Dmitry FonarevFounder

United States - Boston, Massachusetts

Skilled Executive and CEO.
Operator, Coach, and Advisor to growth stage companies, CEO's and CTO's.

One failed startup + One IPO + Three (1 Strategic and 2 PE) successful exits later...
Passionate Product and Engineering Leader.
Building new and helping existing teams across the world reach new heights of scale, success, and efficiencies.

The Meaning of Life (other than 42): It is about making a difference and having fun.
Difference - getting things done, delivering creative solutions, removing obstacles, helping others.
Having fun - working with motivated people, making decisions, taking risks, learning from mistakes, Winning!!!

Longer Summary:
• Engineering and Business Leader with extensive experience building Products enabling High Velocity/Low Touch GTM motions, B2B Enterprise Applications, SaaS, On-Prem, Desktop, Embedded, overall Software art and sciences
• Product and Engineering process must be easy to understand, measured by organic and intuitive in KPI's, and connected to the Business goal; Yet, it all starts and ends with Key People and Leaders in the right places
• Scaling and building new and existing Products and Great teams
• Strong Business sense and strategic vision
• Proven ability to establish credibility with small and large teams, to act as a change agent when necessary, motivate, guide, encourage and lead, creating winning teams and products while having fun in the process
• Track record of successfully translating business goals into implementations, design decisions into market impacts
• Experience in M&A, due diligence, 3rd party contract negotiations, vendor selection, partnerships
• Excel at working across functional boundaries and doing whatever it takes to get products delivered
• Strong Operational and Program Management experience
• Hands-on experience in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Wagile methodologies. These are means to an end, not religions
• Extensive experience in successfully building teams and products from scratch
• 20+ years in starting and leading teams in multiple geo locations: US, Europe, and Asia – the world in not flat
• I coach managers, teams, and individuals. There is no better feeling than a satisfaction of helping a team to succeed
• Believer in dynamic metrics driven teams
• Mentor at Boston University Kindle program - http://www.bu.edu/otd/
• Volunteer judge at The FIRST LEGO Robotics League

If this does not describe who I am or what drives me, drop me a line.