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Peter Righi

Global Director,CEED Global

Peter Righi is the co-founder and Global Director of CEED with over 14 years of experience working on economic development and private sector initiatives in emerging markets. Before launching CEED, Peter ran the Business Development Unit for SEAF which oversaw and implemented direct consulting and technical assistance for all of SEAF’s portfolio companies. Peter worked directly with investee firms to develop and sell value added products and services into Western export markets. Peter is a graduate of Middlebury College and American University’s School of International Service, where he focused on international economics and development. He speaks fluent Spanish and has a working knowledge of French. He spends most of his free time with his spouse raising their 3 young children, but he finds time to work with outreach organizations that aid and assist the homeless and ex-offenders to adjust back to the community in the Washington area.

Dejan Kalinikov

ИManaging Director of SEAF Macedonia and Managing Director of SPMG Capital

Dejan Kalinikov is a Managing Director of the US-based private equity fund SEAF Macedonia and Managing Director of SPMG Capital, a Macedonian fund management company managing two private equity funds, SIF and MIF. He has more than 10 years of experience with private equity investments in the region. His previous professional engagement includes positions of COO and BOD member in the telecom operator One (member of Telecom Slovenia Group), and various positions in Lucent Technologies, Macedonian Business Resource Center, and several IT companies in Macedonia. Mr. Kalinikov has an MBA degree with focus on strategy and finance from Emory University in USA, and a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering with focus on Computer Sciences from UKIM, Macedonia.

Tiziano Giovannetti

Director, Fintel Energija

Tiziano Giovannetti is the CEO of the Company since 2007, and since April 2018 he has been a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Director of the Company. He has extensive experience in developing wind power projects and he is the CEO of the following companies: MK-Fintel Wind a.d. Beograd, MK-Fintel Wind Holding d.o.o. Beograd, Vetroparka Kula d.o.o. Beograd and Energobalkan d.o.o. Beograd. In the Republic of Italy, he is the founder, member of the Board of Directors and Executive Director of Fintel Energia Group S.P.A, while in Agroenergie societa agricola SRL, he holds the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors. In the companies GIGA S.R.L., MinIeolica Marchigiana S.R.L., Bore Chienti S.R.L., Pollenza sole S.R.L. and Civita Energy SRL, Energogreen Renewables S.R.L. and Fintel Gas e luce SRL, he performs the functions of the Executive Director. 

Ivana Gažić

President of the Management Board of Zagreb Stock Exchange

Ivana Gažić started her career in 1998 at Pliva Plc. where she served until 2003 as a Head of Capital Market Operations. Since 2003 till 2005 she worked at Lura Plc. as a Head of strategic financing project and the assistant to CEO.In 2005 Ivana joined Société Générale - Splitska Bank Plc. where she worked as a Deputy Head of Corporate Department and a Head of Structure Finance Department. In 2007 she continued her career in Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank Plc. taking the position of Executive Director in the Investment Banking Unit responsible for financial markets, private banking, corporate finance, asset management and investment funds. Since May 2010 she is the President of the Management Board of Zagreb Stock Exchange. She is the President of the Supervisory Board of the SEE LINK Skopje, a legal entity founded in 2014 with the aim to establish regional order routing service between Bulgaria, Macedonia and the Zagreb Stock Exchange. She was a speaker, lecturer and participant in numerous conferences and professional gatherings on the subject of banking, finance and capital markets.

Lars Olofsson

ИCorp CEO, Prio Startup

Education: Master of Law and MBA from university of Lund, Sweden Career: CEO EXPERT LTD Sweden, Sr. President of EXPERT Int. AG Schweiz , Funded what is now Prio Startup LTD in 1990. Have helped 700+ companies of all sizes and businesses all over the world with business development and scaling up businesses. Now focusing on Startups and combine investment and business development according to the Prio Startup support program. Member of the board of directors of the SME Association in Sweden.

Florian Bieber

Director, Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria

Florian Bieber is a political scientist and historian working on inter-ethnic relations, ethnic conflict and nationalism, focusing on Southeastern Europe. He is a Professor in South East European History and Politics and director of the Center for South East European Studies at the University of Graz. He coordinates the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University and edits the open access journal Contemporary Southeastern Europe. He studied at Trinity College (USA), the University of Vienna and Central European University (Hungary) and received his M.A. in Political Science and History and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Vienna, as well as an M.A. in Southeast European Studies from Central European University (Budapest).

Vladislav Hadjidinev

CFO and Member of the Management Board, UNI Bank

Before that Mr. Hadjidinev was part of First Investment Bank AD Sofia, Bulgarian National Bank and Advi Corp. in London. Throughout his career he has gained experience in the private banking, investment portfolio management and trading in securities. The responsibility of Mr. Vladislav Hadjidinev within the Bank is related to the operation of Risk Management Division, Non-performing Loans Management, Complaints Division, Finance and Accounting Division, Information Technology Division, Loan Administration Department and Treasury, Dealing and Securities Division.

Dejan Nikolovski

Head of the Department for International Financial Relations and Public Debt Management, Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Macedonia

ДHead of International Financial Relations and Public Debt Management Department Dejan graduated in Economics from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. He is part of the Ministry of finance since 2005 and since 2011 he is head of International Financial Relations and Public Debt Management Department. Dejan has attended several seminars and workshops on topics like financial markets, financial instruments and debt management.

Petar Trpevski

Head of Corporate Management Division, Sprakase Bank Macedonia

Petar has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics, University St. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje and an MBA in finance from the City College, Sheffield University, Thessaloniki. He started his career at the Agency for Fully Funded Pension Insurance, Macedonia. In the period from 2008 until 2011 he was the Managing Director of Auktora & Hita Brokeri AD Skopje. Since 2012 he was part of Stopanska Banka Skopje as Head of the Branch Network and Small Banking Business. In 2014 he continued his career in Sparkasse Bank Makedonija, and since 2017 he is the Director of the Head of Corporate Management Division in Sparkasse Bank.

Jim Turnbull

Associate Director, Debt Capital Markets - Local Currency and Capital Markets Development (LC2), EBRD

Associate Director- Debt Capital Market for the Local Currency and Capital Markets (LC2) Initiative Jim joined EBRD in 2011 and he also co-ordinates LC2 Team activities in Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey and the Balkans. He has over 30 years’ experience in investment banking, pensions investment and funds management. He has also managed foreign exchange, derivatives and treasury exposures in both emerging and developed markets. As MD of Triarii Advisors, Jim acted as an independent advisor to several hedge funds specializing in emerging market investment. He currently sits on the Board of the Depozitarul Central in Romania.

Tomas Carruthers

Chief Executive, Project heather -Scottish Stock Exchange

Tomás Carruthers initiated Project Heather as a platform to progress the social finance vision he developed whilst CEO of the Social Stock Exchange. Bringing over 25 years experience and a reputation as a pioneer in his field, Tomás draws on his previous entrepreneurial successes, including CEO of Interactive Investor. As a recognised thought leader in the Social and Ethical finance sector, Tomás has been a prominent name on the global stage, speaking at over 80 events and chairing multiple working groups with the OECD. Tomás was educated at Newcastle, Edinburgh and Cambridge, where he also helped to start Electronic Share Information, the first website to publish share prices, in 1994. He is married, lives in Edinburgh and enjoys drawing and calligraphy.

Jošt Dolničar

ember of the Management Board, Sava Reinsurance Company

Jošt Dolničar (1972) has been with Sava Reinsurance Company since 2006 as Senior Executive responsible for the management of subsidiaries and since December 2008 as Member of the Management Board responsible for Group Support of Primary Insurance Subsidiaries, Risk Management, Actuarial Affairs and Processes & IT. Before joining Sava Reinsurance Company, Jošt Dolničar worked for Zavarovalnica Triglav – in his last appointment as Executive Manager of Non-life Business. Jošt Dolničar graduated in law from the University of Ljubljana. Through much of his life, he has been actively involved in sports. He is still a licensed rowing trainer, a member of the Legal Committee and an arbitrator with the arbitration court of the Slovenian Olympic Committee.

Pawel J. Szaja

Partner, Shearman & Sterling (London) LLP

Pawel has gained his experience working in the New York, Frankfurt and London offices of premier US and UK magic circle firms before joining Shearman in 2014. Pawel is cited by leading legal directories Chambers UK 2019 and Legal 500 UK 2019 and recognized as a “rising star” by IFLR1000. Pawel contributed to Global Legal Insights: Initial Public Offerings (2017 and 2018). Pawel advises underwriters and issuers on equity and debt capital markets as well as M&A and corporate governance matters. Pawel has extensive experience advising on a wide range of cross-border securities offerings, including IPOs, privatizations, rights issues and other equity and debt capital markets transactions from Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Damyan Leshev

Partner, Tsvetkova Bebov Komarevski Attorneys-at-Law”

He is a leading legal professional with more than 14 years of experience in capital markets and banking law and regulation. He has taken part in many major capital markets transactions in Bulgaria and has advised a wide range of Bulgarian banks, investment firms and asset management companies on the MiFID I and MiFID II legislation. In 2016, Mr. Leshev participated as a senior short-term legal expert in the EU funded project for the harmonization of the Republic of Macedonia’s laws with EU Regulation 600/2014 (the so-called MiFIR). Damyan Leshev holds an LL.M. degree from the University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria and a Bachelor of Economics from the same university

Elmar Voggenhuber

Investment & Advisory Specialist, Refinitiv

Elmar Voggenhuber is Investment & Advisory Specialist for CEE at Refinitiv. His professional experience ranges from capital markets consulting (Capgemini) to banking (Valartis Bank, Raiffeisen International) to financial data (Thomson Reuters, SDS). Leveraging market knowledge and expertise, Elmar has delivered successful I&A workshops across Europe. 

Ilijanco Gegovski

Founder and Director of PrymApps

Ilijancho Gagovski is an active participant in the Macedonian IT industry for the past 25 years. In the 90s he worked as a salesman in MBS –IBM Alliance, at the beginning of the 2000s he worked as Sales and marketing manager in Login Systems, from 2002 to 2013 he was general manager of the Microsoft office in Macedonia, and from 2013 e is a co-founder and manager of PrymApps, a software production company. Ilijancho is an engineer of electronics and telecommunication by education and a futurist by vocation.His ongoing interest are the different ways in which technologies change our lives and everyday experiences.

• Official conference languages: Macedonian and English.
• The organizer will provide a simultaneous translation throughout the conference.
• The conference will take place in hotel Metropol in Ohrid.