Pavlina Popova

Pavlina is currently founding her own company in Berlin with Antler, a global early-stage VC.

She has more than 7 years of experience in retail banking as consultant at Simon-Kucher & Partners mainly on pricing and strategy projects, as head of banking cooperations in a fintech and as project manager for digital payments and innovations at the German Association of Savings Banks (DSGV).

After working in different organizations and roles, she decided that the best way to make her mark and a meaningful impact is to start her own company.

Her domain expertise lies in payment and banking and she has a great network in the German banking and fintech environment. In addition as she has been working in different positions in a male dominated space, she can also support with coaching in terms of self-esteem and how to navigate your way around that, how to be brave, how to say no and how to prioritize.

In her free time, she enjoys baking cupcakes, running and volunteering.

Pavlina can support you with:

• Agile development / project management
• Decision-making
• Risk-taking
• Goal setting and scheduling
• Interpersonal skills
• Leadership skills
• Mindfulness / Spiritual well being
• Motivational skills
• Public speaking
• Starting a business / project / side-hustle
• Strengths & weaknesses identification

Pavlina has experience working as:

• (Co-)Founder
• Manager
• Consultant
• Employee

 

Pavlina has worked in the following environments:

• Corporate (>250 employees)
• Startup
• NPO / NGO

Pavlina's principal values are:

• Authenticity
• Honesty
• Down-to-earth-mentality

"A year from now, you will wish you had started today." 

Pavlina would love to connect with you for:

• some brainpicking
• becoming a sparring partner
• grabbing an occasional coffee
• becoming an accountability buddy for goals and achievements
• coaching
• shout-outs
• job searching
• connecting and networking