Bulgarian ICT Watch

Alexander Manolev

Deputy Minister of Economy of the Republic of Bulgaria

Alexander Manolev holds a Master‘s degree in Economics from The University College London, Great Britain. He has specializations in Bulgaria and abroad, amongst which: "Management of Structural Projects of the EU", "Business Communications and Media Connections", "Investments in Developing Markets", etc. He commenced his professional career in the National Association of the Municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria, where he was responsible for the development of projects for European financing. He worked in the sphere of marketing and he has occupied positions at medium and superior managerial level in a number of companies in telecommunication and finance sector. He was appointed as Deputy Minister of Tourism of The Republic of Bulgaria in 2015. In 2016 he undertook the management of the State Agency for Metrological and Technical Surveillance. Elected as a Member of Parliament of the Republic of Bulgaria in March 2017. Appointed as Deputy Minister of Economy in May 2017.

Stamen Yanev

Executive Director of InvestBulgaria Agency

Gabriela Kozareva

Executive Director of Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency

Mrs. Gabriela Kozareva is an Executive Director of Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency from 20 February 2018. In 1996 she completed her secondary education as a graduate student of National High School for Ancient Languages and Cultures "St. Constantine-Cyril Philosopher." In 2001, Graduated as a master in law at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", with specializations in the field of Justice, Public Administration and International Law and International Relations. From 2001 to 2003 she was a legal consultant at Jurex Consult AD. From 2003 to 2007 she worked as a court assistant at the SAC, to a fivemember chamber of the court, with the judge-patron the Chairman of the Supreme Administrative Court, Judge Svetla Petkova. In the period 2007-2011 she was a legal adviser to a number of local and international Foreign commercial companies operating in the infrastructure, real estate, investment financing, corporate structuring, protection of competition, environment and others. From 2011 to 2015 she worked as Director of Legal and Corporate Affairs Directorate in "Naftena Industria Serbia Petrol "EOOD, a subsidiary of GazpromNeft AD. Since 2015 she has been director of Sport Infrastructure and Management of State Participation Directorate at the Ministry of Youth and Sports. From May 2015 to February 2018 she has been Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports.

Tanya Koicheva

Head of the Commercial and Economic Office in London City

Tanya Koicheva was appointed the Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the Embassy of Bulgaria in London in October 2011. Tanya has over 20 years of experience in developing international economic relations and enhancing growth through trade promotion. Specialized in business training programmes management and contributed to the establishment and management of the FLAG Trade Centre. As the UK Trade and Investment Director in Sofia was in charge of attracting British investors to Bulgaria and advancing their projects as well as strengthening the bilateral trade. Initiated and delivered leadership development programmes. MBA graduate from the University of National and World Economy in Sofia and the Open University, UK. Member of the British Institute of Export.

Dimitar Dimitrov

Head of the Commercial and Economic Office in Dubai

Dimitar Giulev

Member of the Board of Directors of Bulgarian Association of Software Companies, Manager of Antipodes

Dimitar Giulev graduated Management at UNWE /University of National and World Economy/. For more than ten years he is managing Antipodes Company. He participated in more than 50 projects for some of the largest companies and organizations in UK, USA and Bulgaria. The Business Process Management Software Antipodes.Cubes, developed by the company is among the leading solutions in this class on the Bulgarian market. Antipodes was awarded in 2005 by the Bulgarian President with one of the most prestigious awards in the country - "Innovative Enterprise of the Year." Dimitar Giulev is also interested and deals with entrepreneurship, innovation, business analysis, business consulting, optimization and reengineering of business processes.

Dimitar Dimitrov

Representative of the Bulgarian Association of Information Technologies, Executive Director of Allterco SA

Plamen Tsekov

Board Member of the Bulgarian Outsourcing Association, CEO of ScaleFocus

Plamen Tsekov has more than 14 years of experience in the IT industry and he has been positioning the world-class Bulgarian talent at the highly competitive outsourcing and software market. He leads ScaleFocus, one of the fastest growing Bulgarian software companies. With a short two-year history, a strong management team and about 100 highly qualified specialists, the company has become a well-recognized organization, due to the ability to deliver excellent services of high added value to its customers. The corporate focus is on providing niche services requiring exceptional team performance, individual skills and superior technical knowledge, to companies across North America, Europe and the Middle East, in telco, IT, insurance and financial services industries.

Tsvetan Alexiev

CEO of Sirma Group Holding JSC