Kiril Pangelov graduated the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" with a major in Legal. At the same University and the University of Nancy, France, he has a master degree in "Legislation of the European Union". He also has a master degree in "Economics" at the University of Veliko Turnovo. He specialized in "European Legislation of Competition" at the Academy of European Law in Trier, Germany. He also worked with the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission in Brussels. Kiril Pangelov participated in the preparation of the new Law on Protection of Competition from 2008, with which the national legislation was modernized to comply with the achievements of the European law.

Nadejda Tzvetkova graduated the Queen Mary College in London with a major in Legal. She has a master degree in European Legislation with a major in "European economic and social management" at the Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She specialized in "Market Integration and Public Services in the EU" at the Academy of European Law in Florence, Italy. She also worked with the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission in Brussels.


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Anna Rizova-Clegg is Country Managing Partner of the Bulgarian office of DLA Piper.The company is the main adviser of the leading retail chain Carrefour and assists their expansion strategy in Bulgaria. Anna has over twelve years of experience in the legal services field and has advised a number of national and international clients on a wide range of regulatory and commercial matters. In her practice Anna also focuses on competition issues and has considerable expertise in unfair competition, prohibited cartel agreements, merger control, concerted practices, consumer protection. Prior joining DLA Piper, Anna took senior positions in leading law firms. Beforehand she headed the Competition law department in the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company. In the beginning of her career she was part of the law team of Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant in charge of the negotiations with major contractors for KNPP Modernization programme.

Andrey Evtimov is Executive Director of "Doverie Brico" (DIY hypermarkets Mr. Bricolage) and Member of the Management Board of the Association of Modern Retail, which was recently established by nine large store chain on the Bulgarian market. "Doverie Brico" has a franchising agreement for the DIY hypermarkets Mr. Bricolage," in Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo. Evtimov is Executive Director of the company since 2004. Before that he worked in the field of financial and investment consultancy in the areas of privatization and business planning for the purpose of providing bank financing on various projects. He is a co-founder of the privatization fund "Doverie" and one of its directors since 1996.

Dr. Ventseslava Tasseva - Sokolova currently works as a Director of Directorate "Animal Health and Food Safety" with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food since 2009. Before that she occupied the position Director of Directorate "State veterinary control" with the National Veterinary Service. Her professional experience includes also positions with the Directorate "Public Health" with the Ministry of Health and as a veterinary inspector with the State Veterinary and Sanitary Control Service in Sofia. She participated in a number of projects for exchange of experience, seminars and special courses concerning food safety standards. She has a doctor degree with the Institute for Zootechnics and Veterinary Medicine, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.

Marina Brakalova has grаduated international relations and law but has most of her career from 2000 in the area or organizational and community development. Marina has been working for the American Red Cross development and assistance Programs as a representative for Bulgaria by 2005 and become FORA Community Development Foundation in 2006. FORA has been working to research and foster conditions for foodbanking development in Bulgaria by networking and partner building on a national level, also with Global Food Banking Network and European Federation of food banks. Marina has visited to study more than 20 food banks in Europe and US and has attended many foodbanking meetings and conferences to study best practices. Marina initiates Food Banking Planning Forum in 2010 as a network with partners from the business, public, and non governmental sector who focuses to develop a national wide scale model for acquiring available food from the food industry to better serve social needs in times of poverty and crises.

Maya Kalcheva holds a masters degree in Law form the Sofia University where she graduated in 2001. With the USAID Judicial Development Project, where she worked till 2003, Maya was involved with the judicial reform and development, judicial training , software development for the judiciary and coordinated the efforts of setting up "model court" pilot projects all around the country. She also assisted similar projects in Albania and Serbia. In 2003 she became a Project Manager for the Law and Internet Foundation which primarily deals with legal expertise on telecommunications and integration of contemporary information technologies in the public administration, judicial institutions and in professional juridical organizations. Till 2010 she was a free lance consultant, focusing on due diligence and small project management. In early 2010 Maya Kalcheva joined the FORA team and the Foodbanking planning project.

The Bulgarian Organic Trade Association was registered in may 2010. It's main purpose is to set a regulative framework and to support the growing number of firms, which deal with trade and manufacturing of organic products. Currently the Association has 24 member companies, one of which is Viltrade Ltd with manager and co-owner Peter Petrov. The company has been dealing with processing and retailing of organic products since 2007 and supplies all major retail chains in Bulgaria. It's portfolio consists of 400 products. Peter Petrov worked with "Nash dom Bulgaria" Holding, where under his management the first organic vegetable cans in the country were produced.

Georgi Bozhidarov consults CBA Asset Management on developing marketing tools for suppliers on the basis of the loyalty program of the retail chain (covering over 50% of total sales). He has a long career in strategic and operations management, and has been consultant, manager, COO and member to the BoD to service and production companies. Previous positions include Director of Directorate at the Ministry of Economy and Secretary to the Council for Economic Growth with the Deputy Prime Minister. Georgihas an MBA degree from the American University in Bulgaria, and is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) and is a lecturer in management and strategic planning. He is partner in a strategic marketing, web and print communication company.

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Dinyo Madgarov graduated the University of National and World Economy, Sofia, with major in Marketing. He worked as a project manager (quantity and quality research and consultancy) with the agency "Pragmatica". Currently he occupies the position of Research Manager with the agency "Market Eyes", which is specialized in the implementation of Mystery Shopper market researches. Dinyo Madgarov is a co-founder and a chairman of the Bulgarian Association for Mystery Shopping.




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Orlin Dochev founded company Next Consult in February 2010. The company is providing consulting services for implementing best business practices through business applications. Dochev gained the experience, leading the teams for business solutions in Oracle and Microsoft. He has 9 year experience in the field adding value to customers by introducing best practices in sales, marketing, manufacturing, finance etc. Dochev has MBA and Masters in Computer science. He got qualifications for strategic marketing, business processes. and applications in EU and US.

Hristo Raditchev began his carrier with GfK Bulgaria as a junior researcher and manager of the projects GfK Leaflet Monitor and GfK Shopping Monitor, both of which deal with promotional activities and consumer purchasing behavior at the FMCG market. After that he took the position Internet Manager with the international publishing house Reader's Digest, where he was responsible for e-mail marketing and development of client databases in Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia and Croatia. Current he occupies the position Manager of Mediapost Hit Mail, part of the French group La Poste, which is one of the few companies in Bulgaria, specialized in direct marketing. His main interests include e-mail marketing, direct mailing, development of loyalty programs and client databases.