{"id":29,"date":"2019-09-09T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmc-zse.hr\/2019\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2019-09-20T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T11:13:50","slug":"predavaci","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ifmc-zse.hr\/2019\/predavaci\/","title":{"rendered":"PREDAVA\u010cI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
\"\"<\/td>Uto Baader
\nBaader Bank AG, Founder & Consultant
\n<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nUto Baader (born 1944) was the founder and Chairman of Baader Bank AG\u2019s Executive Board until July 2015 and head of the organization for a total of 32 years. In 1983 Uto Baader became an authorised stockbroker on the Bavarian Stock Exchange in Munich, where he began trading in international equities. Before starting his career as a stockbroker, he was head of the International Equities Trading section at Bayerische Landesbank in Munich, where he worked for 13 years. Four years later, following his initial success in Munich, he was also authorised to trade on the Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg Stock Exchange in Stuttgart. Uto Baader broadened the scope of his business activities in 1993, working on the flotation of a software firm. This later led to the creation of a separate division specialising in support for corporate actions such as IPOs, capital increases and takeover bids. His work as a broker gained a broader institutional footing in 1996 when Uto Baader founded Baader Wertpapier GmbH. At the same time, he acquired a majority stake in the listed company Ballmaier & Schultz Wertpapier AG in Frankfurt, joining its Executive Board. Two years later he merged the two firms, creating Baader Wertpapierhandelsbank AG and taking over the reins of the new company. After receiving a full banking licence from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority in July 2008, the company became Baader Bank AG, and Uto Baader became Chairman of its Executive Board.
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\"\"<\/td>Ratko Bajakic
\nDirector of ICF<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nRatko Bajakic has over 25 years investment banking experience. He worked for Bank Austria in Vienna, Prague and Zagreb and joined in 1998 partners to create a leading Croatian investment house ICF. The company was involved in coupon privatization running the largest privatization fund, asset management, brokerage business and corporate finance advisory. Ratko currently holds a position as a director of ICF and is also a member of supervisory boards of Brodospas, SNH Alfa d.d. and SNH Beta d.d. In last three years his main targets are investments in SMEs via Funderbeam platform and cash management through different European fintech platforms.
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\"\"<\/td>Maja Be\u0161evi\u0107 Vlajo
\nN3 Capital Partners <\/b><\/span>
\n

\nMaja is a CFA charterholder with 13+ year of experience on capital markets. Currently works as Executive Director of Development and Investment Banking at Podravska banka.
\nMaja serves as a Supervisory Board Member at Croatian Central Clearing and Depository Company and a Board Member of CFA Society Croatia.
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\"\"<\/td>Martynas Cesnavicius
\nPartner of KJK Group<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nMartynas Cesnavicius, Partner of KJK Group, born 1972, resides in Vilnius,
\nLithuania. Martynas graduated from Vilnius University\u00b9s Faculty of
\nEconomics with a degree in Banking and Finance and speaks Lithuanian,
\nEnglish, and Russian fluently. Until 2002 he worked for M\u00f6ller Invest, a
\nNorwegian private investment firm and since 2003 he has been actively
\nserving as a member of the management bodies of the investment vehicles
\nrelated to KJK and Amber Trust. Currently, he serves as a board member of
\nseveral public and private companies based in the Baltic region, Norway,
\nBulgaria and Slovenia. Martynas holds significant corporate management and
\nmerger and acquisitions experience from both private and public equity
\nmarkets across Eastern Europe.
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\"\"<\/td>Ivana Ga\u017ei\u0107
\nPresident of the Management Board of Zagreb Stock Exchange<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nGraduated in Finance from the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb in 1997 and gained the Executive MBA degree from the International Executive Development Center Bled (Slovenia) in 2001. Ivana also holds the investment advisor license and is currently a PhD student of communication and author of several papers on investor relations.
\nShe gained wide professional experience working for leading Croatian companies and financial institutions.
\nIvana started her career in 1998 at Pliva Plc. where she served until 2003 as a Head of Capital Market Operations. Since 2003 till 2005 she worked at Lura Plc. as a Head of strategic financing project and the assistant to CEO.
\nIn 2005 Ivana joined Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale - Splitska Bank Plc. where she worked as a Deputy Head of Corporate Department and a Head of Structure Finance Department. In 2007 she continued her career in Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank Plc. taking the position of Executive Director in the Investment Banking Unit responsible for financial markets, private banking, corporate finance, asset management and investment funds.
\nSince May 2010 she is the President of the Management Board of Zagreb Stock Exchange.
\nShe is a President of the Supervisory Board of the SEE LINK Skopje, legal entity founded in 2014 with the aim to establish regional order routing service between Bulgaria, Macedonia and the Zagreb Stock Exchange. Following the acquisition of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange in late 2015, she is also the president of its Supervisory Board.
\nOver the years Ivana improved her knowledge through various professional seminars on banking and capital markets. She was a speaker, lecturer and participant in numerous conferences and professional gatherings on the subject of banking, finance and capital markets.
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\"\"<\/td>Goran Hoblaj
\nErste Bank, Vienna<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nLast 5 years Goran is heading Erste Group Fixed Income Securities Trading department - international team of 15 traders \/ market makers, providing liquidity in >90% of all listed bonds issued by issuers from Austria and CEE15 region, as systematic internaliser and liquidity provider \/ market maker into present MTFs. During this period Erste successfully implemented Mifid2 regulation and became top4 primary dealer in 4 CEE countries.
\nFrom 2011-2015 he was heading the Erste Croatia local Trading Department \u2013 FX, money market and securities trading \u2013 the period when Erste became leading liquidity provider for these products in Croatia, and significantly improved the profitability there.
\nFrom 2008-2011 Goran was Equity Trader in Erste Securities Zagreb, was a first market maker in Zagreb Stock Exchange.
\nIn 2005 he started as government bond trader in Erste bank Croatia.
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\"\"<\/td>Darko Horvat
\nM+ Grupa<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nDarko Horvat (1979.) ima vi\u0161e od 10 godina izvr\u0161nog iskustva u vode\u0107im revizorskim i konzultantskim dru\u0161tvima te dru\u0161tvima za porezno savjetovanje. Prije dolaska u M+ radio je kao Senior Manager u Deloitte Hrvatska i Deloitte USA, zadu\u017een za procjenu rizika, financijsko planiranje za klijente od iznimnog zna\u010daja, planiranje izvr\u0161enja i razvijanje softwarea. Darko je diplomirao na Zagreba\u010dkom sveu\u010dili\u0161tu s titulom mastera upravljanja poslovnim poslovanjem (MBA). Stru\u010dno se usavr\u0161avao na smjerovima na sveu\u010dili\u0161tu Harvard University.
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\"\"<\/td>Silvano Hrelja
\nPredsjednik HSU-a i saborski zastupnik<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nRo\u0111en sam 14. o\u017eujka 1958. u Hreljinima, op\u0107ini \u017dminj.
\nGodine 1976. zavr\u0161io sam Srednju elektrotehni\u010dku \u0161kolu i zaposlio se u poduze\u0107u Elektromehanika koje \u0107e se kasnije pripojiti pulskom Uljaniku. Kao stipendist Uljanika, 1988. zavr\u0161avam Vi\u0161u tehni\u010dku \u0161kolu za sigurnost pri radu i za\u0161titu od po\u017eara u Zagrebu te time stje\u010dem zvanje in\u017eenjera sigurnosti.
\nPo zavr\u0161etku \u0161kolovanja zaposlio sam se u Uljaniku - Pula kao in\u017eenjer sigurnosti i za\u0161tite na radu.
\nOd 1981. godine bavim se dru\u0161tvenim radom, prvo kao predsjednik Zbora radnika u Uljaniku, a zatim od 1990. kao povjerenik Sindikata metalaca Hrvatske koji je u tom trenutku imao vi\u0161e od pet tisu\u0107a \u010dlanova.
\nGodine 1994. izabran sam za regionalnog povjerenika Sindikata metalaca, a dvije godine nakon toga i za \u017eupanijskog povjerenika Saveza samostalnih sindikata Hrvatske za Istarsku \u017eupaniju. U razdoblju od 1994. do 2003. aktivno se i profesionalno bavim sindikalnim radom \u0161to uklju\u010duje i borbu za umirovljeni\u010dka prava.
\nGodine 2003. na prijedlog SUH-a kao nestrana\u010dki kandidat na listi Hrvatske stranke umirovljenika izabran sam u Hrvatski sabor. U\u010dlanjujem se u HSU gdje postajem \u010dlan Predsjedni\u0161tva te predsjednik \u017dupanijske organizacije HSU-a Istarske \u017eupanije. Na parlamentarnim izborima 2007. ponovno sam izabran u Sabor, a od 14. o\u017eujka 2008. sam predsjednik HSU-a i saborski zastupnik.
\n
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\"\"<\/td>Bernard Jakeli\u0107
\ndipl.iur. zamjenik glavnog direktora HUP-a<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nBernard Jakeli\u0107 (21.05.1962.) magistar je pravnih znanosti. Karijeru je zapo\u010deo u korporativnom sektoru , a nakon polaganja pravosudnog ispita radio je u Dr\u017eavnom odvjetni\u0161tvu Republike Hrvatske.
\nOd 1996. karijeru nastavlja u Hrvatskoj udruzi poslodavaca (HUP-CEA), a trenutno radi na poziciji zamjenika glavnog direktora HUP-a.
\n
\nKroz svoj rad obrazovao se na razli\u010ditim doma\u0107im i me\u0111unarodnim edukacijskim programima \u2013 Industrial Policy \u2013 Tokyo, Managament \u2013 Geneve, Korporativno i EU pravo \u2013 Brussels, Socijalni dijalog \u2013 Nicosa, Lobbying and decision making - Brussels..etc..
\nUz to sudjelovao je kao panelist i predava\u010d na nizu me\u0111unarodnih i doma\u0107ih konferencija predstavljaju\u0107i Republiku Hrvatsku i Hrvatsku udrugu poslodavaca.
\nSudjeluje kao gost predava\u010d na hrvatskim sveu\u010dili\u0161tima.
\nPriznati stru\u010dnjak je u podru\u010djima prava, poslovnog upravljanja, poslovnog savjetovanja, lobiranja i me\u0111unarodnih odnosa \u2013 (s fokusom na EU).
\nAutor je niza stru\u010dnih \u010dlanaka, objavljivanih u razli\u010ditim stru\u010dnim \u010dasopisima i publikacijama.
\nAktivno djeluje u me\u0111unarodnim i doma\u0107im organizacijama
\n\u2022\tPredsjednik je Savjeta Austrijsko-Hrvatske trgova\u010dke komore
\n\u2022\t\u010clan je Executive boarda \u2013 Eurofound-a \u2013 (slu\u017ebenog tijela EU)
\n\u2022\t\u010clan je saborskog odbora za rad, mirovinski sustav i socijalno partnerstvo
\n\u2022\tKao \u010dlan sudjelovao u radu Joint Consultative Committee-a JCC (zajedni\u010dki savjetodavni odbor)- EU-Hrvatska za vrijeme pregovora o pristupanju Hrvatske EU.
\n\u2022\tBio je \u010dlan European Economic Social Committee-a (EU gospodarsko-socijalnog vije\u0107a) \u2013 savjetodavnom odboru EU Parlamenta.
\n\u2022\tPredstavljao je HUP u Executive Committee- u BusinessEurope (Izvr\u0161ni odbor krovne EU poslodava\u010dke konfederacije) \u2013 Brussels.
\n\u2022\tKao predstavnik HUP-a bio je potpredsjednik Gospodarsko-socijalnog vije\u0107a RH.
\n\u2022\t\u010clan je kluba pravnika grada Zagreba,
\n
\nAktivno govori engleski i njema\u010dki jezik, bavi se jedrenjem, tenisom i glazbom (gitara).
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\"\"<\/td>Jurica Jedna\u010dak
\nCroatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency (HANFA), Member of the Board
\n<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nJurica Jedna\u010dak graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb. From 1997 to 2000, he was an associate of the Institute for International Relations, and since 2001 he worked as the Head of the Securities Listing Department at the Zagreb Stock Exchange. From 2003 to 2006, he was Assistant Head of the Corporate Treasury Division, after which he got employed with Zagreba\u010dka banka where he performed the function of the Head of Brokerage Service for Corporate Clients, while in 2007, he became the Head of Brokerage.
\nFrom 2013 until February 2018, when he was appointed member of the Board of HANFA, he served as president of the Business Activities and Financial Markets Intermediation Association with the Croatian Chamber of Economy.
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\"\"<\/td>Peter Kadish
\nManaging Director, LynxCap Group AG<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nPeter is a Managing Director with LynxCap Group, an investment fund specialising in the acquisition and management of non-core and non-performing assets originated by commercial banks and leasing companies. Prior to LynxCap, Peter Kadish was responsible for the NPL portfolio acquisitions at DDM Group AG, managing key transactions in the CEE region, specifically focusing on Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian markets. Peter has Private Equity and Investment Banking background. He was an Investment Director in EUR 5 Billion Private Equity & Credit fund as well as Head of Syndicate at an investment bank, where he was responsible for numerous major Oil and Gas Eurobond placements. Peter has an Executive MBA from London Business School (2017) as well as is a CFA charter holder (2012) where he also served as a regional Board member. Peter resides in Zug, Switzerland.
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\"\"<\/td>Ton\u0107i Koruni\u0107
\nManaging Partner with InterCapital<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nTon\u0107i Koruni\u0107 has joined InterCapital in 2003. He previously worked as a Head of Group Treasury at PLIVA Group, a leading pharmaceutical company in Croatia and the CEE region. During his five years at PLIVA, Ton\u0107i has led and participated in numerous transactions of major importance to the Group's operations and development (such as international acquisitions in the EU and USA, financing through ECPs, bonds (EMNTs), complex asset backed financings, etc., thus contributing to the growth of the company with local and regional reach into a global pharmaceutical company.
\nAt InterCapital, he helped establish the Asset Management business division, and since 2012 he has been engaged in investment banking (financing by issuing securities, M&As, financial strategy and restructuring).
\nHis professional expertise includes corporate finance, public and private financings, risk and investment management, and tax management fundamentals. Ton\u0107i graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb. He is also married and a father of three.
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\"\"<\/td>Thomas Kressin
\nPortfolio Manager, European Insurance<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nDr. Kressin is a senior vice president and portfolio manager within the European Insurance team. He is also a member of the European Portfolio Committee. He joined the Allianz Group in 1998 and PIMCO in 2002. Until 2009, he worked as co-head of the global desk in Munich, and until 2017, he headed the European foreign exchange desk in the Munich office. Previously, he supported the private client asset management division of Dresdner Bank AG in Berlin. He has 27 years of investment experience and holds a master\u2019s degree in business administration from the Technical University in Berlin, Germany, and a Ph.D. from the Technical University Cottbus.
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\"\"<\/td>Ante Ku\u0161urin
\nVice President, One Equity Partners<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nAnte Kusurin joined OEP in 2011 and is a Vice President based in New York. During his tenure at OEP, Mr. Kusurin worked on investments in the industrials and technology industries. Mr. Kusurin is a member of the Board of Directors of Rizing and Orion, a Board observer at Allegro, Zodiac and W.W. Williams, and has previously been a member of the Board of Directors of Inertech and Voltyre.
\n
\nPrior to joining OEP, Mr. Kusurin worked in the Investment Banking division of NM Rothschild & Sons in London where he focused on the consumer goods and retail industries. Mr. Kusurin received his B.B.A. in finance from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, an M.Sc. in geography from School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford and an M.B.A. from the Sa\u00efd Business School at the University of Oxford.
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\"\"<\/td>Matko Maravi\u0107
\nCEO, InterCapital Securities<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nMatko holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and the LLM Finance degree from Goethe University (Institute for Law and Finance). Matko has more than 10 years of capital markets and corporate finance experience. Since joining InterCapital Securities in 2010, Matko co-lead their investment banking department and was primarily responsible for ECM & M&A transactions in the SEE region. Since 2016 he serves as the President of the Management Board at InterCapital Securities with primary responsibilities in areas of investment banking, trading & research. Matko is also a member of the Supervisory Board at the Zagreb Stock Exchange.
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\"\"<\/td>Rosa Mari\u0107
\nHead of Asset Management Department at PBZ Croatia Osiguranje JSC for Compulsory Pension Funds Management<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nRosa Mari\u0107 graduated from the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, and subsequently completed her postgraduate specialist study of Insurance and Reinsurance at the Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb. Holds a license for a certified pension fund manager, a certified pension insurance company manager and is CFA Charterholder. Since 2014, she worked as fund manager in PBZ Croatia osiguranje JSC for Compulsory Pension Funds Management, and since 2017 she has been the head of the Asset Management Department.
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\"\"<\/td>Bernardo Mariano
\nFounding and managing partner of ERDesk<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nBernardo Mariano is founding and managing partner of ERDesk, an investment banking and
\nconsulting firm focused in exchanges and global capital markets-related fintech. He has extensive
\nexperience in leading consulting teams on capital markets projects in emerging markets, including
\nRussia, Qatar, Turkey, Romania, India, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Dominican Republic,
\nPanama, Costa Rica, Japan, USA and Korea, among others.
\nIn particular, Bernardo he is an advisor to the European Development Bank (EBRD) on the
\nacquisition of stakes in stock exchanges and has advised them in Turkey, Russia, Romania and
\nCroatia
\nBernardo has received broad recognition for its in-depth coverage and consulting - regularly quoted
\nin the media, including The Wall Street Journal, FT and Traders Magazine, among
\nothers. Moreover, - the FIA (Future Industry Association), FIAB (Federaci\u00f3n Iberoamericana de
\nBolsas), the World Exchange Congress and other organizations regularly invite Bernardo as a
\nspeaker to discuss market structure, regulation and emerging capital market technologies.
\nBernardo is currently an independent board member of Zagreb Stock Exchange and an advisor to
\nthe think tank CSIS on capital markets, a board advisor to Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos, where he
\nproposed and executed the vertical and horizontal integration of BYMA) and an advisor to several
\nprivate equity funds that invest in Exchanges.
\nPrior to founding ERDesk, Bernardo was COO of US-based electronic Broker Dealer Bulltick
\nCapital Markets, President of Reuters\u2019 Bondex (a fixed income analytics company), Director of
\nInstinet and member of Instinet\u2019s Strategic Committee, founder and partner of West Side
\nConsultants, one of the largest private banks in Uruguay today and the Co- founder of Latinstocks,
\none of the first online brokers in Latam.
\nBernardo holds an MS in Economics from the University of Illinois and an MS in Finance from
\nColumbia University.
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\"\"<\/td>Dr. Paul Merdzo
\nManaging Director, Supernova Group
\n<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nPaul Merdzo is Managing Director of Supernova Group, an Austrian based real estate developer and investor. The group has developed more than 40 projects in Austria, Slovenia and Croatia and is also active in Slovakia, Serbia, Romania and Germany. With 15 shopping centers and retail parks throughout Croatia (thereof on in development) Supernova is the market leader in the retail sector. Supernova is managing its own portfolio through its affiliate m2 Centermanagement.
\n
\nIn 2015 Paul and his team acquired 60 Do-it-yourself markets from bauMax, an Austrian DIY chain and rented most of these shops to OBI on a long term basis. In 2016 Supernova bought a portfolio of 4 shopping centers and retail parks from HETA in the way of a NPL (non-performing-loan) deal, thereby proofing its ability to close transactions in a complex and competitive environment. In 2018\/2019 Supernova Group set a new milestone by acquiring 10 shopping centers and retail parks from Mercator.
\n
\nAt the moment Paul is occupied with new developments and acquisitions in Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Romania. He is highly interested in future retailing-trends, especially in the effects of e-Commerce.
\nPaul is holding a PhD degree in law and a BA degree in business administration. He lives with his family in Graz, Austria.
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\"\" <\/td>Danijel Nesti\u0107
\nSenior Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Zagreb
\n<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nDr. Danijel Nesti\u0107 is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics in Zagreb, Croatia. His research interests include pension policy, poverty and inequality. Specialist themes include the minimum wage, industrial relations and wage policy. He has participated in a number of research projects commissioned by science foundations and various ministries, but also served as a consultant to the World Bank, ILO and the European Commission. He has been engaged in short-term macroeconomic forecasting for Croatia.
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\"\"<\/td>Andrijana Pari\u0107
\nApsolon d.o.o.<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nAndrijana has more than 18 years of professional experience in consulting various clients from private and public sector in the area of strategic planning and organizational development, process management and business reorganization, project management, regional policy and socio-economic development in the EU in general. Andrijana has led projects in public and private sectors in Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and South Africa. Her area of specialization is analysis and organization of business processes, digital transformation, process planning and programming, project implementation and evaluation. Also, Andrijana is an expert on Design Thinking methodology, local development and regional policy of the EU and is a longtime trainer and lecturer in various national and international educational programs.
\nShe graduated in philosophy and sociology at the University of Zagreb and completed MA \u201d European Union\u2019s Joint Master\u2019s Degree for transition areas\u201d at the University of Trento (IT), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Budapest (HU) and Regensburg (DE). At the University of Connecticut (USA), Department of International Relations, Andrijana became a certified trainer and consultant for organizational development and strategic planning, and at the Institute of Hasso Planter, at the School of Design Thinking, at the University of Potsdam (DE), she acquired a license for Design Thinking mentor and trainer. She also holds certificate from MIT on digital business strategy.
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\"\"<\/td>Tomislav Pa\u0161ali\u0107
\nSenior Equity Sales<\/b><\/span>
\n

\n09\/2006 \u2013 present\tRaiffeisen Centrobank AG
\nSenior Equity Sales
\n-\tresponsible for equity coverage of 30+ pension funds and mutual funds based in WE & CEE
\n-\tadvising fund managers on stock picking, sector allocations and macroeconomic issues in Austria and CEE
\n-\tgenerating innovative investment ideas by utilizing knowledge of the economic-political synergy
\n-\tinvolvement in all parts of equity transactions (IPO,SPO & ABB)
\n-\tfostering extensive, across the board personal business relationships in WE,CEE & SEE
\n
\n10\/2002 \u2013 08\/2006\tBank f\u00fcr Arbeit und Wirtschaft Aktiengesellschaft (BAWAG)
\nSep 2004 \u2013 Aug 2006
\nSenior Relationship Manager Corporate Banking SEE
\n-\toverall responsibility for corporate clients assigned, accountable for results, and focusing on value creation marketing the full range of the bank's products
\n-\tresponsible for the credit quality of the client portfolio
\n-\toriginating, leading, negotiating and closing new transactions (B2B financing and syndicated loans)
\n-\torganizing and managing multidisciplinary cross-cultural transaction teams and processes
\n
\nOct 2002 \u2013 Aug 2004 - Relationship Manager FI SEE
\n-\testablishing, managing and enhancing FI relationships in SEE
\n-\tdeveloping correspondent specific strategies including trade finance, B2B financing and syndicated loans
\n-\tpreparing credit applications & managing credit lines (evaluating credit risk)
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\"\"<\/td>Taavi R\u00f5ivas
\nMP, Former Prime Minister of Estonia<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nTaavi R\u00f5ivas was born on 26 September 1979 in Tallinn, Estonia. Taavi R\u00f5ivas was educated at Tallinna Reaalkool (Tallinn Secondary School of Science) and the University of Tartu, School of Economics and Business Administration, where he obtained a degree in Foreign Trade and Marketing.
\n
\nTaavi R\u00f5ivas was the Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia from 2014 to 2016. He was the Minister of Social Affairs of the Republic of Estonia from 2012 to 2014. Taavi R\u00f5ivas has been a member of the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Riigikogu: he has chaired the European Union Affairs Committee, and the FInance Committee and is currently Vice Chairman of the Reform Party Faction.
\n
\nTaavi R\u00f5ivas was the leader of the Reform Party from 6 April 2014 to 7 January 2017 and he was nominated \"Top 100 influencers in Blockchain\u201d by Lattice 80 in 2019
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\"\"<\/td>Jean-Charles Sambor
\nDeputy Head of Emerging Market Fixed Income (EMFI) at BNP Paribas Asset Management<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nJean-Charles is the Deputy Head of Emerging Market Fixed Income (EMFI) at BNP Paribas Asset Management. In this role, he is responsible for supporting the management of all EMFI portfolios and developing a unified EMFI investment process. Jean-Charles joined our firm in 2016 and is based in London.
\nPrior to joining us, Jean-Charles was at the Institute of International Finance (IIF) where he served as Asia-Pacific Regional Director and CEO of IIF APAC Ltd in Singapore. Prior to that, he was a Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Emerging Markets Fixed Income for Everest Capital, where he was responsible for the launch and management of an absolute return emerging market debt fund, as well as long-only frontier markets, fixed income fund.
\nPrior to that, he worked as a Senior Vice President in the EMFI Team at Trust Company of the West (TCW) in Los Angeles.
\nJean Charles has 17 years of investment experience. He is an alumnus of Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure. He holds a BA in Economics and Philosophy and a master\u2019s degree in Epistemology and Philosophy of Economics from Sorbonne University. He also holds a master\u2019s degree in International Economics from UPMF in Grenoble, France.
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\"\"<\/td>Andreas H. Schmidt
\nEquity Derivatives Specialist, Bloomberg L.P.<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nAndreas is part of the Specialists team in London and covers Bloomberg\u2019s Equity Derivatives workflows and functionality. His role is to support sales in all aspects of the product, advise clients how to best set up and use the functionality. He helps product management with market insight and direct client feedback when it comes to product development. His role includes to represent Bloomberg and its products at industry events and to providing content for various Bloomberg publications such as writing functions for markets and articles.
\nAndreas has twenty + years of industry experience in equity derivatives trading and sales. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he held an Executive Director position at Nomura in Frankfurt selling equity derivatives to German\/Austrian institutional clients. He has spent 9 years with Merrill Lynch in Frankfurt and London and had various assignments with German Banks in Equities where he managed teams of traders for cash equities and equity derivatives.
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\"\"<\/td>Richard Schmidt
\nHead of Absolute Return, DJE Kapital AG
\n<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nRichard Schmidt is our Head of Absolute Return at DJE Kapital AG since March 2019. As part of this role, he is responsible for strategic management and holistic coverage for absolute return mandates. He is also co-fund manager of our ESG fund \u201eDWS Concept DJE Responsible Invest\u201c. Richard Schmidt has many years of experience in multi-asset fund management. Before joining DJE he was responsible for the MEAG EuroErtrag at MEAG Munich Ergo Asset Management and headed the strategic group Tactical Asset Allocation there. At Lazard Asset Management he served as a portfolio manager and was responsible for the management of pension mandates for institutional clients.
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\"\"<\/td>Matjaz Schroll
\nPartner at Templeton Private Equity Partners, Franklin Templeton Investments<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nMatjaz Schroll is partner at Templeton Private Equity Partners (\u201cTPEP\u201d) at Franklin Templeton Investments and is heading private equity activities in Central and Eastern Europe. He is responsible for sourcing, structuring and executing private equity transactions in the CEE, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
\n
\nHe is supervisory board member of the company Studio Moderna, which is the biggest direct response TV and online sales company in CEE and he was supervisory board member of the Ring\/Helios group, which is the biggest paints producer in the CEE and was sold to the Japanese company Kansai in 2016. In addition he has an observer seat on the board of the holding company of Integer, which is managing the biggest network of automated parcel machines in Europe and which consolidated the assets of the following Polish companies: Integer, Inpost and EasyPack.
\n
\nMatjaz Schroll used to seat on the supervisory boards of the following companies: Bucharest Stock Exchange, Romania; Magma, Croatia and Teleset, Russia.
\n
\nMr Schroll holds the Master of Science degree in Business Administration from Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria.
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\"\"<\/td>Michael Stirling
\nStirling Infrastructure<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nMichael Stirling\u2019s career has included working in investment banking, corporate finance, and law. Michael advises on debt and equity capital raises for the financing of infrastructure projects. He advises clients on international M&A infrastructure and energy market transactions.\u202f\u202f Michael was elected and served for a number of years on the Institute of Directors\u2019 \u2018Economics and Taxation Committee\u2019, which acts on behalf of directors to make policy recommendations to the UK Government, Treasury, and European Union.\u202f
\n
\nMichael is a regular speaker at leading international infrastructure, energy, and finance conferences. He is regularly invited to lecture at a number of universities, providing commercial insight on MBA programs on how to successfully identify, finance and close market transactions.\u202fMichael\u2019s opinions are regularly published in the business press. His comments and market analysis have featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Economist and other business journals.\u202f
\n
\nIn addition to working in the finance sector, he has also been retained by a number of Champions League football clubs to advise them on raising capital.
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\"\"<\/td>Velimir \u0160onje
\nArhivanalitika, direktor <\/b><\/span>
\n

\nVelimir \u0160onje konzultant je, vlasnik i direktor savjetni\u010dke tvrtke Arhivanalitika, koja u Hrvatskoj posluje od 2003. godine, a od 2017. godine pokre\u0107e i ure\u0111uje portal Ekonomski lab . Prije karijere u vlastitoj tvrtci radio je kao istra\u017eiva\u010d na Ekonomskom institutu u Zagrebu od 1990. do 1995. godine, direktor Direkcije za istra\u017eivanja i izvr\u0161ni direktor Sektora za istra\u017eivanja i statistiku Hrvatske narodne banke od 1995. do 2000. godine, te kao \u010dlan uprave Raiffeisenbank Austrija d.d. Zagreb od 2000. do 2003. godine. Godine 2008. bio je i predsjednik uprave te suvlasnik dru\u0161tva za upravljanje fondovima ICF Invest. Bio je dugogodi\u0161nji predava\u010d na Zagreba\u010dkoj \u0161koli ekonomije i menad\u017ementa.
\nOsim za klijente iz Hrvatske, kao konzultant je radio za klijente iz SAD-a i Velike Britanije, te za me\u0111unarodne financijske institucije poput Svjetske banke i Me\u0111unarodnog monetarnog fonda. Savjetuje o temama iz podru\u010dja makroekonomije, bankarstva, financijskog tr\u017ei\u0161ta i razvoja te financijske regulacije.
\nDoma\u0107oj javnosti je poznat i kao jedan od autora Antiinflacijskog programa 1993. godine. Napisao je oko osamdeset znanstvenih i stru\u010dnih \u010dlanaka objavljenih u \u010dasopisima i zbornicima s konferencija, autor je ili koautor u dvadesetak knjiga i poglavlja u knjigama, od kojih je desetak objavljeno u inozemstvu. Od po\u010detka devedesetih prisutan je kao komentator ekonomskih zbivanja.
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\"\"<\/td>Dubravko \u0160timac
\nPBZ Croatia Osiguranje
\n<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nDiplomirao, magistrirao i doktorirao na Ekonomskom fakultetu u Zagrebu.
\nOd 1994. radi u sustavu Privredne banke Zagreb d.d. Od 2001. godine voditelj je projekta mirovinske reforme u Privrednoj banci Zagreb te postaje predsjednikom Uprave PBZ CROATIA OSIGURANJA d.d. za upravljanje obveznim mirovinskim fondom. Autor je vi\u0161e \u010dlanaka i stru\u010dnih radova.
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\"\"<\/td>Rob Viglione
\nCo-founder & CEO at Horizen Labs<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nRob\u2019s background is in physics, applied mathematics, and financial economics. Rob started his career as a military scientist working in space systems where he managed large software development projects.
\nRob came to blockchain ideologically from the libertarian cypherpunk world, academically via cryptofinance research, and professionally by founding Horizen (formerly ZenCash) where he focused on extending zero-knowledge technology into blockchain governance, smart contracting, DAG protocols, and sidechains.
\nRobs holds BA in Physics, MBA and PhD in Finance.
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\"\"<\/td>Ivana Vukorepa
\nIzv. prof. dr. sc. Vukorepa, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law
\n<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nIvana Vukorepa is associate professor of labour and social security law at the University of Zagreb. She has completed her LL.B. studies at the University of Zagreb in 1999, while LL.M. at the College of Europe in Brugge in 2001. In 2001 she did the Croatian Barr exam. From 2007 to 2008 she was Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Georgetown University Law Center. In 2011 she earned her doctoral degree at the University of Zagreb (dissertation titled \u201cFunded pension systems as factors of social security\u201d). In the negotiations for the accession of Croatia to the EU she was Head of the Working group for negotiating chapter \u201cFreedom of movement for workers\u201d. She has been actively participating in national and international conferences and seminars, as well as scientific research in the field of labor and social security law as well as free movement of workers. In social security law she has a particular interest in pensions. She has been the author and co-author of scientific articles and books, and is member of several editorial boards of scientific journals and professional associations. She collaborates as a professional advisor and collaborator on several research projects, as well as to the European independent experts' networks such as: ESPN (from 2014 to 2018) and FreSsco (that in 2018 became MoveS).
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\"\"<\/td>Boris Vuj\u010di\u0107
\nGovernor of the Croatian National Bank<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nBoris Vuj\u010di\u0107 holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Zagreb. He has also received diplomas in Economics from the Montpellier University (France) and was a pre-doctoral PhD Fulbright student at the Michigan State University.
\nHe joined the Croatian National Bank in 1997 and was Director of the Research Department for three years before becoming Deputy Governor in 2000, a position to which he was re-appointed in 2006.
\nIn July 2012, Mr. Vujcic became Governor of the Croatian National Bank for a six-year term of office and was re-appointed for another six-year term of office in July 2018.
\nMr Vuj\u010di\u0107 has been a Deputy Chief Negotiator in Republic of Croatia\u2019s negotiations with the European Union 2005-2012. He was also a member of the Global Development Network (GDN) Board in the same period, 2005-2012.
\nHe is also a Member of the Steering Committee of the ESRB, since 2016, and a Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Vienna Initiative, since 2016.
\nMr. Vuj\u010di\u0107\u2019s fields of expertise are macro and monetary economics, international finance and labor economics.
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\"\"<\/td>Ante \u017digman
\nPresident of the Board of the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Authority (HANFA)<\/b><\/span>
\n

\nMr. Ante \u017digman, PhD, is the President of the Board of the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency (HANFA) whose scope of competence includes a wide range of financial non-banking services, from regulation and supervision of the capital market, through insurance to investment and pension funds.
\nHe is a member of the Mediation Panel of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) as a representative of the CEET region (Central and Eastern Europe and Transcaucasia). He actively participates in the work of these international bodies.
\nPrior to his appointment as the Head of HANFA, he held a number of important functions, some of them being: Assistant Minister of Finance for Macroeconomic Analysis and Planning, followed by Secretary of State at the Ministry of Finance. He has also served as the vice president of the Committee for Fiscal Policy of the Croatian Parliament, and member of the Economic and Financial Committee's Sub-Committee on EU Sovereign Debt Markets (ESDM).In the banking sector, he was a Board Member of the Partner Bank, as well the Head of Macroeconomic and Financial Research Division and the Chief Economist at the Raiffeisen Bank in Croatia. He has spent a significant part of his career at the Croatian National Bank where he worked in the Office of the Governor until being appointed to the current position.
\nHe has written numerous scientific and expert papers in the field of fiscal policy and finance and is an active lecturer in the area of economics and finance.
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