Simon Boqvist

Growth Opportunities | Growth Insights at Spotify

Growth Strategist at Spotify based in Stockholm, Sweden. Working with monitoring, understanding and improving Spotify’s user growth from a strategic perspective across all possible growth levers (Product, Marketing, etc.) and throughout the user funnel.Previously Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. 

Bella Valentini

Acquisition Marketer at HubSpot

Bella spearheaded the acquisition strategy for the HubSpot Academy YouTube channel, growing subscribers over 385% and views by nearly 1000% in 12 months, making YouTube one of HubSpot Academy’s top 5 lead acquisition channels.Beyond YouTube, Bella’s developed strategies for lead gen campaigns and leads redesign projects for HubSpot’s website properties on www.hubspot.com as a website and CRO strategist.  

Jia Qing Ho

Head of CRM at Preply (ex Skyscanner)

Prior to Preply, JQ was the growth lead and product owner managing re-engagement channels at Skyscanner where he built and scaled a growth team that is responsible for driving product activation and retention across the customer lifecycle.
Today, he’s leading the CRM team at Preply, and doing what he’s passionate about: building a team and enabling them to do rapid experimentation across channels and product.   

Vlad Laichici 

Growth & Acquisition Manager at Philips

Vlad is currently helping Pregnancy+ become #1 parenting platform by getting millions of new users to install and use their app. He loves growth, designing experiments, running them, analyzing and improving marketing and product.

Sebastian Witkowski, MBA

Head of Marketing CEE at Johnson & Johnson

Seasoned marketer with experience in blue-chip companies like Johnson&Johnson, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, Henkel.
Spent several years in the UK, Sweden, Germany and Poland. Managed both leader brands and challengers in highly competitive environments across a wide scope of industries (cosmetics, detergents, household care, drinks & dairy).
Experience in innovations, non-innovation-led growth, success models, ATL, BTL, digital and community marketing. 
Effie awards judge. 

Ferdinand Goetzen

Director of Growth at 3D Hubs

Over the past years, Ferdinand has worked with over 400 companies from Pipedrive to KLM, helping them implement mindset, processes and tactics for Growth. He was previously Lead Trainer at Growth Tribe.

Ekaterina Kachan

Team Lead of Asian Markets Growth at Skylum Software

Ekaterina has managed ExpoPromoter, a web platform focused on delivering visitors’ leads to Chinese trade shows. The platform has been launched in Ukraine and successfully localized in China.

Today she is in charge of Asian Markets Growth at Luminar. Ekaterina runs Luminar’s marketing localization and business development in China, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Katerina used to live in China and participated in a program of ChinaAccelerator – TOP Asian’s accelerator (the Asian analog of Y Combinator).

Valentine Hrytsenko

Chief Marketing Officer at Ajax Systems

After successfully building a variety of digital communication strategies for major international brands, Valentine Hrytsenko joined Ajax Systems in 2016.
His vision shook off the conservative flair from the market of security systems and continues to drive the Ajax signature marketing approach.