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On March 29 th I have celebrated my birthday with my closest friends and family at “Tapas bar”. Let the pictures tell the story.
On march 16 th we have held the first regular assembly of our Association of Management Consultants of Serbia (Udruzenje Poslovnih Konsultanata Srbije – UPKS). The new board members are president of the board Aleksandra Vladisavljevic director of XaoSolution d.o.o. and board members Andrija Gencel director of AAM Consulting, Miodrag Kostic, director of VEZA d.o.o., Branko Todorovic director of Tocobel d.o.o and Aleksandra Hristov director of Hristov consulting d.o.o.
(presenting my candidacy for the board of directors to the members)
(Association of Management Consultants of Serbia assembly)
At the Assembly talked Iboja Farkas the assembly president, Tobias Stolz GTZ/WBF project leader, Sanja Nikolin recent president of UPKS and Aleksandra Miladinovic project manager of EBRD TAM / BAS program in Serbia.
(our new board of directors)
Association of Management Consultants of Serbia (UPKS) has presented the first comprehensive consulting market research in Serbia financed by GTZ. This research was performed by Gromer Group and Strategic Marketing. It included 140 consulting companies and 154 consulting client companies. SME-s in Serbia believe consultants helped them, and 7% believe their services helped improve company business. Even 53% of companies believe the need for consulting has increased, and only 13% believes consulting market is not developed.
My client UNIQA insurance Serbia, presented their business results to Belgrade media in Hyatt Hotel. UNIQA announced that total premium for 2009 was 2.9 billion dinars, 16% more than in 2008. UNIQA Serbia CEO Zoran Visnjic said he is satisfied with these results, since average premiums in the industry dropped 3-4%. For me this event was important because there was more than 20 journalists. UNIQA insurance has long tradition of maintaining close relationships with journalists.
Since last month Hristov family is richer by one new member, the third daughter of my brother, named by goddess of wisdom Sofija. Wonderful little girl who was born with 4.3 kg and 56 cm high. My brother is a happy man, since if we count the cat Lady he has 5 women around him. Together with his mother and sister that is 7 woman.
Winter time is good to spent with family. I went skating with my nieces Helena and Lara. It was their first time on the skates. They are already rollerblading so they had no problem learning to skate. We had a great time, Helena and Lara enjoyed it so much.
January In Serbia is time to celebrate New Year, Christmas, Serbian New Year, number of SLAVA-s in short, lots of rest. This year I have spent New Year on Jahorina mountain near Sarajevo in BIH. There was no snow but there was good spirit. My company was in good mood. We like that our friends from Slovakia liked the mountain and everything else.
My client TAM/BAS program of EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) has organized conference on “Energy efficiency in SME sector – Ways to improve your business”. Conference was organized together with Mechanical University in Belgrade and Serbian Chambers of Commerce. On this conference “The manual for improvement of energy efficiency and rational use of energy“ has been presented to participating public and media representatives.
The conference has been attended by so many people despite of heavy snow storm in Belgrade. I hope this conference would help save energy and preserve our environment.
I went to ADA Park today with one of my dearest friends Diane Cromer. Weather was beautiful and we had a great time together at Sunset cafe.
( Ada lake)
WOWD the new revolutionary search engine was presented in Belgrade on press conference my company Hristov Consulting have organized in Majik Cafe on November 6th. Wowd is a real-time search engine for discovering what’s popular on the web right now. It is revolutionary P2P (distributed index) search architecture, offering its users fresher, deeper and more relevant search.
WOWD CEO Mark Drummond at press conference in Belgrade
Great thing about Wowd is that it was completely built by Serbian programmers and IT professionals and it shows the world that we can build revolutionary new technologies, here in Serbia. I am proud to have participated in its global launching campaign.
TV crew from RTS (Serbian Radio Television) came to our offices to record three 5 minute parts to be shown on Tranzionik TV show. I talked on three subjects:
The show will be broadcasted on RTS-2 beginning of the next year Mondays at 5pm
This is the photo we have taken together after the shooting.
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