Ira Žurić is a 22-year-old optometrist and CEO of the company Promise Eyewear. She is an artistic and creative person, and in addition to entrepreneurship, she dables in music production. Although very young, she has interesting experience behind her in different niches that have prepared her for the position she is in right now.
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Nikola Škorić is the founder and director of Electrocoin, a Croatian cryptocurrency exchange that he started in 2014. With its Bitcoin exchange, the company Electrocoin became the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Croatia and expanded its operations to the entire European Union.
Albert Gajšak is the founder and director of the Croatian startup Circuitmess, which recently delivered almost HRK 10 million worth of goods to the world's largest retail chain, Walmart. The contract is worth HRK 9.64 million or $1.33 million and includes more than 17,500 CircuitMess devices called Chatter.
Goran Galetić is CEO of Dream Factory - a publishing startup that deals with personalized books for children. He started his business story with his partner back in 2011, when no one was involved in personalized children's publishing on the market in the region and beyond.
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Ivan Brezak Brkan is the founder of well-known Netokracija, an online magazine dedicated to digital business, marketing and culture. Netokracija started as a blog but in the last decade it has become the leading regional magazine for all those who live on the Internet. This year it was acquired by Infobip.
After a short career in server administration, Mario Francešević started as a performance marketing professional and over time became one of the prominent Croatian bloggers on the subject of internet marketing. Today, he employs over 60 people in the marketing and technology agency Seekandhit.
Ivana Tolić is an economist from Dalmatia, who started her career in Zagreb in IT equipment retail. Later she moved from the fashion industry to the health food and nutritional supplements industry at biobio.hr, where she currently leads the ecommerce department and works on online business development.
Answear.com is an online clothing shopping platform that advocates for women's rights and gender equality and sustainable business in all segments. Sandra is Answear country manager for Croatia.
Davor graduated from hotel management school and speaks four foreign languages, so he never thought he would have a career in IT. However, he started his career in Plus hosting as a CSR (customer support) and in 7 years reached the role of CTO.
Tomislav is the founder of Vidi, one of the first IT magazines in Croatia, the initiator of the first Virtual Government Session in the world, the organizer of the first conference on the game industry in Croatia, and the creator of the first Croatian microcomputer VIDI X.
Čedo is a political scientist who specializes in eCommerce and marketing. He co-founded the eCommerce association in Montenegro and currently works as Country Manager of the Dognet Affiliate network for Croatia and Slovenia.