Nikola Bojkov is the co-founder and CEO of EmbedSocial, a platform for social media tools. EmbedSocial is one of the first startups to be supported with an investment from the Fund for Innovation and Technological Development. His previous startup IM.MK was a Facebook Marketing Partner company. He has 10 years of experience in Digital Marketing, working with…
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Aleksandar Memca is a Managing Partner at InterWorks DOOEL, an integration services and management consulting company out of Bitola, Macedonia. Aleks was instrumental in the formation of InterWorks, back in 2004 when there were very few outsourcing IT companies in Macedonia, and is an avid promoter of InterWorks and Macedonia as an outsourcing capital of…
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Tarja has more than 13 years of legal practice, providing a comprehensive legal advice to numerous international and domestic clients. Tarja’s experience includes corporate and commercial law, banking and finance, competition, and international M&A. Tarja possesses solid knowledge about Central and Southeast European markets and is skilled negotiator with international sensibility in solving complex legal…
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Vanja Josifovski is the CTO of Pinterest where he’s responsible for establishing the company’s overall technical strategy as well as leading efforts in the areas of machine learning, search, feeds, and online advertising product development. Prior to serving as CTO, Vanja led the Pinterest Discovery team overseeing content selection for home feed, search and visual…
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Former Minister Jerry Naumoff will remain in Macedonia in the private sector continuing to focus on business opportunities that bring high quality, well-paid jobs to the country. On May 23, 2013 Jerry was approved by Parliament and became Minister for Foreign Investments in the Government of the Republic of Macedonia and served as Minister until…
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Guruduth Banavar leads a worldwide team of scientists responsible for creating one of the most famous cognitive systems in the world known as Watson. Guru and his team are working on a string of cognitive systems which are designed to collect and synthesize great amounts of data with the purpose of finding the most optimal…
DetailsDear friends of Macedonia2025, How hard is it to imagine a future in which humans have added few extra decades to their lives, where energy flows into homes and businesses without leaving a carbon footprint and where cities and nature coexist in a perfect balance? Scientific breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, medicine and green energy…
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HARRY M. KRAEMER is professor of management and strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where he teaches in the MBA and the Executive MBA programs. Mr. Kraemer is an executive partner with Madison Dearborn Partners, one of the largest private equity firms in the United States where he consults with CEOs and other…
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President Gjorge Ivanov was born on May 2nd, 1960 in Valandovo. While completing his studies in Law at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius Gjorge Ivanov became politically active in liberal and reformist-oriented youth organizations. In 1988, he began a career with the national broadcaster “Macedonian Television”, where he was ultimately promoted to the…
DetailsAt the Summit in 2016, Macedonia2025 launched the Zafirovski Executive Education Program, providing scholarships to the Kellogg School of Management’s Executive Development Program. This is the first program in Macedonia that connects company executives to world-class executive education courses at a top-ranked business school in the United States. The program is intended to enhance the…
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