Vladimir B.
5.0
Studied at Columbia Business School
Works at FastCTO
Available January 2 at 2:30 PM UTC
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About Vladimir
New Country, New Culture, New Opportunities My journey began the moment I immigrated to the United States. Fresh off the boat and having spent only three days in the country, I was thrown into a social experience I had only seen in movies: the American High School. Everything was new and different. Every daily routine had new cultural norms. My old habits had to adjust for me to stay afloat. Driven by curiosity, I immersed myself in everything the environment had to offer. I met new and different types of people, played sports and joined activities and clubs. As part of the Science Olympiad, I built a self-propelling scooter and a Rube Goldberg machine, competed, and won a prize. Despite the sense of accomplishment, I still felt a bit lonely, as most of the technical work was done alone and I wanted more interaction with others. I needed to align my technical interests with a human desire to connect with others. I wrote programs for Ti-83 calculators and sold them to my classmates. While I made a little money, the human connection didn’t last long after the sale. I flipped to the other side of the curve and sold candies, that was a much better business, but it brought little joy. Learn more here -
Why do I coach?
I love helping individual grow to their highest potentials. It is magical how powerful questions can transform one's journey, and it it a privilege to watch that transformation
Work Experience
Fractional CTO - DeepTech, Robotics, Saas
FastCTO
November 2023 - Present
Entrepreneur in Residence
Cornell University
September 2023 - Present
Coaching, Entrepreneurship and +1 skill
Executive Coach for Tech Leaders and Founders
Human Interfaces LLC
August 2023 - Present
I have spent over 20 years in start-up and technology industries across fin-tech, wealth-tech and space-tech. I had founder and executive roles that exposed me to many meaningful experiences. I have gone through a lot of personal growth that helped me sort and format the knowledge so I can share it with you. I have advised 150+ individuals and 30+ companies. I am a regular mentor at Techstars, Columbia Startup Works and NSF. Recently I have become an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Cornell. I am able to back up my experiences with academic theories that I have learned from my MBA and professional coaching training. My clients have described me as an insightful, practical, emotionally intelligent, and a results-focused coach. I like to take mixed approach to mentoring where I mix a series of questions with details from my actual start-up and executive experience. This helps you develop your decisions skills further, than just me sharing my story. You can read more about my story here - https://www.humaninterfaces.co/my-story Schedule your first complimentary session today - https://calendly.com/vladimir-baranov/coaching-website-45
Senior Consultant
SCOUT
August 2023 - Present
Mentor and Coach
Human Interfaces
June 2020 - Present
Techstars LA, Space,NY Lead Mentor F'23, S'23 Cornell eLab '22- Columbia Startup Lab '22- MentorCruise '21- PlatoHQ 9.7 '20- NSF i-Corps '23
COO
SCOUT
August 2021 - October 2023
On orbit since Jun 30, '21 Techstars Space Accelerator '21 Hyperspace Challenge '21 SCOUT provides on orbit Space Situational Awareness services, conjunctions assessments and Rendezvous&Proximity operations assistance.
Board Member
SCOUT
September 2022 - July 2023
Education
Columbia Business School
EMBA Global 2013
2011 - 2013
Activities and societies: Social Representative
London Business School
EMBA Global 2013
2011 - 2013
Activities and societies: Social Representative
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Bachelors Degree, Computer Science
2001 - 2005
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Bachelor Degree, Computer Engineering
2001 - 2005
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