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Nickolai Vasilieff is an entrepreneur with a background in international business, sales and marketing. He is now practicing as a business/marketing consultant helping companies open and develop existing and new markets.
Educated in electronic engineering, business management and psychology, Vasilieff established his first company, a drafting/engineering company, in 1971. Over 14 years, he built the company to 40 engineers and draftsman providing services on some of the world’s largest construction projects. In 1985 he left that company to take a challenging position as marketing director for a start-up technical software company. In 18 months he established over 100 dealers in North America, 38 distributors and dealers in Europe, and booked nearly one million dollars in sales.
Having established a reputation as a successful international marketer, a consortium of technical companies recruited him to introduce their products overseas, and he founded Third Party International, Inc. (TPI), an international marketing consulting company specializing in high tech products. During his 20-year tenure as President and CEO of TPI, Vasilieff worked with over 150 companies from over 35 countries to expand markets and introduce over 250 products and services.
In 2005 Vasilieff left TPI and his other ventures for a two-year sabbatical. With his wife, he traveled around the world, visiting 17 countries, living out of a backpack, and, as he put it, “getting in touch with the world again”. He now lives in Portland Oregon practicing as a business development and marketing consultant for small and medium sized companies.
He travels extensively and enjoys the rigors of international travel as well as the challenges of building a business; and is as comfortable sitting in the boardroom of a multinational corporation negotiating a business deal as he is sipping Yak Butter tea in Tibet.