Andrej Nabergoj
- Andrej Nabergoj
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Andrej co-founded several leading internet companies in South East Europe including Aventures, Parsek, Httpool and Easyweb and was CEO of Parsek from 1999 to 2006. He led Parsek's growth from start-up to a +100 engineers organization.
Andrej also started Parsek&AT, a successful JV in Japan together with Masao Tejima, formerly CEO of Macromedia Japan.
Andrej is a Co-founder and President of YES - Young Executives Society, a charitable association of young businessmen in South Eastern Europe. Andrej is also a Member of the Presidency of the Young Entrepreneurs for Europe, an organization representing over 35.000 entrepreneurs from EU.
Andrej is Chairman of CEED, the non-profit Center for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development, which he co-founded with USAID, Board Member of the Institute for Business Informatics, and Member of the Investment Committee of RSG, the Slovenian Development Fund.
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New Europe: Open Market and Available Talent
New Europe is not only Eastern European countries who joined EU (recently Bulgaria and Romania) but the term comprises the emerging part of Europe increasingly gravitating towards the West which includes former Yugoslav countries (Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro), Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova..with a total population of nearly 200m.
It is a very vibrant and dynamic economic and social environment; after years of political and cultural hegemony, the new generation is starving for freedom to create and decide on the future on their own.
Hence, opposite to Western Europe, New Europe is producing world-class engineers and innovators, especially in high-tech and internet. Skype (Estonia), LogMeIn (Hungary), and many others...The iPhone first-ever hack considered mission impossible was done by a Macedonian.
And now New Europe is experiencing strong growth, especially in media and IT: - massive growth in internet penetration in general and broadband in particular; many countries are leapfrogging to state-of-the-art infrastructure (i.e. Macedonia might become the 1st WiMax 100% covered country in the world, the world's first national wireless broadband network.
The Macedonia Connects Project, a program designed to provide the entire country with affordable high-speed wireless connectivity) - strong economic growth as GDP per capita levels tend to EU norms; - increasing advertising spend in these markets as disposable incomes increase; and - a wholesale shift in the structure of the advertising market as advertisers move from traditional media to online media. This panel will examine the climate and opportunities of this market.
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