Olexandr Prokhorenko

Olexandr Prokhorenko is a co-founder and CEO of Rapidus, a 24/7 package/freight courier delivery for businesses. With over 15 years of experience in the technology field, strong engineering & IT background, he held various roles in project management, helping the companies with the "product to platform" transition. Thanks to his entrepreneurial mindset, he has founded and run several startups, of which one was awarded the Top 50 Web Tools of 2008.

As a Director of Product Management at Zuora, his responsibilities included focusing on the Platform, including Pricing, Rating, and creating new initiatives to drive product to platform transition. Prior to this, he has created a strategic product plan at Splunk while working with and managing cross-functional orgs that include product management and software development teams, both local and offshore. His specialties include strategy, growth hacking, experimentation, data analytics, A/B testing, user experience and project management.

Olexandr is a graduate from Nacional'na Metallurgijna Akademija Ukraini with a Master degree with Honors in Computer Technologies. Additionally, he has completed various certified courses and workshops in Project and Product Management.

Olexandr is also a featured speaker at Product School who enjoys sharing with a wider audience his extensive career path. Outside of his day job routine, Alex is a mentor at the enterprise startup accelerator Alchemist and an active angel investor.