Augustas has more than 12 years of experience in founding, growing and managing Online and Consumer businesses. Currently, he works in digital finance industry, with direct experience and involvement in blockchain, bitcoin and DeFi (Decentralised Finance). He has worked as a manager for 30+ mil EUR lending business and founded several startups. Augustas is looking forward to help and share his experience with mentees who seek career as business development professional either starting your own gig or leveling up in corporate.

Hobbies: Reading, traveling, tennis

Aušra has plenty of years of experience working in communication agencies as well as creating communication projects from a scratch – starting from idea, project development, to attraction of partners, fundraising and implementation.
Rather than reporting, she emphasises the importance of creating stories. Some of the stories she created include: Lithuania is a space nation (Mission: Lituanica 80), Lithuania is the only nation to unanimously sing their National Anthem across the globe (Tautiška giesmė aplink pasaulį), Lithuania is a nation of 4 million (Lietuva 4.000.000).
Currently, Aušra is off to a new adventure to broaden her field of expertise as a manager of network of Lithuanian professionals abroad “Global Lithuanian Leaders”.
Besides her professional know-how, Ausra can share her insights on:
- dealing with work related crises (e.g. joblessness, sacks, or even insecurities of a freelance job)
- dealing with relationships at work
- re-writting your personal story

Hobbies: Writing, hiking, meditating

Aušra is Fund Service Director at Northern Horizon Capital group, an international licensed real estate fund manager. She is responsible for managing team of high financial professionals: fund controllers and treasury specialists. Currently she is also engaged in managing funds as a member of investment committee that takes decisions on investments to be made by the funds that Northern Horizon Group manages as well participates in the management of the funds at the board level. Before 12 years career at Northern Horizon Capital she worked in Swedbank as a senior credit analyst and as a corporate finance advisor at KPMG and security brokerage house Suprema. During her career, she gained experience in corporate governance, real estate fund structuring and launching, bank financing arrangement, management of financial risks and financial control. She holds Bachelor‘s and Master‘s degrees in banking and was among the first in Lithuania to gain CFA (Charter Financial Analyst) name. Aušra is eager to help young professionals in their carrier path by sharing her knowledge and experience.

Hobbies: Kitesurfing, wakeboarding, snowboarding, breathing practices, yoga, medidation, other spiritual growth practices

Auste is a creative and entrepreneurial thinker. In her job, she is specialized in creative strategy, cultural insights, ideas conception, creative content planning and production, social media and editorial work. Auste holds a Bachelor of Arts in Advertising from the University of the Arts London. Since then, she has worked in a few different fast-growing startups in London and Berlin, a creative agency, as a freelancer, with clients such as Samsung, Otto, Esprit and currently has landed at Volvo Cars and lives in Sweden now.

She works on global creative campaigns that have been awarded with multiple creative industry awards. All of those led her to become result orientated, strategic, and to develop knowledge, as well as a strong passion for growing brands and businesses through creativity. Auste sees herself as a visionary person. She does like all things creative and culture. Books, movies, art, magazines, theatre. She hosted podcast series for What Do People Do magazine where she interviewed people about career changes and contemporary work culture. She also writes articles about Scandinavian culture for Scandinavia Standard. She describes herself being curious about many things and sees herself as a creative mentor.

"We can talk about things that interest us both or are happening now, as well as brainstorm together, look through a portfolio or guide through how to start a side project," - says mentor. Auste can also mentor on how to find a job in creative industries or start doing something new that you love.

Hobbies: Contemporary Culture, cities, exploring, local lifestyle, small businesses, travel, cycling

Austeja is a customer-centric strategists experienced in high-impact projects across various industries and geographies in both startup and corporate environments with the focus on customer value creation.

During 7+ years in strategic marketing consulting, she worked on developing marketing and communication strategies for both local and international companies such as IKEA, Danone, Carlsberg Group, Carrefour and Sanofi-Aventis among others, across European markets as well as Russia, Middle East and South East Asia.

In 2019 Austeja joined a Berlin based SaaS startup where she is responsible in developing a Customer Experience organisation. Her goal is to engrain the customer-centricity across the entire organisation. To achieve that she drives cross-team initiatives in agile environments by inspiring people, building bridges, creating alignment, resolving problems and developing organisations.

Besides her job Austeja is engaged in supporting startup accelerator programs by mentoring early-stage startups on development of their go-to-market strategies. Austeja holds an Economics degree from Vilnius University and MBA from Durham University.

Hobbies: Sports, especially road cycling, pilates and bouldering, discovering new places and foods, books

Austeja is a Finance Director of Retail business at Wella Company and currently resides in Boston, US. She has spent last year working on a major M&A deal in Beauty Industry, which resulted into Wella Company separating from Coty, Inc as a standalone company and KKR Private Equity fund acquiring majority stake in it. Before that, Austeja has lived in Switzerland for 8 years, where she acquired her Master’s Degree in Finance at HEC Lausanne and started her career as a finance manager at Procter & Gamble company. Austeja has worked in variety of roles, from managing distributor markets to Global FP&A and then took an active role in transition projects after her division was acquired by Coty, Inc. Going through two major divestitures provided Austeja with vast experience on corporate finance, financial operations and management, as well as organization transitions. Austeja holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from University of Glasgow, and studied at University of California, Berkeley as well as Chinese University of Hong Kong during her exchange programs.
Austeja is looking forward to advising her mentees on their choices for universities or field of studies, as well as career choices later on. Any questions on living in UK, Switzerland or US are also welcome!

Hobbies: Traveling, sports, dancing, reading

Dainius Jakučionis graduated from Vilnius University Medicine faculty in 2014. Also in 2016, he finished cognitive and behavioural studies at the University of Health Sciences in Lithuania. Today he works in private practice as a cognitive and behavioural therapist and as a consultant and trainer in Skills Lab (training and consulting company). In previous years Dainius was teaching on sexual education in school for adolescents. Also, he was teaching at Vilnius University Medicine faculty in the Department of Nursing and fundamentals of internal medicine. During studies, he has been a chairman of Student representative at Medicine faculty. He also has participated in other organisations or events which work in fields of medicine, youth exchange, psychology, education.

Hobbies: Books, self-improvement, longevity, self-branding, sci-fi.

Dainius involved himself into technology as early as school years and now counts for more than 15 years of global professional experience working in Maersk - a real Fortune 500 giant; Adform - one of few independent players in a market dominated by Google and FB; Vilnius University - the good old computer science friends in academia; and WorldOne Research - ok, this one is kinda gone, but there's literally no fear after a few years there.
Throughout the years he worked on development and scaling of many analytical ad-tech and log-tech products, currently leading digital platform and product development across all Maersk brands globally.

Dainius will help you wrap your head around the most amazing, yet the hardest* discipline - product management**.
Our collaboration may come in forms of Q&A, hands-on exercises, off-on-off-topic live chats and will simply be a great learning experience.
Dainius is also old enough to share some general life lessons, he sadly learnt the hard way.

* - don't take my word for it and listen to Marty Cagan, who is a pretty big deal in this field: https://vimeo.com/333559833
** - digital, to be precise, somehow shampoo does not feel like the most exciting product.

Hobbies: Chess; automotive performance tuning; travel; public speaking.

Freelance journalist and public relations. Twenty years of journalistic writing. More than 15 years of radio communication. One book published.



Hobbies: Yoga, running, reading, trekking

Experienced international marketer and people leader, with more than 20 years professional experience with international companies like LEGO A/S, Stimorol, and Danish national television TV2. Currently running own consultancy ( DSTN Ventures) with focus on innovation and business development.
Proven track record of developing and executing global product and marketing strategies for internationally known consumer brands. Driving new biz opportunities, and radical product innovation through co-creation and partnerships. Building open innovation capabilities, including digital crowdsourcing platforms and business integration processes and setting strategy for the functional areas.
Would like to collaborate with young specialists who know alot about digital engagement platforms, digital marketing, and new tech like AI and blockchain , and want sparing in commercial and business development areas in order to advance their career or their startup strategy

Hobbies: travel, drawing