Nikita Staroshvetckii

Assumed full leadership of the flexgold product organization as the team scaled, with direct ownership of strategy, roadmap, team development, and business outcomes. • Increased quarterly delivery output significantly through structured planning cycles and tighter cross-functional alignment • Own end-to-end product lifecycle: steering, prioritization, and dependency management across Development, Operations, Logistics, Sales, Finance, and Marketing

Led the product from go-live through rapid growth as Product Owner and team lead for the flexgold B2C investment platform. • Drove the go-to-market launch, reaching 10,000 users in year one and 50,000 by the end of year two • Hired 5 product team members in 18 months — defined roles, onboarding, and team rituals from scratch • Managed integration of KYC/AML protocols into the technical architecture, ensuring full regulatory compliance • Oversaw all product-adjacent departments

Served as development lead for the flexgold investment app pre-launch, coordinating internal and external engineering teams toward go-to-market. • Managed parallel workstreams across internal developers and external agencies to maintain biweekly release cadence • Contributed to product strategy, competitive positioning, and launch planning • Promoted to Product Owner / Manager within 11 months

Led development coordination for e-commerce platforms, including goldsilbershop.de — one of Germany's top 30 online stores by sales revenue. • Directed integrations across Salesforce, Business Central, and a proprietary order management system • Coordinated Shopware, PHP, and web development teams alongside stakeholder management • Second of two promotions within two years at SOLIT

• Contributing to strategic projects roll-out • Product Owner and SCRUM contributor to the DEV-team • Coordinating teams and external agencies for Business Central, Shopware, and order management topics

Combined thesis research with hands-on product coordination — the thesis became the product I subsequently shipped. • Wrote a feasibility study for a precious metals investment app for SOLIT — the direct precursor to flexgold • Implemented SCRUM practices within the development team • Coordinated DEV team and external agencies across Shopware, WordPress, and e-commerce projects

- Working in a team together with IT to develop a company-wide purchasing platform – AMP; - Processes and internal system definition and optimization in promotional goods; - Business partner for PSA and AMP systems, with a vast knowledge of other interconnected systems and processes, such as APT, CBX, WFM and other; - Performance analyzing of Lidl lands purchasing behavior; - Creating presentations for the promotion department leaders food and nonfood.

- Sole responsibility for the hotel during shifts for all arising issues; - Proceeding the payments and bookings in the systems; - Co-work with Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, etc. in reservations management.

- Developing and implementing standards for line changeovers; - Efficency of lines improved by 5%; - Changeover efficency by more than 20%; - Layout for the plant reconsidered, digital drawn, and implemented; - Lean Manufacturing and 5s principles in processes considered, as well as safety and legal concerns;

- Getting to know the Greek work and cultural environments; - Serving guest with different cultural backgrounds in a friendly and professional way; - Working in Pylon CRM with Accounting- and Reporting Modules, Optimizing of the Software Settings; - Negotiation in difficult situations with guests, co-work with Guest Relations.

- In-depth courses in Controlling, IT-Applications for Business, and Macroeconomics; - Average grade: 1,3 (very good/excellent.)

- Specializations in finance, corporate governance, and technology business. - EPAS-accredited programme; - Average grade: 4,4/5; - Thesis topic: “The Impact of Capital Structure and Board-Related Characteristics on Investment Decisions and Performance of Finnish Companies”.