Mykyta Sahan

Business development and partner acquisition professional with 9+ years building B2B acquisition through email, LinkedIn and research-led sourcing across technology, crypto and venture environments. Most recently at Coinask, an AI assistant for crypto holders, focused on exchange BD, partner origination and opportunity qualification across exchange, media and partnership channels. Strongest in market mapping, partner sourcing, opportunity qualification and building repeatable outbound motions that turn target accounts into substantive commercial conversations and meetings.

Partnerships Manager at Coinask (2025-10 – 2026-09)

Early-stage AI assistant for crypto holders using non-custodial, read-only exchange integrations.

• Built exchange BD coverage across 20+ crypto platforms, sourcing and qualifying opportunities that progressed to conversations with Binance, OKX, Bitget and BingX, before handoff to co-founders for commercial and integration discussions.
• Sourced and qualified a Bitget opportunity that, after founder handoff, progressed to a formal broker proposal covering integration, commission economics, acquisition support and joint GTM.
• Sourced and coordinated 12 held meetings across exchange, media and broader partner-acquisition motions, including five exchange / crypto-platform meetings.
• Ran LinkedIn outbound across 17K+ targeted prospects, sending 1.7K+ targeted messages and generating 165 reply threads and 30 substantive commercial conversations across multiple ICPs.
• Built a partner-sourcing motion using Ahrefs and competitor backlink analysis, narrowing 4.8K+ backlink records into a qualified publisher shortlist and surfacing four qualified publisher opportunities selected for a planned paid pilot.
• Tested partnership ICPs across publishing, broadcast media and professional training; publishing/media generated approximately 2.1% substantive commercial conversations per message vs. 0.8% for training, informing a shift toward higher-quality media and publisher segments.

Senior Lead Generation Specialist (Contract, Part-time) at Kitrum (2025-01 – 2026-04)

Concurrent fractional engagement with Whales Marketing under the same owner.

• Built and maintained outbound email infrastructure supporting up to 100K sends per month across 219 domains, 500 Google Workspace mailboxes and 2,500 Outlook mailboxes.
• Defined ICPs and built validated prospect datasets for outbound campaigns.
• Developed campaign budgets and acquisition plans against expected performance benchmarks.
• Wrote and tested messaging, sequences and CTAs across target segments, using response data to refine campaign execution.

Senior Lead Generation Specialist (Contract, Part-time) at Whales Marketing (2025-02 – 2026-04)

Concurrent fractional engagement with Kitrum under the same owner.

• Built and ran outbound email campaigns for Whales Marketing and client accounts, covering audience targeting, prospect sourcing, messaging and sequencing.
• Adapted campaign strategy across client segments using response data to refine targeting and messaging.

Deal Sourcing & Capital Formation Associate at Whales Ventures (2024-01 – 2025-03)

• Built a deal-sourcing and fundraising outbound motion from scratch, combining market mapping with LinkedIn and email outreach.
• Ran investor and deal outreach at scale, generating 179 responses and 16 positive investor/deal conversations.
• Researched and qualified investors, partners and deal opportunities, managing outreach and follow-up through Zoho CRM, HeyReach and Instantly.

Marketing Researcher (Growth Marketing & Lead Generation) at AgileEngine (2017-01 – 2023-12)

• Built and ran B2B lead-generation programs across email and LinkedIn, covering segmentation, prospect sourcing and multi-touch outreach.
• Managed 4,200+ outbound email campaigns over seven years, including approximately 3,000 client-acquisition and 1,200 candidate-acquisition campaigns.
• Expanded into technical sourcing and recruiting, contributing to 37 junior and mid-level hires.

MA in International Economics – Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics (2014 – 2016)

BA in International Economics – Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics (2010 – 2014)