- 25+ years in banking, innovations and technology
- Non-institutional special adviser to the President of Bulgaria for financial technologies, banking and innovations
- Founder & MD of Sophia Lab, the leading digital transformation and acceleration think tank in Southeast Europe
- Founder & MD of the first banking & FinTech VC operation in the Southeast Europe
- Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the FinTech and InsureTech Summit, the biggest industrial forum in the Southeast Europe
- Member of the Vienna Initiative, CEE’s lead expert on financial instruments for innovative and fast growing companies
- Co-Founder of the Strategic Center for Artificial Intelligence for Southeast Europe, based in Sofia
- Served on the Executive Committee of the Factors Chain International and Strategy and R&D aide to the Executive Committee of CEDEC
- Created and managed three 500+ million euro financial businesses
- MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics and Political Science and HEC Paris