Bitdegree Team
Andrius Putna, CEO, co-founder
11 years in software engineering. Blockchain advocate. Person behind the success of 000webhost -
world’s first and biggest free cloud hosting platform designed for learning, testing and experimenting.
Hostinger product architect.
Danielius Stasiulis, CBO, co-founder
Head of Startup Division at Civitta (7 years) - the leading management consulting firm in Eastern
Europe. Advised 300+ startups and worked with many startup programs, including Berkeley Skydeck
in Silicon Valley. He focuses on ICO and blockchain-based business models.
Ervinas Rimdeika, CLO, co-founder
Ervinas is a FinTech fan and has extensive practice in related fields of corporate, intellectual property
and business transaction law questions as well. He worked not only at a few well-known law firms,
but also at one of the largest company’s group in Lithuania and Baltic States. In previous years Ervinas
Rimdeika was a member of one of the top raising Baltics FinTech startups and reached impressive
results, where Lithuanian Supreme Court changed case-law and formed new interpretation rules on
financial lease and other matters. Clients and colleagues especially value Ervinas Rimdeika for deep legal knowledge, critical and strategic thinking, in-depth analysis of the problems as well as rational
approach.
Rio Asatiani, CMO, co-founder
With more than 14 years of experience in effective customer acquisition, working with new brands
and startup launches, Rio is a growth-hacking guru & Google Certified Partner who led 000webhost
and Hostinger to an international success in more than 40 countries by attracting 29+ millions of new
users. He joined the BitDegree project having a strong vision in innovative acquisition channels and
solid experience in growth-hacking. Rio ensures the success of BitDegree on an international level.
Bitdegree Advisors
Jeff Burton, Serial Entrepreneur, co-founder of Electronic Arts
Global technology executive, keynote speaker, and a Silicon Valley veteran, Jeff was a founding
team member of Electronic Arts, where he oversaw the global expansion of its operations. Jeff has
high-level connections in Silicon Valley and around the world that he is using to help startups like
BitDegree. Jeff developed U C Berkeley’s Skydeck startup accelerator and is currently involved in
helping startups around the world to grow and scale into the Silicon Valley. Jeff is an experienced,
dedicated contributor who believes in BitDegree and wants to help.
Roberto Santana, Product and Strategy Advisor, Former Senior Manager at Coursera
Entrepreneur and Former Product Management Growth Lead at Coursera. Roberto played a role
in helping Coursera scale to a global level and acquire over 27 million learners worldwide. Roberto
is Stanford MBA with 3 engineering degrees in computer science and design. His exceptional
engineering and technical knowledge has led him to scale several startups by managing the project
and business development, including San Francisco-based Zendesk, where he helped grow number
of paying customers by 60%. Prior to his work in the Valley, Roberto was a Senior Engineer with
Shell, where he led cross-functional team responsible for the delivery of products that accounted for
$400M in refinery revenues.
Maurice De Hond, Steve JobsSchool Founder, Personalized Learning Advisor
A successful entrepreneur and founder of Steve JobsSchool - a modern elementary school concept
designed to see each child as an individual and nurture him based on his strengths and interests.
This learning model quickly became successful and is already adopted in more than 35 schools in
the Netherlands. Being the pioneer of innovative learning ensures the implementation of modern
educational solutions on the Bitdegree platform on the long term that will establish a solid foundation
for IT passionate people to reach their full potential.
James K. Scarborough, Stanford University PhD., Gamification Advisor
Currently a candidate for PhD. at Stanford University, James main focus is to deeply engage players
for the purpose of increasing workplace, classroom, and similar forms of individual and teambased
productivity. He is currently involved in projects assessing the effects of real social interaction
in virtual spaces concerning primarily energy efficiency behaviors, gender and culture specific
responses, and the physiological impact of social interactions in goal-oriented game environments.
Having a profound experience in gamification and working with companies that created such games
as Tetris, Civilization, Falcon Flight Simulator, led him to joining the BitDegree team and assures a
deeply engaging environment of the platform on the long term.
Arnas Stuopelis, COO, co-founder
Arnas is the CEO of Hostinger. Prior to taking the role of the CEO, for 6 years Arnas was responsible
for business development at Hostinger. He successfully expanded Hostinger on a global level as
well as played an important role when creating one of the most successful web hosting brands in
Indonesia - Niagahoster.co.id. With his profound entrepreneurship skills and a solid experience in
business development, Arnas knows how to scale a project to global success.
Ričardas Pocius, Technical advisor
Ricardas is a passionate distributed systems engineer who enjoys sharing his experience and
knowledge with others. Determined to keep magic out of the systems. Organizer of Erlang workshop/
meetup in Vilnius,LT.
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