Latvia
- Current
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- Strategic Planning Director and Co-founder at DOMINO BBDO
- Co-founder at IGLOO (design and marketing for retail)
- Education
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- Brandeis University, Lemberg - International Business School
- Pennsylvania University
- Rigas Business School (RBI)
- Rigas Tehniska Universitate
- Connections
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- Industry
- Marketing and Advertising
- Websites
Zigurds Zakis’s Summary
Zigurds Zakis’s Specialties:
Branding ● Advertising ● Strategic Planning (Account Planning) ● Customer Insight ● Communications Strategy ● Marketing Strategy ● Relationship Marketing ● Design of New Products and Services ● Business Strategy ● Managing Creativity ● Managing Professional Service Firm (PSF)
Zigurds Zakis’s Experience
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Strategic Planning Director and Co-founder
DOMINO BBDO
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
August 2001 — Present (8 years)
Full service advertising and marketing communications agency, affiliate agency of BBDO Worldwide in Latvia
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Co-founder
IGLOO (design and marketing for retail)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 2001 — Present (8 years 1 month)
IGLOO is design company specialized Design, Marketing and Branding solutions for Retail. It emerged from retail competence center in DOMINO and became separate business entity in late 2004.
Zigurds Zakis’s Education
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Brandeis University, Lemberg - International Business School
MBAi , International Business and Strategy , 2003 — 2005
Emerging, demanding, truly international Business School in Greater Boston Area dedicated to teaching and research in global economy and international business.
The courses of my particular interest were: Strategy ● Alliance Strategy ● System Dynamics in Business and Strategy ● Financial Modeling ● Operations Management ● Supply Chain Management ● Service Management ● New Product Design ● Global Outsourcing -
Pennsylvania University
Pre-academic trainig August 2003 — August 2003
3 weeks intensive pre-academic training for Fulbright Fellows
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Rigas Business School (RBI)
N/A (MBA prg) , 2000 — 2003
Riga Business Institute (RBI) - a joint MBA program between the Riga Technical University, State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo and Ottawa University (part-time). 8 out of 16 courses completed before going to full time MBA in Brandeis International Business School
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Rigas Tehniska Universitate
BA , Computer Sciences , 1986 — 1993
Speciality: Microprocessors, Networks and Systems (RTU ASTF #0608 / 2201)
Additional Information
Zigurds Zakis’s Websites:
Zigurds Zakis’s Interests:
Creative Industries, Branding, Customer Behavior, New Media, Interactive Design, Multimedia, New Product Design, Global Outsourcing in Creative Industries, Political Campaigns, Managing Professional Service Firms (PSF), System Dynamics, Globalization; Music, Chess, Reading, Urban Travel, Photography
Zigurds Zakis’s Honors:
Fulbright Fellow for studies towards Masters Degree from Latvia (2003/04)
