Mate Kovacs

Mate Kovacs

CEO at WLP

English

Branding Consultant at Life Beyond Product
Founder at Water Lily Pond
Founder at Pitches of Paradise
Founder at Diverceety

With 20 years of experience, I specialise in growth, business strategy, branding and marketing communications. My 'Brand. Life Beyond Product' approach is focusing on how only brands – not products – can truly adapt to the changing tech business landscape. I have been passionately engaged with the remote-first business model since 2016.

I'm a remote mentor and advisor at tech organisations in Europe, US and APAC (ie. Google Launchpad, 500 Startups, APX, Level39 and Chinaccelerator).

As the founder of Water Lily Pond, a remote-first brand communications company, I work with startups, scaleups and SMEs (SaaS/hardware/B2B/B2C) across industries ,and lead a 100% distributed global team of experts. I also launched Pitches of Paradise, a creative pitch deck design and storytelling solution for tech startups.

For 12 years, I was working with global brands (ie. Colgate, Heineken and Pfizer) at leading ad agencies (i.e. Publicis, DDB, Grey and Saatchi) in London, Prague and Budapest. I was helping blockbuster pharmaceutical brands (Bayer Healthcare, Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, GSK, Janssen, Gilead, AstraZeneca, Teva and Takeda) across various therapy areas (immunology, diabetes, oncology, cardiovascular, haemophilia, HIV-1/HCV, oral health, etc.) launch new products, brands and integrated promotional campaigns with over $800k of marketing communications budget. I also worked with other innovative medical devices and biotechnology companies, and digital health startups (i.e. argenx, Wise, Medtronic, Therachat).

I graduated in 2004 from Budapest Business University with a BSc in Economics / Marketing & Advertising specialisation.