Overview
Arkadi Panitch is the founder and CEO of Effortel - Take your brand mobile, a company he founded in 2005. He is based in Brussels.
Before that, he was marketing manager at Orange from 2003 to 2005, and a consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) from 2000 to 2002. Earlier in 2000 he was business development manager at Transwide by Wolters Kluwer Transport Services, and from 1997 to 2000 he worked at IBM as a project manager and IT specialist.
Panitch studied at the Université libre de Bruxelles from 1991 to 1997, completing a master's degree and a PhD, and took a post-graduate qualification in international trading at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management in 1996 and 1997. He completed military service between 1987 and 1989.
Career history
In the news
- I wrote two posts about the lunatic valuations of Tesla and SpaceX. It would almost be funny if the investors were only American citizens risking their own savings. The problem is that it is not just American savings. The parasitic system is made possible because enough people are willing to buy into the bullshit fairytales told by investment bankers and oligarchs. Greed drives them, and capital from all around the world is sucked into these gigantic bubbles. Between €4 and €4.5 trillion of European savings are currently locked
- Trump just called the European Union a “piggybank” that is “robbing” American tech companies with fines. He promises tariffs and a 301 investigation. Look at the actual numbers instead. In 2025, major US Big Tech generated roughly $350 billion in revenue across Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium. Using each company’s own group pre-tax margins, the corporate tax due at normal local rates would have been around $29–31 billion. What was actually paid in these countries: only $2–4 billion. One-year gap:
- There is one place where lunacy is the norm: a psychiatric hospital. Tesla’s market value is roughly twice the combined market value of all major car manufacturers, including market value of the world's EV leader BYD. Yet it produces only a small fraction of BYD’s volume and even less than Toyota. Tesla delivered just 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, compared to BYD’s 4.6 million and Toyota’s approximately 10 million. Tesla has never turned a consistent profit without relying heavily on regulatory credits. Meanwhile, BYD’s EV sales
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