Roadmap to Sustainable SMEs: Mentoring, Green Practices &  Resources

MODERATOR: prof. d-r Trajce Velkovski

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Skopje, University Sts. Cyril and Methodius Skopje 

D-r Trajce Velkovski is an assistant professor in a group of subjects from the field of Small Business and Management and Innovation. He has published over 80 published books, textbooks, manuals, technical reports, research papers, proceedings & presentations. He has international experience in teaching as teaching assistant at UNESCO Chair for Entrepreneurship (University of Novi Sad, Serbia). His main activities are in the area of developing Macedonian entrepreneurial and innovation eco-system with focus on entrepreneurial learning. Trajce has been actively involved in more than 30 projects funded or supported by variety of EU programs and other international donors. He is part of the Business Start-Up Centre and Career Centre since the establishment in 2006. He is also one of the initiators in the establishment and continuously included in the activities of the National Center for Development of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Learning since 2009 where he was part of the support for establishment of more than 60 start-ups.

Mr. Filip Nelkovski

Regional Advisor at GIZ, under the project “EU for Economic Growth” 

Mr. Nelkovski is senior professional working to improve lives of people in least developed cities and regions. His expertise includes project design and management, implementation of rule of law and institutional capacity building. Nelkovski works on fostering innovation, boosting start up community, triggering economic growth, building resilient infrastructure - with focus on mobilization of financial resources. Currently, he works on strengthening of entrepreneurial ecosystems while conducting intensive research and analytics functions in GIZ. Through his work, he is active in the policy advisory services and tailor made growth-generation actions.

 

Mr. Jasmin Gabela

Senior Consultant, Enova Consultants and Engineering

Mr. Jasmin Gabela is Senior Consultant at  Enova since 2015. Jasmin Gabela has over 20 years of professional experience in different economic development-related roles including MSME development support, green finance, circular economy, and local economic development. He is continually managing a portfolio of technical assistance projects for a range of international financial institutions and donors including USAID, UNDP, EBRD, GIZ, Finance in Motion, and others.


 

Ms. Angjela Ristovska

CEO, Royal Care, Kumanovo

Ms. Ristova is founder and CEO of Royal Care company.

 

Mr. Edin Ibrahimovic 

Director, TRA d.o.o. Director of Development Agency of the Municipality Tešanj Bosna and Herzegovina

Mr. Edin Ibrahimović,  is holding a post of TRA d.o.o. Director of Development Agency of the Municipality Tešanj Bosna and Herzegovina.

He is coming on this position directly form production sector and his focus is on economical growth, production logistics and development. He was creator of few startups in production of metal constructions, and modern technologies like 3D printing. Also, during his work in German company MANN+HUMMEL BA he had opportunity to get knowledge about business development, planning and strategies.


 

Mr. Igor Madzov

Program Director, Start Up Macedonia

Mr. Igor Madzov is an Entrepreneur, Ecosystem builder and Investor active for more than 10 years in the Entrepreneurial and Startup Ecosystem in SEE. He runs the Western Balkans Investment Program of SwissEP as an investment facilitator with a goal to increase the investment readiness for startups and build capacities of Investors in the SEE. With the 42M VCfund SCV he invested EUR 7M+ and activity scouting and fundraising for the Best Tech Startups in Western Balkans. He is the co-founder and board member of Startup Macedonia uniting under one digital platform 150+ Startups and 30+ Service Providers from North Macedonia . Igor has a Business background and is experienced in business development, fundraising, and sales for tech startups and is driven to identify new investment instruments and models with International Funds and Corporates to invest in SEE Startups.