Vica Germanova
Studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Works at Leland
Not currently taking new clients
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Work Experience
International Growth
Leland
June 2025 - Present
Growing Leland beyond the United States
Portfolio Manager & Portfolio Strategist
Octopus Energy
July 2024 - June 2025
Grew Octopus Group's digital financial & legal services portfolio - Octopus Money, Octopus Legacy (fka Guardian Angel), amicable, & Seccl - through strategy, ops, and M&A
COach
Leland
July 2023 - Present
50+ clients with successful admits to M7 business schools (incl Stanford, Wharton, Columbia) and most top law schools (incl Harvard, Cornell) to date. Recognised as one of Top 50 in 2024, out of 1,100+ coaches globally
Independent Consultant
Various startups
July 2023 - May 2024
- Launched a new product (doctor consultation service) through partnering with healthcare and healthtech providers for a UK-founded health AI chatbot startup (healthwords.ai) - Wrote international development grant applications and led refinancing and org restructuring efforts for a US-founded TMT company (Migo) operating in the Philippines and Indonesia
Co-Founder, Co-CEO
Callity
December 2021 - May 2023
Launched a VC-backed graph data (LLM)-powered enterprise cybersecurity marketplace
Director of Industry Ecosystem
RELAYTO/ Content Experience 🪄
January 2021 - September 2021
Executed full sales cycle to identify & validate new SMB markets for core SaaS product
Education
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2022
Grade: Non-disclosure policy Activities and societies: Teaching Assistant - Industrialist's Dilemma (Rob Siegel), Facilitator - Contemplative Leadership Program, Participant x2 - Startup Garage (d-school)
University of Cambridge
Bachelor / Master of Arts (Cantab), English
2016
Grade: II:i Activities and societies: The Tab Cambridge (News Editor), Cambridge PEN (Translation Officer), Churchill College JCR (Welfare Officer)