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
longevity.
● Limited spaces for personalised attention.

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Directimo

Advisor

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

Property Finder

Property Finder is on a mission to motivate and inspire consumers to get living the life they deserve. We know that when you look for a property, it’s not just a better home you seek, it’s a better future. Property Finder is a leading real estate portal covering the sales and rental marketplace with operations across Egypt, KSA, UAE, Bahrain, and Qatar.

VP of Products

Phonor App Spain Ltd

Digital Strategy Solutions LLC

Strategic advisor for  3 other startups in Barcelona, Dubai and Norway. 
- Videocation.no/Videocation.es
- GetBee.com
- Ysi.si
- Ejaby 

Specialized in digital transformation and scaling digital businesses. Special expertise in strategy/operations of marketplaces.
More than 20 years experience of digital transformation, M&A and marketplace strategy and operations.

Strategic Advisor for startups/scale ups

willhaben internet service GmbH & Co KG

Member Of The Supervisory Board

Highered - EFMD Global Talent Network

Enhance your Employer Value Proposition (EVP) by posting your internship and employment opportunities to candidates from more than 500 leading academic institutions through the Highered platform.

Talabat

Responsible for optimizing user and restaurant experience, eliminating pain points and securing state of the the art overall service.

Senior Vice President Operations

Apply Digital Systems

Responsible for all operations, with main focus of delivering superb customer value and to scale to company to meet the high demand for our products.
 
Amsterdam and Barcelona based software company who will disrupt the space of Enterprise application market - amazing response since launch 9 months ago, already running projects with some of the most well known global brands.

The Software developed by the Apply team have unique features and functions that allows our clients to launch production apps in just a few weeks. 
Build the MVP /Prototypes within a day and from that MVP use the Apply API mapper to  integrate with existing or new software to  launch fully operational Applications as native apps within weeks.

COO (hired as consultant)

Schibsted Media Group

Schibsted Media Group is an international media group with 7 300 employees in 22 countries. Our strategy to become a global leader within our fields is bold. It consists of three elements that work seamlessly together: Online Marketplaces, Growth and Media Houses.

Working close with the CPO and CTO of Schibsted Media Group to implement the Group product and technical strategies.  Providing support in decision making and alignment with local operations.

Working on improving the matrix organization efficiency by bringing business closer to product and technology.  The role includes working with organizational and process improvements to ensure more value out of our investments in product and technology.  Measuring effect of building platforms.

Responsible for administrative and support functions like Finance, HR and Communication.

COO Schibsted Product and Technology

Schibsted Spain/Schibsted Media Group

Schibsted Spain includes the following leading online marketplaces; Milanuncios.es, vibbo.com, Fotocasa.es, coches.net, motos.net and Infojobs.net. Total  more than 900  highly motivated and competent people in the company. 

Increased revenues from 88 million euros in 2013 to 111 million euros in 2016.
Executed on several successful M&As.

Asset owner for Custojusto in Portugal. 
Board positions:
Chairman of the board of Schibsted Spain
Chairman of the board of Infojobs.net (Spain)

CEO Schibsted Spain

Asset owner for several companies in Schibsted and member of the management team of Schibsted Classifed Media - one of the leading marketplace operators in the world.

Asset owner for Schibsted operations in Asia, Infojobs Spain, Infojobs Italy and Willhaben.

Chairman of the board for Infojobs Spain and  Infojobs Italy.  
Board member in Willhaben, Anuntis, Infojobs Brazil,  701 (Schibsted operations in Asia).

SVP 

Media Norge ASA

The company Media Norge was created through a merger of the media houses Aftenposten, Bergens Tidende, Fædrelandsvennen and Stavanger Aftenblad. The merger would also grant Media Norge ownership to Finn.no.
 
The four media houses are market leaders in their respective geographical markets. Finn.no is a national market leader for online classified advertisements.
 
Media Norge is one of the largest media companies in Norway, with strong positions in regional media and classifieds.  Media Norge will have approximately 2 000 employees. The company’s total revenues exceeds NOK 4 945 000 000 (2009).

Chairman of the Board of Media Norge Trykk AS (all printing plants) 
 - Responsible for a successful transformation of in-house printing plants to become an efficient and profitable industry player. 

Merging independent media houses to become a successful media unit with shared services, shared targets and more efficient operations. This included a merger of independent IT organizations to one common IT organization for both operations and development, with huge cost savings.  

Board member of Willhaben (Austria)
Board member of Aftenposten (Norway)
Board member of Bergens Tidende (Norway)
Board member of Fædrelandsvennen (Norway)

COO/EVP

Strong on execution, building high performance organizations, experienced leader of organizations up to 1 000 people. Have been driving digital transformation, implementing strong and clear strategy.   Business development by excelling the organization's execution and operational excellence using agile and data driven methods.  Online marketplace  expert. Taking start-ups to commercial success, through rapid but controlled scale up. Transforming companies into high performing organisations with increased growth in revenues and profit.


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