Vilius Kontrimas

My passion is to develop organizations for people and people for organizations. Mature, kind, wise, free, brave, healthy, active people create modern, effective, sustainable, financially successful organizations. I am always looking for new opportunities and contacts, let‘s get in touch!

MY STORY

Vilius Kontrimas

STRATEGY, PROCESSES, IT, AI, IA

Organizational and personal growth, business strategy and expansion, performance improvement, sales, processes, projects, innovations and technologies management, artificial intelligence (AI), intellectual automation (IA)

I have been learning and practically creating organizations and humans synergy all the time. My goal is to make organizations modern, effective, sustainable, financially successful, and help people to grow as personalities, be kinder, wiser, freer, braver, healthier, and more active. I have been gifted to work under special circumstances in great business in different industries. I have been member of top management teams in these businesses when they have been growing fast, when they have been amplifying market leadership, when they have been transforming positioning, when they have created ambitious strategies, when they have working on processes reengineering, performance improvement, and activities automation.

I wish society friendly enterprises to thrive and to serve as self-actualization systems to humans, I wish all society to reach quality of life and long term wellbeing faster.

MY MAIN ACTIVITIES

Investments into mature companies

Business transformation (wise turnaround)

Business management (CEO, Board level)

Strategies development

Artificial intelligfence research

Executive education

Experience

My life mission is to grow and serve the others.

I grow organizations and improve performance by development of a right strategy, optimization of processes, implementing technological solutions. I encourage people to grow as personalities, be kinder, wiser, freer, braver, healthier, and more active. My main competencies are organizational and personal growth, business strategy and expansion, performance improvement, sales, processes, projects, innovations and technologies management, artificial intelligence (AI), intellectual automation (IA).

The most interesting experience

Transformation of ERP company by working daily shoulder to shoulder with all people in that company resulting in 4x multiples of revenues, profits in 4 years. This achievement was recognized by Financial Times including the company in Fastest Growing companies in Europe TOP1000 2022.

Coordination of corporate level aggressive expansion strategy preparation and execution (turnover from 600 million Eur up to 1 billion Eur in 4 years), coordination of the business acquisition strategy preparation and execution (acquired business in Latvia, Estonia with >140 million Eur turnover);

High complexity ERP change initiation and management (budget >10 million Eur), all main company information systems change in 3 years with 50% savings of forecasted budget (ERP, HR, DMS and other), IT strategy, projects portfolio alignment with company strategy (especially high automation of processes in the company, IT expenses only 0.7% of turnover);

Establishment and management new companies in IT and constructions industries (profitable growth all the time under my management);

Cost cutting project coordination (yearly savings 6 million Eur);

Corporate development unit establishment in the company (supply chain profound transformation successfully started, initial size of stock > 90 million Eur);

Processes transformation programs implementation (classical reengineering and LEAN);

Innovation and technology bachelor / master degree programs creation in ISM University of Management and Economics with double degree option in Illinois Institute of Technology, USA (Lithuania President Valdas Adamkus Alma matter).

Utmost responsibilities and duties
Leading from 30 to 3000 people, 4x increase in enterprise value, accountability of >300 million Eur turnover, membership in the most important decision making committees of organizations, big IT organization (>70 employees, own infrastructure), facilities complex (>300 000 m2), transport unit (>180 passenger cars and >50 trucks) management, volunteering in organizations which make better our world.

Experience

2001 – 2003 Programmer, project manager
2004 – 2009 Optimali statyba, CEO, cofounder
2007 – 2009 HLTECH, CEO, partner
2009 – 2014 ISM University of Management and Economics, rector, strategical develoment, infrastructure director
2014 – 2018 Kesko Senukai, corporate development, IT, sales director
2018 – present Advantes technologies, CEO, founder

Education

Computer science PhD (artificial intelligence), Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), 2009
Master of Management, Double degree, ISM University of Management and Economics (ISM), BI Norwegian Business School (BI), 2021
Civil engineering master, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU), 2008
Business administration master, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU), 2004
Computer science master, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), 2003
Business information bachelor, Vilnius University (VU), 2001

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