in online classifieds marketplaces, providing technology-based services to connect buyers and sellers, from job offers to real estate, cars, consumer goods and more. Adevinta operates online marketplaces in 10 countries with an average of 3 billion visits every month.
Adevinta is the leader in online classifieds marketplaces, providing technology-based services to connect buyers and sellers, from job offers to real estate, cars, consumer goods and more. Adevinta operates online marketplaces in 10 countries with an average of 3 billion visits every month.
As a COO Europe:
- Operational responsibility for 11 operations in 5 countries with 1000 employees and more than €170m in revenues
- Grew revenues by +16% and increased Ebitda by +50%
- Led the Post Merger Integration in Europe after the acquisition of eBay Classifieds
- Led the strategy process across European Markets focusing on the transformation to a transactional business model

COO European Markets

- Operational responsibility for 13 operations in 16 countries with 1500 employees and more than €160m in revenues
- Drove an innovative transformation program while delivering on ambitious financial targets from public markets. I have delivered a topline growth of 16% p.a., improved Ebitda by more than 50m€, while completely revamping the operational model, portfolio structure and product mix. 
- Transformed the culture, the technology stack and the operating model across a portfolio spanning Europe, Latam and North Africa.
- Played a key role in Adevinta's acquisition of eBay Classifieds for 10B€ in 2020, leading several due diligence streams, dealing with competition authorities, leading the post-merger integration program in Europe and delivering 30m€ of synergies in 6 months.
- Led the investment of more than 30m€ in startups and VC funds (proptech, fintech, mobility) and oversaw several M&A transactions across the full deal lifecycle.

SVP for Global Markets

Distilled SCH

Distilled is the home to Ireland’s  four most successful internet brands: Adverts.ie, Daft.ie, DoneDeal.ie and Gumtree.ie
As a Board Member, I have worked closely with the Founder & CEO in order to support Distilled on its growth path.

Board Member

I am passionate about growing people, organizations and businesses as an Advisor, Board Member and Entrepreneur.
I advise technology companies that are looking to accelerate their growth, by improving their go-to-market and building the right organizations and operating models.
As a Board Member, I have more than 10 years of experience with marketplaces companies in Europe, with revenues between 40m€ and 200m€.
As an SVP and COO Europe with Adevinta, the leading online marketplace operator, I have led a P&L of over 170m€ in revenue and 1500 employees, driving an innovative transformation program. I have delivered a topline growth of ~15% p.a., improved Ebitda by more than 50m€, while completely revamping the operational model, portfolio structure and product mix.
I have extensive experience along the whole capital lifecycle, from venture investing to public markets. As a C-suite at Adevinta i have been part of an 8B€ IPO and the 10B€ acquisition of eBay Classifieds, gaining a deep understanding of public markets and governance. I also oversaw the investment of more than 30m€ in startups and VC funds (proptech, fintech, mobility) and led several M&A transactions.
As an Entrepreneur, I started 4 companies and these battle scars help me empathise with founders. My current project is Reset Camp, a meditation bootcamp for modern minds, aiming to make meditation more accessible and empower people on their journey of self knowledge.

Ovidiu Solomonov

Isometric Ventures

Quintet Private Bank

Head of FP&A

L1 Health - Large-Cap Healthcare Private Equity

Finance business partner of PE Managing Partner, hired to establish and manage the finance & accounting operations for the healthcare unit ("buy-and-build"): 21 companies across 4 countries, $3bn evergreen funds under management. 
•	Orchestrated financial processes for 2 acquisitions, led due diligence advisors and structured Eur 200m funding for distress debt acquisitions.
•	Achieved double digit % increase in the net asset value of 4 portfolio companies.

Finance Director

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Established the business value function in AWS DACH region. Led cloud economics activities for DACH account management and Global accounts teams, with a focus on financial analysis, customer interactions and cross-functional collaboration. 
•	Influenced multimillion Eur/year ARR deal closing (over 60 business cases/year) and delivered the business model for the 2nd largest value EMEA deal (2019). Onboarded customer CTOs and key decision-makers for the economic benefits (TCO) of data and applications migration to AWS cloud. 
•	Delivered double digit % reduction in overall cloud computing costs and led customers' Finance and Technology teams in transforming cost governance processes (FinOps workshops).

Cloud Financial Management Lead DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)

Amazon

Finance business partner to the Amazon Pay CEO Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg). Oversaw mid-year and annual business planning, coordinated country heads to shape the revenue pipeline and project investment with the turnover targets. Directed the optimization of FP&A processes, scrutinized sales profitability objectives and conducted regular business performance reviews.
•	Led strategic planning and execution for 3 new countries market expansion (France, Italy, Spain).
•	Successfully launched two new products and significantly increased revenues.

Head of Finance Europe, Amazon Pay

Lebara Mobile

Finance business partner to the CEO Germany, reporting to the Group CFO, led the financial team of the German subsidiary (4 direct reports): financial planning, financial reporting and analysis. 
•	Achieved a double digit % increase in revenues (to Eur 100m) and expanded the distribution network with a new channel (hypermarkets). 
•	Delivered multimillions euro savings in the new group tax structure.

Head of Finance, Germany

Vodafone

Reporting into Group Head of Business Development, orchestrated cross-functional teams across 5 countries and departments (Consumer, Finance, M&A, Legal, Treasury, Operations). Successfully executed strategic partnerships and led acquisitions of start-ups in mobile commerce, mobile payments, cloud computing, mobile advertising, and identity management.
•	Concluded the M&A (acquisition) process of Vouchercloud, multi million GBP mobile couponing company. 
•	Delivered the business expansion plans for Ireland, Germany, & Netherlands and coordinated the launch projects with cross functional teams (Vouchercloud & Vodafone operating countries); post-acquisition, supervised the balance sheet completion and actioned the corporate governance supervision as the main support of the Chair of the Board.

Commercial Manager, Business Development

Led the pricing strategy and operations to stabilize market share during a period of increasing competitive pressure. Build the new pricing methodology and implemented the procedure for pricing approvals, developed the competitive analysis reports for mobile devices.
•	Led the revenue optimization for the pricing of mobile devices (4 distribution channels, 5 price tiers, 140 distinct models). 
•	Led strategic allocation of multimillion mobile device subsidy budget.

Head of Pricing, Mobile phones and connected devices

Ernst & Young

Led buy-side acquisition projects in real estate development, transport, and shipbuilding industries and delivered financial due diligence assistance.
•	Determined the Net Debt Value of a gas distribution company post-privatization (Euro 30mil impact).
•	Led the market research and build the valuation case for the acquisition of an European media group ($465mil revenues).

Supervisor, Financial Due Diligence

Developed and managed the financial budget and prepared monthly variance analysis reports for the leading Romanian mobile telecommunication operator (Eur 650mil revenues, 1.2mil customers).
•	Analyzed the business processes, identified the relevant key performance indicators, centralized and analyzed data from operating departments; constructed annual outline and detailed budgets using bottom-up approach and quarterly forecasts updates.
•	Innovated a new model to optimize the flow of information from budget financial models to the new budgeting reporting system (Oracle Hyperion Planning), resulting a 50% decrease in time required for reviewing and reporting.

Senior Financial Planning Analyst

Group Head Expenses Analysis and Reporting, Quintet Private Bank - Finance business partnering | Process optimization

Finance Director / Commercial CFO  with a passion for technology and digital innovation.

Significant experience of strategic leadership and partnering at C-level suite. Focus on growth-focused strategies in global blue-chip as well as fast-paced scale-up organisations. Led growth programs, market expansions and increased profitability via quality of earnings and lean processes. Passionate about technology and digital innovation, leverages years of experience in global companies and private equity to deliver best-in-class results

In-depth financial management expertise at all levels, educated within the Big 4 and perfected within the technology sector. Proven record to adapt and adjust to growing scale-up organisations, to enhance delivery while maintaining agility.

Key skills: strategic finance, planning and budgeting, finance business partnering, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), mergers and acquisitions (M&A), due diligence, cost optimization, FinOps, financial controlling, cashflow forecasting and management, funding operations, statutory reporting, audit, tax, financial and accounting operations management. University of Oxford MBA graduate, ACCA chartered qualified accountant.

Focus areas: PE private equity, scale-up, technology, B2B, SaaS, cloud computing, crypto security, FinTech, electronic payments, mobile telecommunications.
International experience across EMEA (UK, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany, Romania) and US.

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