S ponosom predstavljamo ovogodišnje govornike:
Mihovil Anđelinović, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics
Mihovil Anđelinović, Ph.D. finished elementary and high school in Split. After graduating from high school, in 2001 he enrolled in Faculty of Business and Economics in Zagreb, Finance course, which he ended in July 2004. In October 2011 he received a Ph.D. degree with the doctoral thesis "The Influence of Economic Cycles on Forming an Investment Portfolio of Insurance Companies". Since January 2006 he has been employed at the Faculty of Business and Economics in Zagreb at the Department of Finance. Since January 2020 he works as Associate Professor . He participates in teaching courses in "Financial Institutions and Markets", "Securities Exchange" and "Monetary Policy", "Insurance and Risks" courses, and at the professional studies, he is involved in teaching the course "Payment Transactions". Mihovil Anđelinović, Ph.D. actively publishes works in international and domestic journals and in collections from international scientific conferences, either independently or as co-author. In addition, he has also been educated in various scientific and professional conferences and workshops. He is the head of the postgraduate specialist study "Insurance and Reinsurance" and has held number of speeches at numerous professional and specialist seminars. He is member or president in several supervisory boards and auditory committees.
Igor Čičak, CEO & Managing Partner, PROVECTUS CAPITAL PARTNERS
Igor Čičak is a Managing Partner and CEO of Provectus Capital Partners (PCP). PCP is an independent investment firm, with a focus on South -East Europe. PCP has established ASEF (Adriatic Structured Equity Fund), which has raised EUR 94 m, making it the largest private equity fund in the region. Igor has a track record of 20+ years in executive management and private equity. Prior to founding PCP, Igor performed senior and top executive positions with local and international banks and large corporates. Igor is also the Founder, Supervisory board member and minority shareholder of Optimapharm, today one of the leading clinical research companies in Europe. Igor graduated from Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb, completed GMP program in Vienna, and finished Senior Executive Program at London Business School.
Davor Doko, Member of the Management Board of Podravka d.d.
Graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business at Zagreb University. He started his professional career in 2000 in Asset Management department at Zagrebačka banka as Assistant portfolio manager, where he participated in founding the Investment fund management company ZB Invest. He joined AZ Obligatory pension fund management companie’s (AZ OMD) team in 2002, first as portfolio manager in charge of equity part of the portfolio and later as a portfolio manager in charge of the whole portfolio. In 2006 he became member of the Management Board of AZ OMD in charge of investments, where he managed all parts of the investment process until May 2017. He became member of the Management Board of Podravka d.d. (CFO) in May 2017 and he is responsible for: · Corporate financial and managerial accounting and cash flows of the Podravka Group; · Financing of Podravka Group companies, · In cooperation with the CEO, coordination of the drafting of the three-year Operation Plan and the three-year Investment Plan of the Podravka Group; · Supervision of the execution of the annual and three-year Operations Plan; · Application of tax regulations at the level of the Podravka Group; · Procurement; · Asset management of the Podravka Group; · Corporate information system; · Investor relations.
Ulrik Fugmann, Co-CIO Environmental Strategies group
Ulrik is co-head of Environmental Strategies Group and co-lead portfolio manager for the suite of environmental strategies having joined BNPP AM in 2019. Ulrik began his career in 2001 at Goldman Sachs in London investing thematically across energy, materials, agriculture and material companies globally joining the Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies Group (2005 – 2007) and co-ran the Goldman Sachs Thematic Investment Group (2007-2012). Since 2012, Ulrik was the CIO and co-founder of North Shore Partners that became part of Duet Asset Management in 2015 and later co-founded Sustainable Solutions (2017-2019). He holds a MSc in Economics and Political Science from University of Copenhagen.
Tilmann Galler, Global Market Strategist
Tilmann Galler, , is a Global Market Strategist based in Frankfurt. Tilmann is responsible for delivering research-driven insights on the global economy and markets to both retail and institutional clients in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Central and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Tilmann spent six years at UBS Global Asset Management as a portfolio manager managing equity and balanced mandates for institutional clients. He was a member of the European equity portfolio construction team. He also worked for Commerzbank Securities as an equity trader. Tilmann holds a diploma in business administration (BWL) of Hohenheim University. He is a certified EFFAS Financial Analyst (CEFA) and a CFA charterholder.
Damir Grbavac, retired at the end of 2021 from the position of Management Board President of Raiffeisen Mandatory and Voluntary Pension Funds Management Company, Zagreb.
Damir holds bachelor’s degree in economics and master’s degree in business finance, both from Zagreb University. He was licensed pension fund manager and holds Croatian financial adviser’s certificate. Before joining Raiffeisen Pension Funds team, he was Management Board president of Raiffeisen Securities, brokerage and M&A arm of Raiffeisen Group in Croatia and before that Investment Banking Executive Director in Raiffeisenbank Austria, Zagreb. In parallel, during the first 2 years with Raiffeisen Group, he was a Board member of Raiffeisen Investment, at that time corporate finance arm of the Group in Croatia. He started his work carrier in Đuro Đaković Group in Slavonski Brod, Croatia. He held different positions there from credit executive in Group internal bank to deputy general manager of the Holding Company. He was member of the initial Administrative Council of Central Pension Register in Croatia, member of Croatian Agency for Supervision of Financial Services Council, Supervisory Board member of Zagreb Stock Exchange, Croatian Telecom and supervisory board member or president in some other Croatian companies. He was a member of working group of Croatian EU Accession Negotiating Team on financial services chapter. Damir used to be part of Pension Funds Circle, unofficial expert group of pension funds’ managers across Europe, managing some 800 billion EUR in total. Damir is actual supervisory member in Podravka dd and Raiffeisen Invest doo. Damir is married and has 2 children.
Darko Horvat, President of the Management Board at M Plus
Darko Horvat has more than 10 years of work experience in leading auditing and consulting companies, as well as tax consulting companies. He graduated from the University of Zagreb with a master's degree in business administration (MBA) and furthered his professional development at the prestigious Harvard University. Before joining M Plus, he worked as a senior manager at Deloitte Croatia and Deloitte USA, where he oversaw risk assessment, financial planning for clients of exceptional importance, execution planning and software development. Before being appointed to the position of President of the Management Board of M Plus, Horvat held the positions of Management Board of M Plus and a member of the Management Board of the company M Plus Croatia.
Viktor Hottmann, CFA, CFDS Vice President, Investment Advisor, Private Markets Solutions at risklab / AllianzGI
Viktor is a Vice President in risklab’s Private Markets Solutions teams. He has joined risklab in 2019. Viktor covers institutional clients such as pension funds, insurers, banks, corporates, family offices and endowment funds delivering Private Markets solutions. In addition, he provides holistic investment advice including Portfolio Construction and Strategic Asset Allocation studies to institutional clients. Viktor started his career in 2010 as a market risk controller at Munich Re / MEAG. In 2014 he joined the Global Asset Liability Management team at Allianz Investment Management. Viktor received a Master degree in Mathematical Finance from the University of Konstanz, Germany. He is a CFA and CFDS charterholder.
Jurica Jednačak, Member of the Board of the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Authority
Jurica Jednačak 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 Zagrebačka banka where he performed the function of the Head of Brokerage Service for Corporate Clients, while in 2007, he became the Head of Brokerage. From 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.
Andrej Knez, Chief Markets Analyst, Bloomberg Adria
Andrej holds the position of Chief Markets Analyst at Bloomberg Adria, the first regional business multimedia platform in SEE. He leads an international team of analytical professionals covering economics, financial markets and corporate finance analysis for Adria region, including Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and North Macedonia. Andrej's experience includes various managerial positions in the financial sector, in areas of risk management and analytics. Within risk management, Andrej led the teams which implemented multiple regulatory-required risk measurement processes as part of Basel II and Basel III frameworks as well as CRR and BRRD. His experience also includes mid-term macro and capital markets forecasting. As for formal education, Andrej majored macroeconomics at the University of Zagreb and participated in many internal and external educational courses for topics such as financial sector valuations, liquidity risk management and applied econometrics.
Dr. sc. Željko Kukurin, Deputy Chairman of the Imperial Riviera d.d. Supervisory Board.
Ph.D. Željko Kukurin graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb where he received his Master of Science degree in Marketing. He also received his EMBA degree in International Management from the Bocconi University in Milan and his Doctor of Economics degree at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Pula on the topic of investments. He started his business career in 2000 in Riviera Poreč, a member of the Valamar group. From 2003 to 2009, he performed managerial tasks in sales and marketing and worked on the development of strategic projects in the group. Afterwards, he moved to the position of Management Board President of Istraturist d.d. and cooperated with Meliá Hotels International in managing the tourism portfolio in Umag. In 2015 Kukurin was appointed President of the Management Board of Valamar Riviera. He led Valamar's strong development and investment cycle of HRK 4 billion until 2019 which included portfolio repositioning, the development of 5 resort brands and a number of service concepts, several business acquisitions, internationalization of operations and strategic partnerships with pension funds. Valamar was named the best employer in tourism for four consecutive years, and Kukurin was named businessman of the year in 2017. In his career, he has managed tourism investment projects worth more than EUR 1 billion. Željko Kukurin holds a position in numerous national professional associations. He is the Deputy Chairman of the Imperial Riviera d.d. Supervisory Board.
Ivan Kurtović, President of the Management Board, InterCapital Asset Management
Ivan is CEO of InterCapital Asset Management, a Croatian based leading independent asset management company. Ivan leads InterCapital’s investments, sales, business development and digital transformation efforts. Prior to asset management, Ivan spent 12 years in various roles (among else as Board Member and CEO) of the leading independent investment banking platform in South & Eastern European region under InterCaptail’s group. Ivan was in charge for brokerage & trading operation, research, business development, sales and operations. Ivan holds a master’s degree in business administration from IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland), Certificate in Global Management from INSEAD and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Zagreb University. Ivan is IEDC, IMD and INSEAD alumni. Ivan’s interests include (i) business development, (ii) sales, (iii) digital marketing, (iv) digital transformation, (v) leadership development, (vi) coaching and (vii) investing.
Josip Lasić, Member of the Management Board, CFO at Končar - Electrical Industry Inc.
Josip Lasić is a Member of the Management Board of Končar - Electrical Industry Inc. in charge of finance. He holds a BSc in finance from the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He has completed numerous training programmes and seminars in the field of financial analysis, business analysis, corporate finance, asset management and risk management. He also holds all licenses granted by the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency (HANFA) pertaining to capital markets, investments, and pension funds. He has served on various working groups dealing with capital markets legislative. He started his career in 2005 at Zagrebačka banka as an equity trader dealing with institutional clients. In 2006 he continued his career at PBZ Croatia Osiguranje mandatory pension fund, where he worked for eleven years, rising to the position of chief investment officer responsible for the development of investment strategy for funds under management with assets totalling to approximately EUR 2 billion. The next step in his career was at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development where he oversaw the SME segment for Croatia and worked for EBRD’s regional private equity fund, specializing in hybrid financing, equity financing, and regional M&As. From 2016 to 2020 he served as Vice President of the Supervisory Board of Končar - Electrical Industry Inc. He was appointed to the Management Board of Končar - Electrical Industry Inc. in 2020 He has actively participated in the financial restructuring of Dalekovod which was successfully completed with the capital increase and the integration of Dalekovod into Končar Group.
Mirna Marovic, MBA Managing Director, VentureXchange Ltd. President, Croatian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (CVCA)
Mirna Marovic is highly-skilled in Corporate Finance, Private Equity & Venture Capital, with more than 25 years of experience in the finance industry. She has set up VentureXchange Ltd., a boutique consulting firm, whose services include private equity and venture capital advisory, fundraising, scaling up, sustainability strategy and integration of ESG objectives, as well as market development advisory services for international financing institutions. She is the founder and the President of the Croatian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (CVCA), whose members include private equity and venture capital funds that jointly manage more than 3.2 billion euros. Mirna Marovic is Alumna of INSEAD (MBA), London School of Economics B.Sc. Econ, Climate Change: Economic and Governance), Harvard Business School (Sustainable Business Strategy) and London Business School (Corporate Finance, Investment Management, Sustainability Leadership & Corporate Responsibility), EFFAS Certified ESG Analyst (CESGA®) and GRI Certified Sustainability Professional. She expects to complete her PhD in Financial Management, topic Venture Capital and Private Equity by the end of 2022. She is a dynamic communicator, fluent in 6 European languages, with strong presentation skills acquired through regular participation in many international conferences.
prof. dr. sc. Petar Miladin, Professor at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law
I was born in Dubrovnik in 1973. I finished my high-school education and obtained a Faculty of Law degree in the University of Zagreb. After finishing law school I have worked as a intern on the Municipal Court and Commercial Court in Zagreb. I have obtained a master of law degree on the Postgraduate Studies in the Commercial and Company Law at the University of Zagreb in 1999 on the topic 'Bank Secrecy and Bank Reference'. The title of my PhD thesis was 'Bank Assignment', also at the University of Zagreb. I obtained a PhD status on the 27th of January 2005. On the 1st of April 2009. I was elected by the University of Zagreb as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law where I am teaching a course in Banking Law at the graduate, post-graduate an doctoral level, which also includes the area of Capital Markets Law. From September 2013. I am full time professor and was vice dean in 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic year. In 2019. I was elected as tenure professor. I was also a member of the Editorial Board of 'Pravo u gospodarstvu – a Journal for Business Law Theory and Practice', the second oldest Croatian legal journal. I am an author of over 30 scientific articles in the field of commercial law, company law and banking law. I am an arbitrator on the list of arbitrators with and without an international element of the Permanent Arbitration Court with the Croatian Chamber of Commerce. So far I was an arbitrator in over 30 arbitrations including one arbitration proceedings before the Chamber of Commerce in Vienna. Besides arbitration, I was also a judge of the second instance at the Court of Honour of the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts. In addition, I was also a representative of the Republic of Croatia in the UNCITRAL’s IV Working group on Electronic Commerce as well a representative of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce at the ICC Working Group for Commercial Law.
Ana Pavković, Ph.D., Teaching and Research Assistant at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb
Ana Pavković, Ph.D. works at the Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb and teaches Principles of Economics and Microeconomics. She enrolled in the Faculty in 2011, among the top ten students. She graduated summa cum laude in 2016, earning a master’s degree in Finance. During her studies, she worked as a student assistant in financial courses. She received the Dean's Award for the academic year 2014/2015 for the Best Undergraduate Thesis, the Croatian Bureau of Insurance’s Award for the Best Paper on Insurance in 2015, and the Rector's Award for the academic year 2015/2016 year for the Best Team Scientific Paper titled: “Modeling Financial Literacy of Students at the University of Zagreb: Analysis, Perspectives, and Suggestions for the Future“. She also received the City of Zagreb Scholarship for Academic Excellence. She received her Ph.D. in October 2021, defending the doctoral thesis titled: "General equilibrium model of overlapping generations of the Croatian pension system". Her main research interest is pension economics.
Marin Piletić, Minister of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy
Marin Piletić was born on 12th January 1983, in the city of Novska. After completing elementary and high school in his hometown, he graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb where he obtained his university degree in Croatian language and literature and History. He began his career as a teacher of Croatian language in primary schools in Novska and Lipik. In 2009 Croatian local elections he was elected Deputy Mayor of Novska, a position he held until the year 2013. The following year he was elected Deputy County Prefect for Sisak-Moslavina County and worked in Sisak until 2017, when he ran as candidate and was elected Mayor of Novska, winning the majority of votes in the first round of elections. After being reelected Mayor in 2021 local elections, he became a member of the Croatian Parliament in June 2021. In April 2022 he was appointed Minister of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy. He is married and a father of two children.
Gerhard Schwarz, Head of Equity Strategy at Baader Bank
Gerhard Schwarz is Head of Equity Strategy at Baader Bank since 2011. Prior to that role, he was in charge of the Equity Strategy team at HVB/UniCredit for 13 years. His focus is on top-down drivers for European equity markets, valuation & market timing / style rotation models, cross asset class interconnections and Alpha strategies. As a key responsibility, he is in charge of selecting the Top Stock Picks from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Covering the regional core focus of the Baader Helvea Equity Research team, this product managed to deliver a very strong track record over the last 9 years. Gerhard already had specialized on financial markets, portfolio theory and quant techniques when graduating in business administration at Augsburg University in 1993. He passed the CEFA exam in 1995. His total experience in sell-side financial markets research amounts to 28 years.
Vesna Sipp, Investor Relations Partner, MidEuropa
Vesna joined MidEuropa in 2022 as Partner, Head of Investor Relations. She is a member of the Investment Committee and also leads the firm’s ESG and diversity efforts. Prior to joining the team, Vesna was Head of Client Relations at Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) and prior to that, Managing Director at Hamilton Lane. Vesna started her career in investment banking, including corporate finance and equity research roles at Bear Stearns and Credit Suisse. Vesna holds an MBA from London Business School and a Bachelor of Arts in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College.
Pavlina Solcova, Vice President, Business Development Austria & CEE Allianz Global Investors
Pavlina is responsible for business development of Austria and Central Eastern Europe at Allianz Global Investors, covering wholesales and institutional clients. She joined Allianz SE group in 2015. Before she held positions in the banking industry, in project management and product management-deposits with the focus on the Austria/CEE region. Prior to this engagement she worked at the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Czech Republic, where she was responsible for international financial institutions, cooperating closely with the European Investment Bank, European Commission, World Bank and United Nations. She was also an analyst at Financial and Private Sector Payments and Remittances Group at the World Bank / IFC in the US. Pavlina has worked for Czech/international financial institutions and overall in the financial industry for 15 years. She reached a Master in Business and Economics and was also a PhD candidate in Economics. Additionally, she holds several certificates in project management, negotiation, public procurement, media & press and financial policy of international financial institutions. She was part of mentoring programs of Czech German Young Professional (2014) and International Women Forum leadership platform in Austria (2018). As of 2018 she is the member of “Fondsfrauen Oesterreich” group.
Dubravko Štimac, President of the Management Board of PBZ CROATIA OSIGURANJE JSC for Compulsory Pension Funds Management
Dubravko Štimac graduated from the Faculty of Economy and Business at the Zagreb University, where he also earned his PhD. In 1994, he started working at Privredna banka Zagreb JSC. In 2001, he became the Head of the project of Croatian pension fund reform at Privredna banka Zagreb JSC, and the President of the Management Board of PBZ CROATIA OSIGURANJE JSC for Compulsory Pension Fund Management, the duty he holds today. He is the author of various articles and research papers, and participant and keynote speaker at many domestic and international capital market conferences.
Filip Vučagić MBA, MRICS Partner / Director | Croatia, Slovenia & BiH
Since 2016 Filip is a Partner and Director in Colliers responsible for setting up and developing Colliers business in Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since joining Colliers, Filip has provided advisory services to different local, regional, and global entities, from institutional investors to HNWI, on over 500 real estate projects, with a total value of over EUR 10 billion, making him one of the top professionals in the industry within the whole region. When he joined Colliers in 2012 as a Senior Consultant in the Investment and Corporate Advisory Services department, his role was to perform valuations, business, and management consultancy with the main focus on Real estate industry including retail, office, residential, hotel and industrial properties. Besides holding a management board position and being responsible for strategic positioning and continuous growth of the business, Filip's role within the team is to educate and mentor people to ensure high quality, timely and profound advisory services. His business development knowledge and entrepreneurial spirit make him a motivated leader and client's trusted advisor in real estate industry. Prior to joining Colliers, Filip worked in the financial industry - banking and insurance, mainly responsible for market research and analysis, asset valuation and financial reporting. Filip graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb. He gained University Specialist degree in Financial Institutions at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb and he earned MBA degree on Construction and Real Estate Studies at The College of Estate Management in Reading, UK. In 2016 he gained his MRICS professional accreditation in Property Finance and Investment program.
Ante Žigman, President of the Board of Hanfa
Ante Žigman, PhD, is the President of the Board of 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. He 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. Prior 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. He 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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