Peter Zakharov

CEO

Helsinki, Finland17 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led a tenfold growth in a tech startup.
  • Successfully integrated a major competitor.
  • Developed a risk management system compliant with international standards.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in IIoT with a strong focus on operations and risk management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Operations ManagementStrategic LeadershipProduct ManagementRisk ManagementBusiness Analysis

Other Skills

Business StrategyProduct LaunchBusiness PlanningPricing StrategyBusiness ProcessData AnalysisIIoTPricing AnalysisFinancial AnalysisNew Product RolloutAnalytical SkillsFinancial ReportingTaxationRisk AssessmentRisk Analysis

About

Tech company/product leader. 15+ years in IT and finance, 6+ years in operations and finance management at an IIoT company (B2B startup, 200 staff), with a background in risk management and analytics. Expert in business process engineering and automation with a proven track record in building high-performance teams (incl. tech teams) eager to achieve company’s business goals. Able to assess risks in product development strategies promptly and accurately, and to identify bottlenecks and areas of growth in business processes. Experience in launching products internationally. Focused on making the business profitable and efficient.

Experience

17 yrs
Total Experience
5 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Mdcplus

Chief Executive Officer

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Helsinki Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

Zyfra company

Chief Operations Officer

Dec 2016Dec 2023 · 7 yrs

  • Combining CFO and COO responsibilities at the international startup, which develops and implements MDCplus, IIoT solution for digital transformation in manufacturing, with over USD 7mn in revenue.
  • In charge of building and implementing business strategy of both the company and the product.
  • 7 top managers as direct reports; supervising product development, technical support, project management office and implementation, hardware development and manufacturing, backoffice, sales, procurement, HR, and GR.
  • KPIs: yearly revenue and profit goals.
  • 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:
  • Built an IT company that has grown х10 in 6 years (from 15 to 150 staff) and become profitable from year one.
  • Attracted a strategic investor worth USD Хmn. This also helped acquire a competitor, No. 2 in Russia, successfully integrate it with the team and claim a market share.
  • Built from scratch an efficient system integration service to work with Enterprise clients. As a result, connected over 15,000 equipment units to the monitoring system, boosting the market share to 60%.
  • Obtained Skolkovo resident status for the company, which made it possible to implement tax optimization worth USD Ymn and attract over USD Zmn in government subsidies.
  • Carried out a project to enter the European market in the present circumstances: developed a way for international commercialization and ensured supply of Made in EU software.
  • Switched the company to direct supply of components from China, increasing return on each purchase by 15%.
  • Developed an incentive system linked to the company’s business goals and cascaded it to the company’s 25 top leaders.
Operations ManagementStrategic Leadership

Kristall production company - one of the world’s largest diamond polishers

Risk Management Leader

Jan 2014Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Built from scratch a company-wide risk management system compliant with the international standards such as COSO ERM integrated framework and FERMA.
  • Developed and implemented an automated risk mapping tool to boost speed and efficiency.
Business PlanningPricing StrategyRisk Management

Kristall production company - one of the world’s largest diamond polishers

Product manager / Economic Analyst / Data Analyst

Apr 2009Jan 2016 · 6 yrs 9 mos

  • Analyzed the company’s business processes in order to improve its productivity, efficiency and profitability based on big data.
  • Developed and implemented analytical models.
  • Created and maintained management reports; in charge of pricing.
  • 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:
  • Created a commercial contracts register and used it as a basis for a BI system, which made management reporting 50% less labour-consuming.
  • Developed and implemented software to control the three-dimensional pricing matrix, thus increasing the accuracy and processing rate of data x10.
  • Built a strategy to support the industry given the lifting of the export duty and prepared the required documents, which helped attract government subsidies worth USD 50 mn. Wrote a script for automated investment accounting so that shareholders could track every penny spent.
Business ProcessData AnalysisBusiness Analysis

Education

Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University)

Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University)

Computational economist

Jan 2009Present

Maksim Batyrev Academy (Wake Up)

Efficient Leader

Jan 2021Present

GoPractice

Data-Driven Product Management

Jan 2019Present

Product Heroes by Ilya Krasinsky

Product Management

Jan 2019Present

Ernst & Young Business Academy

Risk Management

Jan 2016Present

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