Entrepreneur · digital marketing · AI · code

Ivan Barchenkov.

Building marketing that is measured in money — since 2006. I run three companies and write code myself: my AI works inside live business processes — mine and my clients' — not in slide decks.

  • MediaNation — partner & CEO
  • SearchBooster — founder & CEO
  • StreamMyData — founder & CEO
  • The Internet Marketing Bible — author, BOMBORA (in Russian)
Ivan Barchenkov
Ivan BarchenkovMoscow
20 yrs

in digital marketing — since 2006

RUWARD 2024

1st place: “Person of the Year” in performance marketing

3

businesses: the MediaNation agency plus SearchBooster and StreamMyData products

2 books

“The Internet Marketing Bible”, two editions at BOMBORA

Consulting

How I can help your business

I work with owners and management teams. I don't bring an “80-slide strategy” — I bring the experience of someone who runs an agency and two products every day. With the owner I discuss unit economics, with the team — architecture and APIs, and when needed I open the IDE and build the pilot myself.

01

Marketing diagnostics

I audit marketing as an operator: channels, analytics, team, economics. The result is a short, honest document: what's losing money, what to fix first, and what it costs.

2–3 weeks · interviews, access, report with an action plan

02

AI adoption in marketing & operations

Not a “lecture about neural networks” but working pipelines: AI agents, automation of reporting, content, sales and routine. A live example from my companies: an ad feed audit — 6 hours of manual work vs 5 minutes of an agent.

a 4–8 week sprint together with your team

03

End-to-end analytics, BI & DWH

I assemble the picture where you can see how advertising turns into money: a data warehouse, connectors, data marts, dashboards and reports trusted by both marketing and the CFO.

an audit of your current analytics, or a project with the StreamMyData team

04

B2B: marketing & sales team

I build the marketing-sales loop in B2B: funnel, CRM as the single source of truth, motivation, KPIs and processes. The experience comes from my own sales teams in the agency and two SaaS products.

funnel audit + hands-on support of the changes

05

Building & growing SaaS products

From MVP to systematic sales: positioning, pricing, unit economics, the product-marketing loop. I've walked this path twice — with SearchBooster and StreamMyData.

consultations or a product sprint

06

Sparring partner for owners & CMOs

Regular one-on-one sessions: strategy, org structure, hiring, product, priorities. The role is not a consultant with slides but an entrepreneur next to you who has already stepped on these rakes.

2–4 sessions a month · from one quarter

Companies

Three businesses — one view of marketing

Everything I advise in consulting is first tested here — on my own teams, budgets and clients.

MediaNation

Partner & CEO

Full-cycle digital agency, in the market since 2008: performance marketing, SEO, display and mobile advertising, end-to-end analytics. Over 100 specialists, offices in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. Consistently ranked among Russia's leading agencies — Runet Rating, AdIndex, RUWARD.

Clients include Petrovich, LitRes, Hoff, VseInstrumenty, O'KEY, Chitai-Gorod, Finn Flare.

performanceSEOmediae-commerceanalytics

SearchBooster

Founder & CEO

Smart search and personalization platform for online stores: query understanding, merchandising, product recommendations and AI assistants that lift website conversion. Sber500 accelerator alumnus, listed in Russia's national software registry.

searchpersonalizationrecommendationsAI assistantsSber500

StreamMyData

Founder & CEO

End-to-end and predictive analytics platform: 30+ connectors to ad systems, CRMs and marketplaces, ready-made reports and an AI data analyst that answers questions in plain words, not spreadsheets. Skolkovo resident, in the national software registry. Clients include LitRes and CDEK.

end-to-end analyticsconnectorsmarketplacesAI agentSkolkovo

Dynotech

Advisor

Dynamic remarketing system. I help the team with product development and marketing.

remarketingadtech

About

The path: from zoo engineer to three companies

A nerd in the best sense: a school medal, a diploma with honors, a second degree “out of curiosity” and an MBA in investment management. I came to marketing from biology — and I still see business as a living system.

2006

First money online: a website about Japan, SEO, my own online store.

2010

An international environmental foundation — from courier to corporate fundraising programs.

2012

Yandex — key account manager for major advertisers.

2012 →

MediaNation — joined as business development director, grew to partner and CEO.

2021

SearchBooster — launched the smart search product for e-commerce.

2023

Sber500 — SearchBooster graduated from the 4th wave of the international accelerator.

today

Growing StreamMyData, advising dynotech.io, embedding AI into the processes of all three companies.

Brands I've worked with

MTSTele2MegaFonBeelineHoffLitResEtihad AirwaysKLMEurosetSvyaznoyAdamasZoloto 585KantGettAmediatekaKnight FrankKalinka GroupEpic GamesYusupov Hospital

Statuses & certifications

Yandex-certified expert in advertising technology training — certificate No. 00004, the fourth in Russia · Google Ads, Google Analytics, DV360, YouTube, K50 certifications · Silver Mercury 2023 jury member · MBA in investment management · “Financial Strategy”, SKOLKOVO business school

Off duty

American pool, miniature painting, paintball, cycling, biology and biotech — up to an astrobiology certificate from the University of Edinburgh. If business is ever found on Mars, I'm ready.

Appendix · documents

RUWARD Award 2024 statuette and diploma — 1st place, Person of the Year in performance marketing
RUWARD Award 20241st place
Yandex advertising products training expert certificate No. 00004
Yandex ExpertNo. 00004
Certificate of the Sber500 international accelerator 4th wave alumnus, Demo Day 2023
Sber500 · Demo Day2023
SKOLKOVO business school certificate, Financial Strategy program
SKOLKOVO2022

Approach

How I work

No magic

AI is being sold as sorcery. I show the tools together with their limits — and say honestly where they save money and where they still just burn it.

Money, not slides

There is one criterion of results: revenue, margin, speed of processes. A beautiful deck is a by-product, not the outcome.

Hands-on

I write code myself: AI agents, automations and internal tools of my companies — from idea to production. I only recommend what I've built and tested.

Publications & talks

Where to read and hear me

Books

Ivan Barchenkov speaking at the Google office in Moscow
Talk at the Google office, Moscowwatch the recording ↗
View of the hall from the speaker's bench, Google office in Moscow
View from the speaker's benchGoogle office, Moscow

Watch (in Russian)

Read & listen (in Russian)

Contact

Have a challenge in marketing, data or AI?

Write a couple of paragraphs about your business and what you want to change. I reply personally; if the task isn't mine, I'll say so honestly and point you to the right people.