About Marius
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- GALLEON (AI / Data Technology)Co-FounderTECHOctober 2024 - Today (1 year and 8 months)London, UKFollowing a successful scale-up journey at TransferGo, I was accepted into the Antler VC residency to gain a 360-degree understanding of a modern technology business. This led to building Galleon, an invaluable strategic education in product, technology, and venture capital.
- Architected the go-to-market strategy for an agentic AI platform targeting the multi-billion dollar AI training and UGC data markets.
- Spearheaded product development from concept to a functional MVP, defining a full suite of over 50 automated tests for data quality, brand safety, and authenticity.
- Developed the investor narrative and pitch materials, presenting the business case to partners at Antler and other early-stage VCs.
- TRANSFERGO (Fintech)Head of MarketingTECHJuly 2016 - January 2024 (7 years and 6 months)London, UKDirected all global marketing functions for this high-growth fintech, serving as a key member of the leadership team that navigated the company from Seed to a successful Series C scale-up.
- Architected the marketing engine that scaled the business from an early stage to £50M in Annual Recurring Revenue, driving customer growth from 200k to 7M.
- Acquired over 6.8 million customers while maintaining a highly efficient Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) of under £20, achieving a 3-month payback period on marketing investment.
- Expanded the company's footprint from 2 to 15 key markets across Europe, Asia, and Africa through successful go-to-market strategies.
- Executed multi-channel, international campaigns, managing PR agencies across 9 countries, launching large-scale OOH activations, and scaling a brand ambassador and micro-influencer program into a key acquisition channel.
- Led a full company rebrand and design system refresh, resulting in a 3x improvement in key conversion funnels.
- Built a world-class, 30-person marketing department from the ground up, spanning 10 countries with 17 nationalities and achieving the highest employee retention in the business.
- WORLD CLASS (Health & Wellness)Marketing & Growth DirectorHEALTH AND WELLNESSDecember 2010 - April 2016 (5 years and 4 months)RomaniaAs a foundational leader, played an integral role in building the business from a single club into the undisputed market leader.
- Orchestrated the brand and marketing strategy that scaled the network from 1 to 39 centres (including a 19-club acquisition) and more than doubled company turnover in three years (from €9.5M in 2014 to around €20M in 2016).
- Conceived and launched the country's largest wellness awareness campaign ('Let's Go You'), which acted as a direct catalyst for accelerating the company's year-over-year growth rate from 15% to 35%.
- Conceived and built the corporate sales division from the ground up, creating a B2B channel that ultimately drove 50% of the business and secured major clients like Orange, Vodafone, ING, Raiffeisen.
- Scaled the successful growth playbook internationally, overseeing marketing strategy for expansion into Serbia, Croatia, and Sweden.
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