Lona Alia

SafetyWing

Build & Scale Revenue channels. 

• Built our B2B SaaS sales team from Zero to One by defining the appropriate growth strategy. Recruited 
   the team at all levels (SDR to VP of sales). Grew the team from 0 - 13 members in 9 months. 
• Helped Scale our revenue from $5M ARR to $45M ARR. 
• Built Partnerships team from 0 to 110 partners and over $1.5M in Revenue Attribution.

Head of Revenue

500 Startups

Mentor startup founders on: 
1. Building & Scaling Revenue Channels. 
2. Go to Market Strategy.
3. Build and scale direct B2B sales teams.
4. Set up Demand Generation
5. New Business Verticals
6. Talent (attract & retain top talent) 
7.  Y combinator application

Mentor

Swiss EP - Swiss Entrepreneurship Program

Supported the startup ecosystem in the Balkans as part of a global Expert-in-Residence capacity 
Built programs for emerging startup ecosystems. 
Focus included: investment readiness, internationalisation, ecosystem building, corporate involvement, business angel activity, and supporting female founders in the region.

Entrepreneur In Residence

Style Lend

•	Conceived and launched the world’s first Peer to Peer luxury fashion rental platform
•	Developed robust proprietary technology comprised of a website, mobile app, interactive styling bot and CRM platform to scale the business online, all the whilst providing a unique client experience and accruing invaluable data 
•	Powered a San Francisco & New York showroom rental / retail experience as well as over dozens of global pop-up experiences, with partners such as The Kooples, Farfetch and more.  
•	Leveraged and built vast network of targeted influencers, luxury brand ambassadors, to produce meaningful content that enriched the offline and online experience and added cache to rental as a luxury service offering 
•	Formulated a five-year plan with financial goals, developing mid and long-term strategic objectives, plans and budgets
•	Hired, trained and led a team of 10 full time and 15+ freelance employees and created an environment which fostered the growth and retention of high-caliber talent 
•	Raised more than $2m from VCs, in Silicon Valley, NY, Europe, Middle East and Asia

Founder

EU for Innovation

Help Strengthen the innovation ecosystem and boost startup creation in Albania. 

• Built linkages within the Albanian innovation ecosystem and internationally

• Mentor innovative startups

Advisor

Rendia, Inc.

HealthTech SaaS - Acquired by PatientPoint

•	Right hand manager to the Director of Sales and key advisor to the VP of international sales.  
•	Formulated sales goals, sales budgets, by evolving marketing strategies in response to market needs.   
•	Maintained the #1 sales producer ranking for the duration at company by continuously exceeding monthly targets by 125% to 150% even during challenging economic times..
•	Personally responsible for generating over $2M in sales (i.e. 50% of software revenue in a year) by successfully selling our SaaS platform to large private practices, C-Level Executives and MDs, Universities and Hospitals.
•	Chosen consistently by senior management to represent the company at all domestic and international trade shows/medical conferences in all markets (ophthalmology, optometry, and ENT [ear, nose & throat]) due to guaranteed high performance and strong networking abilities. 
•	Led team in reaching 99% of their quota each year. 
•	Sold to Hospitals, Universities and Private Practices in EMEA, North America, South America and Asia.

Regional Sales Director

Procter & Gamble

-Developed Successful Street Marketing Campaigns 
-Identified and reached idea target audiences for various brands under Procter & Gamble 
-Conducted effective market research 
-Increased brand awareness and sales
-Collaborated with cross-functional teams to achieve business goals.

Marketing Specialist

Revenue Leader | Y combinator Founder | Remote Work Expert | Digital Nomad Family

Venture Backed Y combinator founder YC W14.  I’m a top-performing revenue leader with a background in startup  marketing, sales & demand generation. 

I’m a founder that has build products, companies and revenue channels from $0 to $45M ARR. 

Advisor to Startups and EU for Innovation.  Future of Work Thought Leader.

Build & Scale Revenue channels. 

• Built our B2B SaaS sales team from Zero to One by defining the appropriate growth strategy. Recruited 
   the team at all levels (SDR to VP of sales). Grew the team from 0 - 13 members in 9 months. 
• Helped Scale our revenue from $5M ARR to $25M ARR. 
• Built Partnerships team from 0 to 110 partners and over $1.5M in Revenue Attribution.

FLC - FearLEs Community

About Initiative

Building an informal, volunteer-run community for digital nomads, entrepreneurs, and remote workers who value sports, outdoors, and meaningful connection. 

This is a grassroots effort to create a safe, supportive, and energizing space to grow together through shared activities like hiking, swimming, kayaking, climbing, and social meetups.

✨ Role Overview
As Director I am helping to shape and nurture this new community by organizing (predominantly online) events, fostering accountability and mutual respect, and keeping the space welcoming for all, not excluding trauma survivors.

💪 Key Focus

Coordinating outdoor and social activities across Europe.
Encouraging teamwork, growth, and shared responsibility.
Upholding clear community guidelines for safety and respect.
Exploring future partnerships and expansion opportunities.

We're all about connection, adventure, and building a supportive community from the ground up.

Community Director

Fiverr

Freelance Information Technology Consultant

The Nomad Escape

The Nomad Escape is a friendly and informal Business & Network Club for location independent professionals, entrepreneurs, and teams. Hosting retreats and (hybrid) events in exotic locations, focusing on expanding network, skills, and mindset.

The Nomad Escape is uniting remote entrepreneurs and professionals.

This is not a full time employment byThe Nomad Escape. This is in addition to my full time employment. This is Nomad Escape Island Event advocacy, community expansion, future of work, etc. Also promotion of co-living, co-working and other solo-entrepreneurial, distributed work models.

Brand Ambassador

Private Bank

Currently:	
Implementing Zero Trust Functionality and improving overall Microsoft 365 security posture by 15-25 % (inc. for EU AI Act, Dora), Sentinel threat detection, Purview data governance, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies, securing sensitive info cloud stored & in transit, … 
Resolving technical issues and improving procedures, reducing support ticket count and backlog by 25-30%, whilst getting exposure with Azure IAM & MDM, Oracle ODBX, FCUB, Amazon AWS E3,…
Increasing endpoint security awareness including cyber security education of all employees.
Creating automations, improving workflows in Atlassian Jira, by 20%.
Introducing new technologies and thoughts about AI, Airtable, Loom, Notion as per Agile Project Management, carbon footprint (CF), ROI and price/performance considerations, including reducing reliance on 3rd parties. As well as assisting, sharing expertise on hybrid and remote work strategies for enhancing overall job satisfaction.

Senior Information Technology Officer

Remote Work Europe

This is not a full time employment by Remote Work Europe. This is in addition to my full time employment.
This is Remote advocacy. Remote Work Europe, community expansion, future of work, remote jobs advocacy. Also promotion of co-living, co-working and other distributed work models.

Community Manager

Limitless Enduring

Under Construction:
•	Modern Work Consultancy
•	IT or CS Project Management
•	IT, AI, QI, CS, HRM (inc. DIBE or DEIJ) Documentation, Automation, Optimisation
•	Mental Health Programme/s & Employee Inclusion
including onboarding process automation and sports/off-site services, events.

Founder and CEO

Remote Rebellion

This is not a full time employment by Remote Rebellion. This is in addition to my full time employment.
This is Remote advocacy. Remote Rebellion and pure remote jobs advocacy.

Remote Ambassador

Myown

Synopsis: 
• AI, ML tools, LLMs study & research to optimize productivity, SaaS integration, workflow automation, KPI improvement for diverse organizational functions. (Incl. 6 months’ Ambassador project with Remote-First.Institute)
• Delivered comprehensive CS, IT, HRM, CRM, business, communication support & consulting services, improving Return On Investment to Small and Medium Enterprises by saving appx. 35% of costs.
• Implemented, optimized CRM, helpdesk & ticket management systems (Airtable, Notion, Atlassian, Salesforce).
• Conducted user training and onboarding for various software platforms and developed, maintained documentation for IT processes and best practices.
• Spearheaded install & software configuration, hardware, network systems optimization increasing performance by up to 30%.

I performed such tasks also as employee of all above mentioned: Aspire, Intercomp, Dell EMC, HPE & EF and for the partnering companies of Veeam, DELL EMC and HPE, as well as MS, and for all their corporate clientele.

In  above projects I've assisted the companies and end-users to, in total saved appx half a million euros.

Specialisations:
••	Customer Management & Technical Support, Communication: CRM systems, Helpdesk, Ticket, Incident Management (Jira, Monday, Doist, Zendesk, Toggl, Slack, Skype, Teams, Loom, Airtable, Notion, Zoom, etc.)
•	Systems: Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Windows OS, Network Administration (Dell, HPE, CISCO, Ubiquity,etc.)
•	Strategic Planning & Consultation: Equipment purchase, price performance, cost analysis, strategy, budget planning

IT Consultant (Remote and/or On-site) 

Remote-First.Institute

This is not a full time employment by Remote-First.Institute. This is in addition to my full time employment.
This is AI advocacy.

• AI and ML  study & research, focus on how to implement, utilise, optimise onboarding, productivity, etc. within all aspects of the current jobs, roles, projects.
• AI, ML integrations within variety of software and web based solutions, within SaaS, CaaS, IaaS…
• Using the new knowledge for automating workflows, decrease (re)search time, etc. to increase job & tasks completions and improving KPI.

Utilising AI Productivity challenge from Remote-first and Iwo Szapar to become well versed IT Generalist and Remote First Institute Advocate.

AI Ambassador 

Veeam Software

Working with a Veeam Software Partner:
•Mitigating security risks for clients by implementing scheduling of systems, hardware and software updated, focused on Microsoft 365, Azure, Intune administration of clients, as well to reduce costs.
•Optimising disk, mem, CPU usage of systems configuring Veeam solutions with best practice by 15%.
•Business consulting with clients, improving their infrastructure, networks & security of Dell, HPE, Ubiquiti.

Senior Infrastructure Systems Engineer

Working with a Veeam Partner:
Providing onboarding insights from remote industry.
Focusing on onboarding experience with DEI and HRM best practices and creating, updating the onboarding documentation.

Onboarding Specialist

Remote & Hybrid Work Counselor || Team Leader || NetOps, SysOps & Infrastructure Expert, open4work || Bringing humane IT into smb & corporate, to create a better world! || Nomadic Poli-Athlete, Mental Health Advisor

Evolving into Modern Work Consultant, yet started with computer repairs and IT education, an enthusiast (IT Customer Support, Computer Helpdesk). Now a Network, System & Infrastructure Administrator, Expert with Dell, Microsoft, Office 365 & AI. Open for projects, work and collaborations.

New Introduction: Evolving beyond IT into “Consultant for Future-Ready Workplaces";

Aspiring leader at the intersection of  IT technology, remote work, communication and human-centric organizational design. Leveraging experience in IT and assisting HR or leadership teams with innovation to craft holistic strategies that empower distributed teams and foster inclusive, high-performing cultures. Expertise spans work optimization, mental health advocacy, DEI initiatives, process automation. Committed to shaping the future of work with exercises, through data-driven insights, empathetic leadership, and continuous adaptation to emerging workplace trends, especially focused on remote or distributed models and employee flexibility.

Passionate about creating work environments where every team member can thrive, regardless of location or background.

"IT Excellence" (Old) introduction: From a computer enthusiast to IT consultation status;

Extensive experience in managing various duties and working with advanced technology systems has helped me to hone a diverse set of skills, enabling the identification and resolution of problems in timely manner, while also reducing expenses and earning high levels of satisfaction from clients, end-users, and corporate partners.

Comfortable working in all industries: from Web3, wellbeing, education, crypto to Tourism and Manufacturing, whether it is B2B or B2C, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, as well as MSP (Managed Services Providers).

Availability: Immediate @ EMEA, Remote
Time Zone: CET/UTC, with flexibility, UTC-4:00/+4:00

Opportunities: 
Open to full-time, part-time work, partnerships, board memberships...

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