ROMAN KARPENKO · CMO
RU

Marketingand digital development

A puzzle that changes right in your hands. I solve it so that marketing, sales, service and accounting come together into one system.

20+
years in marketing
200+
ad campaigns
$10M+
in budgets managed
6
countries and markets

How I see marketing

Marketing as the core of the whole business

Marketing on its own can bring in leads. Money appears when a lead reaches sales without being lost, the deal shows up in accounting, service brings the client back, and the head of the business sees all of it as one picture. It’s like a Rubik’s Cube: every piece is held by the core in the middle. For me that core is marketing, and six centers sit on it: product, sales, service, accounting, team and IT. I build this kind of system and add the IT layer it is missing.

What it’s made of

Six faces that only work together

This is not a list of CV skills but six planes of one task. A product without a channel doesn’t sell, a channel without analytics doesn’t pay off, analytics without a team doesn’t turn into decisions. The cube is solved — the only thing that changes is which face is turned toward the task.

    StrategyWhere we’re going and how we win.

    How it came together

    Twenty years came together into one picture

    Every job is its own piece of the puzzle that fits perfectly into the bigger picture of professional growth.

    Twenty years of practice

    Every job is its own combination of experience

    Agencies built up my strategic skills, Nokia — product and communications, Infobip — leadership and strategy.

    What I believe in

    Principles

    01
    People at the center of strategy

    Behind every purchase and every business decision there is a person. Marketing that works starts with understanding their real needs, whether it’s the end user or the decision-maker. Data, segmentation and research are tools for speaking with them in their own language.

    02
    Build, don’t just promote

    Marketing that works starts inside the product. When brand and product are inseparable, promotion comes naturally. My job is to build a system where growth is repeatable: processes, metrics, team, tools.

    03
    AI as part of the team

    AI agents, AI engineering and automation are not an experiment but an everyday tool. Lekom’s digital products, from dashboards to predictive analytics, were designed and built through AI engineering. It doesn’t replace the team’s expertise; it amplifies it and turns ideas into reality many times faster.

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    How I can help

    What I can help with

    I reply within a day. If the task isn’t mine, I’ll say so right away and suggest who to talk to.

    What you need

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