Gleb Zhukov, MBA Candidate 2011

Email: Gleb.Zhukov@gmx.net Telephone No: +31 681 640 343

LinkedIn Profile Citizenship: EU

Career Profile

 Internationally-oriented market research and business intelligence professional, experienced in client

communication and conflict resolution. Successful in analysing data, situations and characters, offering
creative solutions, persuasively presenting them and convincing people. Has proven solid brainstorming
skills combined with the competence to keep strict timelines while working efficiently under pressure. Is able
to comprehend the big picture, while having a keen eye for details and quality.

Career Highlights

 Was given responsibility of supervising a team of 8 people within 3 months of career start in India:
consulting/ market research company Evalueserve.
 Was chosen to be a part of a start-up team for the new corporate office of in Europe.
 One of the youngest and fastest promoted managers in Evalueserve with 2,500+ employees.
 Has built and coached successful teams with up to 10 members with various backgrounds in international
environments (has spent over 3 months in Germany, Netherlands, UK, India, Russia, Romania and Latvia) on
wide range of projects covering various geographies.
 Has simultaneously managed 4 market research/consulting projects with the team members working in four
company locations: in China, India, Chile and Romania; receiving great client feedback on all of them.
 Gained multiple Employee Performance Awards: Achievements in Teamwork in Evalueserve India, 2007
and for Outstanding Performance in Evalueserve Europe, 2010.
 Was awarded full MBA scholarship after winning an internal competition in the company.

Recent employment

May 2008 – Sep 2010 Manager/ Evalueserve Europe/ Consulting/Market

Research/ Business Intelligence/ www.evalueserve.com

 Responsibilities: Project Management - project initiation, client communication, preparation of business

offers, project planning, team management (up to 10 people), report preparation.
 Projects by industry leaders in various fields: Consulting/Advisory/Intelligence (Booz & Company,
Deloitte, Economist Intelligence Unit, iSuppli, KPMG and McKinsey); Personal care (Beiersdorf, Procter &
Gamble); Energy, Gas & Oil (Siemens, StatoilHydro).
 Types of projects: market entry analysis, competitive intelligence, full market reports, supplier and
vendor identification, rapid research, research on political and regulative environments, internal
structure and supply chain analysis, research on regional energy and logistics infrastructure.

Previous working experience

Apr 2007 – Apr 2008 Business Analyst, Quality Management Coach/

Evalueserve India/ www.evalueserve.com

 Responsibilities: Quality management of Russian and German speaking analysts, conducting primary
research interviews across various projects
 Extensive information search, extraction and analysis/ quantitative and qualitative surveys
Education and Qualifications

Sep 2010 – Sep 2011 International MBA/ Nyenrode Business University,

Netherlands/ www.nyenrode.nl

Select projects:
 Analysis of organizational structure of Cisco Netherlands and consultancy on internal improvements.
Received a positive feedback from the management of Cisco Netherlands.
 Creating and launching Villebois wine brand and distribution system (Project for French winery.
Consulting on online and offline marketing activities and increasing distribution margin)
 Development of social media strategy for Bavaria beer brewery with the aim of increasing market share,
creating brand awareness and customer loyalty. Successfully implemented in two stages with Bavaria.
 Analysis of application of mobile apps in business environment on the example of Dutch insurance industry
in cooperation with Sogeti and Cordares.
Presented at Successful Apps conference in Jan 2011 in Utecht, www.succesvolleapps.nl.
 Apps strategy model: design and creation of a tool, assisting in formulation of mobile application strategy
in various businesses. Funds contributed by various companies.

Oct 2003 – Mar 2007 BSc in International Business Administration/ Europa

Universität Viadrina, Germany/ www.euv-frankfurt-o.de

 Main courses: Finance, Marketing, Logistics, Business Informatics

 Received German government scholarship for outstanding academic performance
 Thesis title: An Investigation of Mobile Technologies Usage along the Supply Chains in the Record
Industry

Feb 2006 – Jul 2006 Exchange semester certificate, Socrates/Erasmus

scholarship/ Maastricht University, the Netherlands,
www.maastrichtuniversity.nl

 Main courses: Financial management, international marketing

Sep 2000 – May 2003 Certificate in Computer Science/ Progmeistars, Riga,

Latvia/ www.progmeistars.lv

 Design of algorithms/ Pascal/ Databases management/ Spreadsheet application and data processing

Other professional skills and interests

 IT: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); VB.net, html, Pascal, GoldWave, SoundForge, Adobe
Photoshop, Ableton Live, Propellerhead Reason, PCDJ DEX
Databases: Hoovers, OneSource, Factiva, ISI Emerging Markets, EIU, Kompass, DgMarket, Zawya
 Languages: Fluent: English, Russian, German, Latvian; Basic: Polish, Ukrainian, Romanian, French, Dutch
 Writing: published articles in the academic research magazine Communicator issued by Baltic
International Academy/ Influence of technological advancement on music industry supply chain
 Online business: eBay business, membership since 2004
Currently developing own commercial website.
 Music: event organizing, music production, instruments (piano, turntables)
 International Affairs: Researches on countries in EU, CIS, Southeast Asia, Africa and Middle East.
 Law: 2 internships as a Lawyer’s assistant in Jet Latvia.

References

Desiree van Gorp/ Program Director, MBA/ Nyenrode Business University/ D.vGorp@Nyenrode.nl
Pushkar Chatterji/ Assistant Vice President/ Evalueserve Europe/ Pushkar.Chatterji@Evalueserve.com
Aditya Jain/ Assistant Vice President/ Evalueserve India/ Aditya.Jain@Evalueserve.com
Peter Besselmann/ Program Manager, BBA/ Viadrina University/ Peter@Besselmann.com