Basil Boluk Marketing manager | Digital Producer | Project manager Facebook | Telegram: @basilboluk Skype: Basil Boluk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BasilBoluk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/BasilBoluk YouTube: YouTube Channel Twitter: @basileboluk eMail: basil.boluk@gmail.com Cell phone: 408-844-4151 WhatsApp | Viber: +79213544131 See more on http://thedigitalmarketingrevolution.blogspot.com

Summary A serial entrepreneur, pioneered in many innovative business models such as eCommerce/Marketplace projects, world trade business portal, cross-border marketplace, crowdfunding project, unique online store with many number of SKU, content and social services, pharmacy online store, mHelth & Wellness project, digital marketing strategies for housing construction, gamification in the organic farming process and other.

A strategic consultant for overseas clients entering Russian market and for Russian projects, which are scaled to foreign markets. Possess a keen understanding of the diverse markets, cultures & business styles that exist in Asia, US and Europe.

Professional expertise: startup, SEM, SEA (Google AdWords and CDN, Yandex, myTarget), SEO, SMM (YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, VK), chatbots (Telegram, Facebook), content marketing, usability, A/B test, tech background, cloud CRM solutions (Bitrix24, SalesForce), B2B2C internet marketing, business metrics, community evangelism.

Ambitious, enterprising, creative, modern, sporty, friendly, communicative.

I have the experience in working with manufacturers, SMEs and startup companies in various industries, including:

Apparel & Accessories Automotive Banking Biotechnology / Histology Chemical Computer Consulting Consumer Products Cosmetics Data Science / Big Data / Machine Learning Department Stores Electronics Energy / Solar - Wind Entertainment & Leisure Financial Services Food, Beverage & Tobacco Health Care / Wellness / Fitness Investment Banking Manufacturing Pension Funds Pharmaceuticals / Pharmacy Private Equity Publishing Real Estate Retail & Wholesale Securities & Commodity Exchanges Services Software Sports and eSports Technology Telecommunications Television Transportation Venture Capital

Skills & Expertise Start-ups | Lean startup | Project Management | E-commerce | Business Strategy | Customer Development | Website Development | Business Development | Leadership | Business Analysis | Usability | A/B testing | Scrum management | Agile Methodologies | Search Engine Marketing (SEM) | Google Adwords | Display Advertising | Facebook marketing | Keywords Research | Content Marketing | YouTube marketing | Blogging | SEO | E-commerce SEO | E-marketplaces | Chatbots | Email Marketing | Social Media Marketing | Referral marketing | Loyalty management | Affiliate marketing | E-business planning | CRM | Budget Process | Trade Marketing | Finance | Sales | Sales Management | Web Content Management | Logistics | MySQL | SQL | Accounting | Business Process | Change Management | Corporate Law | Construction | Franchise | Video on demand | Crowdfunding

Experience

Mentor | Digital Producer at Welltory July 2016 – Present | Redwood City (remote)

Welltory is a personal health and wellness assistant on base Big Data and Machine Learning Performance digital marketing channels: - Target audience research and positioning strategy - Facebook, Instagram targeting campains - VK targeting campains - Google AdWords: paid search, display, remarketing - Conversion setting and analyse - Google Search: SEO, content marketing - UI/UX design, sketch, mockup prototyping, web design - Video editing, podcast creating

Marketing manager | Digital producer at Mossebo April 2015 – Present | Saint Petersburg

Performance based marketing agency projects in areas of: - Inbound travels, worldwide hotels - Legal and consulting services - Nano and high-tech materials - Homes building, repair, design - 1st window supermarket "online only" (Veka, Rehau, Deceuninck) - Franchise (repair, design, pharmacies, organic food) - High building (living rooms and apartments in the city, online lease and rent, 3D panoramic photo) - Export-oriented Internet projects (South Africa, South America, Indochina) - Online pharmacy (Rx, OTC, robotic point of delivery) - Online farm (dairy, honey, mushrooms) products for thousands of customers (gamification, new business model for farm products, franchise network) - Online project network bakeries and pastry shops - Medical equipment and histology online service (telemedicine) - Industrial kitting, machines and professional tools - Freight auto parts - System integration, communication and navigation tools, remote installation and testing - Crowdfunding project for banks (credit small business without bank's loan portfolio, scoring on based export-oriented marketplace in 6 languages) - eCommerce (cosmetics, food, lighting, designer and luxury goods, accessories b2b, auction of contracts) - Backend (CRM, ERP, appraisal systems of motivation and the KPI, eBusiness planning, integration: VoIP, web forms, online surveys, scripts, dialogue with the client, chatbots, integration with messengers Facebook, VK, Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, Telegram) Channels: Google AdWords, Google CDN, YouTube, Yandex, Yandex AdNet, MyTarget, targeted campaigns and promotional Facebook posts, Instagram, VK, SEO, content-marketing, e-mail marketing, affiliate marketing, loyalty and partner programs, referral marketing, marketplaces Yandex.Market, Google Merchant, Ebay, Amazon, AliExpress, Rakuten, video-on-demand (VOD) with BBC One and DIY Network Development Methodology: Scrum Agile, Lean Startup, Customer Development

Marketing manager | Business strategist at Oknamarket April 2015 – July 2016 (1 year 4 months) | Saint-Petersburg

OKNAMARKET includes the first fully functional online store for plastic and wooden windows, accessories for windows and interior goods. Also in the services of project will be the section Marvelous (unique author's articles, blogs and videos about architecture and design, construction and repair, video series Home & Garden of BBC, DIY Network etc.), the section Fan zone (a forum of home and garden, tips of designers and

architects, a marketplace of masters of different competences). Also under Autodesk licenses the project integrate with the Autodesk Homestyler, that to give our users an ability free and easy to create an own interior design plan or a home plan (with a consumer’s library) and discuss an own project with other users on the forum between experts of architects and designers.

CMO at WT24 April 2013 – April 2015 (2 years 1 month) | Saint Petersburg

The internet project for foreign economic activity (FEA) participants + a corporate portal on the Bitrix24 system. The social business portal WT24.org. A stage is a creation of prototype: + Social and news portal (look like LinkedIn) + Existing services export and import controls (19 years experience in Russia) + Sale of analysts (a market research, a customs statistic on goods) + Component - the Road map (a detailed plan for the deals FEA) + Component - the Declaration (e-customs declaration online) + Component - the Ring interaction + Component - the Auction (innovations, start-ups) + Component - the Knowledge base (like wiki) + Integrated VRM/SCM (Vendor Relationship Management / Supply Chain Management) + Application (integration) for VRM/SCM (on website WT24.org) with CRM of customers: SalesForce, Zoho, Bitrix24, Megaplan, AmoCRM, BPMonline CRM, 1C + Application (integration) for LinkedIn, Facebook, VKontakte + Mobile apps for Android and iOS

Marketing manager | Marketing director at Triport.ru - iMotomarket March 2013 - April 2015 (2 years 2 months) | Saint Petersburg

Triport.ru is the first Russian project of eCommerce and social thematic portal in one. A target audience of the project are people aged 14-70 years old, aspiring to motorcycles, ATVs, scooters, snowmobiles, PWCs. Triport.ru is not a traditional online store as thousands others. Here is all in one: 1. Social services – live band, community groups, messager, contact levels (strong and weak ties), forum, ring interaction 2. News thematic content - news, blogs, media, custom media, calendar of events, motoWiki 3. The online auction of used moto vehicles (from Russia, USA, Japan and EU) - 1st in Russia 4. The online motomarket for original (OEM) and non-original spare parts, accessories and apparel - smart filter for more 1,000,000 SKU, more than 16 suppliers (USA, EU, JP, CN), fast and efficient logistics, competent salesmen, customers from all over Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan etc.

CMO at Forte November 2011 - March 2013 (1 year 5 months) | Saint Petersburg

The fiber plastic glass windows factory. The largest in Russia Northwest.

CMO at EPC Group

February 2010 - November 2011 (1 year 10 months) | Saint Petersburg

It’s a manufacturer under contract basis in China, then it exports to Russia and CIS an electrical equipment (motors, frequency converters, LED spotlights and fixtures, lighting automation system).

CFO at Poligrafspectr May 2009 - February 2010 (10 months) | Saint Petersburg

It’s a wholesale materials and equipment seller for production printing. It have 2 production sites, 12 subsidiaries in St.Petersburg., Moscow, Krasnodar, Rostov, Kiev, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Minsk, Vilnius, Tashkent. More than 200 employees. A distribution is in Russia and CIS. Suppliers of equipment and materials are from EU, Southeast Asia, Turkey, USA.

CEO | CMO at Ferrolit August 2001 - May 2009 (7 years 10 months) | Saint Petersburg

It’s an import, wholesale and retail seller, also as online store and as a small manufacturer. A business area is a sanitary equipment and finishing materials.

Investment Director at SZLK January 2000 - May 2001 (1 year 5 months) | Saint Petersburg

This business group include the Neman paper, the Kamennogorsk factory offset paper and Nyandoma forest industry.

CFO at Elona March 1999 - November 1999 (9 months) | Saint Petersburg

It’s manufacturer cosmetics for hair, face and body.

CFO Deputy at Global Mineral Reserves LLC October 1997 - October 1998 (1 year 1 month) | Almaty, Kazakhstan

It’s a largest in Kazakhstan mining enterprise. Business include the Shubarkol coal mine, Borly and Togai iron ore deposits.

Principal Specialist of analysis and securities at Karaganda Regional Bank May 1995 - October 1997 (2 years 6 months) | Karaganda, Kazakhstan

Loan, funding, project financing, foreign exchange and stock exchange transactions, securities, asset management.

2D & 3D Artist at Joy&M January 1994 - September 1995 (1 year 9 months) | Karaganda, Kazakhstan

Advertising agency. Creative, copyright, 2D and 3D design, animation.

Volunteer Experience Volunteer at the Valaam Monastery August 2012 - Environment I worked two weeks together with wonderful people.

Certifications Broker and dealer activity The National Securities Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan October 1995 – October 2000

English First Inc. language test Intermediate January 2016

Google AdWords certification - search, display, video and mobile ads Google December 2016

Languages English German Russian Limited working proficiency Limited working proficiency Native

Education Karaganda University of Business, Management and Law Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business administration and management, 1992 - 1997 Grade: 94%

Personal Books, instrumental / rock / R&B / trance music, movies, biking, aikido, snowboarding, kiting Perfectionist who has learned how to survive in a real world Employment Authorization: H1B sponsorship required References will be furnished upon request