Who I am
Technical growth marketer and builder. 10+ years building and scaling B2B startups across AI, SaaS, FinTech, and Crypto.
Where I started
I moved to London to study and found weightlifting. Within a year I won first place in the biggest category at the Miami Pro UK fitness competition. Then my transformation video went viral across Lithuania, the UK and the USA, and put me on TV, in magazines and on radio. That was my first real lesson in distribution: a good story, told well, reaches people you never expect. It shaped how I think about marketing.
Into growth
I built and sold a fitness e-commerce business, which taught me sales, marketing, websites and the messy operational side of shipping product. From there I spent a decade running growth for high-growth B2B startups across SaaS, FinTech, Crypto and e-commerce, part of teams that raised through Series B and C. I learned growth as a system: funnels, experiments, acquisition and retention, and the reporting to know what's actually working.
What I'm doing now
Today I'm at ai71, building go-to-market from scratch for an AI company. I've rebuilt how I work around agents and automations I build myself, the strategy and the decisions stay mine, while the systems handle the repetitive execution. It lets me run a full growth function as a department of one.
Highlights
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Donatas Simkus
Technical Growth Marketing, AI & Automation
Quick Facts
- Currently based in
- United Arab Emirates
- Experience
- 10+ years in growth marketing
- Industries
- AI, SaaS, FinTech, Crypto, E-commerce
- Education
- Business Economics, London Metropolitan University