mk2025 summit CATALOG

7-10 Nov, 2018 Hotel Marriott , Macedonia

www.macedonia2025.com About the MACEDONIA2025 Summit

The international non-profit organization Macedonia2025 hosted its annual Summit for the seventh time, from 7-th to 10-th November at the Marriott Hotel– Skopje. The Summit represents a dynamic platform for sharing knowledge on business and the economy, technology, leadership and innovation. We had 60+ speakers from 20+ countries and 400 attendees the event, that had the unique opportunity to hear the latest business trends, to network with renowned professionals and establish new partnerships and cooperation with potential investors.

Some of the speakers include top-notch names like: Kevin Murnane – Professor at Kellogg School of Management and Founder of Behtrics, USA; Ghassan Hasbani – Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister of Lebanon; Anthony B. Kim – Research Manager & Editor of the Index of Economic Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, USA; Jordi Serrano Pons – General Practitioner, Founder and CEO of UniversalDoctor, ; Yair Engel – Founder and Director at Kayama – Center for Sustainable Design, Israel; Catherine Constantinides – world-renowned philanthropist, activist and entrepreneur from South Africa and many more!

For the first time ever we had a 3-day program filled with more than 10 panel discussions and 2 break-out sessions, covering a wide array of topics like: global economic trends, regional investments, leadership, and entrepreneurship. Other topics included digital transformation, latest technology applied in healthcare, as well as production of medical cannabis in the Republic of Macedonia. Special attention was paid to philanthropy and giving back to the homeland, through organizing the Fundraiser Gala, in honor of the organization’s Visionary Founder – John Bitove Senior, thus celebrating 10 years from establishing Macedonia2025 and 7 years from the Macedonia2025 Summit.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZER Macedonia2025 is an International, independent, nonpartisan, non-profit “think & do” tank founded in 2007 by Macedonian expatriates who envision a proactive way of contributing to the economic and democratic development of Macedonia. With headquarters in Skopje and supporters around the globe, we encompass a wide array of programs that enable expatriates to give back to their homeland. Our Vision

We are dedicated to helping create a prosperous economic climate and a“stronger nation”that will improve opportunities for citizens, companies, and foreign investors. We promote sustainable economic growth through fostering competitiveness, entrepreneurship, innovation and value-based leadership. Our Core Values Envision - We envision programs, advocacy and research facilitating creation of an advanced knowledge and transformation of Macedonia into a vibrant economy Energize - We energize the Macedonian citizens, businesses, academia and Diaspora through collaboration, networking and social engagements Evolve - We evolve the leadership, managerial and entrepreneurial capacities of the Macedonian leaders of tomorrow globally through talent development programs Excel - We excel in efficient execution of all programs and maximum leverage of our donors’support Ethical - We promote ethical approach to business as a fundamental pillar of a healthy and prosperous society www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com The role of government is to be proactive in providing strong institutions and economic freedom that enables Session Topics investment and economic growth. Long-term economic success requires all the main political parties agreeing on a common economic vision for the country. Macedonia needs a commitment to sustained economic growth of DAY 1: greater than 4 per cent in order to be transformed. SESSION 01: Leadership Through Education People are the key resource according to Ghassan Hasbani (Lebanese Deputy PM and Health Minister) and Otto SESSION 02: Success Through Inner Peace Georg Schilly (Former German Interior Minister). Both and Lebanon provide examples of how investment SESSION 03: Distruptive Macedonian Start-ups in health, formal education, and on-the-job training can help an economy grow despite difficult circumstances. Macedonia needs a system that better delivers quality human capital. Recent reports on Macedonia’s education system are of concern. DAY 2: OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESSES How technology is changing: business, medicine, and environment SESSION 1: Global Economic Trends and How They Affect the Region AI and cloud computing are not new but they are reaching a level of maturity where they are now changing the SESSION 2: Development in SEE - Investments, Trade, and Prospects practices of SMEs. Christian Rupp, Spokesperson of the Federal Platform Digital , explained how SMEs need training to realize the full possibilities of digitalization. (BREAKOUT SESSION): Competition Law and Compliance – The Current Status and Future Challenges for Companies in Macedonia (Sponsored by CMS) AI, big data, and augmented reality are changing medicine. Doctors are diagnosing people with the help of AI. SESSION 3: Macedonia through the Investors’ Lenses: Main Policy Lessons Augmented reality allows doctors to work with patients and other doctors remotely. In parallel, the declining cost of SESSION 4: Success Factors for Diversity and Inclusion Management in Corporations human genome sequencing is increasing the amount of key data available for each patient.

SESSION 5: Macedonian Business Success Stories The circular economy is growing. Products are being designed for recycling so that resources stay in the economy. SESSION 6: The Best of Macedonia: Production of Medical Cannabis Even food is being recycled into packaging. Sustainable production and energy is possible and while the price is a problem, new business models are finding a way. SPECIAL EDITION SESSION: Philantropy Activism, and the Role of Women in Society (Fundraiser Gala)

DAY 3: Turning Macedonia into a start-up nation SESSION 7: The Digital Transformation as a Business Enabler According to Scott Resnick (Founder and ED of StartingBlock), there is no one magic method for turning Macedonia SESSION 8: Building an Entrepreneurial Nation into a start-up nation. Accelerators and government need to keep asking themselves how they can help start-ups. SESSION 9: Latest Technology Applied in Healthcare Method is not the platform. The method is just asking questions, listening and helping.

(BREAKOUT SESSION): Health and Well-being - Taking Control of Your Life Macedonian companies need to think global because of a small domestic market and lack of capital. Macedonian SESSION 10: Fintech and AI–Democratizing and Personalizing Financial Services for Businesses entrepreneurs need to transition from building great products to building great companies. “30 years ago we were socialist. Our parents did not start companies. We are first and second generation entrepreneurs”, Emma Poposka, SESSION 11: Green Industries as a Growth Generator Co-Founder and CEO of Bron.Tech. SESSION 12: Accelerating Ideas to the Real Market SESSION 13: Coaching the Leaders - The Mindset of a Great Leader The Mindset of a Great Leader

Professor Kevin Murnane (Kellogg School of Management) gave a short masterclass on the mindset of a great leader. Mindset is the choice of a leader to set his mind in the direction needed to achieve their goals. Mindset is not SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS fixed but should be changed as goals change or if you get stuck. “You need to reflect on what you’re doing every day to improve. Think big and look to grow. If you haven’t achieved what you wanted just tell yourself ‘not yet’ and The Summit had another stellar line-up that provided amazing insights on how to make Macedonia stronger, and keep going”. how to be a better leader.

Moving the economy forward A new industry: Cannabis

Anthony B. Kim (Research Manager, Heritage Foundation) said that one secret to Macedonia’s future economic Macedonia was an early adopter of pharmaceutical cannabis production, and is now reaping the rewards. With such success is an engaged diaspora: their experience, success and passion can move the country forward. “Macedonia a highly regulated industry, Government and industry must continue to work closely together to ensure continued needs to be your project”. growth.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Macedonia2025 board members macedonia2025 Council of experts

• Robert Arsov, (Chairman) Senior Managing Director at the investment banking and capital markets division • Ichak Adizes, the USA of Guggenheim Partners, the USA • Marta Arsovska Tomovska, Macedonia • Borijan Borozanov, Macedonia • Vera Stavroff, (Vice-Chairwomen) President and CEO of Herbal Science LLC, the USA • Ivo Boskoski, Italy • Vlado Dimovski, Slovenia • Mike Zafirovski, (Co-Founder) Founder and President of the Zaf Group, the USA • Ada Gavrilovska, the USA • Valentin Gjorgjievski, Slovenia • John Bitove, (Co-Founder) Chairman and CEO of Obelysk, Canada • Vanja Josifovski, the USA • Mitre Kutanovski, (Co-Founder) President of CEO of Mak International Shipping LLC, the USA • Dejan Kalinikov, Macedonia • Vlaho Kostov, Germany • Zhivko Mukaetov, CEO and President at Alkaloid AD, Macedonia • Lou Naumovski, Canada • Viktor Nelepa, UAE • Zoran Martinovski, Country Manager at IFC, World Bank Group, Serbia • Ivan Skenderoski, Macedonia/UAE • Lily Stojanovska, Ausralia/UAE • Chris Pavlovski, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Rumble Inc., Canada • Mile Terziovski, Australia • Peter Simeon, Partner at Gowling WLG, Canada • Jatin Thakrar, Macedonia • Izaac Trpeski, Australia • Jim Nikopoulos, President at ECN Capital, Canada • Russ Trpkovski, the USA • Igor Tulevski, the Netherlands • Robert Stevanovski, Chairman and Co-Founder of ACN Inc., the USA • Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Belgium • Slavica Waite, UK • Nevenka Dimitrova, Chief Technology Officer at Philips Oncology Informatics, the USA

• Ana Arsov, Managing Director at Moody’s U.S. Financial Institutions team, the USA

• Michael Cklamovski, Managing Director at CIBC, the USA macedonia2025 Ambassadors Club

• Jana Marin, Hospital Director and Member of the Board of Directors at Acibadem Sistina Hospital, Macedonia

• Alek Icev, Engineering Manager at Google, the USA • Sadat Alimi, Switzerland • Nikola Nakov, Canada • Vahit Alili, UK • Aleksandar Orovcanec, Canada • Kati Iceva, Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, USA • Mitko Andonov, Macedonia • Metodija Papazoski, Poland • Allan Castillo, Macedonia • Oliver Petkovski, the USA • Jerry Naumoff, CEO of Taskforce BPO, Macedonia • Nikola Damjanov, Italy • Filip Popov, Macedonia • Mihail Mateski, CEO at Greentech DOO, Serbia • Dino Gramatikov, Switzerland • Vladimir Robevski, Macedonia • Borche Ilioski, Macedonia • Dimitar Siljanovski, Germany • Dijana Indovski, Canada • George Skangalov, Germany • Stefan Ivanovski, Macedonia • Petar Spaseski, Macedonia • Pero Jolevski, the USA • Aleksandar Stamboliev, Macedonia • Petar Kajevski, Austria • Russ Trpkovski, the USA • Nikola Kjurciski, Macedonia • Dejan Velickov, Canada • Zlate Koviloski, Germany • Kirk Zafirovski, the USA • Mircho Krsteski, Germany • Matthew Zafirovski, the USA • Nick Lazarevski, Australia

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com macedonia2025 Staff

Biljana Markovich Stamenova – Executive Director Vase Georgievska Dimitrova – Financial Manager Elena Zhurkova – Education Programs Manager Maja Staleska – Events Manager Aleksandra Kolozheg Gievska – Marketing and Communications Specialist Brendan Filipovski – Research Manager Dimitar Chatleski – Diaspora Relations Officer Ema Jakimovska – Communications Officer Stefan Ivanovski – Multimedia Production and Web Design Ljupcho Spirov – Video Production and IT Technician

macedonia2025 headquarters

Email: [email protected] Address: st. Luj Paster 1, second floor, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia Office phone: +389 23 161 015 North America phone: +1 646 491 6808

www.macedonia2025.com Macedonia2025 Summit organizing committee

Ema Jakimovska Stefan Ivanovski Ljupcho Spirov Communications Officer Multimedia Production Video Production and IT and Web Design Technician

Ana Arsov Zoran Martinovski Biljana Markovich Stamenova Co-chair and Co-chair and Executive Director MK2025 Board Member MK2025 Board Member

Kirk Zafirovski - Master of Ceremony

Vase Georgievska Dimitrova Elena Zhurkova Maja Staleska Financial Manager Education Programs Manager Events Manager

Aleksandra Kolozheg Gievska Brendan Filipovski Dimitar Chatleski Anastasija Milkovska – AIESEC Volunteer Stefan Aleksovski - AIESEC Volunteer Marketing and Communications Research Manager Diaspora Relations Officer Meri Micevska - AIESEC Volunteer Darko Dodevski - AIESEC Volunteer Specialist Julia Ilieva - AIESEC Volunteer Martin Stojcevski - AIESEC Volunteer

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Marta Naumovska Grnarova holds Master Degree in Industrial Management from the University of Ss. Cyril and day1 - SESSION 01: Leadership through Education Methodius in Skopje and a Bachelor degree in mechanical engineering from the same University. At the moment is working on a Ph.D. thesis in Design management.

Biljana Markovic Stamenova Panel moderator Anastasija Dapcevska Adzieva Macedonia2025 Executive Director COO at Makweld DOO

Biljana Markovic Stamenova, MBA, serves as the Executive Director at Macedonia2025 since March 2015. She started working at the organization in 2011 as a Manager of the Skopje Branch. As of 2015, the organization’s HQ Anastasija Dapchevska Adjieva has a medical background MD. She graduated in 1997 at St. Cyril and Methodius, was transferred to Skopje and the local team and the activities significantly expanded. Medical faculty and got her MBA postgraduate at the Faculty of Economy.

Mrs. Markovic Stamenova currently works on planning and executing economic development and educational Her portfolio of education and expertise is extended in medical diagnosis, laboratory management, quality initiatives that strengthen the organization’s presence in Macedonia and globally. Previously, as an Operations management systems, and food analysis. For 8 years, supported by USAID, Anastasija worked on the development Manager at the American Chamber of Commerce in Macedonia, she has worked on developing strategic and management of first independent and accredited food quality control laboratory in Macedonia, according to partnerships, programs, and communication tools that significantly improved the association’s good standing. the FDA certified laboratories in the USA. She is a certified inspector for PPE.

Her previous job posts include business development activities as well as project-based posts at institutions such For the last 12 years, Anastasija has been a part of Makweld and REM Power SEE.Her aim is to support the as the University of Pittsburgh in Macedonia, the World Bank’s IFC, etc. international development of the companies and to create a positive and sustainable work environment, through continuous self and team education.

Marta Naumovska Grnarova General Manager at ZAVAR Company and Ilija Jolevski Managing Director of ZAVAR Design Co-Founder of Inellipse

Marta Naumovska Grnarova is the owner and general manager of Zavar, a family-owned company since 1988 in a metal processing industry. Under her lead company, Zavar, specialized in welding, processing equipment, and Ilija Jolevski is a university professor in software engineering and Co-founder of Inellipse. Prior to teaching pressure vessels, serving pharma, chemical and food industry became a regional leader in expertise and quality and founding his own businesses, Ilija worked as a Software Development Project manager at Makedonski with 85% of exports, mainly in EU, UK and USA. Telekomunikacii (T-Com) in designing and implementing all sorts of in-house software-based systems.

As a general manager, she is focused on is entering new markets and developing new innovative products, as well Ilija holds a Ph.D. degree in Software Engineering, at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty at Ss. as the strategic development of the company and finance. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. In 2011/2012 he has been a postdoc and visiting researcher at the Freie University in Berlin. She introduced the design segment in the company by founding the brand Zavar Design with the main focus on designer radiators, unique heating objects with sculptural appearance where she combines technology and arts. Entrepreneur in the core, he has founded several companies in Macedonia and promotes entrepreneurship to his Zavar Design last year was listed in top 10 design radiator brands and awarded by the prestigious Best Innovative students and young IT professionals. In 2015 he founds Inellipse in Bitola and sees steady growth with his software Design award by the American Society of Interior Designers ASID New York Metro. and product development company in the second largest IT city in Macedonia.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Session 02: Success through inner peace

Elena Fidanoska Founder and CEO of Macedonian Honey Dragana Ognenovska Transformational coach, California, USA

Elena Fidanoska is the founder and Chief Executive of Macedonian Honey. She is responsible for all activities in the company, especially focusing on finance and marketing. Elena is the mother of two children. Dragana is a transformational coach, inspirational speaker, and meditation guide. Dragana combines her current Elena is one of the rare “ladies” in beekeeping, even though all bees in the hive are “ladies” (50,000 in one hive). education and experience with her extensive experience from her days as a professional tennis player, UC Berkeley Establishing Macedonian Honey from its original concept, Elena strongly believes that Beekeeping isn’t just a graduate and a finance professional who worked for a Fortune 500 company where she was valued as an “asset.” way of finding a new home for the rapidly disappearing insects, but a way of better understanding the very environment in which we live. In 2014, Dragana decided to give up her finance career and transform her life to close the gap between where she was and where she wanted to be. Through her journey, she had to erase the conditional and limiting beliefs Since its foundation, Macedonian Honey invented the Elle-Hive™ - first Macedonian hive that conforms to that kept her in a situation she didn’t want to be in, and to realize possibilities that were only part of her wildest the natural habits of the bees and makes work of the beekeeper easier. They are national winners as socially dreams. responsible company attending IRP Program in Vienna, Representing Macedonia Startup community at Global Entrepreneurship Week and the most prestigious award - European winner in category “Climate” at the Startup Dragana now works with high-achievers all over the world, who come from different experiences and backgrounds, Europe Awards, in competition with all companies from all over Europe. where she supports them to become the best version of themselves in their business and life to live a life filled with joy, inner peace, and fulfillment. Dragana’s training over the years has been focused on working with leaders in emotional intelligence, spiritual psychology, meditation, neuro-linguistic programming, ancient wisdom, etc.”

Session 03: Distruptive Macedonian startups Filip Arsov CEO of Synapse Aviation

Igor Madzov Panel Moderator Associate at South Central Ventures and Co-Founder Filip Arsov is the CEO and a Co-founder of Synapse Aviation, an IT company focused on the development of of Startup Macedonia software products and services for the aviation industry worldwide. Synapse Aviation is a “spin-off” of his other company called Synapse Group which successfully operates on the local market for the last 12 years.

Filip is an active member of CEED Macedonia since 2010. In 2011, he was awarded as the Best Entrepreneur in the Republic of Macedonia in the micro companies’ category. He also finished as one of the 3 top performers of the Igor Madzov is an associate at South Central Ventures, co-founder of Startup Macedonia and actively involved in Leader Project 2017 program brought by Macedonia2025 in cooperation with the Richard Ivey Business School. developing the Tech and Startup Ecosystems in Macedonia and Western Balkans. He has a business background In 2018, Filip was one of the winners of the Western Balkan Summit Startup Games in London and became an and experience in fundraising, business development, lead generation and sales for SME’s and tech startups. Igor active member of the GEP (Global Entrepreneurship Program) sponsored by the Department of International has been active as a mentor and advisor to multiple startups and has organized, moderated and hosted multiple Trade of UK. events and programs in the past 10 years such as Startup Weekend, Startup Europe Week, Global Entrepreneurship Week etc.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Nenad Cubrinovski Igor Hristov COO at Inplayer Founder & CTO of Fueloyal and Founder & CEO of 4Virtus.com

Nenad Cubrinovski is a person with an extensive curiosity in electric engineering and information technologies. With University Engineer degree for Telecommunication & Information Technologies and strong ability for Igor Hristov is a serial entrepreneur. He is a graduate student of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and MBAc. His strategic planning, business development and overseeing administrative functions, he knows how to create a education is the combination of excellent technical background in the field of Information and Communication smooth sail of all day-to-day operations. Technology and postgraduate managerial education.

His knowledge and experience have helped him pile up quite remarkable positions in his professional portfolio Igor brings over 18 years of experience in the field of hardware and software development at a high level. He is like, Associate Product Manager for Web and IPTV Products with Makedonski Telekom, Product Manager, and an engineer; dreamer; visionary entrepreneur; award-winning innovator and he wants to build new things. He is Senior Product Manager that quickly transformed into Operations Manager at Invideous Limited. passionate about creating something extraordinary, that can change the world for the better. He is a Founder & CTO of Fueloyal and Founder & CEO of 4Virtus.com. In October 2014, he became part of the InPlayer family as Head of Engineering and Operations, a position that had a role in boosting his place into the industry and therefore becoming the Chief Operations Officer.

With a multidisciplinary team of 75 FTE, he is now the person responsible for the overall management and operations of the company.

Katerina Bojkov Emma Poposka Co-Founder and CEO of Bron.Tech Co-Founder of EmbedSocial

Katerina is one of the Co-founders of EmbedSocial, a SaaS platform for social proof that helps businesses improve Emma Poposka is the Co-founder and CEO at Bron.Tech and a non-executive director at the Australian Stock their digital presence and increase web conversions. She is an eBusiness graduate and a Cotrugli Business School Exchange-listed Ookami. She has more than 10 years of experience in technology and software development MBA, with a great interest in business automation. across different stages of the software development lifecycle. During her career, she has worked on several large-scale projects for international organizations including the UNDP, USAID, and EC. In 2009 she Co-founded one of the most successful digital marketing agencies in the region, that achieved Facebook Marketing Partner status amongst the first 100 companies in the world. The experience to build apps In her work, Emma leverages technology to solve business and social issues. She is particularly interested in for big brands that are used by tens of thousands of users encouraged the team to start working on their own personal data exchange protocols and how they can be applied within the existing business processes to remove products. EmbedSocial was backed with a funding in 2015, that helped the team fully transform to a product friction, but at the same time limit the negative impact on the individual’s privacy. company.

Currently, Katerina is responsible for the user growth and scale of the product, focused on organic traffic that brings customers such as CNN, Tomorrowland, Hard Rock, Bloomberg, LA NACION, WebSummit, Ministry of Sound. Her company EmbedSocial established a fully automated software as a service system, that helps the team run a global platform on autopilot.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Gligor Dacevski CEO and Co-Founder at DoXteam

Anthony B. Kim Distinguished Keynote Address Gligor Dacevski has more than 20 years of working experience in the software industry. He is the Founder and/ or CEO of 4 startups. He was among the leading pioneers that started the “Macedonian IT wave” by founding Research Manager and Editor of the Index of the first IT consulting and Software Services Company, to continue afterward with a realization of its individual Economic Freedom at The Heritage Foundation, the USA visions for developing Made in Macedonia software solutions.

As a result of his profound interest in new technologies and the emerging trend of smartphones, Gligor created CreationPal, a company that developed the first cross-platform fitness app in the World - SportyPal™. Anthony B. Kim is Research Manager and Editor of the Index of Economic Freedom. Previously, Kim had served as Four months after the launch, SportyPal™ was elected to be “Best fitness application 2009 for Android” by the Deputy Chief of Staff to Dr. Edwin J. Feulner, Founder of the Heritage Foundation. Android Network Awards. SportyPal still has 800,000 active users. Focusing on policies related to economic freedom, entrepreneurship, and investment in various countries around During the development process, the company built an immense knowledge base in cross-platform app the world, Kim researches international economic issues. development, wide enough to start a completely new project called DoxOut. The vision behind DoxOut was to set up a new standard in cross-platform app development and unified user experience across platforms. As an editor, Kim also manages the research and production of the Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom. The Index, a widely respected policy guidebook, tracks the march of economic freedom around the He is currently running one of the largest software development companies in Macedonia - doXteam. world by measuring 12 freedoms – from property rights to financial freedom – in 186 countries.

Day 2 - Opening Adresses After a decade of publication, Heritage executives decided changes were needed to make the Index more accessible to more readers -- from policymakers to investors around the globe. As a leading Heritage expert who grades the listed countries, Kim helped oversee and implement those changes.

Kim’s commentary and opinion pieces have been published by The Wall Street Journal’s Asia edition, The New York Post, The Washington Times, National Review Online and the Korea Herald among others. He has been Robert Arsov quoted in major U.S. and international media, among them Financial Times, Associated Press, Agence - Macedonia2025 Chairman Presse, Fox Business News and Voice of America. Senior Managing Director at the investment banking and Kim won Heritage’s prestigious Drs. W. Glenn and Rita Ricardo Campbell Award, which goes to the employee who capital markets division of Guggenheim Partners, the USA makes “an outstanding contribution to the analysis and promotion of a free society.”

Before joining Heritage in 2001, Kim studied economics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N. J. He holds a master’s degree in international trade and investment policy from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Robert Arsov is a Senior Managing Director at the investment banking and capital markets division of Guggenheim Partners. Mr. Arsov focuses on advising companies in the Fintech (insurance services and software) and Biotech sectors and has worked with a wide variety of publicly traded and privately held companies on complex U.S. and cross-border assignments.

Mr. Arsov was previously a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse and its predecessor ompany Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. Mr. Arsov received his BS from Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley, and currently resides in Greenwich, Connecticut, with his wife and two daughters.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com SESSION 1: GLOBAL ECONOMIC TRENDS Anthony B. Kim - Research Manager and Editor of the Index of Economic AND HOW THEY AFFECT THE REGION Freedom at The Heritage Foundation, USA (see his bio on the previous pages)

Ana Arsov Panel Moderator Managing Director at Moody’s U.S. Financial Ghassan Hasbani Institutions team, the USA Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health (Presentation of the counrty dashboard) of Republic of Lebanon

Ana Arsov is a Managing Director of Moody’s U.S. Financial Institutions team. Ana is responsible for the global investment bank ratings (globally), which includes the largest Globally systemic banks in North America and Ghassan Hasbani is executive and expert at an international level in planning, economics, and technology. After Europe, as well as securities firms’ ratings and non-bank finance. Ana has extensive experience in analyzing completing his studies in London, he occupied several industry leadership positions in Europe and the Middle financial institutions and managing credit professionals. East, the most notable of which was vice-president and partner in a strategic and management consulting firm “Booz & Company” and CEO of international operations at STC Group (Saudi Telecom Company). Prior to joining Moody’s, Ana’s most recent role was at UBS, where she spent the last several years as Executive Director in Credit Risk, responsible for financial institutions. Prior to UBS, she was Head of Global Portfolio He is a current and former member of several boards of directors for multinational companies with various sizes Management-Credit Risk Management at Morgan Stanley, focusing on comprehensive coverage, identification, in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; he is also a member of the global agenda council with the World Economic and analysis of risks across the firm’s trading and lending businesses. Forum and a fellow of the global leadership network of the “Aspen Institute”.

Ana holds a master’s degree in Management (with a specialization in Financial Services and Banking) from Boston Mr. Hasbani holds a first class honors degree in Engineering and an MBA from the United Kingdom. He is a University, and a bachelor’s degree in Business from Pace University, New York. Ana was born in Skopje, Macedonia member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the Engineering Council of the UK, and the President and resides in Greenwich Connecticut with her husband and two young daughters. of Cedar Institute for Economic and Social Affairs, in Lebanon.

Zoran Martinovski Otto Georg Schily Panel Moderator Former Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, Serbia

Otto Georg Schily was Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany from 1998 to 2005, in the cabinet of Chancellor Mr. Zoran Martinovski is a U.S. educated business professional with over 20 years of diverse business experience. Gerhard Schröder. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1989, Mr. Schily joined the Since 2000, he serves as the Manager at the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation for Macedonia and Social Democrats (SPD) instead – which he represented in the new Bundestag in 1990. Montenegro. The corporation is in charge of IFC’s private sector investments and advisory programs within the country. After Gerhard Schröder became chancellor in 1998, he appointed Mr. Schily as Federal Minister of the Interior. Between 2001 and 2004, Mr. Schily led the government’s negotiations with the conservative opposition on a bill Mr. Martinovski past experiences include working for several prominent companies in Macedonia, Europe, and that made it easier for skilled workers to move to Germany but toughened controls on foreign militants. the United States. Among those companies are Philips Electronics, Lexmark International, CKRA (Central Kentucky After serving as a minister, Mr. Schily became a supervisory board member of two companies for biometric Research Associates), PEM Consulting, TLC Vienna and Tehnometal-Vardar. technologies, raising questions as to whether or not he was capitalizing on his work as a minister, regarding the implementation of biometric passports.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com SESSION 2: DEVELOPMENTS IN SEE - INVESTMENTS, TRADE AND PROSPECTS

Laze Pejoski Director of Policy at Saudi Secretariat, Australia

Andrew Wrobel Panel Moderator Founding Partner and Head of Content Laze Pejoski has extensive experience in economics, public policy, and law. He has worked across a number of Strategy and Research of Emerging Europe, UK Australian Government agencies advising the Prime Minister, the Treasurer or Finance Minister and the Immigration Minister on fiscal strategy, economic forecasts, and projections, international macroeconomics, and finance, as well as population policy and demographic modeling. In addition, Laze has worked in the private sector as a senior economic consultant for various industry segments.

Most recently Laze is helping lead efforts to establish the policy function for an entity within the Saudi Arabian Andrew Wrobel is the co-founding partner of Emerging Europe and the think tank’s head of content strategy and Government as well as providing the whole of government policy and capacity building advice focused on global research. He is also the chief strategist at the Emerging Europe Alliance for Business Services, Innovation, and economy and international relations issues. This includes leading teams and engaging with stakeholders such Technology. Andrew has authored and contributed to a number of international business, investment, and trade- as international organizations, the private sector, and academics. Laze has further worked in private sector legal related publications, guides and reports, mainly about the CEE region. firms focusing on employment and commercial law. Laze holds postgraduate qualifications in both economics and law and is passionate about improving public policy outcomes. Trained as a journalist and a film director, he has worked for broadcast and print media for over 15 years. Since the beginning of his career, he has covered business, investment, trade, macro-economy, and political economy. He regularly interviews political and business leaders about economics, business, and politics. He is a moderator and a panelist at international economic and business events, and a media commentator. Currently, Andrew is pursuing a Ph.D. in nation branding.

Borko Handjiski Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company, UAE Maximilien Lambertson Lead Analyst on Eastern Europe at The Economist Intelligence Unit, UK

Borko Handjiski is Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company. He joined McKinsey’s Middle East office in June 2015 and has been primarily serving public sector clients in the Gulf region. Before joining McKinsey, Borko Handjiski worked for the World Bank in Washington DC as Senior Economist. Borko began his career at the Macedonian central bank and worked for the European Commission in Macedonia where he advised the Maximilien Lambertson is a lead analyst on Eastern Europe at The Economist Intelligence Unit. In this position he government on economic policies related to EU accession. produces country reports, economic forecasts, and sovereign credit and operational risk assessments, to aid the EIU’s clients in their investment decisions across the region. Maximilien previously covered the Western Balkans at Throughout his 14-year career, Borko has worked with governments in Europe, Central Asia, Africa, and the the European Stability Initiative, in Berlin, and at the National Democratic Institute in Washington, DC. Middle East in the areas of economic development, public finances, investment, trade, and labor markets. Borko holds an MBA degree in finance from Purdue University and a BA in Economics from the University of Skopje. He has held fellowships in Vratsa (Bulgaria) and Tbilisi (Georgia). Maximilien holds a Master’s degree in Politics, Security and Integration from University College London where he specialized in governance and anti-corruption policy in southeastern Europe. He holds a BSFS in international politics from Georgetown University.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Dubravka Nègre Dushko Krsmanovich Head of EIB Regional Representation Senior Business Development & External for the Western Balkans, Serbia Affairs Manager at CMS Law, Serbia

Dubravka Nègre has been heading the European Investment Bank’s Regional Representation for the Western Balkans since August 2016. EIB, the European Union’s bank, is the world’s largest multilateral bank and one of the Dushko Krsmanovich holds a doctorate degree in Economics of Regulation (University of Bologna) and a doctorate largest lenders in the Western Balkans with over EUR 10 billion of committed financing in the region. in Law and Economics from the Universities of Rotterdam and Hamburg. He also holds an LL.M. degree from the University of Hamburg and the University of Bologna, and a law degree from the . In Prior to coming to Belgrade, Dubravka was responsible for EIB’s Public-Private Partnerships and Project Finance addition, he specialized in Public Policy at the University of Georgetown in Washington D.C. transactions in Ireland, France, UK, and Benelux. She closed financings for projects in the renewable energy, transport as well as the healthcare, among others. She negotiated and executed the first Public-Private Partnership Dushko Krsmanovich has over 10 years of experience in business and civic organizations consulting. He is specialized in . For this project, she won Project Finance Deal of the Year and EMEA Finance Magazine European Deal in corporate lobbying and strategic investors relations, government affairs and authorities’ representation, 2013 in London. stakeholders’ management, international financial institutions engagement and economic diplomacy. He is the author of two books on lobbying and the co-author of two other books, one on lobbying and one on advanced She graduated Finance and Banking at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade and holds Master degree in International networking. In 2015, he was a guest lecturer at the Rotterdam School of Business. Finance and Management from SDA Bocconi University in Milan and Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles.

Pia Barborich Jurjashevich Danela Arsovska Managing Director of Adriatic Cluster President of the Macedonian Chambers of Commerce in Imperial Tobacco, Slovenia

Pia Barboric Jurjasevic is successfully leading cluster management team in Adriatic region for over 3 years now. Danela Arsovska is the president of Macedonian Chambers of Commerce. As president, Arsovska continuously She started her career in the tobacco industry in the mid-’90s when she was responsible for marketing activities represents the interests of the business sector and promotes national and international trade based on principles of Tobacna Ljubljana and especially for one of the most successful regional brands ever – Boss. She served as of free and fair competition. She is devoted to creating opportunities and better conditions for investments in all Marketing Director in Slovenia and Regional Marketing Director for Boss. sectors and through policy creation, she enhances the public-private dialogue on a national level. Currently, she is a member of the National Council for European Integration in the National Assembly–Parliament in R. Macedonia, Her career then developed toward general management roles and she took over the position of General Manager member of the World Bank ICSID in Washington, court member of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration for Slovenia in 2004, adding in 2007 responsibility for the distribution and retail business in Slovenia as well, being in Geneva and the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris. responsible for over 200 people. Arsovska is an advocate for human rights, one of the Macedonian Women Entrepreneurs Association founders, In her current role she is fully responsible for performance of all 8 markets, setting strategy and goals for all as well as the initiator of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the national business sector. In 2018 the World markets and brands, cooperation with distributors and other partners, business development through innovation Business Angels Investment Forum awarded Arsovska as “The Best Business Woman Role Model of south-east and improvement of current business models and leadership of 8 professionals responsible for market activities, Europe”. marketing, sales, corporate affairs, research and planning, human resources and finance.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com (BREAKOUT SESSION): COMPETITION LAW AND COMPLIANCE - After completion of the Executive MBA in Finance, she specialized within the banking sector and the regulatory THE CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR environment. She is also Member of Legal & Tax Committee to the American Chamber of Commerce Macedonia, President of AML & Compliance Committee of the Macedonian Banking Association as well as lecturer and head COMPANIES IN MACEDONIA (SPONSORED BY CMs) of specialist module of Certified Compliance Specialist on Academy of Banking and IT (ABIT) in Skopje.

Maja’s experience includes Compliance, AML, CFT, Fraud detection, FATCA classification, and reporting, Code of conduct and Ethics, Corporate Governance, Training and development, Personal Data protection, Whistleblowing, Anti – Fraud, Anti-bribery, investigative research, market analysis, and legislative frameworks. Elena Miceva Stojcevska Panel moderator Senior Attorney at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz, Macedonia

Marija Filipovska Elena Miceva Stojchevska, LL.M., is a member of the Macedonian Bar Association since October 2010. Partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz, Macedonia After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Skopje and completing her Master’s degree in EU business law, she gained significant experience while working in one of the major law firms in Macedonia where she represented most of the big foreign investors entering the Macedonian market. From 2014 until July 2018, she continued working as a sole practitioner, when she joined CMS Macedonia.

Her main areas of expertise include corporate, competition, M&A, contract law, personal data protection, and consumer protection. Elena has represented companies from diverse industry sectors, some of the biggest foreign Marija Filipovska heads the CMS Macedonian office. She has extensive experience in legal work in the Balkan companies entering the Macedonian market, companies from the energy sector, financial services companies, region. She specializes in M&A, corporate and commercial law matters. pharmaceutical companies, tobacco companies, companies from the automotive sector, manufacturing companies and global consumer goods companies. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Skopje University and completed her LL.M. in European Business Law at the Belgrade University in cooperation with Nancy University, France.

Before joining CMS, Marija Filipovska was the head of the Macedonian office of Karanovic & Nikolic for five years and head of the Macedonian Desk of another international law office for four years. Prior to this, she was an associate in a Belgrade based American law office Hayhurst & Robinson and in the legal department of KPMG for three years. She was an associate in a Skopje situated Macedonian law office for two years. Maja Andreevska-Blazevska Compliance Division Manager at Stopanska Banka, Macedonia During this period, Marija Filipovska was involved in the biggest commercial projects in Macedonia and in the Balkan region. Marija Filipovska has extensive experience in providing legal advice and assistance to major international clients in their acquisition projects in Macedonia and the region.

Maja Andreevska-Blazevska is a banking professional and a legal graduate, holding an MBA in Finance, Certified Compliance Officer (CCO) and AML officer (CAMO). Maja’s 15 years of compliance experience include a leading role as Compliance Division Manager in Stopanska Banka AD-Skopje, member of NBG Group.

She started her career as a journalist for the Macedonian Information Agency (MIA), quickly rising to the position of a Deputy Editor, moving over to the financial industry in 2003.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Rashko Radovanovich Partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz, Serbia

Rashko Radovanovich leads CMS Belgrade’s competition law practice. He has advised some of the most important market players in different industries (automotive, FMCG, telecom, food and agriculture, energy, pharmaceuticals, etc.) on antitrust-related aspects of their everyday business operations and has coordinated high profile multi-jurisdictional merger filings. Raško also represents clients in the investigation proceedings of the Serbian competition authority and has extensive experience in dawn raids and individual exemption procedures.

Rashko Radovanovch also advises German-speaking clients on competition, commercial and corporate aspects needed for their everyday business operations in Serbia.

Rashko is a passionate competition law practitioner who has won the 2017 and the 2018 Client Choice Award in the field of competition. He has devoted much of his time to scientific research and further education and is an author of several articles in this area. He supported the development of the first Serbian university textbook on competition law. Raško is currently a Ph.D. candidate in competition law at the University of Vienna.

Valentina Nikolova Head of Department for Analysis and Assessment of Concentrations at theCommission for Protection of Competition of the Republic of Macedonia

Valentina Nikolova graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the “St. Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje, Macedonia. Valentina is Head of Department for Analysis and Assessment of Concentrations at the Commission for Protection of Competition of the Republic of Macedonia, the state body in charge for implementation of Law on Protection of Competition.

Valentina has about 18 years of intensive working experience in the field of competition protection throughdirect involvement in the establishment and further development of the competition protection policy, legislative and institutional framework in accordance with the EU Acquis Communautaire.

www.macedonia2025.com SESSION 3: MACEDONIA THROUGH THE INVESTORS’ LENSES: MAIN POLICY LESSONS

Christopher Sanders Executive Vice President at Leopold Nikica Mojsoska Blazevski Kostal GmbH & Co. KG, Germany Panel Moderator Professor of Economics and Director of the Doctoral School at the University American College Skopje, Macedonia (Analysis of FDI key indicators) Christopher Nigel Sanders joined Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co KG in 1980 as an Industrial Planning Engineer. In 1981 he became the Managing Director of Kostal Ireland and ran both this and from 1990 Kostal UK Ltd until 1995 when he was appointed as Head of Corporate Planning and Subsidiary Coordination.

Dr. Nikica Mojsoska-Blazevski is Professor of Economics & Director of the Doctoral School at the University The corporate planning is responsible for the coordination of Kostal’s global strategic position and deployment American College Skopje, Macedonia. Until 2009, she has worked as a Head of the Macroeconomic Policy of its long-term planning, with the necessary gap analysis; with ever shorter cyclic updating; and the resultant Department in the Ministry of Finance of Republic of Macedonia. She has an extensive experience in research, derivation of tactical actions and implementation. Subsidiary Co-ordination is the application of Kostal’s Global consultancy and advising in labor markets, social policy and education in the Western Balkan region. She has Foot Print Design including location selection the development of 5-year roadmaps. Christopher has overseen been so far working with major international economic organizations, such as the World Bank, ILO, UNDP, UN the planning and expansion of plants in the UK, Ireland, Spain, China Czech Republic, Mexico, Japan, Ukraine, Women, and the European Commission. Mojsoska-Blazevski is the author of many journal articles and several India, and most recently Macedonia and Morocco. book chapters.

Nikica has served as an advisor to the government’ institutions in Macedonia and the Western Balkan region. She is a member of well-established international research organizations, such as the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES), European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), London School of Economics (LSE) Research Network on South-East Europe, etc. She is a member of the Audit Committee of the Sparkasse Bank, Macedonia, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Macedonian Foundation for Enterprise Development. Nikica was part of the review team of the 2019 World Development Report of the World Bank. Francesco Dagnino Founding Partner of Lexia Avvocati, Italy

Stefan Peter President of the Macedonian Foreign Investors Council and CEO at EVN, Macedonia A founding partner of Lexia Avvocati, Francesco Dagnino specializes in corporate law, corporate governance (with a particular focus on listed companies), securities regulation, investment services, asset management and regulation of financial institutions. Francesco has also an extensive expertise on mergers & acquisitions, private equity, real estate, and venture capital. He serves also as a vice-chairman of the Italian Shareholders’ Rights Association (Associazione Italiana per l’Esercizio Dei Diritti degli Azionisti – AIEDA). Stefan Peter currently serves in his fourth year as CEO and President of the Management Board of EVN Macedonia AD. EVN produces, distributes and supplies electricity to business customers and more than 700.000 household Francesco Dagnino was admitted to the Italian Bar in 2006. He obtained a Ph.D. in Corporate and Financial Markets customers in the Republic of Macedonia. Stefan recently was re-elected as President of the Foreign Investors Law from the University of Bologna, and an L.L.M in Corporate Law from the New York University School of Law as a Council within the Economic Chamber where he is Vice-President as well. He has 20 years of experience in the Fulbright Scholar and an Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholar. He was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York. energy sector in various leading positions in Austria and Bulgaria. Stefan studied in the US, Russia, China and India and graduated at the University of Minnesota, the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the He graduated in Law summa cum laude from the University of Palermo. He is the author of many academic University of Applied Science Campus Vienna. publications in the field of corporate law, regulation of financial institutions and private international company law and he is a regular speaker at conferences.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com SESSION 5: MACEDONIAN BUSINESS SUCCESS STORIES

Ilija Gospodinov Administrative Director at Endava, Macedonia Dejan Kalinikov Panel Moderator CEO at SEAF, Macedonia

Mr. Ilija Gospodinov has been a constant presence in the growth of Macedonia’s tech business for the past 20 years. While creating value in the internet, telco and IT services industries, and with successes across a varied Dejan Kalinikov is the Managing Director of SEAF Macedonia II. Mr. Kalinikov has previous experience at SEAF, portfolio including corporate compliance, enterprise risk management, information security, and quality, he has having worked in the SEAF Macedonia fund as an investment officer, and then eventually as a Director General. used his personal approach with lasting results. During this time period, Dejan served as a member of the supervisory board in a number of SEAF Macedonia Since 2016, he is the Administrative Director at Endava in Skopje and Endava’s Group Quality Manager since 2017. A portfolio companies (Login Systems, On.net, etc.). Prior to SEAF, Dejan worked as a freelance management dedicated leader above all, he creates an environment where people establish trust and achieve their full potential. consultant in the domain of strategy and finance. He has served as Chief Operating Officer and member of the Board of Directors of the telecommunications operator One (part of Telekom Slovenije Group), and as a President of the Board of Directors of One to One (formerly Germanos). SESSION 4: SUCCESS FACTORS FOR DIVERSITY and INCLUSION He received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with concentration in Computer Science at the Faculty of Electrical MANAGEMENT IN CORPORATIONS Engineering of the University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia. As a Ron Brown Fellow (a fellowship presented by the US State Department to top performing young professionals in Eastern Europe), Mr. Kalinikov completed the MBA program at the Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma.

Jasmine Boehm Sustainability and Diversity, Austria Zoran Radonjanin Co-Founder and CEO of Feydom

Jasmine Boehm is a sustainability and diversity manager with almost 20 years of professional experience supporting private sector companies, regional governments, and international organizations. She has a long track record Zoran started his career in 1990 when as an architecture student at a university in Ljubljana he founded the first in developing and leading social innovation programs for multiple stakeholders worldwide, amongst others for private publishing enterprise in Macedonia NIP “M”. In the following 10 years the great success of the company’s UNDP Macedonia. few weekly magazines “Oglasnik M”, “M-express”, etc. triggered the realization of different projects and start-ups in the areas of TV production, advertisement, event organization, the newspaper distribution network, graphic Until 2017 she served as Sustainability Manager in one of Austria’s largest industrial companies, responsible for design studios, etc. multiple award-winning programs on social inclusion, diversity, business ethics, stakeholder management, health, safety, security, human rights, and environmental management in more than 20 countries worldwide. After spending a few years living and working on different projects in Australia and China, in 2006 he founded FEYDOM, together with his partner and spouse Filimena, as the first project of their design studio and product Before that, she ran her own business – a diversity management consultancy in Austria - with clients such as Shell development center. Today, FEYDOM is a rare example of a Macedonian brand established in 10 countries in Europe and Microsoft and worked as a manager in a social business. She is a published author, speaker at international selling its originally designed products in 20 FEYDOM mono-brand shops and more than 50 shops in shop concept conferences and well-recognized vocational trainer. stores across Europe.

Jasmine studied in Austria and in the US. She holds an Executive MBA from the Carlson School of Management in Since 2015, Zoran has been working on the development of the platform House of 1000 Designers (HOIOOOD) Minnesota, an Executive MBA Global Management from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and a with a mission to provide suitable conditions for creative young people to learn how to manage and run innovative master’s degree in Social Anthropology and Education from the University of Vienna. projects through process of product development.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Kristijan Danilovski Darko Fidanoski Co-Founder of FX3X Co-Founder of Ars Lamina

Kristijan Danilovski is one of the pioneers of the digital animation and VFX industry in Macedonia and the region. Darko Fidanoski is a co-founder of Ars Lamina, Macedonia’s biggest publishing company, as well as of Pointer An Emmy award nominee, member of the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences and member of the Visual Effects Creative Agency and Literatura.mk. After his student days at the Faculty of Natural Sciences – Informatics, in 2002 Society. Born in 1971 in Skopje, he graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical engineering, oriented towards he founded his first company Pointer, a creative and advertising agency. Here he worked on various advertising automobile design. With Milivoje Gorgevic as his partner, they founded FX3X in 1997. campaigns for the automotive, entertainment, IT and food industry, as well as on identity, branding and product designs. He is especially proud for being the designer of the logo of The Ministry of Defense and the Order of FX3X’s collaboration with Hollywood started with Scorsese’s ‘Aviator in 2004, after years of research and detailed Military Merit of the Republic of Macedonia. and guided preparation, and in 2007 Danilovski is personally nominated for an Emmy award as the CG producer on the mini TV series „The path to 9/11”. He soon becomes a member of the Academy for TV Arts and Sciences. In 2005 he decided to embrace a new challenge and started working on a project in the graphics industry which triggered the foundation of Ars Lamina. Soon the company expanded its operations in the publishing and Kristijan has been executive producer of visual effects on the collaborations with the most attractive franchises: educational sectors. Now employing about 50 people, Ars Lamina has been part of the 200 most successful Jurassic World is the latest one, but the list starts from Terminator, Avengers, all Marvel’s superheroes, Star Wars, companies in Macedonia for five years in a row. James Bond, Fast and furious, Transformers, X-men, Mission Impossible, DC Comics superheroes (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman), Star Trek, Alien, Hunger games etc. SESSION 6: THE BEST OF MACEDONIA: PRODUCTION OF MEDICAL CANNABIS

Nina Angelovska Co-Founder of Grouper.mk John Bitove Panel Moderator Chairman and CEO of Obelysk, Canada

Nina Angelovska is Co-founder and CEO of the first deal platform in Macedonia, Grouper.mk. The company was launched in 2011, and soon after it transformed the e-commerce market. Nina and her team contributed to increasing online sales in Macedonia by more than 350%. Today, Grouper.mk is the leading e-commerce company in Macedonia with a team of 18 people. John I. Bitove is the sole shareholder of Obelysk, which has major investments in the wireless, satellite radio, real estate, and other businesses. He is one of the founders of an alternative asset investment firm, PointNorth Capital. Nina has been recognized in her country and internationally, and was on the “100 Female Founders Europe” He was Chairman and Director of SiriusXM Canada, Canada’s fastest growing media subscription business with list published by the eminent German magazine The Hundert, and in 2018 Angelovska was initiated into the 2.6 million subscribers. He was the principal shareholder and CEO of KEYreit, Canada’s premier “small-box” retail most prestigious club of young leaders when Forbes named her “Forbes 30 Under 30” Honoree in Retail and property owner with over 220 properties in eight provinces across Canada. He was the founder of Mobilicity, one E-commerce in Europe. of Canada’s new entrant wireless operators, recently sold to Rogers.

Nina completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in E-business at the Faculty of Economics, St. Cyril, and A strong believer of giving back to the community, Mr. Bitove founded S’Cool Life Fund, to support public Methodius University in Skopje. She then pursued her Ph.D., aiming to turn practice into science and completed elementary schools across Canada. Since the launch in 2005, S’Cool Life Fund has raised and donated over $2.8 her Doctorate degree in 2016. million helping to make school life more enjoyable for thousands of public elementary school kids.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com She travels extensively across the continent, and to all corners of the world to speak about citizenship, social justice, active citizens, people & planet and the role of leadership, with a special focus on the empowerment of women and children. In November 2017 she was an invited panellist at the inaugural Obama Summit hosted by former President Barack Obama, in Chicago. Vancho Tolomanosi CEO of VJV IT Consulting and Founder of She has been the resident judge and mentors on the highly acclaimed reality TV series; ‘One Day Leader’, a show aimed at empowering South African youth, challenging their critical thinking skills and harnessing their ability as NYSK Holdings, the USA / Macedonia leaders in their communities. She has been featured in numerous publications and on TV and radio shows as a thought leader, and also contributes to Huffington Post, Daily Maverick and other platforms.

In 2015 she was named one of South Africa’s 21 Icons for a campaign highlighting remarkable young South Africans who will move the country forward. In 2016 the South African Government and Department of International Relations (DIRCO) honored her with an UBUNTU Award, celebrating South Africans who play a part in portraying a Vancho Tolomanosi is a self-made businessman with 23 years of experience in creating a business from the ground- positive image of South Africa, internationally and who are committed to building the continent through diplomacy. up. His ability to spot a trend and capitalize on opportunities has been proven time and time again. Currently, he is She has been celebrated for excellence in the fields of entrepreneurship and business, and in 2018 was ranked as a CEO of VJV IT Consulting, a US-based IT consulting firm with offices in the US and Europe. He is also an advisor one of the top 100 Most Influential Young Africans, and placed Top 10 in her category of Social Entrepreneur and to companies including VAST, GRT, and NEXT Management. Philanthropy. In 2018 as the world celebrates the iconic former Statesman, Nelson Mandela, Catherine has been dubbed as one of the 100 Young Mandela’s of the Future. Vancho currently runs a private equity fund that develops software applications in the social media and enterprise verticals. His understanding of the space has made him one of the go-to guys for technology startups. His current Amid all of her commitments, Catherine remains active in Generation Earth, a UN Environment endorsed platform focus is on NYSK a state of the art medical cannabis company located in Skopje. that she co-founded at the beginning of her career. Generation Earth targets the youth of Southern Africa and uses issues of environmental impact, climate change, water and waste as key focus areas to drive sustainable change. SPECIAL EDITION SESSION: PHILANTROPY, ACTIVISM, AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY

Robert Arsov - Macedonia2025 Chairman Senior Managing Director at the investment banking and capital markets division of Ana Divac Guggenheim Partners, the USA, (see bio on the previous pages) Co-Founder of Ana and Vlade Divac Foundation, the USA / Serbia

Catherine Constantinides Ana Divac is an actress graduated from the Academy of Drama Art in Belgrade, Serbia. In 1989, with the drafting International Climate Activist, Social Cohesion Advocate, Top of her husband, Vlade Divac, into the NBA, she moved to the U.S. where she was running several successful 100 Most Influential Young Africans for 2018 and Young businesses. She got the award for “Most Successful Business Woman” on the West Coast in 2004. Mandela’s of The Future, South Africa During the civil wars in former , she gathered members of the art community to speak out against the war, and co-produced/co-directed two theater plays on the topic. Ana and Vlade established the Humanitarian Organization Divac (HOD) in the United States, through which they provided humanitarian help and educational programs for children in Serbia, Montenegro, , United States, Indonesia, Ethiopia, and China. Ana is dedicated philanthropist, focused on supporting kids and refugees. Proudly rooted in her home country of South Africa, Catherine is an international climate activist, human rights defender, trailblazer, and agent of change. In June 2007, Ana and Vlade, on the occasion of Vlade’s retirement from the NBA, decided to focus and normalize A 2013 Archbishop Tutu African Oxford Fellow and 2016 Mandela Washington Fellow, Catherine’s commitment their humanitarian and charity efforts of the previous 18 years into a Serbian registered organization that they and passion for social change takes her to the smallest of communities in South Africa, as well as global platforms would utilize to leverage their own financial inputs and brand image with contributions sought from the private including the UN, where she currently works as a human rights defender actively engaging in Geneva at the UN business sector, individual citizens and government institutions to make a difference in social causes that were of Human Rights Council for the world’s most marginalised and vulnerable. great importance in Serbia.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com The Ana and Vlade Divac Foundation was created with an initial focus on addressing the problem of refugees and internally displaced persons still living in collective centers throughout Serbia, some as many as 15 years after fleeing their homes. Through its “You Can Too!” Initiative, the Foundation has helped more than 1500 people successfully move from collective centers and settle into a village house and economic and social integration assistance. Christian Rupp Spokesperson of the Federal Platform Digital Austria In addition to supporting refugees and displaced persons, the Foundation is dedicated to creating better and Coordinator of the SME DIGITAL initiative at the conditions for upbringing children and young people, the development of philanthropy in Serbia and social Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, Austria entrepreneurship. Since its the Foundation has provided assistance to more than 700,000 people through various support programs with the support of more than 400 volunteers, 650,000 individuals, 700 companies and many local and international organizations. The Foundation spent more than 20 million USD for all implemented activities. Christian Rupp was the Federal Executive Secretary of the Austrian Government responsible for the e-Government Ana Divac has received numerous awards for her philanthropic engagement and work of the Foundation, which Initiative 2003-2006. In this period Austria became the leading e-Government country in the EU benchmark. testify to the continued commitment to building a society in which citizens takeresponsibility and understand the power of communion in solving social problems. Since 2006 he is the Spokesperson of the Federal Platform Digital Austria (coordinating all e-Government projects at federal and local level as well as ICT standards between public administration and industry) and since 2016 also the Plenipotentiary for Digitization of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber as well as Coordinator of day 3 - SESSION 7: THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION the SME DIGITAL initiative (a ten million Euro funding program to help SMEs and their employees in the digital AS A BUSINESS ENABLER transformation).

Christian Rupp is University Lecturer and Author of more than 30 books in the field of digital transformation strategies. As an external supervisor and expert of the EU, EIB, World Bank for the Digital Agenda (e.g. E-Government, E-Commerce, Open Data, E-Identities, Artificial Intelligence) as well as certified digital and management consultant he is especially involved in the Digital Balkan process.

Marta Arsovska-Tomovska Panel Moderator Consultant for Digital Innovation, ITU & Board Member at the UN World Summit Awards, Macedonia Kati Iceva Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, USA

Ms. Marta Arsovska-Tomovska currently works as strategist/expert/consultant for digital transformation, innovation and business process improvement for domestic and international companies, institutions and governments, as well as the International Telecommunication Union (United Nations organization for ICT) on several regional projects. She is a co-founder of the Institute for Leadership, Macedonian start-up in the field of Kati Iceva is a computer science engineer and leader with 15 years of experience building and shipping Microsoft consulting and education. products. As Principal Software Engineering Manager in Microsoft’s Big Data organization, she currently helps shape and develops Azure Stream Analytics, a cutting-edge real-time highly scalable analytics cloud service. Her Arsovska-Tomovska is also a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Grand Jury at the World previous contributions span data technologies including multiple versions of the .NET Entity Framework and Summit Awards (UN WSIS organization). At the same time, Arsovska - Tomovska is appointed as special advisor Power Query. With her work, she hopes to contribute to advancing quality of human lives and health. of the Economic Chamber of Macedonia for digital transformation. During her time as a Minister of Information Society and Public Administration, she created and implemented strategies for digitization, as well as for reforming Seeded in her experience of working on three continents, Kati has a strong passion for enabling and supporting the public administration in order to optimize the delivery of public services through ICT. diverse and inclusive teams and working environments. Hoping to see more women thrive in technology industries, she takes advantage of every opportunity to encourage girls to explore computer science. As for her education, she is a graduate electrical engineer at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Skopje (current FEIT), and she is currently preparing a Master’s thesis at the Faculty of Economics. Kati holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com SESSION 8: BUILDING AN ENTREPRENEURIAL NATION

Vasko Kronevski CEO of Nextsense, Macedonia Michael Cklamovski Panel Moderator Managing Director at CIBC, the USA

Vasko Kronevski, B.Sc. Degree in Information Technology, has been developing his expertise in digital transformation and ICT business since 1996. He has been General Manager at several different software development companies, Michael serves as Managing Director and Market Manager with CIBC Bank USA in Chicago. Michael works and he is CEO and a Co-founder of Nextsense. closely with business principals, leading a team built to provide tailored banking solutions to strategic clients. He is attuned to client’s personal and professional interests and helps business owners, entrepreneurs, senior Vasko’s carrier development encounters more than 25 years of professional experience in driving digital executives, and multigenerational families navigate significant crossroads in their financial lives, providing them transformation processes for prominent enterprises in telecom and finance industry, as well as governmental with the resources and counsel required to make sound decisions. institutions across Europe and wider. His expertise in envisioning complex ICT solutions for public or government institutions and agencies, has placed Nextsense as a leading company for e-Parliament and e-Government Michael began his career practicing tax law and prior to joining CIBC, led a Private Wealth Management team at U.S. solutions worldwide. His vision and dedication to technology driven services has brought Nextsense many Trust, Bank of America in Chicago. Michael earned a B.A. with dual majors in Political Science and Communication international awards, among which Microsoft Partner of the Year. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as well as a Juris Doctor with Honors from the Northern Illinois University College of Law. Vasko has been a member (past and present) in many distinguished professional bodies: Member of WITSA Board; WITSAGlobal IT Excellence Award 2006 Committee Member; MASIT - Chairman of the Assembly, President of the Board; Vice President; Steering Committee Coordinator; SEE ICT Forum, Private sector board – member of the Board; Member of EBA; EE e-Democracy Conference – Chairman of the organizing board.

Scott Resnick Keynote Speaker COO of Hardin Design & Development and Founder & first Executive Director of StartingBlock Madison, Inc., the USA Cecilia Hjertzell Swedish entrepreneur and Co-founder of CMO goes Tech

Scott Resnick is a notable figure in the Wisconsin startup community and known as “Madison’s tech evangelist”. He was a founder and first Executive Director of StartingBlock Madison, a 50,000 sq. foot entrepreneurial hub opening in 2018. Resnick led efforts to raise millions of dollars to build the “beacon for Midwest startups” particularly around technologies spurred by the University of Wisconsin. The organization connects startups to Cecilia Hjertzell is a Swedish entrepreneur and co-founder of CMO goes Tech, an international network for the corporate partners clustered in the healthcare, manufacturing, insurance and gaming industries, and provides CMOs of the future. With almost 20 years of extensive experience within digitalization, Cecilia serves as a board links to mentors and capital partners. StartingBlock Madison’s motto: Think big. Fear less. Listen deeply. member and senior business advisor to a number of large companies in their digital transformation. Cecilia is a frequent keynote speaker on marketing innovation and consumer trends in the international leading forum, and Scott co-founded Hardin Design & Development, a startup focused on full cycle software development and co-author to a book about the Gig Economy. Cecilia’s past experiences include working in leading marketing enterprise web creation. He currently is the company’s, Chief Operating Officer. Headquartered in Madison, positions, as well as co-founding a successful MarTech Management Agency. Wisconsin, he grew the company to an eight-figure revenue, building enterprise GIS web-enabled solutions, analytic dashboards and mobile applications for clients such as FedEx, Coleman Campers, Mercedes Benz, IBM, Toshiba, and Toyota.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Hardin DD and its products have won top honors at the Consumer Electronic Trade Show and featured in an Apple iPad commercial. Resnick oversees business development, national partnerships and marketing, and revenue for Dr. Jordi Serrano Pons is a General Practitioner and the founder and CEO of UniversalDoctor, a social enterprise the company. developing worldwide award-winning applications to facilitate multilingual communication between healthcare professionals and patients that don’t share a common language. Most recently UniversalDoctor won the United Scott is a former two-term member of the Madison Common Council and entered with a pledge to make Madison Nations World Summit Award for Global Champion of the mHealth category. a platform for innovation, specifically targeting social mobility. Resnick led efforts to close the digital divide by piloting free internet access for students on free & reduced lunch, created the first of its kind 1.5-million-dollar Jordi was named one of the 50 Top Healthcare IT Leaders in Europe. Jordi is also the Co-Founder of Zero Mothers seed fund to spur women and minority entrepreneurship, and legalized opportunities in the sharing economy. Die, an innovative global public-private partnership initiative focused on reducing maternal mortality through the Scott strongly advocated for sustainable land use as a member of the Plan Commission, and was instrumental in systematic use of ICTs and mobile health solutions. the passage of the City’s annual 300-million-dollar budget. He is a Grand Jury member of the World Summit Award, and has recently joined ISGlobal (Instituto de Salud Global/ Global Health Institute) as a Consultant on Digital Health, Innovation and Knowledge Management and SESSION 9: LATEST TECHNOLOGY APPLIED IN HEALTHCARE also has joined Idibell (Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research). He is the Vice President of the Innovation committee of the COMB (Medical College of Barcelona).

Jordi studied medicine and specialized in Family Medicine. He also holds a Master’s degree in Health and Environment and a Postgraduate degree in International Studies from the University of Barcelona. Jana Marin Panel Moderator Hospital Director and Member of the Board of Directors at Acibadem Sistina Hospital, Macedonia

Dr. Jana Marin graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry at the “St. Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje, Macedonia. She attained a Master’s degree in International Healthcare Management, Economics, and Policy at Moises Calderon Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Dr. Marin obtained her first professional experience in healthcare management Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon and General Director at in the Quality Department of the German unit of Capio Group, Capio Deutsche Klinik GmbH. Hospital Regional Gral. Ignacio Zaragoza – ISSSTE, Mexico She developed an important, formative part of her professional expertise while working at the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Macedonia. During her appointment as Advisor to the Minister of Health, Dr. Marin was personally involved in a broad spectrum of issues of concern to National Healthcare Policies and Economic Planning of Public Health in Macedonia. Dr. Moisés Calderón is a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon, situated in Mexico City, Mexico. As a Mexican senior Due to Dr. Marin proven managerial capability and particularly her innovative approach to problem-solving, consultant on thoracic transplantation and circulatory support, he acts as a General Director at the Hospital she had been entrusted with the management of key projects and management positions. Recently, she led the Regional Gral. Ignacio Zaragoza – ISSSTE (Institute for Social Security and Services for Government Workers), as team, which successfully completed the prominently complex and important Joint Commission International well as an Associate Surgeon at the Angeles Group Hospitals (Base – Angeles de las Lomas Hospital) and ABC Accreditation process and thus, brought Acibadem Sistina Hospital the title of First JCI Accredited Hospital in Medical Center. Macedonia. Mr. Calderón started his career back in 1992. From 1996 up to 2008 he becomes the Coordinator of the Heart Transplantation and Artificial Heart Program and Head of Department of Heart Surgery and Circulatory Care, after which he takes the position of Head Division of Surgery at the Cardiology Hospital of the 21st Century National Medical Center, Mexico City, IMSS. Two years after he becomes the General Director of the UMAE / Cardiology Hospital – National Medical Center 21st Century IMSS, México City, a position he holds for four more years. Jordi Serrano Pons Founder and CEO of UniversalDoctor and Mr. Calderón holds a Master’s and Doctoral degree from the Executive Business Management CEPEM. He is the HIMSS Top 50 Health IT Leaders in Europe, Switzerland author of several books, has multiple publications in national and international medical journals, has 2 international patents, and is a collaborator of multiple magazines of general interest as a writer.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com (BREAKOUT SESSION): HEALTH AND WELLBEING: TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE

Venko Filipce Minister of Health at the Government of the Republic of Macedonia Lily Stojanovska Emeritus Professor at College of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia Dr. Venko Filipce (Skopje, 1977), graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje in 2001, started specialization in neurosurgery in 2003 and completed it in 2008. He was elected as an assistant at the Medical Faculty in Skopje in 2004, received a Master’s Degree in 2011 and a Ph.D. in 2015. In 2017 he was also elected as Assistant Professor at the Medical Faculty. Lily Stojanovska is an Emeritus Professor at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia and Visiting Professor at He did specializations in neurosurgical centers in Graz, Belgrade, Dayton, Columbus, Istanbul, Zurich. In 2012 he the United Arab Emirates University in the UAE. Ms. Stojanovska is also an honorary Professor at Assumption completed a fellowship in interventional neuroradiology, becoming the first neurosurgeon in the surrounding University at Bangkok, Thailand, Hong Kong University in Hong Kong and Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, countries to establish the hybrid neurosurgery at the Clinic in Skopje. Macedonia. For over 27 years she has been involved in medical research, teaching and supervising undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of women’s health and prevention of chronic diseases through nutrition, He has published many domestic and foreign magazines in the field of neurosurgery. He is Secretary of the exercise, and complementary modalities. Macedonian Neurosurgeon Association and the Association of Neurosurgeons of South East Europe. She has over 150 publications in international journals and has co-authored 4 books: “The Other Fact of Life: Taking Control of Menopause”; “Menopause for Dummies”; “Food and Nutrition for Dummies” and “The Chocolate Diet”. Professor Stojanovska has presented her research findings at national and international conferences often as an invited speaker as well as a guest speaker at educational and community seminars.

Her achievements have been listed annually in the Who’s Who of Australian Women since 2006 and in Who is Who Internationally since 2010. She is a recipient of many awards including the Australian Honour Roll of Women as an international educator in women’s health. Sara Cohen Founder of LiveAid, Israel SESSION 10: FINTECH AND AI - DEMOCRATIZING AND PERSONALIZING FINANCIAL SERVICES FOR BUSINESSES

Sara Cohen, an experienced entrepreneur, and a technological enthusiast. She is the founder of LiveAid – developing Augmented Reality powered solutions for real-time remote medical support. Sara’s vision is to provide a lifesaving assistance and guidance for first aid, emergency medicine, surgeries, and everyday care. Her solution is bringing every needed medical professional to the field in real time through the augmented reality glasses. Alek Icev Panel Moderator Sara is an electrical engineer, a hands-on expert and an algorithms development consultant for computer vision Engineering Manager at Google, the USA and machine learning. She has a vast experience in leading large-scale technological projects in the field of homeland security.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Alek Icev is a Macedonian-American computer scientist and high tech executive based in Seattle, WA. Alek’s Panos has worked with a wide range of Fintech and e-commerce ventures, providing independent consultancy research background is in machine learning, data mining, and bioinformatics. Alek’s industry experience spans on technology, strategy, and product/service design. Over the years he has held senior engineering and strategic designing core algorithms for life sciences startups, helping scale large enterprise software solutions and leading management roles with the UK and global institutions. As one of the founders, Panos is currently focused on several engineering teams focused on making Google’s ads systems and platforms smarter. scaling the Akoni business. Akoni is fundamentally changing the way business bank and procure financial services, leveraging data to create a personalized and tailored experience for SMEs and small corporates. In his free time, he is trying to find a sweet spot in his passion for techno-progressivism, stoicism, and singularity while being below average soccer player and aspiring yogi. Alek and his wife Kati are blessed of being parents to Panos holds a BSc Computer Science, an MSc Distributed Systems and an Executive MBA from London Business two kids who share their excitement about skiing and the great northwest pacific outdoors. School.

SESSION 11: GREEN INDUSTRIES AS GROWTH GENERATOR

Ilija Lalkovski CEO of Pendulibrium and Co-Founder of Web Factory, Macedonia Mihail Mateski Panel Moderator CEO at Greentech, Serbia

Ilija is one of the four co-founders of Web Factory LLC, Macedonian software development company. The path of dedication, passion, and purpose to develop a unique, successful software development oriented company, brought the company 9 years of success. Since 2017, as part of company’s development investments, Ilija is mainly dedicated as a CEO of Pendulibrium, Web Factory’s spin-off company, primarily focused on research, development Mihail Mateski is General Manager and Partner of Greentech, Serbia, and Macedonia. Greentech is a leading and applied Artificial Intelligence in the FinTech domain. recycler of PET packaging and is a member of Green Group which is the largest PET bottle recycler in Eastern Europe. Mr. Mateski has extensive experience in packaging waste management, plastic processing, business The Pendulibrium team is now being involved in the AI entrepreneurial industry. Along with its partner Akoni Hub development, sales, international trading, production management, and team leadership. from London, Ilija’s team is working on AI solutions for helping businesses to improve their wealth management, aiming to find an AI-based solution for any small and medium companies, in order to improve and develop their Mihail has served as General Manager of Greentech since 2002. From 2000 to 2002, he served as an international services, as well as gaining an improved competitive stance. trade consultant for the Macedonian Business Resource Centre. From 1996 to 2000, he served in sales management for Setkom and Setkom Industries.

Mr. Mateski is the founder of the Serbian Association of Packaging Waste Recyclers, is an active member of the Serbian Solid Waste Association (SESWA), a founder of the Macedonian Solid Waste Association (MASWA), and is former President of the Recycling Council within the Serbian Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Mateski has a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from St. Kiril and Methodius Skopje University. Panos Savvas Co-Founder and CTO of AkoniHub, UK

Yair Engel Founder and Director at Kayama - Center for Sustainable Design, Israel

Panos has extensive retail and commercial banking expertise. With over 14 years in Banking and Fintech, he has been leading global product development teams and changes management programs for leading financial organizations including RBS, IG Group, Intelligent Environments, and others.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Yair Engel, designer, expert, and consultant in sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship, Cradle to Cradle and Circular Economy. A leading figure and change agent, Yair has been promoting sustainable design amongst industrials, entrepreneurs, government offices and academic institutions in Israel and in Europe.

In 2002, he founded Kayama - the Center for Sustainable Design in Israel and is the representative of EPEA- Cradle to Cradle in Israel since 2009. Yair is a fellow of the Heschel Center for Sustainability and a certified Cradle to Dimitar Kovachevski Cradle design consultant. He serves as a committee member of the Green Label Council of the Israel Co-Founder and Member of the Board of PiKCELL Standards Institute. Group, Macedonia

International speaker, he is lecturing and teaching design for sustainability, Cradle to Cradle and Circular Economy in major universities, design colleges, and high schools’ excellence programs. Yair serves as a mentor in several innovation hubs and startup accelerators including TheHive by Gvahim, leading the Green and Circular Economy tracks. Dimitar Kovachevski, Associate Professor at the School of Business Economics and Management at University Finally, Yair is the local partner and trainer of SwitchMed, a joint program of EU and UN, in which framework he American College Skopje, is co-founder and Member of the Board of PiKCELL Group Ltd, the first factory for organized a Synergy Workshop on “Green Entrepreneurship for a Circular Economy”, published a whitepaper on the production of photovoltaic modules in Macedonia. He holds a Ph.D. in economic sciences, has completed Green Entrepreneurship in Israel and created “The Green Pitch” training and events. Executive Education Program at the Harvard Business School and after successfully finishing the European Entrepreneurship Colloquium at the Technical University Munich he became EFER EEC Alumni.

During his professional carrier, he held executive positions in Makedonski Telekom, member of Deutsche Telekom Group and was Executive director of one.Vip, a member of Telekom Austria Group.

Ljupka Arsova Senior Environmental Engineer at Eastern Research Group, Inc., the USA

Filip Ivanovski Executive Director at PAKOMAK DOO, Macedonia

Ljupka Arsova was born in Shtip, Macedonia. She has been passionate about environmental science and sustainability since her high school days. Ljupka holds a Young Master’s Degree in Sustainable Development from Lund University, Sweden; BS and MS in Ecology and Environmental Protection from the University of Belgrade, and MS in Earth and Environmental Engineering as a fellowship recipient of the Earth Engineering Center of Filip Ivanovski graduated at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Skopje in 1996 and in 1997 started working Columbia University, New York, USA. in the technical department in PIVARA Skopje AD until 2002. She is currently working as a Senior Environmental Engineer for low carbon energy solutions at an environmental In the period of 2002-2004 Ivanovski worked for the beverage company SLOVIN JUGOKOKTA AD, involved in company Eastern Research Group. the project for start of a production line for ORANGINA brand in Macedonia. In parallel, Ivanovski worked as a technical consultant for the green-field project, new water bottling company GORSKA VODA, where he was Ljupka brings an expertise in advanced technologies for renewable energy from waste and working experience appointed an Executive Director in 2004. from numerous projects around the world. She is also passionate about women empowerment and promoting STEM education for girls, and in her free time is a barre teacher and active member of the DMV steering committee Since January 2011, Ivanovski has been a Managing Director of PAKOMAK, packaging waste management of United Macedonian Diaspora. company founded by 11 big Macedonian food and beverage companies. Ljupka was listed in the 2014 Macedonian Diaspora’s 40 under 40 lists as a role model and a rising stars in her field In 2004 Ivanovski finished his MBA studies at Sheffield University and in 2013 has had his Ph.D. degree at Faculty of of expertise. Economics at the University St. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. Besides his business activities, since 2006 Ivanovski is a lecturer at the University American College in Skopje, being an Associate professor at management cathedra.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com SESSION 12: ACCELERATING IDEAS TO THE REAL MARKET Dan Braga has supported Macedonia2025 for many years, including helping to shape the Executive Development Program partnership with the Kellogg School of Management, the Country Dashboard that helps define “building a stronger nation,” connecting us to peer organizations (e.g., Armenia 2020) to compare practices and recruit conference speakers, and attending numerous fundraising and Summit events in prior years in both Macedonia and the United States.

Doron Ish Shalom Director of Program Development at JVP Play, Israel

Kevin Murrane Keynote Speaker Professor at Kellogg School of Management and Founder of Behtrics, the USA Doron is an integral part of JVP’s deal flow team and takes part in creating business opportunities for the Fund’s portfolio companies. He joined JVP as part of JVP’s new initiative JVP Play, a unique platform aiming to solve industry’s most pressing problems by teaming up with leading multinationals & innovative startups in order to create a clear path to market validation and business traction. Doron has a major role in building and influencing the Jerusalem Tech ecosystem which brings added value to JVP and its center of excellence. Throughout his more than 30-year career, Kevin has worked closely with over 70 international business cultures Prior to joining JVP, Doron was part of the founders’ team of MassChallenge (MC) Israel as the Mentors and Experts to build seamless awareness, trust, and practical leadership tools for individuals, teams, and organizations. Prior manager. Before MC, Doron was Director of education at the Israel Innovation Institute, creating a mechanism to teaching and founding his own business, Kevin spent fifteen years as a leadership consulting leader managing implementing innovation into the public sector and helping startups to scale-up. After his master’s degree of projects for Toyota, Boeing, Ford, Baxter, and other global corporations. In the last twelve years, Behtrics has Philosophy at the Bar Ilan University, Doron was a researcher at the Innovation department of the JIIS (Jerusalem added expertise in Not-For-Profit leadership, Technology Start-Ups and Health-Care Management. Institute for Israel Studies). Kevin’s expertise is practical coaching and teaching that fits the person, the team, and the organization.

SESSION 13: COACHING THE LEADERS: THE MINDSET OF A By analyzing the business needs, a coaching process can create Human Capital Systems that drive strategy and GREAT LEADER achieve high ROI. Every successful project begins with systematic listening skills that result in “listening as if the other person has the answer.”

Kevin graduated from the College of DuPage, University of Illinois (High Honors) and Kellogg Graduate School of Management. While at Kellogg, Kevin co-wrote an HBS case on the American Lung Association. He has experience and certifications with over 30 leadership assessments and training programs.

Kevin is a meta-coach for the Daniel Goleman Coaching Program. Kevin is also involved with both local and global Dan Braga Not-For-Profit organizations like St. Vincent DePaul Center, Bonaventure House, LIFT and Krishna Star. Panel Moderator Partner at The Zaf Group, the USA In his spare time, Kevin enjoys the outdoors – golfing, biking and open lake swimming. He reads multiple books and enjoys listening to great music and impassioned conversations. From his days as a consultant, he loves to travel the world with friends and family. Over the last 20 years, Kevin has developed a daily meditation and mindfulness practice both in meta and vipassana meditation.

Dan Braga is a Partner at The Zaf Group, the family office of Mike and Robin Zafirovski. The Zaf Group serves as executive advisor to The Blackstone Group, and invests in family-owned businesses with annual revenues of $50-300 million, with the intention of owning forever. Previously, Dan was with McKinsey & Company for 17 years, serving as Partner in the Chicago Office, and being part of the founding team that opened McKinsey’s Office in Detroit.

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com CLOSING CEREMONY

Mike Zafirovski Founder and President of the Zaf Group, Board Member at Boeing and The Blackstone Group, USA

Mike Zafirovski is founder/president of The Zaf Group, a management consulting and investment firm.

The Blackstone Group is the firm’s principal client where Mike is an executive advisor and also serves on the board of directors of three Blackstone companies: non-executive chairman of DJO Global Inc. and PGI Inc., an independent director for Apria Healthcare Services. Since 2004, he has also served on the board of directors of Boeing, and since 2012, on the board of Stericycle.

Previously, in a 34-year corporate career, he served 21 years as President/CEO/COO at Nortel, Motorola, and five GE businesses in the high tech, industrial, consumer, and financial services industries.

Among his philanthropic activities, he is vice chairman and leads the strategy committee for AUSL, the organization that helps turnaround the most challenged public schools in Chicago. He is a co-founder and director of Macedonia 2025, an organization dedicated to enhancing the country’s economic and democratic developments.

He is also a vice chairman of UI Labs, a research and commercialization collaborative focusing on digital manufacturing, design innovation, and “smart city” solutions. He is a visiting lecturer at the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He and his wife, Robin, are past national chairs for Duke University’s Parents’ Committee. Mike, Robin and their three sons Matt, Kirk, and Todd are officers of the Zafirovski Family Foundation, formed in 2005 focusing on education and health issues.

From 2006 to 2010, Mr. Zafirovski was a presidential appointee to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). NSTAC provides analytics and recommendations to the President of the United States on a wide range of policy and technical issues related to telecommunications, information systems, information assurance, infrastructure protection, and other national security and emergency preparedness concerns.

Zafirovski holds a B.A. in mathematics from Edinboro University in Pennsylvania where he captained the intercollegiate soccer and swimming teams. In 2002, Edinboro University awarded him an honorary doctorate degree in public service. A native of Macedonia, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2004 and the Medal of Honor from the President of Macedonia in 2013. He also received the Distinguished Leadership Award from the NY Hall of Science in 2008.

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www.semosedu.com.mk | 02/31 30 900 | [email protected] www.macedonia2025.com Summit Registered Participants Contact Information S.M.T.doo “S.M.T. is Macedonian company working in dental and medical field for more than 20 years. With competence and experience in sales, services, project management and implementation of All information was sent by the participants themselves. We take no responsibility for any grammar projects in various high-end medical and dental equipment.” mistakes that might have been made. Address: Pirinska 28/4, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.smtmk.eu.org Dejan Stojchevski – manager Dutch-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce- NL Chamber Email: [email protected] The Dutch-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce “NL Chamber” was established in 2012 by 50 companies to promote and support successful long-lasting business relations between the Netherlands and Macedonia. Panasonic Address: Aminta III 69-71, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.nlchamber.org.mk Consumer Electronics manufacturer Bob Smit - Executive Director Address: Monzastr. 4c, Langen, Germany Langen (Frankfurt area), Germany Email: [email protected] Web: https://panasonic.net/ Dr. Vlaho Kostov - Executive Engineer Email: [email protected]

Farmahem DOOEL Skopje Trade of laboratory equipment and environmental consultancy Partnerkom Address: Kicevska 1, Skopje, Macedonia Accounting Office Web: www.farmahem.com.mk Address: Braka Ginoski, Gostivar, Macedonia Vinka Tanevska - Director Email: [email protected] Almir Adili – CEO Email: [email protected]

Ariljemetal Puratos Macedonia Production and trading with fasteners Food industry Address: Pero Nakov 110, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.ariljemetal.com.mk Address: Blagoja Stefkovski 30, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.puratos.mk Marijana Angeloska - Deputy CO Email: [email protected] Nenad Krstevski - CEO Trajan Angeloski Email: [email protected]

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com System 4 Enterprise DOOEL Skopje Sparkasse Bank Makedonija Insurance innovation center Retail and Corporate lending and deposit business, transactional services, brokerage and custody services. Address: St.6 No. 228 Bardovci, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.systems4enterprise.com Address: St. Makedonija 9-11, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.sparkasse.mk Stefan Miteski - CEO Email: [email protected] Gligor Bishev - CEO and President of the Management Board Sasa Boko - Management Board Member Alvin Alicevic - Management Board Member Email: [email protected]

Debarliev Dameski Kelesoska Attorney At law Debarliev, Dameski & Kelesoska Attorneys at Law represent the generation of Macedonian CompuNet Engineering attorneys introducing fresh perspective and innovative spirit in the approach to legal practices. DDK is a full-service law firm, dedicated to establishing and building relations with the clients on CompuNet Engineering is formed and started working in 1999. We are one of leading health care the basis of trust, loyalty, knowledge and dynamic capabilities. DDK was established in 2003, as software provider in Macedonia. Compunet engineering is authorized distributor of worldwide the first law firm in Macedonia. We have created DDK on the basis of the principles of personal well-known companies: WAGO, Schneider electric, Extech, and MDT. We supply a lot of Macedonian and professional integrity, partnership and specialized legal services, all to the end of being the companies with automation products, electrical products, and spare parts. Our certified KNX leading law firm, applying the highest standards of law practice. training center provide KNX courses for the whole Balkan countries. In field of services we offer PLC programming, SmartStruxure and smartStruxure lite programming, KNX BMS projecting and Address: Mirce Acev 2, 3rd Floor, Skopje, Macedonia programming, projecting of electrical installations and lighting. Web: www.ddklaw.com.mk Address: 2 Oktomvri 1A-3/9, Skopje, Macedonia Emilija Kelesoska – Partner Web: www.compunet.com.mk Email: [email protected] Orce Simov – Manager Email: [email protected]

Oracle East Central Europe Representative Office Skopje Oracle helps customers develop strategic roadmaps and advance their journey to the cloud from DOO Comfy Angel any point: new cloud deployments, legacy environments, and hybrid implementations. Oracle’s complete, integrated approach makes it easy for companies to get started in the cloud and even Manufacturer of home textile products easier to expand as business grows. Address: Aleksandar Makedonski 1g/13, Prilep, Macedonia Address: Square Macedonia 33/5, Palace Ristich, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.comfy-angel.com.mk Meri Kucera-Ilievska - Business Development Manager Biljana Jandreoska - Company Manager Email: [email protected] Irena Jakimovska Jane Gjoreski Email: [email protected]

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Economical and Law office KOMPANIJA NM Skopje Business & Innovation Center – BIC Company for consulting, accounting and valuation of company BIC is a technology park located on South East European University campus in Tetovo, Macedonia. Opened on May 15, 2013 by the Board of South East European University in order to create Address: Kej 13 Noemvri br.14/2-5, Skopje, Macedonia conditions to stimulate the creation of new start-up companies, creating a synergy between Web: www.kompanijanm.com.mk the companies and encourage the growth of existing SMEs (small and medium enterprises) which in the long term provides new job opportunities. Vision - To create an environment Nadica Mladenovska-Krckoska - General Manager within the university that will forge closer ties and enduring links between academia and the Email: [email protected] industry to convert Knowledge and expertise into Action, Production and Investments Mission - Zoran Mladenovski Development of start-up knowledge based companies at SEEU designed to create and foster an entrepreneurial culture among faculty, researchers, students of SEEU and commercialization of scientific and technological knowledge. Address: Ilindenska 335/700, Tetovo, Macedonia Web: http://techpark.seeu.edu.mk Gjorgji Rafajlovski – COO Email: [email protected] Nokia Providing fixed and wireless network infrastructure Address: 6000 Connection Dr. Irving, United States (US) Web: www.nokia.com Inzinering DASS Michael Arsov - Head of Supplier Innovation Execution Inzinering DASS is a small size, electrical-engineering company, operating on the domestic in Email: [email protected] international market for 25 years. Embracing a policy of excellence, the company has demonstrated significant success in the many projects. Address: s. Kosel bb PO Box 143, Ohrid, Macedonia Web: www.dass.com.mk Simona Trpovska Email: [email protected] Cosmic Development Full range IT and BPO outsourcing company Address: 23 Oktomvri, 11A, Synergy Business Center, Skopje, Macedonia Web: http://cosmicdevelopment.com/ Anthony Naumoff – Director iSource Email: [email protected] iSource is an IT outsourcing company based in Bitola with 40 employees Nick Naumoff Armin Hodzic Address: Solunksa 226, Bitola, Macedonia Vesna Radeski Web: www.isource.com.mk Marija Dimovska Mile Milosheski Aleksandar Kolicoski - Project Manager Email: [email protected]

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com International Card Systems AD Skopje Ohridska Banka International Card Systems AD (CaSys AD) is regional certified MasterCard and Visa processing center. It offers services in the area of transaction processing, authorization and switching, ATM Ohridska Banka Societe Generale Group (OBSG) is a universal banking institution with a wide range and POS management, e-commerce, card management system, credit/debit card personalization of banking services in the country and abroad. Since 2007, OBSG belongs to one of the largest and 24/7 support for the cardholders and banks. financial institutions worldwide - Société Générale Group. With more than 148,000 employees, based in 67 countries, Société Générale Group has been at the side of 31 million clients throughout Address: bul. Kuzman Josifovski Pitu 1, Skopje, Macedonia the world for over 150 years. Ohridska Banka performs according to the high standards of Société Générale, respecting the four main values of the group: team spirit, innovation, commitment and Filomena Pljakovska Asprovska- Authorisation Manager & Member of the Management Board responsibility. Email: [email protected]

Address: Orce Nikolov 54, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.ohridskabanka.mk

Branka Pavlovic - President of the Management Board Nina Nedanoska - Member of the Management Board Email: [email protected] Brand Union “Brand Union is a full service marketing agency. We are specialized in the field of digital marketing, but our competencies and experience allow us to efficiently work in the field of traditional marketing, and most of all, develop integrated marketing campaigns and strategies.” Address: Partizanski Odredi 43a, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia Web: http://brandunion.mk Bojana Zavkova - Account Manager Salience Consulting Email: [email protected]

Salience is an established telecom management consulting and professional services organisation. We are exclusively focused on the telecom industry and our clients are telecom regulators, operators, investors and government ministries. Our purpose is to transform countries and communities through telecoms by going beyond strategic advisory, assuring success by taking ownership of execution. Bransys DOOEL Address: 11 Oktomvri, 3-A, Skopje, Macedonia We are optimizing time and money by improving efficiency and productivity of all our clients by Web: www.salienceconsulting.ae innovating custom software solutions and integrating complete system solutions. The biggest businesses challenges, are solved with the unique software and hardware solution, innovated and Ivan Skenderoski - Founder and Managing Partner designed by Bransys Group, customizable for each client to reduce costs, and increase productivity, Stefan Ivanovski - Business Analyst for different types of businesses, like transportation, distribution, mining, construction, waste Email: [email protected] management, taxi, vehicle road-worthiness test stations etc. Despite our significant growth, we remain focused on innovation in the name of our clients’ success. Mila Perchinkova - Contracts Manager Address: 11 Oktomvri 25, Skopje, Macedonia Email: [email protected] Web: https://www.bransys.com/ Pandorka Chushkova Mishkova - Marketing & HR Email: [email protected] Dashmir Ishtefi COO Email: [email protected]

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com CANSEE IMPERIAL TOBACCO TKS a.d. The CANSEE Canadian Serbian Business Association was founded to promote trade and “Imperial Tobacco TKS has proven to be a trusted and long-term partner of the Macedonian development between Canada and Serbia. CANSEE supports foreign direct investment in Serbia economy, playing a significant role in the stability, sustainability and planned development of the and the surrounding region and encourages entrepreneurship through training and education. country’s economy. Address: Bulevar despota Stefana 64 a, Belgrade, Serbia Ever since Imperial Tobacco entered TKS more than 15 years ago, the company has been investing Web: http://cansee.biz/ continuously in modernization of the production process, increase of the production capacity and introduction of highest and latest standards present in the industry. Imperial Tobacco TKS Mirjana Donchich - Beaton - Managing Director in some areas is at the top today, not only within our group, but also in the overall competitive Email: [email protected] industry in the region. Iva Ilic - Event Manager So far, 35 million euros have been invested in these areas thereby demonstrating the long- Email: [email protected] term commitment of Imperial Tobacco TKS and its employees to provide sustainable and safe development of the company, further promoting jobs, working conditions and reliable production Mina Gutic - Project Assistant and product placement. Email: [email protected] The company is also the biggest producer on the market, exporting over 40% of the total production in Russia and five markets in the region: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Serbia and Albania. On a group level, Imperial Tobacco TKS purchases Macedonian tobacco each year, and only last year over 2.000 tons were purchased. The company employs 200 people and producing 6 brands of cigarettes for the domestic and export market.” Address: St. 11 Oktomvri 125, P.O. Box 37, Skopje, Macedonia Halk Bank AD Skopje Bank Web: www.imperial-tobacco.com Address: Kiril I Metodij 54, Skopje, Macedonia Petar Ribarski - Corporate Affairs Manager Southern Balkans Web: www.halkbank.mk Email: [email protected] Aleksandar Iljov - Head of Marketing Division Stevan Vranes Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Kiril Velickovski Email: [email protected] Sonja Peshevska Email: [email protected] Mellon Solutions Dooel Aleksandra Ivanovska Email: [email protected] IT Solutions Rade Shapchevski Address: Ruzveltova 19, III rd floor, Skopje, Macedonia Email: [email protected] Web: www.mellongroup.com Dimitar Gorgev Viktorija Nestoroska - General Manager Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Embassy of Canada (Global Affairs Canada) MSC Dooel Skopje Address: 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Canada Founded in 1970, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company is one of the world’s leading container Web: http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/serbia-serbie/index.aspx?lang=eng shipping lines, operating 480 offices across 150 countries worldwide. With over 60,000 employees it sails on over 200 trade routes, calls at 315 ports and has access to an integrated network of Kati Csaba - Ambassador of Canada to Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro road, rail and sea transport resources which stretches across the globe.Present in Macedonia for Vladan Miladinovic - Trade Commissioner 10 years, MSC is the only established container carrier representing the country and delivering Email: [email protected] local expertise, ensuring the door to door transportation service of a broad range of cargo to and from Macedonia. These are the values which our company’s success and strength are based on: We are a family company; we have passion; we are in continuous evolution; we care for people; we believe in X3M Labs equal opportunities

IT Company Address: Bul. Partizanski Odredi 14, Skopje, Macedonia Address: Heraklea 53 – Bitola, Macedonia Web: www.msc.com Web: www.x3mlabs.com.mk Stevica Carapikj - Managing Director Pece Angelkovski – Manager Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

ArcelorMittal Skopje (CRM) AD Skopje Aspekt DOO Skopje Production and trade with metallurgical products - Galvanized, organic coated and cold rolled ASPEKT is Software Development and IT Consulting Company delivering flexible, scalable and sheets. integrated software solutions, comprised under the Aspekt Product Suite specialized for financial industry segments. Address: 16 Makedonska brigada no.18, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.arcelormittal.com.mk Address: Bul. 11 Oktomvri 25/9, Skopje, Macedonia Web: http://aspekt.mk/ Wolfgang Maringer Aleksandar Ivanovski - Managing Partner Goran Gavrilovski Email: [email protected] Kiro Risteski Email: [email protected]

TELELINK MK DOO Lynx Animation Studios Company for project management and professional services Lynx Animation is a world class studio dealing with creating Macedonians first 2D animated Address: Londonska 11 a, Skopje, Macedonia Feature film. Simultaneously we offer service work for those in need. Web: http://www.telelink.com Address: Pero Nakov 110, Skopje, Macedonia Paun Ivanov - Executive manager Web: www.lynxanimation.com Email: [email protected] Bobi Cvetkovski Alan Castillo - Founding partner Eleonora Blazevska Email: [email protected] Sarita Castillo - Founding partner

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com EMBS Group Insider ID DOOEL Skopje Consulting services Insider ID is agency specialized in research (qualitative and quantitative) and consulting mostly for companies in FMCG market segment. Also the agency is conducting internal researches within Address: Sosnowa, Krakow, Poland the companies as Employee Satisfaction, Employee Engagement and Sales, Distribution and Web: www.embs-group.com Marketing Strategies. Metodija Papazoski - Cofounder and VP Al. Address: St. Prashka n.23, Skopje, Macedonia Email: [email protected] Web: www.insider.mk Sergej Zafiroski - CEO Email: [email protected] Borislava Mirchevska - Junior Partner CodeIT Email: [email protected] Solution Software development company specialized for Enterprise CMS solutions, certified partner of Adobe and Magnolia. Address: AVNOJ 114/1, Skopje, Macedonia Web: http://codeit.mk SORSIX International Dooel Skopje Viktorija Drangovska – CEO Email: [email protected] E-health software Address: Dame Gruev 18, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.sorsix.com Dragan Sahpaski – CTO Marand Consultants Email: [email protected] Gligor Gjozev MARAND consultants is Skopje-based consulting company, established with a mission to assist Tomislav Frtunik its clients in their business-related legal and financial activities, providing dedicated and unique support and accurate and trustworthy advises from its fields of expertise. Address: Boulevard Jane Sandanski 64/3-2, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.marand.com.mk Makweld DOO Marijana Andrikj – Manager Email: [email protected] Address: str. 8 no. 24 Indjikovo, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.makweld.com.mk Anastasija Dapchevska Adjieva - General Manager Email: [email protected] Infinite Solutions Infinite Solutions is a Microsoft Dynamics AX & D365, Azure and .Net Partner, with highly skilled Microsoft Certified Team of Project Managers, Consultants and Developers, proven on a large scaled projects with over 1000 users. REM POWER SEE Address: Palata Makedonija - Luj Paster br.1 sprat 4, Skopje, Macedonia Address: Londonska 9a, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.infinite.com.mk Web: www.rem-power.com Slagjan Mihajlovski – CEO Darko Adjiev - General Manager Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

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The CAA is organized as an aviation authority of the Republic of Macedonia and its organizational Address: Aminta III St., Skopje Netherlands structure provides efficient and timely execution of the safety regulatory functions as well as the Web: www.netherlandsandyou.nl other functions related to security oversight, economic oversight, traffic rights etc. Wouter Plomp - Ambassador Email: [email protected] Address: Dame Gruev 1, Skopje, Macedonia Web: http://www.caa.gov.mk/en/

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Address: Dane Krapchev 6a, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.skopje.embassy.si

Gjyle Vishaj - Economic adviser Weir Minerals Email: [email protected] Weir Minerals is a global market leader providing trusted technology and services which make mining operations more productive and profitable.

Address: Blagoeva Str. 31, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine US Embassy Skopje Web: https://www.global.weir/ Department of State Nikola Kjurchiski - Territory Manager Email: [email protected] Address: Samoilova 21, Skopje, Macedonia Web: https://mk.usembassy.gov/ Sergey Shapovalov - General Manager, Sales Email: [email protected] Jess L. Baily – Ambassador Email: [email protected]

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Embassy Address: Sopharma Business Towers, , Austria Web: www.lh.com Address: Todor Aleksandrov, Skopje, Macedonia Web: https://mk.ambafrance.org/ Zied Gueblaoui - Regional Manager (Bulgaria, Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo) Email: [email protected] Christian Thimonier - French Ambassador in Skopje Email: [email protected] Tatjana Ignjatovska

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Sales Manager Rudnici Banjani Ad Skopje Address: Isaija Mazhovski 31, Skopje, Macedonia Mining company Address: S.Kucheviste, Skopje, Macedonia Aleksandra Nacik - Sales Manager Web: www.rudnicibanjani.eu.mk Email: [email protected] Olga Rajchikj - Product Manager Email: [email protected]

Lalibella Lalibella’s vision is to create a practical, comfortable, quality and sexy beachwear brand for feminine, modern and strong women with style. For our customer, the cool girl who loves to EVN Makedonija AD conquer the world with her soul and her smile, Lalibella offers a one-stop-beachwear-shop where quality stands over quantity. Electricity supply Address: ul. 11 Oktomvri br.9, Skopje Macedonia Address: Schützenstrasse 31, Pfäffikon SZ – Switzerland Web: www.evn.mk Web: www.lalibella.ch Ilija Kjiroski - Management Board Executive Assistant Sadat Alimi - Owner & CEO Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Western Balkans Fund Cranfield Foundry DOOEL Skopje Intergovernmental organization Iron foundry Address: Skenderbej 8, Tirana, Albania Address: Boulevard “8-mi Septemvri” No.16/ 2 – Karposh, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.westernbalkansfund.org Web: www.cfoundry.com Antoaneta Ivanova - Program manager Dariusz Dziuba – CEO Andrijana Trajanovska - Business Operations Leader Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Regional Youth Cooperation Office Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) is an independently functioning institutional mechanism, Energy Delivery Solutions EDS DOOEL Skopje founded by the Western Balkans 6 participants (WB 6): Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia, aiming to promote the spirit of reconciliation and cooperation Electricity trade between the youth in the region through youth exchange programs. Address: Bul.Kliment Ohridski No.30, Skopje, Macedonia Web: http://www.eds.mk/ Address: Rruga Skënderbej 8/2/2, Tirana, Albania Web: https://www.rycowb.org/ Mitko Krzhovski - Managing Director Email: [email protected] Bratislava Tanaskovic - Head Office Manager Email: [email protected]

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Starcon Shipping Dooel Container Shipping Address: 8ma Udarna Brigada, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.starcon.mk Julija Crvenkoska – Director Email: [email protected]

Advising Pro Consulting/Accounting Address: Timo Trencev 28, Strumica Macedonia Web: www.advisingpro.com.mk Nikola Mitev – Owner Email: [email protected]

Independent Consulting Services Address: Mihail Chakov 9/1-5, Skopje, Macedonia Web: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toniit/ Toni Trpkovski - Management Consultant Email: [email protected]

Everything will be all right. www.triglav.mk www.macedonia2025.com Klezro dooel Skopje Bosnian American Friendship Association – Restart Artcraft, local & traditional jewelery, composed with local resources A Business Embassy for Bosnian Diaspora and Foreign Investors Address: Main incharged Petar Acev 22, Skopje, Macedonia Address: Merhemica Trg 10, SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina Web: www.mkrubin.com Web: www.restart.ba Dejan Skartov Email: [email protected] Salih Music - Managing Director Email: [email protected]

INELLIPSE International Financial Corporation, World Bank Group Software Services Development and public reforms Address: Car Samoil, Bitola, Macedonia Address: Mis Irbina 22, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Web: http://www.inellipse.com/ Web: www.ifc.org Andrej Manevski - Executive Manager Emina Z.Pintaric - Legal Technical Expert Ilija Jolevski Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

PIKSEL DOO Skopje SETTE Graphic and web design, web and software development, digital marketing services Media Monitoring Company Address: Kosturski Heroi 2/2, Skopje, Macedonia Address: Car Samoil 26, Bitola, Macedonia Web: www.piksel.mk Web: www.sette.com.mk Filip Ristevski – CEO Sotir Gramosli - Executive Manager Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Vladimir Ristevski

S&T Macedonia Dooel Skopje Ana and Vlade Divac Foundation System Integration Private foundation Address: Ankarska 31, Skopje, Macedonia Address: Ilije garasanina 53a, Belgrade, Serbia Web: www.snt.mk Web: www.divac.com Darko Maletic - Manager, Professional Services Ana Koeshall – Director Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Boro Antovski - Managing Director Jovan Popovski

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Tobacco Company Symphony Solutions Address: St. Cyril and Methodius number 7, Skopje, Macedonia Web: https://www.pmi.com/ ITC Address: Skupi 3a, Skopje, Macedonia Mihael Solter - General Manager Macedonia Web: http://www.symphony-solutions.eu Jelena Preradovic Stevanovic - Manager Community Relations & Contrib. SEE Djordjevic Luka - Manager Fiscal Affairs SEE Dejan Ivanoski – Director Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

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Consulting Kosovo Leadership Academy Address: Ramadan Kelmendi, Mitrovica, North Carolina Address:Timo Trencev, Strumica, Macedonia Web: https://kleadershipacademy.org Web: www.kec.mk Joan Anderson – Teacher Mitko Andonov - MK2025 Ambassador Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Troy Terrill - Physics / Chemistry Teacher Email: [email protected]

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Hotels and Congress Center Akton Dooel Skopje Akton Dooel is company for Telecommunication services. Akton Macedonia is established in Address: Tornfalksgatan 1, Copenhagen, Denmark 2005 as a daughter company of Akton Doo Slovenia. Akton is fully licensed carrier operating in the following countries: Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. Global Kiril Kotevski - Front Office Manager and local presence enables us to offer a complete portfolio of voice & data services on One Stop Email: [email protected] Shop basis. Address: St.23 Oktomvri 11a, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.akton.com.mk

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www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Project HOPE Adora Engenering Skopje The People to People Health Foundation Adora Engineering is a certified and licensed real estate development company which for 16 Our mission, as a global health and humanitarian relief organization, is to place power in the years now successfully operates as leader in building construction in the Republic of Macedonia, hands of health care workers to save lives across the globe. We are committed to transforming continuously affirming the corporate motto “Only the deeds are reality”. This construction brand represents a synonym for constructing elite residential and business buildings with superior lives and uplifting communities by empowering health care workers to expertly implement and firmness and seismic stability, proven for the first time in the Republic of Macedonia by an artificial teach innovative lifesaving solutions in times of need and into the future. Project HOPE operates earthquake test. around the world wherever the need is greatest, working side-by-side with health care workers and their communities, addressing the greatest public health challenges to enable people to live Recognizable for the construction of high quality buildings, following the latest trends and their best lives. We respond to disasters and health crises and stay on in communities long after modern standards of world urban architecture, this company is a pioneer in introducing the disaster strikes to help find solutions to epidemics and any other neglected health needs. energy efficient homes in Macedonia and the region. Adora Engineering is leading company in implementing numerous innovative solutions and state-of-the-art technologies for more quality Address: Ul. Kosta Shahov 12, Skopje, Macedonia housing, among which is the introduction of green housing, the use of renewable energy sources, Web: www.projecthope.org the introduction of sound insulation of up to 63 db, which is 80% above the Macedonian standards, installing organic building facades, etc. Vlatko Uzevski - Regional Manager Email: [email protected] Adora Engineering redefined the real estate market in Macedonia, elevating the housing culture to a higher level, by giving emphasis on a new, modern style and design of the buildings, whose exterior have become a new recognizable urban symbol of modern Skopje, and the sophisticated interior with strong individual expression brought the Boutique Real Estate concept of housing in the Republic of Macedonia and South-eastern Europe, to which the management and the entire team of the company are especially proud of. SCHOENFUSS DOOEL UVOZ-IZVOZ SKOPJE Address: St. Orce Nikolov 182a, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.adora.com.mk IT Dushko Chifliganec - Dep. General Manager Address: Vostanichka 23A, Skopje, Macedonia Email: [email protected] Web: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/home.html Vladimir Parleev – CEO Email: [email protected]

Deloitte doo Skopje Financial Industry Anthura MK Dooel Kochani Address: Partizanski Odredi 15A, Skopje, Macedonia Production of Orchids young plants Web: www.deloittece.com/mk Address: Orizova 15, Kochani, Macedonia Lidija Nanush - Managing Director of Deloitte Macedonia Web: www.anthura-mk.com Email: [email protected] Johan Scheele - Managing Director Aleksandar Arizanov - Audit Director Email: [email protected]

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Telecom provider iTnnovate is a software engineering company based in the Republic of Macedonia. Driven by innovation, increasing efficiencies and improving consumer experience we build high quality Address: Pero Nakov br.1, Skopje, Macedonia custom software - specifically designed to fit our client needs. We are specialized in asset Web: www.interspace.com management sphere and well placed to offer an end to end solutions, from initial consultancy and design phases right through to deployment and ongoing support. Zarko Markovic - CEO Nikola Trajkovski - Sales engineer Address: 1 Lazo Trposki, Ohrid, Macedonia Zoran Stamenov - Head of services Web: www.itnnovate.eu Marjan Dimov Sales engineer Petre Bozikov - Sales engineer Petar Spaseski – Principal Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Euromax Resources SPECIJAL PRODUKT DOOEL Euromax is an international company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and is owned and controlled by internationally recognised and prestigious investors who are committed to safe, SPECIAL PRODUKT DOOEL is a baking and confectionery company with 29 years of tradition and modern and responsible operating with total transparency. experience in this segment of a private business in our country. Specijal Produkt with its many years of experience, expertise and professionalism produce bakery and confectionery products The Board and Management of the Euromax has a combined over 200 years of mining industry and cooked dishes of exceptional quality. experience around the global, including USA, Canada, South America and Africa. The Project has been designed by local and international experts and professors and is compliant with all The versatile range of products consists more than 200 products made by the hands of talented Macedonian Laws together with global and EU recognised standards. and professional employees and with their dedication contribute Specijal to get recognition, “brand name”, a synonym for quality, and the trust we receive from consumers is an indicator Address: Partizanski Odredi, Skopje, Macedonia that Specijal receives primacy on a favorite place where you can enjoy the tastes of a bakery and Web: www.euromaxresources.com confectionery products. Patrick Forward - COO Email: [email protected] - a workshop for the production of bakery fresh and frozen products, packaged products with an extended life - a work shop for cakes and pastries, - a kitchen for ready meals with a daily Martina Kostovska production capacity of 4,000 portions. - Administrative building, an administration run by a team Email: [email protected] of about 20 employees who manage the significant processes of the company. Also we have our own grain processing mill, from which we get the good ingredients for our product, produced by Aleksandra Bilbilovska traditional procedure. Email: [email protected] Address: Lepenec 32, Skopje, Macedonia Todor Stojcevski (Chapter 4) Web: www.specijal.com.mk Email: [email protected] Goran Gjorgjievski – Owner Email: [email protected]

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Sanja Tancevska - Deputy Director to the Executive Directors Deutsche Bank AG Email: [email protected] Investment banking Gjorgje Vojnovic - Chief Executive Director Email: [email protected] Address: 1 Great Winchester Street, London, England Web: www.db.com Vahit Alili - Vice President Email: [email protected] MASAC solution

Solution provider Macedonian Bank for Development Promotion Skopje Address: Kuzman Josifovski Pitu 28-1/17, Skopje, Macedonia MBDP is a development and export bank which strategic goal is to provide support and to incite development of the Macedonian economy through providing finance to small and medium-sized Web: www.masac.io enterprises and export oriented companies. Ilija Ivanovski - Managing director Address: 26 Dimitrie Chupovski, Skopje, Macedonia Email: [email protected] Web: www.mbdp.com.mk Vangel Sekovski Dragan Martinovski – CEO Email: [email protected]

Prilepska Pivarnica A.D. Prilep ImagePR Prilep Brewery is highly motivated to deliver constant excellence to customers, ensuring they Public Relations and Communication Management Agency always get the best and the highest quality. Address: Nikola Vapcaov 2, Skopje, Macedonia Address: Cane Kuzmanoski 1, Prilep, Macedonia Web: www.imagepr.com.mk Web: www.prilepskapivarnica.com.mk Magdalena Mihajloska - PR Manager Sashko Samardzioski - General Manager Pande Samardzioska - Deputy General Manager Email: [email protected] Sashko Blazevski Gordana Arsova Ristovska Email: [email protected]

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com SEAF SOLAR SPEKTAR AG DOOEL SEAF is an investment management group that provides growth capital and business assistance Solar Spektar AG is continuously growing company on the domestic market and gradually acting to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in emerging and transition markets underserved by on the markets in the neighboring countries, making the company one of the leading providers of traditional sources of capital. services and solutions in terms of designing and construction of solar electric power systems. The company Solar Spektar AG has highly trained engineering staff of electrical/mechanical engineers Address: Orce Nikolov, Skopje, Macedonia and electrical installers, which enable the development of high quality photo voltaic solar power Web: http://seaf.com/ plants as well as complete performance and maintenance of solar electric power systems. Viktor Meshkov - Managing Director Address: Pat za Markov Manastir 7, Skopje, Macedonia Email: [email protected] Web: www.solarspektarag.com.mk Tanja Veljkovic Goran Mojsoski – Manager Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Cakarovska law office Law Office Cakarovska is professionally qualified, with an experienced team of lawyers specialized CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz DOOEL Skopje in different fields of law, led by Danche Cakarovska, an attorney at law with more than 25 years of legal experience and success in her work. Our team is consisted of legal experts who are working The Macedonian CMS office, established by CMS Vienna, was opened at the end of 2017 in coherently and are constantly facing various challenges in a pleasant work environment. We response to our clients’ increased needs for legal support in Macedonia. In the period before believe that more minds come at a better solution, therefore everyone at the law office contributes opening of the office, CMS has been successfully operating in Macedonia since 2006 through its Macedonian Desk established by the Serbian CMS office. to each case. Legal discussion is our way of achieving the ideal and most favorable result for the client. Over the past ten years, CMS legal experts have been involved in some of the most significant projects in Macedonia and have been providing high quality legal advice to some of the biggest Address: Bul.sv.Kliment Ohridski 63a/8 Skopje-Centar, Skopje, Macedonia players in the region in their operations in Macedonia. CMS Macedonia has a unique opportunity Web: www.cakarovska.com.mk to use the know-how of the CMS Belgrade and Vienna offices and all other CMS offices on a daily basis, thus adding value to our legal services. Danche Chakarovska-Grozdanovska - Attorney at law Danica Licanin-Blazeska Address: bul.Partizanski Odredi br.14, Skopje, Macedonia Email: [email protected] Web: www.cms.law Natasha Gogova - Managing Partner Email: [email protected] Radivoje Petrikich - Managing Partner of M.Kamenica Ana Bozharova Managing Partner Dushica Bojkovska - Managing Partner Mayor of mining municipality of M.Kamenica, located in the eastern part of Macedonia Anja Tasich - Attorney at law Address: Kamenicka 2, Makedonska Kamenica, Macedonia Web: www.makedonskakamenica.gov.mk Sonja Stamenkova - Mayor of M.Kamenica Email: [email protected]

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Textile - M STUDIO LEGALE BEHARE Textile Industry, Women apparel manufacturer, (CMT production), export oriented, more than 19 LAW AND COUNSELING FIRM years of experience. Address: avv. VIA MICHELE BAROZZI, 8, Milano, Italy Address: Marshal Tito bb, Makedonska Kamenica, Macedonia Web: www.studiobehare.it Web: www.textilem.mk BEHARE IVAN FRANCESCO Ljupcho Stoimenovski - Managing Partner Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

National Center for Development of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Euro Aktiva Learning Trading with construction materials, construction, petrol station NGO that is working as a think tank in the area of promotion of innovation, entrepreneurial education and SMEs development Address: Jadranska Magistrala 114, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.euroaktiva.com.mk Address: BUl 8mi- Septemvri 2-9, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.ncdiel.mk Egzona Aliu - HR Manager Email: [email protected] Radmil Polenakovikj – President Email: [email protected]

Olympia Motoros DE-INVEST DOOEL SKOPJE Automotive industry Trading and consulting Address: Jadranska Magistrala 125, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.olympiamotors.com.mk Address: ORCE NIKOLOV 190/1-5 SKOPJE MACEDONIA, SKOPJE, Macedonia Web: www.de-invest.mk Svetlana Pljakoska - Managing Director Email: [email protected] BEKIM ZEMOSKI – CEO Email: [email protected]

Kolid S Tim Pakomak DOO Distribution and production of products for wide consumption, in Macedonia Packaging waste management Address: Kolesino 76, Strumica, Macedonia Address: Blv. Partizanski odredi porta Vlae blok 4, Skopje, Macedonia Web: http://www.kolidgroup.com/ Web: www.pakomak.com.mk Glorija Stojkova - Marketing manager Filip Ivanovski - General Manager Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Kristijan Stojkov Katerina Veljanovska - Customer Care Manager Nikola Maljanovski

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com MASIT - ICT Chamber of Commerce Qatar Airways Macedonian Chamber of Information and Communication Technologies - MASIT is a volunteer, Airline / Aviation non-profit chamber of commerce. The chamber was founded in 2000 as an initiative of the top fifteen Macedonian IT companies and was operating as an Association within the Economic Address: Kiril i Metodij No7, Skopje Macedonia Chamber of Macedonia. Web: www.qatarairways.com In April 2007, on the Annual Assembly of MASIT, the legal transformation of MASIT from Association Hani Zakija - Sales Executive Email: [email protected] to Chamber of commerce was agreed. Today, MASIT is the voice of the Macedonian ICT industry. Elena Prokopieva - Marketing & E-Commerce Executive The chamber represents companies of the ICT sector in Macedonia including: software and IT services companies, hardware companies and distributors, carrier and other telecom companies, as well as training providers and ICT consulting companies. Address: St. “Kosta Veselinov“no.6, Skopje, Macedonia Web: http://masit.org.mk/ InterWorks Anita Nikova Bundovski - Executive director Email: [email protected] IT outsourcing company that provides its Clients a full spectrum of software development and support services from a dedicated offshore center in Bitola and its branch office in Prilep, Macedonia. The company has a team of over 130 specialists. Our team’s skills and trustworthiness helped us successfully complete over 300 projects for customers with various sizes in Europe and USA. Address: Karposh 14, Bitola, Macedonia Dura Automotive Skopje Dooel Web: www.interworks.com.mk DURA Automotive Systems, a Lynn Tilton company, is a global automotive supplier specializing in the design, engineering and manufacturing of solutions that drive the evolution of mobility. Renata Goshevska - Marketing Consultant Email: [email protected] With a legacy comprising more than 100 years of inspired invention, the company is recognized by Andrijana Dimitrievska - Marketing Consultant leading vehicle manufacturers as the preferred supplier partner for innovative, highly integrated, mechatronic systems, and lightweight solutions. Address: 71 A Jana Sandiski, Capitol Mall, Skopje, Macedonia Web: http://www.duraauto.com Alef Business Solutions Doo Jatin Thakrar - Plant Manager Email: [email protected] Data processing and marketing services Address: Jane Sandaski 7, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.alef-bs.com Sheila Campagnano - Executive DIrector Email: [email protected] The Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Macedonia

Embassy Address: ul. Aminta III-ti, 69-71, Skopje, Macedonia Web: https://c-www.netherlandsandyou.nl/ Finastra Emina Shkrijelj - Regional Economy and Trade Officer Austria Email: [email protected] Petar Kajevski - Customer Value Lead Email: [email protected]

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com My Print Business Consultant Large format printing company Skopje, Macedonia Address: Ljubljanska 5, Skopje, Macedonia Milka Arsova - Business Consultant Web: www.myprint.com.mk Email: [email protected] Mihail Kirkov - General Manager Email: [email protected] Ljubomir Kirkov - Marketing Manager Pekabesko AD. Meat Processing and Distribution Company Sistina Nefroplus Address: Ul. 10 br. 44, , Macedonia Web: www.pekabesko.com.mk The “Sistina Nefroplus” dialysis centers opened their doors on March 01, 2014. Today, “Sistina Nefroplus” provides dialysis care for more than 600 patients in 10 dialysis centers, with over 90.000 Anatol Kutrevski - Executive Director dialysis treatments a year. Email: [email protected] Address: Skupi 3 a, Skopje, Macedonia Web: https://sistinanefroplus.mk/ Gordana Gjorgjievska - General Manager Email: [email protected] Semos Education Semos Education is the first and the biggest computer education center in Macedonia with over 20 educational programs, over 300 diverse courses, 73 certified trainers and over 60.000 satisfied customers. For over 23 years, we share IT knowledge and experience and believe that the learning process is MACEDONIA-EXPORT experience which can cause powerful transformation in the individual as well as the companies. Branding, Marketing, Sales, Export and Consulting services Address: t.c. Skopjanka 19/8, Skopje, Macedonia Address: crvena voda 8-14, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.semosedu.com.mk Web: www.macedonia-export.com Valentina Taseva - CEO Petar Lazarov - General Manager Ilija Sekulovski - COO Email: [email protected] Marko Serafimoski Email: [email protected]

Business Consultant Dragana Live coaching Looking for new challenges Address: 9762 via roma, Burbank, United States (US) Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.draganalive.com Aleksandra Murgoska - Business Consultant Zoran Miloshevski - Transformational Coach Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Omega Research Omega Research is the first company in the Republic of Macedonia which deals in production of organic and RAW cosmetics. The production takes place in our own accredited laboratory which is designed in accordance with the GMP guidances (good manufacturing practice). Omega Research was founded in September 2014 and commenced its operation in July 2015. The company is innovator of a patent which describes the unique technological procedure for the RAW and Edible cosmetics with 96 formulas. This type of cosmetics is the first of their kind in the World. Address: 11 October 1/22, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.omegarawcosmetics.eu; www.omegarawcosmetics.mk Irina Velevska - FOUNDER/CEO Email: [email protected]

Screen Media Indoor and outdoor airport advertising provide Address: Kole Nedelkovski 61, lok.1, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.screenmedia.mk

Fidan Nikolovski - Sales Manager Email: [email protected]

Embed Social EmbedSocial is a social proof based marketing platform Address: Edvard Kardelj 91, Kochani, Macedonia Web: https://embedsocial.com

Nikola Bojkov – CEO Email: [email protected] Jane Uzunovski

www.mk2025summit.com SIGNORI Macedonian Chambers of Commerce Luxury custom made business suit and elegant tuxedos, leather shoes and button down shirts. Macedonian Chambers of Commerce (MCC) a union of 33 chambers of commerce, organizations and associations is the largest national business network. MCC is a contemporary, innovative Address: Bulevar Partizanski Odredi, Skopje, Macedonia and dynamic organization that is dedicated to successful promotion and representation of the Web: www.signori.mk business interests of the private sector.

Nenad Pantovikj - CEO & Co-Founder MCC mission is constantly to increase the competitiveness of companies and organizations that Kris Popovski - CEO & Co-Founder are members of the Union, to promote Macedonian business environment and increase sales Email: [email protected] of the products of its members on the global market. MCC is the largest independent business network in Macedonia counting more than 23,000 members. Web: www.chamber.mk

Aleksandar Zarkov - Executive Director Gabriela Kulebanova - Vice President Web Factory LLC Marija Mustrik We are a software development and counselling organization with a complex yet composed Email: [email protected] structure. At the point when customers swing to Web Factory not exclusively do they get engineers who compose an impenetrable code, yet additionally a help from our Business Development Team, Project Management Team and QA Team that will ensure that our digital solution development runs in accordance with your vision. Address: 3rd Macedonian Brigade Blvd, Skopje, Macedonia RESERVOIR MINERALS MACEDONIA Web: www.webfactory.mk GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION Mihaylo Shteryov – Co-founder Address: 11-Ti Oktomvri 2/2-2, Skopje, Macedonia Stefan Traykovski - Co-founder Web: www.reservoirminerals.mk Ilija Lalkovski - Co-founder Todor Panev - Co-Founder Daniela Bombol - Manager Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Fund for innovations and technology development Ministry of Transport and Communications

The Fund for Innovation and Technology Development was established in December, 2013, with Transport and Communications the aim of encouraging innovation by providing additional resources to finance innovation, in view of the need to build a competitive economy based on knowledge. Address: Dame Gruev 6, Skopje, Macedonia Web: http://mtc.gov.mk Web: www.fitr.mk Ljupka Siljanoska - State Advisor for Investments Jovan Despotovski - Director of Fund for innovations and technology development Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Bisera Jordanovska

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Center for Development Policies IDEAS DePo Automobili Group Center for Development Policies IDEAS DePo is a non-profitable organization from the Republic of Exclusive importer for Jaguar Land Rover vehicles in Macedonia Macedonia whose main objective is to provide reliable and competent expertise in the processes of design and implementation of economic and regulatory reforms in Macedonia and the region. Address: Skupi br.8 Skopje, Macedonia Web: https://macedonia.landrover.com/ IDEAS DePo was established in 2015 as a legacy organization of the USAID-funded Investment Development and Export Advancement Support (IDEAS) Project. Its founders are professionals Ljupco Georgievski - Brand Manager with extensive experience in designing and implementing economic and legal reforms in Email: [email protected] Macedonia, aimed at providing smooth transition from planned to market economy, creating sound business and regulatory environment, improving the efficiency and transparency of the policy-making process and strengthening the dialogue among all reform stakeholders. Address: Nikola Kljusev 14, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.ideasdepo.mk Aleksandar Sahov – Director Irena Petkova Intertec - Product Development Services Email: [email protected] Intertec is software product development company that builds products for clients and also invests in own products.

Address: Chedomir Minderovikj 31, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia Web: http://www.intertec.io/

American Chamber of Commerce in Macedonia (AmCham) Viktor Mitrevski – CEO Email: [email protected] Business association of Macedonia’s largest foreign and domestic companies that promotes a better business climate and social prosperity through advocacy, networking, and partnerships. Darko Kjurchievski – COO Marko Kostadinovski - Business Development Address: Vasil Gjorgov 20A, Skopje, Macedonia Mane Andreevski - Business Development Web: www.amcham.com.mk Dijana Despodov - Executive Director Email: [email protected]

Embassy of Italy – Skopje Embassy Advokat Aleksandar Mihajloski Address: Osma Udarna Brigada 22, Skopje, Macedonia Law Office Web: www.ambskopje.esteri.it Address: Crvena Voda, Skopje, Macedonia Carlo Romeo – Ambassador Web: www.mplaw.mk Email: [email protected] Aleksandar Mihajloski – lawyer Email: [email protected]

www.macedonia2025.com www.mk2025summit.com Euro-Mak Kompani DOO (Economy and Business magazine) Faculty of Economics in Skopje, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje The company is publisher of the “Economy and Business” magazine, also provides consulting and organizes conferences. Leading high education institution for economy and business with focus on fundamental and Address: Partizanski Odredi 62, Skopje, Macedonia advanced academic and scientific and applicative researches in Republic of Macedonia Web: www.ekonomijaibiznis.mk Address: Bul. Goce Delcev 9v, Skopje, Macedonia Zoran Jovanovski – Manager Web: www.eccf.ukim.edu.mk Email: [email protected] Ljubomir Drakulevski – Dean Email: [email protected] Igor Ivanovski - Assist. Professor Email: [email protected] PDM Project development Macedonia Vesna Bucevska Vice Dean/Full time professor NGO in the field of pensioners, older people. We publish newspapers and take care of projects in Email: [email protected] their interest. Aleksandra Janeska-Iliev Address: ul.Pekljane 4 br.3, Skopje, Macedonia Assistant professor Web: www.szpm.org.mk Email: [email protected] Goko Trajkoski – president Email: [email protected]

Plus Media DOOEL Skopje DELIGHT OFFICE SOLUTIONS Media Advertising and strategic planning Address: ANKARSKA 19, Skopje, Macedonia Address: Aminta 3-ti, Skopje Macedonia Web: www.delightoffice.com Web: www.plusmedia.rs ELENA MANOVSKA - COUNTRY MANAGER Filip Ivanovski - Managing Director Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Bleecker Beta Consulting Financial Bleecker doo is Belgrade based company with major activities in the service industry, and predominately hotel business. The company owns several hotels in Belgrade and the rest of Consultancy and Accounting Serbia. Address: Ilindenska 47 1/2, Skopje, Macedonia Address: Baba Visnjina 35, Vracar, Belgrade Serbia Web: www.betaconsulting.com.mk Web: www.bhotels.rs Elizabeta Kocovska Iceva - Managing Director Predrag Dragojlovic – Director Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

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Asset / Investment Management (Venture Capital, Tech companies, Real Estate, Industrial RZ Institut is a publicly listed company whose core activities are casting and machining of technical production companies) and artistic castings from non-ferrous metals (aluminum and copper alloys). Address: Kavchicheva 66, Ljubljana, Sloveni Additional activities include production of refractory materials for the steel industry, church bells Web: www.sth.si and church equipment, lampposts and urban equipment, polyester and wax sculptures, as well as trade and other services. Rok Habinc - Partner / Executive Manager Email: [email protected] Address: 16-ta Makedonska Brigada 18, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.rzinstitut.com Dushko Kocevski - Deputy CEO Email: [email protected] Unnix Fresh fruit and vegetable exporter, transport and logistics Address: Pero Nakov 108b, Skopje, Macedonia Web: www.unnix.com.mk Replek Farm Skopje Stanisha Ivannovikj – CEO Manufacturer of medicinal chemical products Email: [email protected] Address: ul. Kozle 188, Skopje, Macedonia Web: http://www.replek.com.mk Gordana Trendovska Serafimovska - Quality control manager Email: [email protected] Outsource To Macedonia Outsourcing Address: 55 Military rd, Port Kembla, Australia Web: www.outsourcetomacedonia.com Jim Ristevski - Manager Email: [email protected]

M2 Capital We are a private equity firm investing and acquiring companies - with a focus on emerging markets. Address: 43 Berkeley Square, London United Kingdom (UK) Web: www.mtwocapital.com Robert Mantse - Vice-Chairman Email: [email protected]

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