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Founder & Lead Consultant
Visibility ProFounder & Lead Consultant
Jan. 2025Cambridge, England, United KingdomVisibility Pro is a boutique consultancy helping digital brands and early-stage products improve their visibility across AI-driven search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and others. After nearly a decade of running market research projects for accelerators, startups and investment teams, I started Visibility Pro to address a growing need: being findable and trusted in the AI-powered search landscape. We offer AI visibility audits, lightweight research services, and product validation frameworks tailored to fast-moving teams who need clarity before building or scaling. Key areas: – AI visibility audits (ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.) – Market & competitor research – Early product validation – Influence marketing for brand exposure
Program Associate
Cambridge EnterpriseProgram Associate
Nov. 2023 - Sep. 2024Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Senior Lecturer
Innopolis UniversitySenior Lecturer
Sep. 2021 - Nov. 2023Innopolis, Tatarstan, Russia- Created and structured the Master’s program «Tech Entrepreneurship» from scratch, consisting of 12 academic courses, and hired 8 instructors for the program. - Mentored 150+ students who later built 20+ start-ups and IT companies. - Lectured courses «Market Research for Startups» and «IT Business Start» at the Innopolis University (60 academic hours each, in English). - Organised and conducted 3 master classes and workshops in partnership with educational and venture companies: Bortnik Fund (MVP & testing hypothesis), IKRA (Market sizing) and British Higher School of Art and Design (How to test creative business ideas). - Performed as a guest speaker at the Student Business Club “Startup House” (50 members), conducted business games and master classes.
Founder & CEO
StartupFairyFounder & CEO
Jan. 2018 - Nov. 2023Moscow, Russia- Established a client flow of more than 200 clients in 6 years and achieved an agency revenue of £210K in 2022. - Authored an «Market Research for start-ups» online course and taught 90 people. - Built investment documentation for 9 start-ups that led to stable cash flow through venture rounds. - Guided 6 full-time team members and up to 12 project-based analysts monthly. - Managed 3-8 research projects every month for different clients: from start-ups to state-related corporations.
Venture Analyst
VEB-CapitalVenture Analyst
Jan. 2018 - Dec. 2018Москва, Россия- Reviewed 20+ start-up investment documents for the venture rounds. - Orchestrated 5 events for connecting start-ups with ventures and funds such as: start-up pitches, blockchain hackathons, venture carousel. - Facilitated due diligence and financial assessment for the fund pipeline (around 80 start-up teams annually).
Startup coordinator
YandexStartup coordinator
Jan. 2014 - Dec. 2015Москва, Россия- Ran the application process for 2 batches of accelerator programs (200 applicants each). - Organised 3 to 5 educational events weekly. - Scheduled the work of guest speakers, mentors, experts that led to more structured and effective venture building process.

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