Samo Hribar Milič, Msc in Sociology, is General Manager of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Before that, as Secretary General of the Slovenian Employers Association, he was actively involved in social dialog in Slovenia and in EU. In his career he was active on the field of public relations, among others as a director of leading Slovenian PR company, Pristop and in management consulting on human resource development topics. He was engaged in many Slovenian companies and lecturing at Gea College, the first private high school on entrepreneurship in Slovenia.

Andrej Kren holds a law degree. He is president of the Management Board of FMR d.d., financial and management company with the expertise on investment management.His references and experiences are both from the public sector, working on the field of international cooperation and trade and from the private sector in business planning and management.

Rok Uršič is founder and director of a high-tech company, Instrumentation Technologies, world’s leading provider of beam stabilization instruments for particle accelerators. His career started in research, in number of internationally recognized R&D institutions, in Europe and USA. Throughout his research and entrepreneurial career he developed knowledge and references both in specialized technologies and in management, focusing on development and management of top class development teams as a key for globally successful business. He is active as a promoter of the technology development in the region, being initiator and the first manager of regional technology park.

Mirjana Dimc Perko, MBA, member of the Management Board of Gorenje Group, responsible for finance and economics.She has started her career in investment management and consultancy, among others she was a partner and director of the company Inconsult and later vice president of the management board of Triglav, DZU and director of STEBER 1, Mutual Fund. Her rich references and experiences are connected to corporate and global finance with expertise on corporate management and restructuring, disposals and acquisitions. She is a member of Supervisory Board of the Mutual Pension Fund and active member of different professional and management associations.

Aleš Aberšek graduated with honors at University of Iowa – College of Business in the USA. After graduation, he started his career at Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Plc. (nowadays Unicredit Banka Slovenija, Plc.) in the Department for credit advisory to large domestic entities. Later he joined as an associate professional at Sava, Plc., with expertise in the field of asset management. Currently he holds head position in the Department of Financial Investments.