Since 2018
Co-founder of Visual Agency based in Düsseldorf (www.visualagency.de). The company is a full-service agency specialized in marketing and the creation of high-quality and creative visual content. The agency serves reputable clients from various industries and offers a wide range of services, including video production, animation, graphic design, 360° photography, website and webshop creation, corporate design, and influencer marketing. Currently, the agency is focused on utilizing new technologies to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of marketing and communication measures. Visual Agency offers solutions in virtual reality and projects with integrated artificial intelligence, for example. The team of Visual Agency consists of experienced experts from the fields of marketing, communication, design, and programming. The agency has already worked for a variety of clients in various industries, including companies in the technology, lifestyle, health, and finance sectors.
Since 2014
Owner of DELACROI agency based in Düsseldorf (www.delacroi.de). The company serves reputable clients in Germany and internationally, with a particular focus on the Russian-speaking region. The agency offers a wide range of services, including market analysis, marketing strategy development, cooperation initiation, and international mediation and representation services. DELACROI works closely with its clients to develop individual solutions tailored to their respective industries, needs, and goals.
2005 – 2014
Brandscapes, Düsseldorf
Industry: PR, advertising, branding related to real estate and location marketing
Project Manager for Eastern Europe
2003 – 2004
Ottweiler & Partner, Düsseldorf
Industry: Corporate Communications
Senior Consultant for Eastern Europe
• Intercultural consulting for branches and manager deployment in the Baltic states, Russia, and Ukraine
• Search for suitable partners for sales, service, and production
1996 – 2002
MAGNAT Group Ltd, Riga/Latvia
(Magnat Group. Ports. Forwarding. Energetics)
Industry: wholesale of timber, import-export-transit
1998 – 2002
Key Account Manager
• Acquisition of new customers
• Customer care
• Trade fair organization
• Conception, planning, and implementation of business trips
1996 – 1998
Commercial assistance
• Assistance to the management
• Marketing / Sales
• Accounting
• General administration
• Handling of customs formalities
1993 – 1996
Teaching activity in Latvia
• Academic Gymnasium No. 87
• Vocational college at Riga Technical University
Freelance: Teaching and interpreting
2006 – 2008
Carl Duisberg Centren Cologne
Lecturer for Business Russian
1996 – 1999
FAKSA Language School, Riga/Latvia
Lecturer for Russian
1991 – 2002
Translation office N&S, Riga/Latvia
Simultaneous interpreting (German/Russian)
(law, economics, technology, medicine etc.)
Education
1986 – 1991
University of Latvia in Riga
Diploma in Linguistics
Focus: German studies, Slavic studies
Further Education
2007 – 2012
Business studies, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf
1998
Customs clearance, training center: KOMIN GmbH, Latvia/Riga
School Education
1973 – 1983
High School Graduation: General Qualification for University Entrance
Special Skills
Languages:
Russian – Native language
German – Negotiation level
Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian – Good level
English – Basic knowledge