Speakers
With over ten years of experience in the retail industry and top management positions in sales, a master’s degree in economics, and vast knowledge in the field, Ljiljana Ahmetović has been known as one of the pillars of the regional e-commerce scene from the very beginning. As a passionate mentor and employee development enthusiast, her current endeavor is Shoppster.rs and Shoppster.si. She also actively contributes to the Ecom industry development as a Board member of the Ecommerce association Serbia.
Božidar’s extensive experience in retail banking payment technologies at the C-level of management has given him a strong understanding of the industry and its challenges. In recent years, he has recognized the potential of Fintech to transform existing industries, particularly banking. He has pursued this interest by seed investing and then working as a COO and CTO at an internationally acclaimed SaaS fintech startup.
Mario Henjak is a Master of Economics with over 20 years of experience in banking and the management of international banking groups in the region. He completed his master’s degree at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb. He improved his expertise at the INSEAD International Executive Programme and the London Business School. Prior to joining Gorenjska banka, he was employed by Banka Koper (Intesa SanPaolo) in Slovenia, PBZ (Intesa SanPaolo) in Croatia and in Sberbank Croatia, where he acted as the Chairman of the Board from 2016 until January 2018. His strongest professional competencies include an excellent understanding of banking, finances and operations in the international environment.
Chamber of Commerce and Industry Serbia
Marko Čadež is President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia (CCIS), a member of the Managing Board of the Western Balkans 6 Chamber Investment Forum, which he chaired from 2017 to 2023, a member of the Board of Directors of EUROCHAMBRES, the largest European business association, in which he was a Vice-Chair of the Single Market Committee and now he is a Vice-Chair of the Neighbourhood and Enlargement Committee and is in charge of Eurochambres’ Digital Services Network.
Luka Burilović, Ph.D. is the President of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce, which function he has been holding since 2014.
He is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (HBOR) and Podravka d.d. Among other functions, Mr. Burilović is the President of the Croatian National Board of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of European Chambers of Commerce (EUROCHAMBRES) and a member of the Board of the Foundation of the Croatian Academy of Sciences.
Tomislav Radoš, vice president of Croatian Chamber of Economy, was born on 2 nd April, 1971, in Požega, Croatia. Radoš attended the Faculty of Economics and Businesses in Zagreb earning a bachelors and a master’s degrees as well as a Ph.D. with the thesis “The Relationship between Strategy and Business Performance of Croatian Companies”.
Currently he is a Vice President of Croatian Chamber of Economy for Industry, and IT and Energy and Environment.
Stevica Kuharski has been a serial entrepreneur for more than 20 years. Croatian Post acquired his startup Locodels in 2019. and he joined as a principal to Fil Rouge Capital, a VC fund with 46M EUR of assets under management.
Zorana Milidrag is President of eCommerce Association of Serbia and Global eCommerce Director in Sport Vision. Zorana is the cofounder of eCommerce Academy and her main mission is to enable growth of Digital business in Adriatic region.
In more than 25 years when he was the CEO, president of management and supervisory board or head of the organization, Zvonimir Mršić created significant value for shareholders and stakeholders. Nowadays he is a strategic advisor, mentor, and investor learning by doing in startup society.
Domagoj is the founder and director of one of the largest IT conferences in Croatia, Digital Labin, which brings together digital designers, software developers, and project managers from across Croatia and brings some of the most prominent IT names to Istria. He is the recipient of the Istriana award in the economy category for the most successful entrepreneur in the Istrian County for the year 2022 and is also the vice president of the professional group for ICT at the HGK Pula.
Robert Čoban is at the helm of the largest magazine publisher in the region, Color Press Group which has subsidiary companies in all 6 countries of the former Yugoslavia. The Group publishes 110 magazines and has 25 websites.
Ivanka Novaković is CHRO at Delta Holding, leading regional company. She is an organisational development expert and people strategist with 20+ years of experience in large multinational and local companies and as a consultant, trainer and business coach.
With 20+ years of C-level experience in technology, Aleksandar Bijelić is supporting development of innovation and startup ecosystem in SEE region, serving as a Chief Digital Officer of MK Group and as a President of Board for Serbian Venture Network
The participant has taken part in numerous panels and public discussions on the topic of green financing and environmental preservation, and is highly committed to achieving the developmental mission of ProCredit Bank in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.
Rainer Schamberger completed his studies in computer science at the Vienna University of Technology and wrote his dissertation on “Scenarios of mobile payment methods”.
He has held various management positions in the European financial services environment for almost 30 years.
Milos Djurkovic is a senior executive with 25+ years of experience in leading and managing international teams. Milos is the most effective as an executive advisor in a growing, forward-thinking organization.
His leadership skills make him a great advisor in creating dynamic teams, cross group-collaboration, building and managing customer relationships, and mentoring teams to outperform competition.
Dr Drago Indjic is an investment professional, currently lecturing Fintech at several leading British universities (UCL, Queen Mary University and Warwick Business School). Following long career in hedge fund industry, Drago became a serial cofounder and adviser to tech businesses across Europe. He is a Managing Director at Oxquant, an Industrial Professor at the UCL Institute of Finance and Technology and Dozent in Economics (RAF, Belgrade). Drago holds a Dipl Ing from the University of Belgrade and a PhD from Imperial College, London. He is an FCA Authorised Person since 2000, a Member of the IEEE and IET and an EU expert for fintech and machine learning since late 1990s. He was the author of the Guide to Fintech published last year, sponsored by the USAID.
Euronews Serbia
Jasmina Koprivica is Head of Digital Media in Euronews Serbia with a demonstrated history of developing and running top Serbian news websites such as Blic.rs, B92.net, Telegraf.rs and many more digital projects. Oriented to creating media platforms that are targeting mass audience and providing first class experience for various forms of digital advertising.
Nela Bunčić Vukomanović
Years of studying in marketing, working in different type of media and being an sport influencer, made one good knowledge in how to be creative and how to make good relationship with brands.
Vojislav Milutinović
Vojislav is Founder & CEO of gaming studio Two Desperados, based in Belgrade, Serbia, that has published two successful video games – Woka Woka and Viola’s Quest, with more than 30 million players worldwide. The third game is about to be launched and is expected to deliver great results as well. Two Desperados is a sustainable company of 80 employees, planning to rise to 130, as well as to begin its international path, founding several offices around the world.
Aleksandar has been in crypto industry since 2012, when he co-founded a local bitcoin exchange www.ecd.rs. Besides the exchange, his company also operates a network of cryptocurrency ATMs, has developed a cryptocurrency payment application for merchants and has cofounded Serbian Bitcoin Association and Serbian Blockchain Initiative.
Andrej Vizjak is Co-Founder and CEO of AV.consulting, an international strategy consulting boutique with focus on Middle East, Germany and South East Europe. His headquarters is in Dubai, the Digital Commerce Capital of MEASA (Middle East, Africa, South Asia). He started his career with McKinsey in Germany and has a track-record of top-management consulting as Managing Partner of Kearney and PwC South East Europe as well.
Miloš is an international consultant and one of the most respected experts in lobbying in the region. He was a consultant to many ministers in the governments of the Balkan region.
As a visiting lecturer, he lectured at numerous faculties in the wider South-Eastern Europe.
He has years of experience in product development, as well as in the banking and financial sector. He was part of two modern startup banking projects as one of the most important members of the team responsible for the overall development of the business.
During his career, he has held various positions in marketing, customer relations and product development. He describes himself as a passionate team player, a leader for whom team development is one of the most important KPIs. He is focused, analytical and motivated by complex challenges that need to be overcome.
Marko became part of Delta’s system in 2022 as CEO of Ananas. In August 2022 he assumed the position of CEO.
Milan Gospić is leading Microsoft in Serbia since January 2021. as Country Manager in charge of country digital transformation, focusing on strategic development of the market, customers and partners.
Since 2022. he is a member of the AmCham Board of Governors, actively contributing to Digital Agenda development in cooperation with the main country stakeholders and chamber members.
Slobodan Marković works as a Digital Advisor at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Serbia. For more than two decades, he has been actively involved in advocating for and developing ICT policies in Serbia. Prior to joining UNDP, he worked at the Serbian National Internet Domains Registry (RNIDS) as an Advisor for ICT Policy and Internet Community Relations.
Tarik is an outsourcing service entrepreneur with over two decades of the successful business track. His international experience and entrepreneurial background bring unique value to the Business Services market and customers therein. Launching StorsenDigital in 2010 created a space for sharing and leveraging versatile knowledge and experiences to help clients add value to their businesses and staff to grow. With that in mind, StorsenDigital is now present on three continents and delivers services to the top four Fortune 500 companies.
Marko is a skilled technology and business enthusiast with great interests in modern data management, Business Intelligence and Automobile industry. As an entrepreneur, he loves to be part of the new generation of innovators which plays huge role in constant development of data driven businesses that he is involved in. As an executive with more than 15 years of experience in Automobile industry and 10+ years in business information and IT, his objective is to support technological development of companies that will lead to the future of more competitive business environment.
Dejan Tonic holds the position of Regional Coordinator of the EBRD’s Star Venture Programme in the Western Balkans region. He is engaged as the Associate in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), at the SME Finance & Development Group since 2013.
Is a senior executive with 20+ years of experience in retail and ecommerce industry in large multinational and regional companies. Skilled in Sales, Operations and Business development. As the Regional Operations Director in Shoppster responsible for both Serbia and Slovenia, his aim is to provide the best shopping experience matching development of business processes and operational exellence with customer needs, setting up basis to spread business internationally.
Born and raised in Podgorica, Montenegro, Jelena spent 4-years in Houston, TX living and earning her business management degree and now calls Belgrade, Serbia her home. Shortly after joining HYCU in August 2021 as a Regional Business Development Specialist, she was promoted to Channel Account Manager which is the role she currently serves. In this role, she is responsible for expanding business opportunities in seven different countries (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Israel), developing business plans with distributors, resellers, and cloud providers, identifying new revenue opportunities and creating strategic relationships with alliance partners such as Nutanix, Wasabi, AWS, Google and Microsoft.
Regional Business Development Manager responsible for covering the Central and Eastern European territory for Labrys Consulting, an international company based in Istanbul.
With over 10 years of industry experience, work spans across diverse sectors such as EU funded projects, Financial Audit (EY), Energy and Sustainability, and IT.
Specialty in IT revolves around marketing transformation and automation, user experience improvement, and customer data optimization.
Collaborating with the world’s leading technical tools providers, including Oracle, Sprinklr, Moengage, Meiro, and other renowned vendors. Aim is to work tirelessly to enhance business processes, enabling clients to benefit from cutting-edge technology solutions.
Aleksandra Đurđević is the Vice President of Delta Holding and the General Manager of Delta Auto since 2016 and runs the brands BMW, HONDA and MINI cars, HONDA, BMW and KTM motorcycles, as well as the Delta polovni automobili used cars and Delta Rent Services company.
Branimir is one of Co-founders at the security company Dot.Bit that provides wide range of security services with focus on PCI certifications and card payments. He is in card payment business and card payment security his whole carrier working for payment processors, Big4 companies and QSA companies. And is a proud father of two kids.
A professional with 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship, local economic development, attracting investments, and development and infrastructural project management.
PhD in economic sciences, author of over 30 scientific papers and publications in the field of economic modeling and decision theory.
Managing director of the Science and Technology Park Niš, a key institution for the development of the regional innovation and startup ecosystem.
Dedicated manager, direct, oriented towards results and problem solving.
Aleksandar Stevanović is a director with PwC Strategy & Operations Consulting practice in Croatia, with the responsibility of Retail & Consumer Consulting practice leader for Southeast Europe.
He has an extensive industry and advisory experience in managing and transforming retail and consumer goods companies. Within his role, Aleksandar is supporting regional companies in creating
and executing strategies, as well as enhancing operations.
Executive Director at Croatian Artificial Intelligence Association (CroAI).
Before that, Martina worked at CroAI as a Project Manager and was in charge of all projects and events regarding the Association – philosophical and tech meetups, parties, educations, conferences etc. She’s currently managing three different EU projects.
Experienced Executive & Entrepreneur with 20 years of extensive international experience in electronic payment solutions encompassing card acquiring, POS, mobile and web e-commerce payment gateway solutions. Results-driven business leader with proven track records. Combines strong customer focus with board-level influence and expert negotiating ability.
Slavimir Stojanović is a Belgrade based designer, visual artist, author and professor. His works won numerous awards worldwide and has been featured in magazines, publications, galleries and museums. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Serbian Marketing Association, published two award-winning illustrated children’s books from The Adventures of Singi Lumba series and his first novel Nine is now in its 14th edition. He is also a founder of Futro Design branding studio (futrodesign.com), a TEDx speaker, a guest lecturer at SVA New York and a professor at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. Together with his wife Olja and their daughter Nadja, he runs three Futro lifestyle design stores (futroworld.com)
As VP of Customer Experience at CAKE.com, Jovana is currently responsible for developing the customer service strategy and managing the overall performance of teams and processes to achieve the highest levels of customer satisfaction. Strongly believes that one of the greatest skills a person can have is decreasing the time between an idea and execution.
Erich Cossutta is the Founder and President of the Dragon Maritime Group which is one of the leading logistics providers of SEE. Mr. Cossutta’s extensive experience in transportation and logistics, has enabled him to better understand dynamics of the SEE economy, the value of innovation, technological transformation, and makes him a better entrepreneur with a great imagination who is always looking for improvement.
Matija is a founder and coordinator of deep-tech venture builder Nuqleus. He has been involved in startup development since 2016 when he founded his startup and was a CEO for 3 years. He used his early-stage startup experience to start different programs and activities for fostering entrepreneurship and creating spin-offs at Innovation Centre Nikola Tesla. In his current role, Matija is helping the Croatian deep-tech ecosystem connect and develop by initiating collaboration between industry, startups and research institutions.
Vladan Atanasijević is a manager with proven experience in governance of large corporations and start-ups as well.
In his carrier he was leading some of the major international companies in Adriatic region (Comtrade Group, Asseco SEE, Hermes Soft Lab). He founded his own start-up company, Virtual Team, in 2001 producing software for regional and global
leaders. Five years later the company was acquired by Hermes SoftLab Slovenia, part of Comtrade Group now. Currently his role is Chief Operational Officer at Comtrade Group.
Jenő Nieder is the Deputy-CEO of PortfoLion Capital Partners, one of the most active VC and PE investors in the CEE area. With close to 20 years of professional experience he actively assists the business development of numerous start-ups and scale-ups in the portfolio. Jenő serves as chairman of Finshape Group, member of the board of Codecool, Pepita.com and Ontotext. Jenő holds a corporate finance and an actuary degree from Corvinus University of Budapest and gathered his CFA designation in 2011. Active member of the board of the Hungarian Venture Capital Association andthe Digital Association of Hungary.
Nikola Ilchev is one of the most influential eCommerce people in Bulgaria. He started working on his first eCommerce projects in 2011 and in 2016 he founded eCommerce Academy.The organisation is responsible for more than 70 significant eCommerce events 2 published books and the only niche eCommerce competition in Bulgaria.
Veronika’s been in management consulting for a decade (and a half) throughout SEE. She now works as a strategic advisor with Karanovic Partners, a leading SEE corporate law firm, where she makes sure the firm and its clients are on top of business trends. She also mentors startups (through cooperation with several accelerators) and is an avid promoter of diversity in the workplace (and everywhere really)..
Dušanka Tišma has been working at Payten since 2015, currently holding the position of Project Manager. As part of her duties, she has actively participated in several key projects, including mPOS, introducing Instant payment at the point of sale, SoftPOS, and numerous POS projects for major retailers such as Delhaize Ahold Group. In addition, she has moderated several expert panels and was one of the organizers of the first payment hackathon in Serbia.
Senior sales and operations executive with more than 17 years of experience in sales, building organizations, business development, people management, and scaling businesses within the Tech, Aviation, HR, Travel, Hospitality, and Services industries. Business transformation projects are also something that Djordje was doing throughout his career. Mentoring represents one of the business passions of Djordje, who is also a mentor in the Serbian Managers Association for the 5th generation now.
Nikola Škorić is the founder and CEO of Electrocoin, a Croatian cryptocurrency brokerage and
payment processor. With an MA in Computer Science and after 7 years in the nuclear industry, he founded Electrocoin in 2014. and oversaw its growth to the biggest cryptocurrency company in Croatia, with expanding presence in the EU. With a focus on the quality of service and personal approach to every single customer and with partnerships with the likes of Croatian Post, Konzum, Tifon and Bazaar.hr, Electrocoin is helping grow the cryptocurrency user base by making the purchase and spending of cryptocurrency as simple as it gets.
Bojan Kocev, a 24-year-old marketing expert from Macedonia, has been in the industry for 9 years, with the past 2 years spent running @shortsify.co.
Bojan specializes in crafting short-form content for high-profile clients, including Hubspot, Kevin O’Leary, My First Million Podcast, Dan Go, and Morning Brew.
Recognizing the immense power of short-form content on social media, Bojan leverages algorithms, views, and reach to transform engagement into long-term audience growth and lead generation for his clients.
Srđan Kondić PhD was born on 28 October 1982 in Banja Luka. After finishing high school, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Banja Luka in 2005. In 2012, Srđan Kondić obtained the title of Master of Economic Sciences, defending the thesis entitled as follows: “The impact of the global financial crisis on strengthening the resilience of the banking sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. In September 2022, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic of Liquidity Management as a primary determinant of bank creditworthiness, and obtained the title of Doctor of Economic Sciences.
With 18+ years of experience in logistics, Nikola Riznić began his career at City Express in 2004 before moving to D Express in 2008. He served as Sales Director for 9 years and has been Deputy Managing Director of D Express since 2018. Nikola actively participated in various projects and was one of the driving forces behind the company’s e-commerce strategy. In early 2023, he becomes the General Manager of D Express.
D Express, the largest courier service in Serbia, specializes in innovative services that match the leading global logistics companies.
Ivan Kordic is a seasoned marketing and e-commerce expert with over a decade of experience in the industry. He has a proven track record of driving growth and profitability for a variety of businesses, from startups to established brands. Ivan is a certified Google Digital Marketing & E-Commerce Professional, showcasing his expertise in the field. As the Chief Marketing Officer for Shoppster in both Serbia and Slovenia, he leads innovative marketing strategies to drive business success.
Ivona Zucchiatti, a manager with over 15 years of work experience in the field of Marketing, CRM and Sales development.
She joins X express in 2020 as a Head of Sales support, and together with the rest of the team, begins the successful journey of a domestic fast-growing company.
She has an active role in development and implementation of innovative business projects while taking care of the strategic brand positioning.
E-Commerce manager with over 15 years of experience in internet sales in both domestic and foreign markets. He built his career through e-commerce startup companies, retail chains, and telecommunications, always working in the internet sales sector.
Since 2019, he has been a member of the Management Board of the eCommerce Association of Serbia and a regular lecturer at the Ecommerce Academy. From the last quarter of 2022, he will take over the role of Director of the eCommerce Association of Serbia.
Marcel Majsan is the president of the Croatian eCommerce Association. He earned a master’s degree in journalism at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb, after which he continued his education in the field of web design, sales and digital marketing. He started the eCommerce Croatia Association in 2015, together with the Facebook group eCommerce Croatia, which currently has over 10,000 members. As part of the Association, he conducts various researches, organizes events, holds trainings and consultations for members, and runs a podcast presenting eCommerce professionals with good reputation (Nominis). In short, Marcel helps people launch an online business and improve existing ones, but also to find the best solutions and best people to develop their business.
President of M&I Systems Group, an entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in software industry, business strategy, technology investment and management. As one of the driving forces behind the Group, Vladan’s relentless energy and passion for emerging technologies is steering the company towards global presence and affluence. Vladan is dedicated to navigating the Group in the course of progressive thinking, bold creativity and impactful solutions.
Founder and the supervisory bord member
New Frontier Group
Branislav is founder and the supervisory bord member of New Frontier Group. Before establishing privately owned New Frontier group in Vienna he was Easter Europe Area Manager in EMC2 and Senior Vice President in Computer Associates International (CA). His business carrier started in the computer center of Statistic Office of City of Belgrade and Emona, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
He is visiting professor at the IEDC Bled’s school of Management and lecturer at different institutions.
Branislav is author of the book Between 2 Worlds published by Vulkan izdavaštvo in Belgrade.
Telekom Srbija / Marketing and Communication Consultant for Sector of Railway at MCTI
Danijela is a talented and passionate marketing expert with more than 20 years of professional experience as a PR, marketing and/or communication manager, in both public and private sector. She mastered skills of marketing management, media coverage and PR activities, and market research, as well as online marketing and social networks management.
She has a demonstrated history of developing and running successful brands such as Jagermeister, Hendricks Gin, Supernova and Superstar.
Dejan Cvetkovic is the CTO of Microsoft Development Center Serbia. Over the last 30 years Dejan performed in many different roles in Microsoft worldwide such as: software engineering, technical consultancy, sales leadership, growing the organizational capability. in 2003 Dejan founded Microsoft in Serbia and in 2005 cofounded Microsoft Development Center in Serbia. These two organizations paved the way for digitalization in Adriatics region and beyond, as some of the key Microsoft products and services are being engineered in Belgrade
Sales Director
Rakuten Viber
Berina has worked with the biggest retail, banking and technology providers in the EMEA region for more than 10 years. When joining Viber, she was in charge of establishing new alliances and partnerships with many prominent CPaaS, Chatbot, MNOs and other communication companies across regions. She is now managing the development of Viber’s messaging partnerships and sales worldwide.
At her previous job at global telecommunication provider Infobip she was responsible for creating and implementing sales strategy as Sales Product Expert for CpaaS portfolio.
Belma is an esteemed Marketing & Development Director and National Business Mentor, boasting a wealth of experience in delivering innovative digital marketing solutions. Throughout her distinguished career, she has held pivotal roles at renowned international and national organizations, including Coca-Cola, Pernod Ricard, and Communis Agency. Belma’s impressive portfolio encompasses collaborations with iconic brands such as Coca-Cola, Jack Daniel’s, Fanta, Chivas, Absolut, and Jameson, to name a few
Orhan Gazibegovic, a distinguished leader and visionary, serves as the President of the eCommerce Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina. With an impressive track record spanning over two decades, Orhan has amassed a wealth of experience in the Financial, IT, and Marketing sectors, where he has skillfully led and mentored diverse teams.
In the past decade, Orhan has been instrumental in spearheading successful digital banking product development and customer communication initiatives.
Igor Jovanovski is the CEO of Kameleon Solutions, the leading and most awarded Salesforce partner in the Adriatic Region. Under his visionary leadership, the company has excelled in delivering innovative and customized Salesforce solutions for businesses, enabling them to thrive in the digital era. Jovanovski’s extensive experience and dedication to customer success have solidified Kameleon Solutions’ reputation as the go-to partner for Salesforce implementation and optimization in the region.
Filip Novak is the managing partner at Kameleon Solutions Croatia, where he leverages his deep expertise in Salesforce to help businesses succeed. Prior to joining Kameleon Solutions, Filip held the position of Senior Account Executive for the Adriatic Region at Salesforce itself, gaining invaluable experience in managing relationships and driving sales for the company. This unique background has equipped him with the skills and knowledge necessary to lead Kameleon Solutions Croatia in delivering top-notch Salesforce solutions for businesses across the Adriatic Region.
Mr. Davor Sakač serves as the Chief Executive Officer of TS Ventures Fund which started operating in August 2021 as a first Corporate Venture Capital Fund in this part of Europe. Mr. Sakač spearheaded the establishment of the Fund, the pioneering project whose founder is telecommunications leader of Southeastern Europe – Telekom Srbija.
Under his leadership, already in the first year of operation, TS Ventures managed to close as many as nine investments as well as to recently establish strategic partnership with global tech giant – Microsoft.
Prior to assuming his current role at TS Ventures Fund, Davor Sakač held various senior managerial positions throughout his more than 20 years business career. During that time, Mr. Sakač was mostly leading
the development of a large number of business models, their expansion
on the several continents – with his original direction for product development, scaling, market growth and other market strategies.
Mr. Sakač holds a MSc in Management from the Faculty of Organizational Sciences at the University of Belgrade and earned his PhD in Business and Finances from the Faculty of Business and Financial Studies, University of Business Studies in Banja Luka.
Experienced in performance marketing in digital media in last 4 years. As Head of Performance Marketign Department in Pop Up Advertising agency she leads and makes strategies for clients from 12 countries in Europe.
Saša is the owner of several successful companies in Croatia. He is also the founder of Futura Partners, an investment company that focuses on healthcare and top-end shopfitting. Being a member of CRANE, he invested in startups like Repsly and Entrio, but missed Rimac. He is also a co-founder of ZIP, a Zagreb Entrepreneurship Incubator.
Saša is a member of the Croatian jury for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award and founder of the YPO Adriatic chapter, serving as a YPO Gold Chair. He has also hosted a talk show, Pressing, on N1TV and is the author of the Poduzetnicki mindset.
Saša has recently become an active promoter of e-mobility, being the first person to cross the Sahara desert in an electric car.
Data strategist. Helps companies turn data into a monetizable asset.
Previous experience: The Coca-Cola Company, GfK (managed & created marketing research & consultancy business in eight Adriatic countries; engaged as Business Development Director of GfK Integrated Market Intelligence (advanced analytics) in Central & Eastern Europe).
As of 2019 in DATA DO to combine data science with market and consumer understanding to help companies discover new opportunities and increase revenues.
Co-founder & Business Development
DATA DO
Goran Tintor is a highly experienced Marketing and Business Decision Consultant with over 25 years of experience advising global brands such as Coca-Cola, Google, Heineken, Delhaize, McDonalds, Nike, Nestle, Mercedes, among others. He holds an MA from a top UK Business School and has received a 1-year full Scholarship by British Government.
Goran is the co-founder of DATA DO, an analytics-based start-up that uses data to deliver valuable insights and drive business success. DATA DO is supported by Serbian Innovation Fund, World Bank, and EBRD.
Ali Sallabi, a Business Development Manager for eCommerce in Monri, is an experienced manager in the payment industry with a demonstrated history of working in merchant acquiring and sales services. He is a recognized payment and eCommerce expert with abundant experience in project management, business planning, banking, loyalty programs, AML procedures and processes, and promotional and marketing activities. During his career, Ali participated in various projects, which included demanding logistics and implementation of pioneer technologies like contactless payment, mPOS, android POS, and QR payment.
Mirza is passionate and transformational leader with strong expertise in digital business transformation through various industry verticals, with more than 14 years in leadership roles in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Sales, Business Development and Service delivery, Mirza has proven success in achieving business goals in a highly competitive markets across Europe with building and leading high-performing teams and developing and leading comprehensive revenue growth strategy. Strong business acumen with deep technical background graduated Executive MBA from Cotrugli Business School, and business acumens from INSEAD and London Business Schools.
Cofounder and Chief Business development officer
Leanpay
Janko Medja is a Cofounder and Chief Business development officer of Leanpay, the regional provider of Point of Sale loans and BNPL services. Within the company he focuses on Sales by growing the Merchant partners and the Funding partners network, as well as manages the development in the areas of HR and Corporate governance. He is passionate about making the instalment payments in shops as easy as possible for merchants and consumers alike.
Before joining Leanpay in 2018, Janko developed a career in commercial banking. Among other roles he has worked as a Managing Board member of Unicredit Slovenia from 2008 until 2012, earning the recognition as the Young manager of the year 2011 by the Manager association of Slovenia. From 2012 to 2016 he has served as the CEO and Managing board chairman of the NLB group; under his leadership the bank went through a tough restructuring period, from deep loss making to a stable and profitable regional banking group.
Peter Nalli is the Head of Animation and VFX at Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment (ILBE) Group @iervolinoandladybacardient and showrunner of the animated series “Puffins Impossible”, created by ILBE Studios (ILBES) @ilbe_studios, a Serbian creative animation studio.
Peter has worked on over 20 international feature films as a Visual Effects Supervisor, including “Black Butterfly”, starring Antonio Banderas, “In Dubious Battle”, starring James Franco, and Academy Award Winner Robert Duvall, and “Finding Steve McQueen”, directed by Mark Steven Johnson (Ghost Rider). He was an instrumental figure in the ideation and visual development of the animated feature film Arctic Dogs (Arctic Justice), starring the voice talents of Jeremy Renner, alongside Oscar winners, Anjelica Huston and John Cleese.
Nenad has extensive experience in the field of transport and logistics management, developed in almost three decades of work in Milšped Group. On various top management positions he assumed responsibility for the Group global presence and business units expansion to automotive, intermodal, air, sea , train transportation, including expansion to the e-commerce scene through courier service, M ONE, member of Milšped Group. During his career he took over the responsibilities for global sales, deputy CEO and Board Member roles. His strong expertise in all logistics fields, brought company operations to the higher level.
CEO
M ONE
For more than ten years in Milšped Group, Mirko has been actively involved in customer relation management. Since 2020, he has taken the roll of managing the courier service M-ONE, member of Milšped Group. Company’s long-term experience and market leadership in the field of transport, forwarding and logistics enabled the establishment of this state-of-the-art courier service with the mission to provide service users with strategic support and enable safe and stable growth of their business by constantly improving and perfecting processes in the field of logistics, applying the most modern methods and technologies in the distribution process.
Tanja Kuzman is a Digital, Startup and Innovation Director at PwC with 10+ years of combined professional experience related to digital transformation, startup/innovation ecosystems and VC funding. In her role, she covers nine countries of Southeast Europe and holds two positions in global teams dealing with startups & digital solutions. Prior to joining PwC, Tanja was Investment Principal at a VC fund in the UK. She holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Sheffield. In May 2014 at the St. Gallen Symposium of Leaders of Today and Leaders of Tomorrow, Tanja was proclaimed as one of the 100 Leaders of Tomorrow of the whole world.
After obtaining bachelor’s and master’s degree on Faculty of organizational sciences, she joined Generali, the leader in insurance market in Serbia as Customer Experience specialist. She conducted various analysis, took part in process enhancements, as well as introduced innovations and found ways to overcome the obstacles that both internal and external customers may have.
As Data scientist she is actively working on data strategy and increasing the awareness of the importance of data and making business decisions based on data.
In parallel with it, she is currently leading Salesforce implementation as project manager and is responsible for overseeing the planning, execution, and monitoring of the project. She has played a key role in designing and implementing data-driven solutions that have helped the organization enhance its processes and ultimately increase customer satisfaction.
Senior Marketing Manager
Aplauz
Mirta Benvin is a highly experienced marketer with almost two decades of expertise across different industries.
After finishing marketing studies at the Faculty of Economics & Business Zagreb, she started working for global brands such as Hewlett-Packard (HP), advertising agency J.Walter Thompson, Miele, Intesa Sanpaolo Card, and lastly, after years of leading the marketing department at IntechOpen – the world’s leading scientific publisher of OA books, she started her current position as Senior Marketing Manager at Aplauz.
Today she is responsible for driving Aplauz’s strategic brand presence while planning and implementing different marketing strategies across the European markets.
Founder
BIZARRO fintech
Bizarro has changed the way risk assessment is calibrated, and also how new clients in retail banking are acquired.
Bizarro’s clients dropped their default rate for 50% using AI risk assessment. How he managed to that with his partner Marko, find out on Adria summit.
Miloš Zlatanović is from Niš, Serbia. He is a creative computer engineer and tech enthusiast specializing in eCommerce and software product development.
Miloš is a Chief Information Officer and co-owner of Syncit Group – a software development company, and a product owner and co-founder of Athena Search – a SaaS platform.
With a decade in web development, eCommerce, and integrations of various solutions, he aims to implement the latest and greatest from the industry.
President of the Board
Data Privacy Manager
Marijan Bračić is the President of the Board at Data Privacy Manager, a software solution for managing and protecting personal data. He has extensive experience in analytics and data management and has led complex projects in the telecommunications and financial industries. Marijan is also a Forum for Cyber and Data Security member at Croatia’s National Council for the Digital Economy. He played a visionary role in the development of the Data Privacy Manager product and is dedicated to growing Legit Software as a global leader in the field of privacy protection.
Founder and CEO
Altacon Ltd. and fintech/insurtech app CLIMATIG.com
Duško Radulović is the founder and CEO of Altacon Ltd. and fintech/insurtech app CLIMATIG.com for climate change risks underwriting of assets. He has over 20 years of experience as a board member, director, and project management, and since 2013 he has worked as an expert evaluator of innovative projects for the European Commission, EIB, and other institutions. He has PhD and MBA diplomas, and his area of research are climate change and carbon footprint sustainability. For the past year, he has been actively working with banks and insurers on issues such as taxonomy, ESG reporting, and assets underwriting against physical climate risks.
Technology Partnership
If you are interested in what the future of technology will look like, ask Sava Zxivanovich, an engineer with decades of experience who, through the British-Serbian software company Technology Partnership, develops systems in the fields of security, finance, telecommunications and medicine.
After graduating from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, he completed his master’s degree in finance at the prestigious Henley Management College in Great Britain, where he spent 10 years in IT development.
After coming back to Serbia, with his team, he created innovative products and services in the field of Web3, agtech, fintech, ecommerce, blockchain, medtech, for clients from USA to India.
Most recent is SaaS Köpa Unified Commerce Network with the aim to revolutionize all supply chain industry and softwares in business processes.
Business Development Manager | RPA Manager
M&I Systems Group
Snježana has been in the IT industry since 2009 and has worked on 60 successful large and medium IT projects in M&I Systems Group (ERP, RPA, BPM, Consulting, and Project Management) and built several teams as a Mentor and a Team Lead.
She is currently in charge of the management of M&I Systems, Co. GmbH in Austria and expansion into the DACH region market, but also onboarding software robots together with the RPA team across the region and Europe.
Global Channel Director
HYCU
Bogdan Viher has been working with the channel, distribution, VARs, MSPs, and CSPs for the last 15 years. During this time, he has developed a strong understanding of data protection, disaster recovery, migration, backup and ransomware protection across both on-premises and public cloud. Bogdan is currently working closely with channel and resell partners and their customers, articulating the value and advantages of purpose-built data protection and DR solutions for multi-cloud and SaaS environments.
Technology Partnership
If you are interested in what the future of technology will look like, ask Sava Zxivanovich, an engineer with decades of experience who, through the British-Serbian software company Technology Partnership, develops systems in the fields of security, finance, telecommunications and medicine.
After graduating from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, he completed his master’s degree in finance at the prestigious Henley Management College in Great Britain, where he spent 10 years in IT development.
After coming back to Serbia, with his team, he created innovative products and services in the field of Web3, agtech, fintech, ecommerce, blockchain, medtech, for clients from USA to India.
Most recent is SaaS Köpa Unified Commerce Network with the aim to revolutionize all supply chain industry and softwares in business processes.
TBA
Adria Summit 2022
To be continued…
