Job title and company: Startup & Developer Marketing Manager, ASEAN – Amazon Web Services

Country: Singapore

Ivan is a Marketing manager for Startups and Developers in Amazon Web Services in the ASEAN region (Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines). He’s been living in Singapore for 4 years, prior to that he spent 1 year in Indonesia working on his first startup TastyCarrot – a marketplace for ordering food online, and prior to that he worked in Kuala Lumpur as an engineer in renewable energy field. He built 2 other profitable startups since then, and worked in EduTech SME as Product Manager, and Digital Marketing Manager. Ivan is passionate about helping startups scale, find a product-market fit, and create GTM strategies. Ivan holds the Master’s degree from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), University of Zagreb.

Expertise:

• Business Strategy,
• Marketing Strategy & Execution,
• Scaling businesses,
• Product management,
• Digital Transformation,
• UX,
• Leadership,
• Marketing Management,
• Event Management,
• Integrated Marketing Campaigns,
• Digital Marketing,
• Marketing Operations,
• Business Development,
• eCommerce,
• Data Analytics.

Supported startups:

In 2015/16, mentored multiple traditional SMEs in Digital Marketing. In 2016, mentored 4 social enterprises that attended Impact HUB Zagreb Incubator: STEMI (stemi.education), TravaBled (travabled.com), Unwinding, Aurora Colapis. In 2018, mentoring a startup Uradi-zaradi.rs who’s a part of Startup Centre Belgrade.

Network: Startups, Startup ecosystem players, Government institutions supporting startups, Developer associations, Startup/Developer media in ASEAN, Croatia, US:

• Singapore
• Thailand
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Vietnam
• Croatia
• Seattle
• San Francisco

Area of interest: Scalable businesses, B2B startups, SaaS solutions, Mobile apps, Deep tech companies (AI, Machine Learning, Big Data, IoT), Blockchain technologies.