Frank Kohl-Boas studied Law at the Universities of Passau and Wurzburg and started his career within HR by joining Unilever in 1998.
At first he worked in HR-operations in 2 of Unilever largest food production sites, prior becoming the Remuneration, Expatriation and Job Evaluation Officer in the German holding in 2001. In 2003 he transferred to Shell Deutsche Oil GmbH to become Head of Compensation, focusing on post merger integration work. In 2005 he accepted the offer by The Coca-Cola Company to re-establish the HR department and HR principles, processes and policies to develop the company's culture, following its move from Essen to Berlin after a major re-organisation.
In 2007 he relocated to Sydney, Australia to lead similar efforts for the Australian and New Zealand entities. His work was rewarded by Coca-Cola becoming a "Great Place to Work" with increased results during his tenure.
Wanting to return back to Hamburg, Frank was hired by Google to become Head of HR DACH & Nordics in September 2010 and is today responsible for Northwest, Central and Eastern Europe, covering 23 offices in 20 Countries.

Albert Hakkers, former  Human Resources Director of Microsoft and  Diageo. He was member of Global HR Teams and EMEA Executive Teams. He was 7 years at Diageo and before that he worked as Senior HR Director at Microsoft for EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa). During his 10 year career span at Microsoft he also held the role of HR Director for Germany and Benelux and contributed to the company winning the Best Employer Award in many countries several times in a row. Before joining Microsoft, Albert Hakkers held various international Human Resources functions at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, which involved assignments in various countries, including Hungary, Germany, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Albert Hakkers graduated with a degree in Human Resources Management in the Netherlands and has since followed various international leadership programmes, notably at Cranfield in the UK, Warthon in the US and INSEAD in France. He is currently running a commercial business under the name OXO Lodge. On request he also does business development and HR projects. In particular helping HR teams from good to great has his passion.  
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Iravan Hira is Managing Director of HP in Bulgaria and HP Global Delivery Bulgaria Center for more than five years. Under the leadership of Iravan Hira HP in Bulgaria is the ultimate leader in the IT sector in the country and achieves markets results which take the Bulgarian branch of the company to the leading position in Eastern Europe. HP Global Delivery Bulgaria Center is the biggest employer in the IT industry in the country with more than 6000 highly qualified employees and export of services worth of BGN 260 million in 2014.
Hira has worked in HP Bulgaria since the establishment of the company in the country in 1998 and has held various sales and management positions. He has special expertise in the field of telecommunications and business management. For high professional successes was honored twice with membership in the "Achievers Club" of global HP company.
Iravan Hira holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Technical University in Sofia.







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Dr. Szamosi is a highly sought after speaker in the area of organizational change and the management of change. He is a Senior Lecturer and the Academic Director of the MBA program at CITY College (International Faculty of the University of Sheffield) and a Founder and Co-Director of the Laboratory for Strategic People Management. He is a member of the International Faculty of the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and is regular evaluator and assessor of European Union funded projects. Following five years as the Marketing Manager for an international bio-technology and opto-electronics company in Ottawa (Canada), Dr. Szamosi worked as a private consultant for diverse organisations such as the European Union (KOMVER II Project), Digital Electronics (now part of Compaq Computers), Human Resources Development Canada, Industry Canada, KPMG Management, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (C.I.B.C.), and TELUS. He has presented seminars and workshops for a variety of organizations and institutions such as Heineken, Deutsche Telecom, the International Finance Corporation, the Romanian HR Club, the World Bank, the Romanian Bankers’ Association, and Log-IN Systems.

Goran Angelov has an engineering background with a degree in production automation.
In 2003 he founded IBS Bulgaria - a leading Bulgarian company operating in the field of information technology.
Goran Angelov has over 15 years of experience in information and communication technologies, the IBM solutions for collaboration, and a number of successfully implemented IT projects for the business and public sector.

Stefan has been playing around with software development since the early 90’s plotting fractals and building games using BASIC and PASCAL. He got a solid theoretical foundation during his BS in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he graduated with honors.Before joining MentorMate, Stefan spent several years at US and European custom software development companies, participating in the full life cycle of planning, building, and delivering commercial software solutions.
During his seven years at MentorMate, Stefan saw the company grow from 30 to 300 employees and was responsible for the relationship with one of the company’s largest clients. His role included everything from acquiring and on-boarding talent, to architecting and building software solutions with millions of daily users, to leading teams, distributed all around the world. In 2014, Stefan took over management of the Bulgarian side of the company as Director of Operations. In this role, Stefan is responsible for leadership of the management team to ensure successful delivery of software at 100% client satisfaction and growing and strengthening the organization with four offices in the country. Apart from the day-to-day operation, Stefan is also part of establishing strategic partnerships, organizing the annual development conference MobCon Europe, and running MentorMate Academy.
In his spare time, Stefan enjoys making his daughter laugh, hiking the beautiful Bulgarian mountains, and travelling around the world.

Miglena Ouzounova-Tsekova has more than twelve years experience in the management of human resources. Since 2007, she has been Director Human Resources in Mobiltel. Her HR team 
has been repeatedly honored for successful projects in different functional areas related to managing people in the organization. The company received recognition for investing in human capital and employee engagement from business forums, media, non-profit organizations. 
Miglena Ouzounova-Tsekova has master's degree in English and American studies from the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski and later specialized mass communications.
She also holds MBA degree from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and she has taken part in additional courses in international management of human resources.
In 2008 she received a certificate in program management from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, USA with a degree in Strategic Human Resource Management. 
From 2009 till 2013 she was a member of the Management Board of the Bulgarian Association for People Management. Within this mandate, she successfully implemented two new projects - HR Academy and School for junior HR professionals.
 

Andon Simeonov is General Manager of SoftServe since the opening of the Bulgarian branch of the company. Andon has 13 years of experience in management of people and projects in a dynamically changing environment. Before joining SoftServe Bulgaria he holds different management positions in the telecommunication sector - Evrokom, Megalan, Mnetwork and later at Mobiltel as Director of Financial Services.
In 2003 Andon graduates from the Technical University in Sofia with a Master in Telecommunications. He has Executive MBA from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and the University of Minnesota. He has different certificates from additional management courses.