Evelina Soldatenko

Company Overview: Manufacturer and importer of fine gifts and accessories. Hired, mentored and promoted 3 direct reports.

• Achieved sales goals and service targets by cultivating and securing new customer relationships
• Increased sales revenue by 40% YTD from Q2 2024 to Q3 2024 by upselling and cross-selling with current 8 accounts within tech accessories, gifting, décor, and personal care sectors
• Cultivated and maintained strong relationships with key decision-makers ensuring consistent communication and fostering long-term partnerships which led to securing multi-million dollar contracts
• Coordinated cross-functional teams to ensure seamless product delivery that led to completely shifting business model from inventory based to upfront orders and improving on-time delivery rates by 90%
• Manage $45+ million worth of business including 30,000 current active orders
• Decreased disputes with clients by 80%
• Successfully managed multiple and complex sales programs by maintaining a high level of organization and attention to detail, leading to consistently exceeding sales targets and achieving customer satisfaction
• Developed new product growth marketing strategies and facilitated entrance into multiple new categories since Q4 2023 resulting in 60% of new revenue growth
• Conducted in-depth research and customer visits to analyze customer's current product offerings, gaps in new products, velocity of inventory turnover and delivered it to market prior to competition
• Liaised with Sourcing, Production and Design Departments to identify new and high revenue generating products and to develop trendy and sellable packaging concepts
• Automated marketing funnel during different stages of sales cycle to run reports and project monthly sales
• Manufacturer and importer of fine gifts and accessories

• Launched and run Women in Global Affairs (WIGA) NYC initiative to empower and mentor women across the industry, attracted 500+ members and achieved 100% self-funding
• Recruited and supervised 5 additional board members from personal, business and university alumni network and nominated Board Chairwoman for the first term and then requested to renew
• Initially membership build out for $0 acquisition costs
• Research people in the industry and developed value add proposition which included job placement assistance, offering a spot to speak/run a seminar/share their research finding/pass on their legacy, etc
• Recruited members through social media outreach, coffee chats, attending industry events, etc
• Accelerated membership recruitment to over 500 industry professionals by envisioning, creating, and executing a sustainable and consistent communication strategy for members
• Distributed newsletter with rich content every 2 weeks, continuously analyzing member engagement, achieving opening ratio of 50-60% and a click through rate of 40%
• Introduced interaction campaigns such as creating discussion posts to encourage members to share their experiences and created spotlight posts to show member accomplishments
• Strategized and implemented year-round programs calendar convening over a thousand of young professionals and students in the Global Affairs including security, sustainability, impact investing, peacebuilding, etc
• Offered 3-4 big panels especially aligned with global industry calendar such as United Nations General Assembly, Earth Day/Climate week, International Women's Day and sponsored 2-3 seminars per year
• Attracted strategic partners by selling our vision of change and legacy which lead to attracting high profile speakers and free venues across NY
• Partners included United Nations, City University of New York, Ukrainian National Women's League of America, Consulate General of Lithuania, New York University
• Managed partner relationships by constant communication, sponsoring their causes on our platform, etc

• Increased the collaboration between US and Lithuania companies and universities by creating projects universities and entities in insurance, financial services and public sectors
• Created communication strategy
• Facilitated trip, meetings and built agenda for the President of Lithuania, Primer Minister and Mayor of Vilnius and created dialogue with 15 universities/businesses to sponsor 'year or semester abroad'

• Conducted local market product research
• Conceived sales ideas and leveraged global investment platforms’ resources to develop
  and help management in monitoring trends in the market for ongoing strategic planning
• Tracked and analyzed sell-side models, including comparison to internal forecasts to
  assess expectations and assess implications for analyst and investor communications
   Tracked and analyzed shareholder base and investment trends for the company its peers,
  and its competitors to inform investor targeting strategy and monitor impact of strategy
  over time
• Partnered with legal and corporate communications to ensure all external
  communications were accurate, consistent with corporate messaging and aligned with
  securities regulations
• Worked with vendors who serviced company’s funds and clients, such as custodians,
  fund accountants, transfer agents and intermediaries; and
• Assumed oversight of holistic fund level monitoring including monitoring and oversight
  of pre-trade requirements for subscriptions and redemptions, restrictions to be
  implemented at fund level.

• Company Overview: Leading, independent consultancy platform matching family offices and private clients to specialist fund managers and highly relevant investment opportunities
• Grew relationships with C-level executives at Family Offices and Private Banks to increase investor book
• Organized marketing materials for institutional and private audiences and achieved a 90% attendance rate
• Leading, independent consultancy platform matching family offices and private clients to specialist fund managers and highly relevant investment opportunities