Alex Alexakis
Investor at Marathon Investor
Greece
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2020 - Current
Day one partner to Greek tech founders
Captain
2020
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Senior Product Manager
2018 - 2020
Hospitality tech company, transforming the mid to long-term housing experience for business professionals and individual travellers. Presence in the US, Europe and Middle East. • Joined the product team early on (PM #2), to lead the booking platform and focus on growth and conversion. • The team grew online deals from 9% to 65%. • Drove hiring process for 3 PMs and 2 UX researchers.
Blueground provides furnished apartments.
Raised $301,679,151.00 from Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, HSBC and Silicon Valley Bank.
Product Manager
2015 - 2018
Online recruitment software that helps companies find the right talent. Joined the product team early on (PM #2) to build a new product line (Sourcing) and lead a team of developers, designers, and data scientists. Launched the following products: • People Search, the candidate sourcing product line of Workable to help companies find the right candidates through machine learning. • Workable Job Board for job seekers. • Integrations with job boards and managed technology partnerships.
Building stuff, Product & UX
2013 - 2018
• 2017-2018: Kenza - CI/CD for Machine Learning. Team from Expedia, JustEat, Workable. Winners of Product Hunt Global Hackathon 2017 among 4,500 teams. Judges from YC, FB, AWS, Slack, and many VCs. Launched open source project (Sagify) to train and deploy ML/DL models on AWS SageMaker https://github.com/Kenza-AI • 2014-2016: Trivitap - Quiz mobile game. Team from Revolut, Expedia, JustEat. ~400 downloads in the first week. • 2013-2014: Edtech startup helping students enter top-tier UK universities. Team from LSE and Cambridge. Managed to get tens of students into well-respected UK universities. Closed down ops as we couldn't scale.
Technology Consultant
2014 - 2015
IT projects for the European Commission
Sword Group delivers high value business applications to organizations across regulated industries.
Growth & Operations
2013 - 2014
Information Systems Analyst
2012 - 2013
Danimals provides kids' yogurt and smoothies in various flavors, rich in calcium and Vitamin D, with no artificial ingredients.
E-Business Intern
2011 - 2011