HIGH-LOADED IT PROJECTS WITH AI-SUPPORT. DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT
KONSTANTIN STEIN — FOUNDER, CEO, MANAGER WITH 25+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN MEDIA AND IT. GLAD TO MEET YOU!
EXPERIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN 5 COUNTRIES. 6 SPOKEN LANGUAGES
Konstantin Stein
25+ YEARS IN IT & MEDIA. FROM SKILLED PROFESSIONAL TO OWNER
Why me?
I can build a strong team fast and motivate it to achieve goals. Get even the impossible — I know how to make the process interesting.
My special qualities are a combination of a business approach and a creative spirit: experience in managing companies and editorial offices, creative & sales departments.
In recent years, a special emphasis in all my projects is the use of AI.
Last Experience
2024-2025 — CEO, founder of the AI-based app & service, OPTILIFE. Accounting and payment of utility bills in Serbia (for individuals and homeowners).
2020-2024 — CEO, founder, news and entertainment sites BLITZ.PLUS and others. Total DAU (number of unique visitors per day): 4-6 million. The team consisted of up to 158 people, annual revenue in 2022 and 2023 was over 1.5 million Euros (left the business to partners in Russia).
2019 — Alumnus of the U.S. Dept of State IVLP Edward R. Murrow Program for Digital & Broadcast Media.
2018-2020 — management of two entertainment sites in the nationwide media holding KP. Editorial management, development, reaching DAU 3.5 million in 9 months and annual revenue up to one million Euros. Up to 63 employees.
2015-2018 — CEO of radio SILVER RAIN in Yekaterinburg. Hired all 23 employees (presenters, technicians, salespeople, etc.), came up with a regional program grid, developed and sold the project.
2014-2015 — Commercial Director of the ZNAK.COM portal.
Achievements
Managed to study and work in five different countries (from 1 to 5 years), speaking now 6 languages. The best, after Russian, is German (second native), the worst — Georgian (lived only a year there, unfortunately). English — upper intermediate. Serbian, Ukrainian — conversational.
Studied in Austria from 1990 till 1993 — from a simple district gymnasium in Vienna, to the Catholic Jesuit college KALKSBURG.
University — Ural's State Politechnical University, learned computer science.
Worked in a creative environment — music and radio. Started as a rock DJ in nightclubs in 1995-1997. From a host and sound engineer, to CEO on several radio stations in 1998, from 2000 to 2007 and from 2010 to 2018.
1998-2000 — first own business, CEO of a travel agency.
2006-2010 — lived in Odessa, Ukraine, worked & studied branding and advertising in one of the best branding agencies in Ukraine — MOTTO. And for the first time in his career, launched 2 websites — a political association portal and the personal site of the historian and publicist MARK SOLONIN.
In 2013, produced a book — the first biography of the politician and civil activist EVGENY ROIZMAN.