Sasha Bezuhanova, HP Bulgaria: currently HP CEE Public Sector Director. On that position she runs HP business on a higher, regional level in growing countries such as Bulgaria, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia etc. Sasha spent 12 years being HP Bulgaria General Manager. Before that she was S&T Bulgaria manager. The motto of Sasha's work is »Uncompromising !«.
Georgi Brashnarov, Nemetschek and BASSCOM: George Brashnarov is the General Manager of the privately held company part of the ''Global Sourcing'' Strategy of Nemetschek AG, Germany and the Chairman of BASSCOM (Bulgarian Software Companies Association). He has 20 years of experience in the development and implementation of software solutions in different business areas and 15 years in the management of teams for software development and implementation.
Jure Božič, Our Space: a serial entrepreneur, who runs Our Space group, comprised five companies, which deals primarily with integrated solutions in the area of IT systems. He was also the regional manager of the American company Silicon Graphics for South-Eastern Europe.
Miloš Đurković: Miloš Đurković was for the last 3 years general manager of IBM for Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia. Prior to that he set-up CISCO in Serbia. He was also vicepresident of Amcham Serbia and a member of the managing board of NALED.
Jožek Gruškovnjak, Cisco Systems: director at Cisco Systems where he heads the consulting group Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) for Latin America, Near and Middle East and Africa. He was also the director responsible for team leadership, development and implementation of the sales strategy and programmes in SE Europe. Before arriving to Cisco, he co-founded NIL Ltd, a leading Slovenian company in the field of data communications.
Vasko Kroneski, Nextsense: For more than 12 years he has been General Manager at several different web and software development companies, and is currently CEO and owner of Nextsense. Aside from his leadership role at Nextsense, Vasko is also chairman and co-founder of Exploring Macedonia, the National Tourism Portal for Macedonia, as well as a Managing Partner and co-founder of Httpool Macedonia, an internet marketing company.
Zvonko Kuzmanovski, IIOSS Tokyo: is the vice president and chief product officer of IIOOS Tokyo, a management consulting company that works on organizational diagnoses, organizational strategies, and organizational improvements. They work with companies and organizations in and outside of Japan, Internet-based consulting work, and other work incidental thereto.
Igor Leshtar, Seavus: manager and one of the founders of Seavus, a software development company with its own software packages. Seavus is a company that employs around 80 people and has departments in Malme, London, Boston, and in Riga is in process of establishment. Some of the Seavus clients are well known global companies such as Shevron, Motorola, Volvo, Ford etc. (tbc)
Vladan Petrović, NPS Group: general manager of NPS, company specialised in consulting and services in IT - implementing, upgrade and maintenenance of integrated business solutions (ERP) and business inteligence solutions. NPS is a a part of a group with headquaters in Slovenia and is well known as one of the leading Microsoft Dynamics partners in the region.
Matt Mayfield, Telekta: began his career as an electrical engineer and has gradually specialized in the less technical side of offering development and sales management. Mr. Mayfield has built or enlarged business initiatives in North America, Asia and Western European markets for major companies such as IBM, Honeywell, Contraves, and Hermes SoftLab as well as having helped several smaller niche businesses.
Goran Obradović, CISCO Serbia: general manager of CISCO Serbia. He started working for CISCO 4 years ago, and prior to that, he was employed as a sales& support engineer in one of the ICT giants in Serbia, "Informatika".
Georgi Sharkov, European Software Institute Regional Center: Georgi Sharkov became ESSI Center manager in 2004. His career mission is to promote the Balkans as a strategic region for IT and outsourcing.
Petar Statev, ICT Cluster Chairman, BASSCOM Bulgaria board member: Peter Statev is co-owner and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Smartcom – Bulgaria and Chairman of the Managing Board of the Bulgarian ICT Cluster. Mr. Statev is a successful IT sector entrepreneur with a significant role in local IT business development.
Miroslav Valtchanov, HP Global Delivary Center: He has 10 years successful HP career. In that period he was Public Sector consultant (Bulgarian ID Cards deal). For 1 year he has worked as an expert for HP Australia. Currently he manages a big team of experts focussed on specific regional IT operations in HP Global Delivery Center in Sofia.
And other guests and mentors...