Love to travel with my family
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
09.2004 - 08.2008
Postgraduate Study - Economics
2008.09 - 2011.10
Skills
Leadership and multitasking
Growth and analytical mindset
Entrepreneurial approach
Critical thinking
Business strategy
Certification
Intro to Financial Accounting (University of Pennsylvania)
Interests
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 - 08.2008