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Miloš Đurković is Managing Director of Hewlett Packard Serbia. He assumed this position in October 2010. Miloš has spent more than 16 years working in IT industry in Serbia and neighboring countries.He was the General Manager of IBM Serbia as well as the Head of the Representative Office of CISCO Systems, responsible for the markets of Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania. Previous roles included a number of managing and sales positions in several companies and institutions in Serbia.

He graduated from University of Belgrade, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He was member of the Managing Board of NALED (The National Alliance for Local Economic Development), and still is member of Association of Serbian Corporate Directors. He is active in sports and member of the Managing Board of the Rowing Club “Red Star”. He is married and father of two.

Mr. Paul Riley is Managing Director of Philip Morris International affiliates in Serbia and Montenegro since December 2010.

Paul has over 20 years of professional experience with Philip Morris International. He joined Philip Morris Australia in 1988 and assumed various positions of increased responsibilities in some of the key markets in which the Company operates, including Hong Kong, Thailand and Japan.

Paul was born in Sydney Australia, and graduated at Royal Melbourne University.

He lives in Serbia with his wife and two daughters.

Zoran Petrović as Deputy Chairman of Managing Board of Raiffeisen banka a.d. is responsible for Treasury and Investment Banking, Investment fund and Voluntary Pension Fund Management Company.

Mr. Petrović graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade. He started his professional career at the Economics Institute in Belgrade on projects related to the privatisation of socially-owned corporate sector. In 1992 he joined Yugobanka where he spent four years in corporate and five years in Treasury Division. His employment with Raiffeisen banka a.d. started in 2001. In the period from 2001 to 2005 he worked in Treasury Division. Starting from November 2005 Mr. Petrović has been the Member of the Managing Board responsible for Treasury and Investment Banking and since February 2007 he has been appointed to the position of the Deputy Chairman of the Managing Board.

Mr. Petrović is the Chairman of the Committee for the development of the financial markets of the Association of Serbian banks and is a Member of A.C.I. Serbia. He is a founder of money market curve in RSD - Belibor & Beonia.

Mr. Petrović is married and has a daughter.

Mr. Fish started his career in his native England, before moving to the Middle East. He then lived and worked in Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary and Slovenia before he moved to Croatia in 2008 to head up the Ernst & Young country practice. Last year he also took on the practice in Serbia and moved to Belgrade.

As a Partner in Ernst & Young, he is currently in charge of coordinating the firm’s services in Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Borislav Miljanović, PhD, has been the leader of McCann Erickson Public Relations since its establishment in 2002. From the very beginning, the agency has set new standards in the area of public relations, and in the last three years it has been no.1 in Serbia in regard to business results. The agency provides services for more than thirty companies and organizations. In addition to the agency in Serbia, Miljanović has established McCann Erickson Public Relations regional offices in Montenegro and Skoplje.

Before assuming the leading position in McCann Erickson Public Relations, Borislav Miljanović, PhD, was a journalist and editor in numerous media for a decade. He also established the Public Relations Department in BK Group and the Royal Palace and was an official public relations representative of HRH Crown Prince Aleksandar II.

Borislav Miljanović, PhD, graduated from the Faculty of Law and obtained a Master and PhD degree at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. He today passes his experience in public relations to post-graduates of the Faculty of Political Sciences.

Jelena Kralj joined Pedersen & Partners, a leading international executive search firm operating in 44 wholly owned offices, in early 2007 as Consultant and Country Manager Serbia.

Previously, Ms. Kralj was the Advisor to the Minister of Finance and Head of the Securities and Capital Market Department at the Ministry of Finance of Serbia.

At the same time, Ms. Kralj was a Vice President of the Working Group in charge of negotiations on the SAA with EU concerning financial services and the free movement of capital, supporting the Government Team. She was also a member of a team in charge of preparation of the Association Procedures of the Republic of Serbia' s association with the WTO, and relating to the financial services.

Prior to this, Ms. Kralj spent many years in private business, being a General Manager and majority shareholder at "EFA" Brokerage firm.

Ms. Kralj was among the pioneers who created the Exchange and stared trading in Serbia and Montenegro. She was a chief broker of Currency exchange »MONTENEGRO EXCHANGE MARKET«; she worked as chief broker of »Commodity Exchange«, Belgrade, and she was the 1st authorized broker of stock exchange company »EKI BROKER« (brokerage house of the Institute of Economics).

Ms. Kralj holds a BBA from the European Association of International Business and Management and she also studied in the US. In addition to her native Serbian, Ms. Kralj speaks fluent English and French.

In 2006, Nikola Stefanović, PhD, joined SEAF, a global investment management group (>$500 million) headquartered in Washington DC and operating in more than 20 countries. He currently serves as the General Director and Partner of SEAF’s South Balkan Fund, a direct investment fund focused on Serbia, Macedonia, and Montenegro. Prior to SEAF, he held the Managing Director/Partner position at Academy Funds, an investment management group in the US. Dr. Stefanović has also served as a lecturer at Guilford College (US), the London School of Commerce (SRB), the Belgrade Banking Academy (SRB), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (BIH). Furthermore, he has been a member of the Board of Directors for Finera Factoring, Gomex, PC Centar, Logo Holding, A2B Express Delivery, the CEED Serbia Foundation, the Serbian Private Equity Association (SRB), and Design Source (US). He has also been a member of the World Bank’s Donor Meetings (SRB) and the Winston-Salem’s Chamber of Commerce Technology Council (US) and a consultant to many companies.

Dr. Stefanović has received a BS from Guilford College (US), with top class honors, an MBA from Wake Forest University (US), and a PhD from the University of Novi Sad (SRB). He has participated in course and community work at the University of Guadalajara (Mexico), and completed an executive education program at Duke University (US).