BOYAN SIMEONOV
Marketing Executive
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5 www.tedxvarna.com
+ Sofia, Bulgaria
EXPERIENCE
MOST PROUD OF
Manager
3
Beehive Co-working Space Varna
Building an active startup
communty in Varna
Me and my team from Beehive managed
to build a local startup ecosystem in Varna
with active community.
r Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 + Varna
Beehive is the first co-working space in Varna and outside of Sofia. It is
situated in the center of Varna. I started working there as a marketing
executive and a few months later I became a manager of the company.
For one year me and the team I worked with managed to make Beehive
the most successful co-working space outside Sofia, to organize plenty of
events including TEDxVarna, Startup Weekend, Europe Code Week,
Startup Europe Week etc. and to execute the projects "Inspire",
"CultureMe" and the first design conference in Varna "Raster Minds".
Photography exhibition
After working more than 5 years as a
photographer I had the opportunity to be
part of several exhibitions in Bulgaria
presenting pictures from my trips.
Beehive was a host of more than 100 free educational lectures.
Beehive organizes educational courses for students and young
professionals in IT, Design, Architecture providing more than 50
certificates for completion in 2016.
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Captain
of Varna youth basketball club for 3 years.
Beehive is an organizer of many meetups in Varna - Silicon Drinkabout
(IT), Marketing talks, Raster Minds (Design), Wordpress meetup,
building sustainable community in the city.
Co-founder and Creative Director
LANGUAGES
Urban Tapes
English
r Sep 2016 - ongoing + Bulgaria
Native
Urban Tapes is the first brand for acoustic sessions in Bulgaria. It started
in September 2016. It has already recorded a few of the most trendy
musicians in the country (Hayes&Y, Ostava, P.I.F., Jeremy?). The main goal
of Urban Tapes is to give a different point of view of popular songs and to
be a stage for many unpopular artists around Bulgaria. Urban Tapes
shoots live at typical urban landscapes trying to bring the music back in
the streest around the people
We've recorded with more than 20 artists for less than 3 months
Italian
Intermediate
Russian
Intermediate
turning Urban Tapes into the most exciting new music platform in
Bulgaria.
Journalist and Project Developer
Podmosta.bg
r Aug 2013 - ongoing + Bulgaria
Personal responsibilities:
- writing articles
- developing the project
- social media presence
- partnerships
Podmosta.bg is one of the leading cultural online media in Bulgaria
operating completely independently.
PROJECTS
TEDxVarna
r Mar 2016 - ongoing + Varna
Licensee & Team Leader
TEDxVarna is the largest conference event in
Eastern Bulgaria, part of TED brand, with more
than 550 participants in each event.
Amazing speakers decided to be part of
TEDxVarna such as Plamen Russev, Evgenia
Peeva, Dr. Mel Gill, Samer Karam etc.
EXPERIENCE
PROJECTS
Sales Manager
Startup Weekend Varna
158 Ltd.
r Apr 2015 - Dec 2016 + Location
r Sep 2014 - Dec 2016 + Varna
Organizer & Team Leader
Personal responsibilities:
- Market research
- Networking
- Participation in startup events and conferences
- Meetings with customers
- Completing deals
Startup Weekend is a 54-hour weekend event,
I brought many new clients to the company increasing its revenue with
27%.
Mentor
ABLE Mentor
during which groups of developers, business
managers, startup enthusiasts, marketers,
graphic artists and more pitch ideas for new
startup companies, form teams around those
ideas, and work to develop a working
prototype by Sunday evening
Me and my team managed to organize 4
Startup Weekends in Varna for less than 2
years.
The outcome is 44 new startup projects; 400
participants; 30 mentors.
r Sep 2016 - ongoing + Bulgaria
ABLE Mentor is a project by the Association of Bulgarian Leaders and
Entrepreneurs. Its aim is to take high school students` ideas one step
forward by assigning them a mentor with whom they can develop their
own projects.
Helping a student to define a project and reach its goals.
Brand Marketing Coordinator
Cutty Sark
r Aug 2015 - Aug 2016 + Bulgaria
Cutty Sark is a scottish whiskey brand which started a big compaign to
become more popular in Bulgaria.
I built an entire database about bulgarian underground artists, so the
brand had the opportunity to position itself better and increase its sells
with more than 20%.
EDUCATION
Master's degree, Advertising
and Media communications
University of Economics - Varna
r Oct 2015 - June 2016
Bachelor's degree, Marketing
University of Economics Varna |
Poznan University of Economics |
University of Ljubljana
r Sep 2011 - Sep 2015
Marketing Consultant
Marina La Gomera
r Oct 2015 - Jan 2016 + Canary Islands, Spain
Week 1: Understanding the company’s values and processes
Week 2: Defining the company’s target audience and partners
Week 3: Exploring cultural differences of new and potential customers
Week 4: Working on possibilities for expanding the size of the current
market
Week 5: Working on increasing the number of services that the company
offers
Week 6: Defining brand identity, core values, brand equity and brand
display in order to reach the target audience that has been defined.
Week 7: Working with designers and a marketing team on positioning the
brand in the right places
Week 8: Helping with preparation for an International Conference and
Exhibition
Both ports in Tenerife and La Gomera increased their bookings from
Eastern Europeans with 15%.
BOOKS
Creativity
, Inc.
Zero to
One
Ed Catmull
Peter Thiel
99 francs
Frederic
Beigbeder
