Michael Babich

• Give lectures to entrepreneurs and small businesses on the ways to avoid mistakes while building tech companies, products and communicating to customers early on; • Founder of "Co-founder Anonymous Club"—local events that help to find a co-founder with similar interests and required expertise; • Actively participate in development of Ukrainian startup ecosystem, organize events, and speak publicly.

• Founded the company, built beta, achieved substantial growth, and managed it at all levels: strategic vision, business development, strategic partnerships, financial projections, product management & development, customer development, relations with press, presentations to investors and during conferences.

Launched and developed the branch in Ukraine: • Prepared a strategic vision of organization, management and profitability of the branch in Ukraine; • Developed short and long term objectives and operating plans for future development of the branch; • Performed marketing analysis of Ukraine media market; • Set target partners for future main business projects; • Determine product strategy; • Built strong, motivated team in Ukraine;

Responsible for company strategic development, investor and partner relations, financial and HR management. Managed the company on a day-to-day basis. Prepared financial reports to investors and licensors. Conducted client liaison, negotiations, contracts, and administrative activity. • Managed up to 50 employees in two offices – Kyiv and Kharkiv; • Coded: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Flash/ActionScript, HTML, CSS; • Organized massive training events for clients’ distributors of mobile phones.

Launched and developed Ukrainian edition of the magazine: • Set up office in Ukraine and build sales, production, and editors teams; • Built distribution network and negotiated with key industry players; • Managed stakeholders, reporting to the investors, licensors and International partners; • Responsible for strategy, budgets, financial, marketing, and advertising; • Organized big gala launch event in join efforts with Armani Italian and Ukrainian offices;

Founded and built the company, built motivated and professional team. Responsible for financial and HR management, project management, client liaison, contracts, and administrative. • Managed up to 30 employees in two offices – Kyiv and Kharkov; • Coded: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Flash/ActionScript, HTML, CSS.

Conducted projects in leader role on investment consulting, market research, trade finance, research and analysis, and project presentation: • Investment project financial statements development for American construction company; • English language periodicals survey for multinational English language business magazine; • New business development for Italian food processing equipment company.

• L’Oreal cosmetic and Boehringer Ingelheim pharmaceutics producer: market research, market penetration, competitors activity analysis, brand managing, focus groups, financial transactions, structuring advertising budgets, estimating production costs, and reporting directly to the head office; • L’Oreal shampoo sales increased 7 times, hair colour increased 4 times.

This course covers the content of a semester-long MBA core course.

This course focuses on the ways to successfully grow an existing business (Part I) and the common challenges faced when they attempt to grow substantially (Part II).

Major: International Economic Relations, Finance, English, Management, Marketing, Business correspondence in English. Minor: Accounting, Advertising.