Aron Lukacs
Chief Growth Officer
Key Values
15+ years' experience taking organizations to the next level, without spending a fortune as others would.
An extremely quick, strategic thinker with an ability to rapidly gain top level skills in completely different disciplines.
Professional Experience
Aug 2021- | Interim CMO, Chief Growth Officer |
Innobloom | On a mission to provide exceptional leverage to organizations that truly add value to humanity. ✔ Increased ROI and achieved record-breaking results in B2B, B2C, and SaaS through personally executing growth initiatives and leveraging my world-class network. |
April 2022 – December 2022 | Chief Growth Officer, Interim (fixed-term contract) |
Conversific ‑ eCommerce Analytics | Lead and execute all growth initiatives, solidify marketing foundations. ✔ Streamline strategic and operative planning based on financial analysis and market research. |
Feb 2021 – Jul 2021 | Sabbatical |
Take a sabbatical to pursue hobbies, focus more on personal life, and contribute to initiatives that help those who were less fortunate. ✔ Dedicate more time to friends | |
Feb 2019 – Jan 2021 | Growth Specialist |
META-INF | Atlassian Platinum Enterprise Solution Partner & Top Vendor | ✔ B2B SaaS marketing – build and manage a high-performing team of 8 world-class freelancers and partners in areas such as SEO, PR (someone with Pulitzer Prize), and performance marketing (someone who is regularly invited by Google to Mountain View) to take the company's marketing activities to the next level. Out of role achievements – among others:
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2010–2019 | Strategic Growth Specialist |
Interim manager (contracted full time) & independent consultant at Balabit IT Security (clients: Adobe, Facebook and the other 50% of the Fortune 100), WhatCMS.org, Ignis Computer, Tarhely.eu, FeelFlux, Angloville and more. | Lead and operatively execute growth strategies in international environments; B2B, B2C, SaaS.
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2009–2012 | Harvard | Premium Educator Program Member |
Harvard University | Gained membership to the Harvard Business for Educators program to use and adopt best practices abroad, nurturing teaching notes, course planning, and course materials. ✔ Key topics: leadership, organizational development, process improvement, human management, human controlling. |
2009–2010 | Guest Teacher, College for Modern Business Studies, Székelyudvarhely branch |
Member of the Educator Premium program at Harvard Business School since 2009. Courses: human management, leadership, organizational development. | |
2008–2010 | Project Manager, Corporation Organizational Expert |
Toyota (EuroCar Trading); Peugeot (New-Car Trading); Renault, Nissan, Dacia (Lion Victoria); Kolibri; Apicom and its factory; Melinda Instal-Impex & Steel; Fomco; Municipality of Gherorgheni | Map, document and optimize the internal organizational processes; develop process indicators, reorganize units, complete human capital optimization, identify peak- and low-performers. Cut costs an average 20%, while maintaining equal or achieving better productivity. |
2008 | Sales, Marketing, International Expansion Support |
The Sniffers, Belgium | Development and introduction of new methods. Scout new client partnerships in European and Eastern countries. |
2007–2010 | External Expert |
Invention, optimization, and active application of methods to measure leadership and organizational performance. |
Social Activities
2004–2007 | Member of the Board and President (2006) of the Hungarian Young Esperantists’ Association. |
Studies
2008 | Erasmus program, Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen, Belgium |
2004–2008 | Economics and Commerce - management course Twice selected as Student of the Foundation from among 3000 students, based on achievement. |
Languages
English: working proficiency French: basic level, passive language Portuguese: beginner |
Fields of Interest
Latin dances, cycling, swimming, rowing, hiking, self-weight training, environmental protection, education, and contrubuting to open-source projects. |
Recommendations from LinkedIn
![]() | Fred Eberlein Aron works in a structured and thorough way that enhances a team ability to think beyond the obvious. Respect was earned through the combination of his strong work ethic and lot of talent. |
![]() | Gergely Gurmai Aron is a true go-getter: he is focused on projects with high impact. He loves questioning the status quo and creating strategies to achieve his ideas step by step. With his strong negotiation and people skills, he can get other team members involved in his vision, thereby making it a team effort. During the time we were working together at META-INF I was amazed how quickly he can get things done while keeping quality at a remarkably high level. It was a pleasure working with him! |
![]() | Balázs Antal An astonishingly result-focused professional, with an outstanding system-wide approach. Áron has been able to structure a large set of information that enabled us to synchronize the most important “to-do”s affecting the organisation. Open-minded, helpful and sometimes too fast due to his intense creativity. He proactively dedicated his strengths to our common projects, which all turned out to be a long-term success both internally and externally. |
![]() | Ádám Szirák Áron is among those few people who can oversee the whole system on which he works. If he is in a process of carrying out a task, he will not finish until he reaches his goal, by precisely completing it from the beginning to the end. As a thinker he is striving for simplicity, therefore he often has creative ideas which makes easier his own and others’ lives. Not just at work, but in all parts of life he is striving to do his best, and due to his good insight into the character of others, he really knows how to motivate people to do the same. |
![]() | Gabor Bonyhadi Áron advised Lamirez.com and LikeMyWifi.hu in terms of our online presence. His suggestions helped us to improve our services technically and also to have a better communicational message to our target audience. His work was quick, and efficient. He is familiar with the latest online technologies, and services what proves to be a key in our sector. |
![]() | Gergely Németh Áron is an exceptional leader, and it has always been a pleasure to work with him. He is keen on understanding not just the customer requirements, but also the technical details and development efforts required of a project. His deep understanding of UX along with the corresponding technologies and its possibilities resulted in superb specifications and optimal distribution of human resources. throughout the whole project. He is always committed to achieving the best possible outcome, continually adding the fine details and desired elegance to make the final result outstanding. |
![]() | Ramsey Rimkeit When Aron takes on a task he gives it his all. His in-depth research into a subject leaves no leaf unturned. Working with Aron has been a pleasure because he continuously points out new strategies and approaches that not only help you move forward when you feel you’ve explored all the “classic” approaches but also motivate you to focus on the original goal. I hope to collaborate with him again and again in the future. |
![]() | Ferenc Bodor Working with Áron is a joy. No matter how hard is it to reach his goals, he never turns back, and keeps focused on the task. He very well manages his team and schedules, frequently sharing thoughts with them, listens to suggestions from them, and makes sure to keep up his co-workers' enthusiasm. With him, projects get done well and in time. |
![]() | Roland Tóth Pál With many successful web projects behind us I can tell that Aron is a first-class manager. A perfectionist with an eye on details. I could concentrate on my own tasks as everything was clearly explained and well organized. |
![]() | Tárhely Eu After the suggestion to bring Let's Encrypt–the free SSL service sponsored by Cisco, Google Chrome, Hewlett Packard, Facebook and similar key players–into our services, we were really grateful for all the ongoing feedback and development ideas from Áron during its introduction. His voice was very valuable, and we largely saw eye-to-eye concerning the desirable functions of the user interface. |
![]() | Philippe Van Elst I met Áron hazardously at a go-kart race in Mol, Belgium, and we had a short chat about the technical parts of our services. We were surprised that after a few days he sent us a letter with a useful idea about a technical solution, which was far from his profession. I am convinced that a company needs such creative people. |
![]() | Szarvas Péter We really appreciated the development ideas and suggestions from Áron. We have not received such a well collected and structured material from anyone else so far. |
![]() | Selyem Norbert We have worked together at a greater project to map and improve the operation of the council of Gheorgheni at 2010. I was surprised by Áron’s exceptional receptivity that enabled him to immediately oversee and improve the processes at every different department, even though until that point he only had such experience from the for-profit area that functions very differently than a governmental institution. He precisely fulfilled each of his commitments and obligations on time, which might be explained by his unheard-of energy that he invested to accomplish all the goals. |
![]() | Ferencz Tünde Áron is a deadline oriented co-worker with a very strong dedication to work. Insightful perfectionist, a person you can trust when you want to be sure that important tasks will be completed in a systematic and precise way. No matter how complex the problem is, he will always come up with a brilliant, elegant, and cost-effective solution. Lots of work and little talk - that's Áron's way! |
![]() | Katalin Antaloczy Áron always turned over promising and interesting works with great openness, finding new, unique approaches. He had a keen interest in the topics he was involved with, and with his high performance he achieved twice the “Student of the Foundation” award, once with straight “A” grades. |
![]() | Viktor Beregszaszi Áron is a professional organization developer. I have assisted him in some of his smaller projects. With his wide range of skills, he always managed to provide the best results, even when the budget was very tight. He always looked for a win-win both with his clients and his subordinates. One of my greatest lessons from him was that one should always look for opportunities to improve the most crucial parts, which will provide the best results for the least effort. It was a pleasure to work with him and I would be happy to cooperate with him in any further projects. |