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Anton Trushin

Anton Trushin

Executive In Tech

Summary

Date of birth: 23 Mar 1986. Married, 2 kids.

My work experience is more than 15 years. And for more than 11 years out of this I work in Tech companies leadership. Mostly focused on growth, scale and significant improvements in unit economics of businesses by implementing technologies. I am most interested in companies where I can support a double digits growth and help with leadership.

ex-Wheely, now Houzz.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Director

Houzz (www.houzz.com)
London
09.2022 - Current
  • UK, France and Spain sales teams senior management and leadership with constant quota delivery;
  • BizDev, Growth and Sales leadership for Global Houzz with focus on UK and FR;
  • Strategic BizOps projects with Data Science and Product teams.

General Manager

Houzz Russia (www.houzz.ru)
Moscow
04.2016 - 08.2022
  • Head of Houzz in Russia;
  • Full launch and scale (x10) of all monetization channels. Including team recruiting, tech stuff and product/legal/financial/accounting processes;
  • Work in line with Global OKRs and KPIs (significant improvements of Productivity (x2), Retention (x2), Churn (x3) and CAC/LTV (x2) as a results);
  • Growth of registered professionals catalogue from 10k to 110k (Architects, Interior designers, Builders) and organic traffic from 500k to 2.5m;
  • Full P&L responsibility;
  • Switch from Top line to Bottom line mindset (growth and profitability balance);
  • Pivot to SaaS products (Houzz Pro);
  • Regular Quarterly / Annually goals overachievement. Resulted in 3 promotions;
  • Regular Reports to VPs and CEO;
  • Employees Performance Improvement Programs and Mentorship. Resulted in the growth of 4 Sales managers with a proven track records;
  • Highest Country Manger's score based on the global Company's polls.

Co-Founder, General Manager

Wheely (www.wheely.com)
Moscow
11.2011 - 04.2016
  • Head of Wheely;
  • Launch of the business then pivot to private chauffeured journeys company and further growth and development;
  • Headcount increasing from 5 to 60 employees;
  • Scalability from 1 operating city to 7 (including London);
  • New cities teams recruiting, branches opening;
  • HR and accounting management;
  • Backend, frontend, product, sales and mobile teams management;
  • PR and performance marketing activities management;
  • Partnerships and supply-chains management (1k+ partners, 500k+ users);
  • Financial/accounting management, Holding incorporation in US + Netherlands;
  • Costs reducing, Strategic planning, Tax optimization.

Sales Executive

Zedo
Saint-Petersburg
10.2010 - 11.2011
  • Developing strategies to promote services at Russian IT market and receiving agreement of Board of Directors;
  • Analysis of Russian IT market;
  • Analysis of competitors;
  • Defining company's goals for development in Russia;
  • Localizing company's products for sales at Russian Market;
  • Kick-off sales of the SaaS AdServer.

Business Director

Music Promo Projects
Saint-Petersburg
01.2009 - 10.2010
  • Planning and budgeting (strategic planning, Gantt charts creating);
  • Financial results planning (turnover of money, costs, profitability, profit);
  • Projects management (concepts creation, Gantt charts managing);
  • Developing strategies to promote projects;
  • Defining company's goals for development;
  • Creating and developing Sales Channels;
  • Checking financial and economic metrics;
  • Market's monitoring on prices and competitors; - Creating calculations;
  • Working with contracts;
  • Creating business offers;
  • Negotiating;
  • Human Resources management.

Business Director

BPS Group
Saint-Petersburg
09.2007 - 12.2008
  • Planning and selling B2B services (security);
  • Financial results planning (turnover of money, costs, profitability, profit);
  • Checking financial and economic metrics;
  • Developing strategies to promote security services;
  • Defining company's goals for development;
  • Market's monitoring on prices and competitors;
  • Creating and developing Sales Channels;
  • Managing Tenders (searching network tenders, creating papers for tenders, attending tenders); - Creating business offers;
  • Organizing seminars and conferences on security.

Education

Master of Science - Economics

Petersburg University of Engineering And Economics, Saint-Peresburg, Russia
09.2004 - 2008.08

Postgraduate Study - Economics

Petersburg University of Engineering And Economics, Saint-Petersburg
2008.09 - 2011.10

Skills

Leadership and multitasking

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Certification

Intro to Financial Accounting (University of Pennsylvania)

Interests

Love to travel with my family

Playing guitar and piano

Used to do a professional comedy on TV

Timeline

Director - Houzz (www.houzz.com)
09.2022 - Current
General Manager - Houzz Russia (www.houzz.ru)
04.2016 - 08.2022
Co-Founder, General Manager - Wheely (www.wheely.com)
11.2011 - 04.2016
Sales Executive - Zedo
10.2010 - 11.2011
Business Director - Music Promo Projects
01.2009 - 10.2010
Petersburg University of Engineering And Economics - Postgraduate Study, Economics
2008.09 - 2011.10
Business Director - BPS Group
09.2007 - 12.2008
Petersburg University of Engineering And Economics - Master of Science, Economics
09.2004 - 2008.08
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