I’m an entrepreneur and investor with 30+ years of business-building experience and 16 years focused on one mission: making personalized design scalable.
As founder of one of Eastern Europe’s largest personalized product companies, I scaled the business from a garage startup to $25M+ in annual revenue, 40M+ users, and 60% market share. Led 3 strategic M&A deals and 2 successful exits.
The growth engine was not just product, but process: a proprietary, conveyor-style design and manufacturing system that enabled mass delivery of custom photo products. Today, I’m applying AI to design workflows to bring hyper-personalization to the next 100M users.
Beyond building companies, I actively invest in founders at the intersection of design, technology, and automation.
What I focus on at BlackPixel AI: the photo print industry has the same bottleneck personalized products had 20 years ago — design throughput. The fix is not hiring more designers; it’s rebuilding the design layer itself. AI-generated layouts let print companies, photo studios and wedding photographers ship 25 albums a day instead of two, without growing the design team.
Marathoner, Everest Base Camp trekker, licensed skipper, angel investor.
I’m always open to founder conversations — especially with print companies, photo studios and operators who run real production volumes. Drop me a note or request a demo and we’ll generate an album from your photos in real time.
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