Nick Kokarakis

Managing the Search Experience of the users. Responsible for filters, product tiles, sponsored products, and other elements in various pages in our marketplace. Kaufland e-commerce operates in multiple countries including Germany, Czechia, and Slovakia, while growing our internationalization efforts.

ESG Advisor and Product Leader, exposure to blockchain, Web 3.0. Main sector exposure: Shipping and Energy

Leading the B2C product as well as managing the product strategy, roadmap, and vision for all markets of doctoranytime’s presence (Greece, Cyprus, Belgium, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, and other Latin American countries) In addition to strategic responsibilities, I am also managing the day-to-day delivery of the products with my team, doing all the agile rituals such as 2-week sprints, sprint planning, retrospectives, user interviews, creation of epics and user stories, product presentations to the stakeholders etc. Other responsibilities include: •Market, client, and competition research to acquire an understanding of the users’ needs. •Envision and prototype-test new products that align with user needs and with business goals. •Translate new product suggestions into trackable KPIs and defend their value based on OKRs. •Document detailed Product Briefs with, research, scope, data analysis, user stories, user flows, mockups, requirements, and desired functionality, followed by release planning and KPIs to track. •Management of my Dev (Engineering) team and Design team in the production phase with Agile. •Own the product backlog, and prioritize new products as well as client and internal requests. •Part of the Business Analytics team, advising, creating, enhancing, and managing the internal BI/Analytics.

Founder of an eco-friendly start-up that aims to reduce and ultimately eliminate food waste. Spare.Ly was part of two start-up competitions and was selected to pass to the final rounds (top 5) in both. Competitions: • Ignite Ideas II (by Nestle, AUEB and Athens Center of Entrepreneurship and innovation) • 10th Entrepreneurship Competition of MOKE AUEB

• Product Owner and Developer of Internal BI reporting for all CESA using Power BI. This self-driven initiative includes the creation, development, and Product Owner responsibilities for EY’s BI. This was end-to-end under my responsibility, from developing ETL processes, designing the UI, and doing the PO-related tasks like stakeholder management, backlog prioritization, user research, and KPI tracking. This internal product grew to become the main reporting tool across CESA markets. • Account Manager: This role involved market and competition research to help with my facilitation of strategy meetings with EY’s leadership to decide on go-to-market strategies for key clients. • Designer and Facilitator of wavespace™ sessions: I designed and facilitated workshops, using Design Thinking principles and Agile methodologies to develop strategic planning, prioritize and build roadmaps with C-level clients from the top companies in Greece. • Markets strategic planning for South Europe, this involved competition, industry, and market research to help on creating our Markets Strategy in Greece and South Europe • Responsible for revenue planning in Greece and South Europe. • Significant exposure to Financial, Energy, Automotive, Transportation and Shipping Sectors. • Coordinator and responsible for the CRM database for South Europe. • Led Go-to-Market initiatives (sales enablers like webinars, EY BD tools, digital services, preparation of client reports, and identification of mass-market opportunities).