Anna Kolenkina

About

Anna Kolenkina is a seasoned product manager and product management Udemy instructor. She's worked with startups, growing companies, and enterprise organizations across EdTech, Finance, Commodity Trading, and AI on end-to-end product development—turning ideas into revenue. She has collaborated with product teams globally, from Europe to South-East Asia to Australia. She's the co-founder of FutureVersity School, on a mission to help people learn the skills of the future, today. Through her product management and AI online courses, she has built an audience of over 20,000 students worldwide. Email: anna.kolenkina@gmail.com

Experience

• Product Management Consulting · Product Management Consulting2021-06-01 –

  Project examples: Project: Product discovery for e-learning analytics software | Pre-seed startup - Cut planned development costs by 35% by prioritizing features based on user feedback and focusing on high-impact analytics first. - Successfully transitioned from an early product with 5 users to a viable product with 85 active users and 200+ waitlist in 6 months. Project: Product strategy and discovery for personal AI avatars platform | Series B company - Identified and validated a new market segment, opening a new 2M+ USD recurrent revenue stream. - Ran pilot project implementing digital AI avatars for content production, reducing video creation and editing time by 2.5x.

• Product Management Udemy Instructor · Udemy2023-04-01 –

  - Taught 20,000+ aspiring product managers, helping them build and launch their first products. - Became the #2 product management instructor on Udemy within 8 months of launch.

• Co-Founder, Lead Instructor · FutureVersity2021-02-01 –

  FutureVersity is e-learning platform to help people learn the skills of the future, today. - Created and delivered engaging online courses on product management, attracting 20,000+ students globally with a 4.6/5 average rating. - Developed three educational apps for students, leading to a 2x increase in student engagement and total minutes watched.

• Entrepreneurship · Antler2020-10-01 – 2021-01-01

  Global early-stage VC enabling and investing in the world’s most exceptional people.

• Product Director · TAIGER2019-09-01 – 2021-01-01

  Series-B company specialising in automating of complex cognitive tasks. I was responsible for establishing product function and leading the product team at Taiger. - Built product function from scratch: established and launched E2E product management process, defined products’ roadmaps, built communication channels with stakeholders. - Evangelised vision and strategy of new AI Knowledge Process Optimization Platform. Built visiontype of the platform to align key stakeholders. - Launched Cognitive Studio Alpha, no-code application platform as a service to build AI models and to reduce their deployment time and effort by 25%.

• Product Management · Accenture2018-06-01 – 2019-09-01

  I was responsible for design and development of new enterprise commercial applications for clients in SEA & Oceania. - Drove MVP experiments for commodities deal capture, including integrations with CRM & ERP systems. - Promoted agile methodologies and best-practices by playing an agile coach role on ongoing projects of commercial apps optimisation.

• Sr. Product Manager & Team Lead, Trading and Risk management platform · LITASCO SA & BearingPoint2012-01-01 – 2016-01-01

  Design & development from scratch fully integrated front-, middle- and back-office platform covering all aspects of trading business. Responsible for managing middle- and back-office products’ life-cycle, from ideation to launch​. - Designed and built a platform to process trades in an automated environment. Reduced time required for inventory and invoices registration by 30%. - Nurtured and managed cross-functional geo-dispersed product team across three cities: Geneva (CH), Moscow (RU), Perm (RU). - Developed product commercial launch and go-to-market strategy.

• Product Manager · Avestra Chemical Group & BearingPoint2010-01-01 – 2011-01-01

  Project for Avestra, international trading company.

• Product Manager · LITASCO SA & BearingPoint2009-01-01 – 2011-01-01

  Project for Litasco SA, international trading company. Indirect Tax Calculation system design and build. • Designed and built unified solution of VAT calculation for Geneva's HQ and 15 EU subsidiaries. VAT calculation errors have been reduced by up to 30%.

• Senior Consultant · BearingPoint (ex KPMG Consulting)2006-01-01 – 2008-01-01

  Projects for one of the world's largest commodities producer and distributor. Took charge of series of projects optimizing existing supply chain and commercial processes. Increased efficacy of core logistics processes by implementing SAP-based solutions.

Education

• National University of SingaporeMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Full-time
• Yale School of ManagementTraining program for managers

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