Strategic Partnerships, BD & Executive Search in MENA | AI, ESG & Market Entry | Make Waste NOT Wasted with impact2earn AI Rewards Recycling | PwC Future50 | COP28 | Psychologist & Talent Strategy

I specialize in strategic partnerships, business expansion, and talent strategy for IT and B2B companies, with a strong focus on the #MENA region. My expertise lies in helping businesses enter new markets, scale efficiently, and build high-performing teams while minimizing risks and operational challenges.

With extensive experience in business development, executive search, and market expansion, I bridge the gap between global companies and the opportunities in #Dubai and the wider MENA region. My approach combines deep industry insights, strong local networks, and hands-on execution to drive sustainable growth.

At BANTgo Technologies, we provide #AI & #ESG -driven solutions and a Branch-as-a-Service (BaaS) model that enables IT and #B2B companies to quickly establish operations in Dubai and expand across MENA.

#impact2earn – Our proprietary AI-powered Web3 platform transforming e-waste recycling through blockchain-based incentives.
#Branch-as-a-Service (BaaS) – Hassle-free business setup in Dubai, including licensing, office space, banking, and visa support.
#ITOutsourcing & #DeveloperSourcing – Connecting businesses with top tech talent while ensuring compliance and operational efficiency.
#MarketEntry & #BusinessExpansion – Strategic partnerships, localization, and sales enablement.

🚀 Let’s connect to explore business growth opportunities! 
Reach out via Email: si@bantgo.ae / WhatsApp: +9713858879

Sergei Ivanov

aim ventures

Help businesses find the product-matket-fit via market research, CustDev, marketing and other instruments of hypotheses validation

Entrepreneur in Residence

BANTgo

A Web3 recycling rewards platform with built-in Social-Fi and Game-Fi elements plus Marketplace

Private Investor and Advisor

SmartPeople

Business Analytics Agency with 2 of 10 largest Russian companies as regular clients.
- Help you identify growth opportunities and create analytical dashboards
- Develop operational and financial models that automatically update with your data
- Digitize and optimize a business process, create tools and checklist

Co-Owner

Tinkoff 

- Created the world's first countrywide virtual phone secretary - Oleg. The CEO presented the product at SPIEF 2021 conference and in Tinkoff's 2021-2023 Strategy.
- Recruited and managed team of 8 developers, 4 product managers, 2 customer experience managers, 2 product analysts distributed all over the country
- Increased MAU from 0 to 1M+, key product industry-specific metric - 3x
- Created and optimized Customer Experience processes in product, increased NPS by 55 points
- Coordinated complex features with 20+ related development teams, worked on strategy, planning, backlog, processes, Agile implementation, CustDev, design, marketing, monetization

Senior Product Manager

Holy Corn

- Developed transportation and warehouse cost control system, which helps to optimize unit economics by several percents every month
- Implemented the several methods to decrease the labor time for operational work by more than 50%

Project Manager / Business Analyst

MegaLabs

- Established several new CE Tableau dashboards for MegaFon TV leadership team
- Created a Python-based parser, which improves revenue management

Customer Experience Analyst

Cryptonomos

- Developed start-up main processes including unit economics, market, competitor, risk analyzes, financial modelling, investor relations
- Assessed more than 1000 crypto projects, wrote 10 whitepapers

Business and Financial Analyst

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

- Segmented clients of one of the banking industry leaders to offer personalized products
- Participated in development of optimization purchases and reducing costs of one of the motor industry leaders by about 5%

Part-time Intern

My 7-year skillset:
- Product management
- Project management
- Product Analysis
- Consulting
- Customer Experience

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