
Co-founder, Strategy and Marketing · Barcelona
Simina Ilea
Simina sees where a business could go, connects the right people to get it there, and keeps the whole team grounded in what matters. Close to 15 years in marketing and sales: at Mindvalley she went from customer support to launches, co-managed the marketing department, then ran R&D, where she built and launched a new sub-brand from an idea in a single year. Since going independent she has launched and grown knowledge businesses and telehealth brands from zero, including The Natural Law, Sprout Health and Luua, and led launches for names like Michael Pilarczyk and Jordan Peterson.
Simina is one of the three co-founders of GrowthPulse Studio. Find her on LinkedIn, at siminailea.com, and on Instagram.
Apply to work with usWhat founders say about working with Simina
“The GrowthPulse team didn’t just run our marketing. They understood our whole business.”
Simina joined our leadership team as our growth partner, with Sara driving acquisition and Dragana running operations behind the scenes, and I was impressed by their work from start to finish. Together they understood every part of the company, from tech and product to customer support, e-commerce and marketing, and solved problems across all of them. We work in a category where most marketing doors are closed, and their creativity kept finding ways to grow anyway. Monthly revenue went from around $200K to $360K in five months. Just as important was the partnership: they worked directly with me, communicated clearly, were always proactive, and made every decision with the company’s best interest in mind. If you need a real growth partner who understands founders and goes deep into the business, I recommend them without hesitation.

Noah Hammond TyrrellCEO and Founder, SoulCybin “I would not be where I am with my business today if it wasn’t for Simina.”
I’ve worked with a lot of marketers and strategists before, but without a doubt Simina has been of most value. She helped me build my film academy from just an idea to an actual business. And she has not only helped me: every time I have a new client for my video production services and I realise they need a better marketing strategy, the first person I refer them to is Simina. I could not recommend her enough.

Teun van der LugtFounder and Creative Director, Golden Era Media “She is a powerful person that can take any online business to the next level.”
Simina is great in creative marketing and sales. She and her team are supporting our international online business, and she has the skills, the knowledge and the power to execute strategies into amazing results. I am a high performance mindset coach (Mister Mindset) with over 200,000 participants in our programs over the past 7 years, bestselling author and founder of Meditation Moments. Simina was responsible for the international launch of our Meditation Moments app and the program “Live Your Best Life 2022” (January 2021).

Michael PilarczykEurope’s Mindset and Mindfulness Coach, Co-Founder of Meditation Moments “Simina is the master of operations.”
She created the operational foundation and all the systems in my agency in order to be able to scale. She is able to take complex systems, simplify them, structure them and train your entire team around them. If you are looking for someone who makes your processes move, optimised and running like clockwork, look no further than Simina. She is able to align your entire company towards your vision and translate it into simple tasks so you can grow your company efficiently.

Alessio PieroniFounder, Scale for Impact Agency “Simina is and will always be my go-to person for running full-stack marketing and operations.”
I’ve had the pleasure to work with Simina for years, as a colleague first, and then as a business partner when we ran Zero to Skill together, and one thing has been consistently obvious: Simina always makes you feel like you have someone in your corner. Your reliance on her to take care of marketing and operations, and all the fine details in between, will never fail you. Without her, both the business and other projects we’ve worked on together wouldn’t have happened, and definitely wouldn’t have brought the results they did. Her unique thinking, knowledge and skills are why she is able to put everything together and coordinate the people involved into alignment for maximum success.

Zdravko CvijeticFounder, Zero to Skill “The GrowthPulse team are a powerhouse.”
The team worked with us at Omniu on marketing and operations, and they’re incredibly resourceful, always ready to make things happen. They’re open to any challenge, and Simina is a true leader who gets people working together and in harmony with each other. Our work together went beyond Omniu itself: it’s how we connected with Jordan Peterson’s agency, and how we built Majoritas Academy together from the ground up. Whatever we brought to them, this team found a way to move it forward.

Catalin MateiGeneral Partner, Omniu “She is a real asset!”
Simina worked with the 5MS team and helped us to increase the awareness of 5MS events. She implemented excellent social media marketing ideas. The number of participants in our events increased by more than 20% due to her strategies.

Ovidiu OlteanFounder, Life Speaking and 5MS