Yordan Barzakov is a journalist with more than 10 years of experience across a range of projects and online media outlets. He hosts the economics programme ReVision, which airs on NOVA NEWS every Monday and Friday at 6:20 p.m. Over the past four years, Barzakov has worked for Club Z. His reporting focuses primarily on…
Beloslava Krasteva is a Bulgarian Woman Grandmaster and one of the country’s leading young chess players. She was part of Bulgaria’s gold-medal team at the 2023 European Women’s Team Chess Championship and won bronze at the 2023 World Junior Chess Championship. In 2025, she finished as the top female player at the European Rapid Chess…
Radoslav Koshkov is an accomplished business leader with extensive professional experience at Schneider Electric and deep expertise in managing international teams, driving business development, and building strategic partnerships. In his current role, he is responsible for driving commercial excellence and developing partner channels within Schneider Electric’s Services business across Europe. His work focuses on optimizing…
Founding Partner at Eleven, leading the Fintech vertical. Daniel’s two-decade entrepreneurial journey spans from pioneering pre-seed investments in Bulgaria with bulventures to successful endeavors in renewable energy. In 2012, he co-founded Eleven with Ivaylo Simov, pioneering venture capital in Southeast Europe. Since 2012, he has been investing in some of SEE’s most promising tech startups,…
Georgi is co-founder and managing partner of BrightCap Ventures, an early-stage VC investing in SEE. Since 2018, BrightCap has backed 36 companies across two funds, with five exits to date. Before BrightCap, Georgi was a first-round employee and partner at Sciant (acquired by VMware in 2007), then co-founded airline software company Aviaso and scaled it…
Petar Kirkov is a leading cybersecurity consultant with over 20 years of experience in strategic management, regulatory compliance, and the protection of information systems. His expertise in regulatory frameworks and standards, including NIS2, GDPR, DORA, and PCI DSS, makes him a trusted partner for organisations facing the growing risks associated with AI-based infrastructure. From 2021…
Iliana Zaharieva is a senior communications executive with vast experience in corporate communications, marketing, reputation and crisis management. In her current role she helps shape strategic communications and stakeholder engagement in a rapidly evolving digital environment. Her career spans the telecommunications, banking and professional services sectors, bringing a cross-industry perspective to the challenges of digital…
Petar has been working in the IT field for 20 years. He graduated from the Technical University of Varna with a degree in Computer Science and became a Harvard Business School graduate after completing the university’s Program for Leadership Development in 2015. In 2020 Petar Torneff successfully finished his studies at the EMBA Program of the American…
Georgi Randelov is an experienced business executive and leader with deep expertise in organizational capability building, people leadership, and digital transformation across both Western and Eastern Europe. He has held senior positions in global companies such as Microsoft and IBM, working across multiple regions and focusing on strategic partnerships, public sector growth, cloud adoption, and…
With nearly two decades of IT experience partnering with enterprise accounts across leading US vendors, Lora Ivanova has been with Google Cloud CEE for more than four years. In this role, she oversees key regional accounts within the digital native space, empowering them to scale and innovate by driving AI adoption, agentic transformation, and modern…
Stoyan Popov is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Amusnet, bringing over 16 years of experience spanning enterprise IT, IT auditing, and cybersecurity leadership. With a background that includes key security and technology roles in the iGaming, banking and martech sector, he specializes in building high-performing technical teams and aligning security strategy directly with business…
For a whole decade, Svetoslav Ivanov and his “120 minutes” have been part of the life of Bulgarian society. The program is proud of a well-deserved place in the audience’s top three of the most interesting and successful journalistic programs in our country. Svetoslav Ivanov is the winner of many prestigious awards, including the European…
Rumen Radushev is Chief Digital Transformation Officer and a Member of the Management Board at Postbank, with over 20 years of leadership experience in the financial sector. He specializes in strategic management, business development, digital transformation, and innovation, playing a key role in strengthening the bank’s position among the top banks in Bulgaria. Under his…
Vangelis Stykas is a security researcher and the Co-Founder and CTO of kumio.ai, where he is building agentic AI solutions for the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure. For nearly a decade, his research has focused on API and web application security, with a particular interest in the cloud infrastructure behind connected devices. His work has uncovered…
David Hug is a Swiss venture capital investor with more than 15 years of experience backing and supporting early-stage technology companies across Europe. He is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Marcau Partners AG and a Founding Partner of REALR, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in technology companies addressing some of society’s most fundamental challenges….
Tia is an internationally recognised leader who has spent her career at the intersection of media, tech and culture, always finding her way to roles where executive management and innovation are one function. Currently Global President of Innovation at dentsu, she drives the global innovation agenda for clients across Integrated Solutions, designing systems where creativity,…
Gilad Ayalon is the Senior Director of Product Management at Rakuten Viber. He oversees product development for messaging, calls, groups, and AI features, and manages fraud prevention. Gilad is central to the Viber experience, shaping how hundreds of millions of people communicate and how that value becomes a sustainable business. One of his current focus…
Tenko Nikolov is part of the management team of SiteGround, a Bulgarian tech company that develops proprietary software products and services. These solutions help millions of customers worldwide launch and grow their online businesses quickly, easily, and successfully. Under the leadership of Nikolov and the company’s founder, Ivo Tzenov, SiteGround has become the largest independent…
