Boris Beker
Managing Partner

Fields of expertise: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate PR, Event Management.

Key Qualifications (relevant special skills): Excellent language skills across German, English, Hungarian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and other Slavic languages; intercultural management and organization; presentation and public speaking skills; reliability and adaptability.

Relevant experiences (prior engagements): His previous experiences include work out of Hochegger’s Headquarters in Vienna; work out of Hochegger’s Belgrade/Serbia office; corporate experiences with various organizations across CEE; event management; interpretation work and some more experiences as Head of PR in the non-governmental sector.

Background: He studied at the University of Vienna’s Institute of Journalism and Communication, where he is still teaching as a lecturing tutor

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M.Mag MBA Attila Pákolicz
Managing Director, Hungary

Fields of expertise: Strategic Consulting, Corporate and Product PR, Social Media, Event Management.

Relevant experiences: His previous experiences include work as marketing director of MAN Truck and Bus Ltd; the lead of the Budapest office of Compress PR; startegic advisory of Lenhard and Weichinger Communications and Hochegger’s office in Budapest.

Background: He studied at the University of Pécs (PTE) Literature nad Lingustics, and Budapest University of Economics (BKAE) as marketing manager and received and MBA.

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Anelia Milkova
Managing Director, Bulgaria

Fields of expertise: Marketing, Public Relations and Event Management.

Key qualifications: Excellent language skills across English, intercultural project management; presentation and public speaking skills; reliability and adaptability.

Relevant experiences: Anelia hast vast experience in the sphere of Marketing and development of PR and Branding Strategies for multinational companies such as Unilever, Axxon, Melexis, etc.

Background: Anelia holds MSc in Industrial Management from the Technical University Sofia and a Diploma from London PR School.

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Tamara Bekcic
Managing Director, Serbia

Fields of expertise: Corporate Communications, Financial PR, Brand PR and Positioning.

Key qualifications: Excellent language skills across English, intercultural project management; presentation and public speaking skills; reliability and adaptability.

Relevant experiences: Tamara has a decade of dynamic management consultancy and communication experience primarily in the Serbian PR industry, but also in the region. She holds management and senior positions for years with a proven track record of establishing and positioning strong PR teams in the market and winning a number of prestigious awards.

Background: Tamara graduated at the Belgrade University (Faculty of Philology, Anglistics) , possesses Cambridge Proficiency in English, as well as a number of communication and management certificates and diplomas from Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia. She is a member of the Serbian PR Association and the Lobbyists’ Society.

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Milena Avramovic- Bjelica
Executive Director & Partner, Serbia

Fields of expertise: Fields of Expertise: Corporate Communications, Integrated Communications and Positioning, with a special focus on ICT industry.

Relevant experiences: Milena held several management and senior consultancy positions in Serbia and has unrivaled communication experience in the fields of information technology and telecommunications, in the Serbian market.

Her forceful practice and know how includes project management with top international and Serbian organizations, as well as close cooperation with clients such as HP, Ericsson, SAP, RATEL, Telenor, Intracom, Samsung, Ministry of Economy and Regional Development, Swiss Agency for Development and Reconstruction, Whirlpool, Lufthansa, etc.

Her prior work engagements included years of experience in graphic design, pre-press and engineering positions as a tools constructor and product technologist.

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Adnan Burazerovic
Managing Director, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Fields of expertise: Corporate Communications, Integrated Communications and Positioning, with a special focus on ICT industry.

Relevant experiences: Senior PR Consultant at Media Plan Institute, PR&Consulting Department; journalist and editor-in-chief in various printed media, TV and Radio stations (Daily newspaper Dnevni avaz, TV OBN, Radio Sarajevo), Rich experience as Marketing assistant (Marketing Agency SV-RSA), Brand Manager (Sinalco) and Executive TV Producer (UFA Media).

Key qualifications: Good language skills across, English, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and to a lesser degree Slovenian; intercultural management and organization; presentation and public speaking skills; reliability and adaptability.

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Todor Stojcevski
Managing Director, Macedonia

Fields of expertise: Public Relations and Event Management.

Relevant experiences: Stojcevski, in the past, worked for many newspapers and magazines as a journalist and gained PR experiences in several Public Relations agencies. Stojcevski is the establisher of the Macedonian web site Zurnal, the top-media platform for information about politics, economics, culture, health, local governments, etc.
He is a Management Board member and co-founder of the first Macedonian PR non-government organization PRAM (Public Relations Association in Macedonia) as well as a member of MABA (Macedonian-Austrian Business Association).
Stojcevski is the author or co-author of the master thesis "The media and post-conflict peace building”: the role of the newspapers in the actions for disarmament“, the research "Romany media" - Research for Foundation, Open Society Institute (SOROS), "Peace journalism - the value-oriented profession" - a paper published in the Proceedings of the Faculty of Law – Skopje as well as the editor and author of "Annual bulletin of the Civic Platform of Macedonia". He had been awarded with three different journalist awards from the United Nations, in 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Background: He hold a master of science in peace media development from the University of Skopje.

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Raluca Ene
Managing Director, Romania

Fields of expertise: Strategic Consultancy, Corporate Communication, Employer Branding, Brand PR.

Relevant experiences: Raluca Ene is a public relations specialist with over 8 years of professional experience. She is focused on strategic consultancy, corporate communication and employer branding, as well as brand PR, while developing excellent contacts with top-level media and opinion leaders in the current business and economic sectors. She has in her portfolio large clients in industries such as IT&C, home&garden, retail and FMCG, among which there are the Romanian subsidiaries of Xerox, Stihl, Schneider Electric, Roca, Muller, Intermarche, Ericsson, HP, bauMax, Lufthansa, as well as local companies and NGOs.

Background: Raluca has a Master’s degree in Strategic Marketing from the Romanian Academy of Economic Science, as well as a BA in Public Communication from the Bucharest University. She has also attended several management and marketing courses.

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