Since he began his first role in hotel development in 1996, Takuya has worked in companies including Holiday Inn Worldwide, Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Hyatt Hotels Corporation, sourcing and negotiating hotel agreements in Japan, Korea, Microne ...
Anina Milanović is a World Bank Strategic Advisor to the Belgrade Stock Exchange and a global expert in digital finance and capital markets. She advises on innovative financial instruments, with a particular focus on the integration of digital asset ...
Ian was born in Glasgow in April 1970. He studied architecture and urban design at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1993. He qualified as an architect in 1994 while working for the Glasgow firm, The Parr Par ...
Michal Maco is the Country Manager of Corwin Slovenia, a real estate company focused on sustainable and responsible city development. His academic background is in urban planning, which is one of his greatest passions. As the head of the largest loca ...
Mahmuta-Maša Aganović-Tukušić is an accomplished interdisciplinary strategist and advisor specializing in investment and development within the tourism sector. As the founder and CEO of Infinity Capital Advisors, she brings a wealth o ...
Bojan is a seasoned real estate professional with over 17 years of experience, having held key roles in several renowned companies. Throughout his career, he served as Country Manager at Coreside Savills and as Regional Director of the Office Agency ...
Tjidsger Wierda is a Corporate Sustainability Partner at Walvius Partners, serving the European commercial real estate sector. Leading a team of dedicated professionals, Tjidsger embeds himself within companies, assisting with corporate sustainabilit ...
Sevda Cadir MRICS is Head of Feasibility & Advisory at Win Advisors, specializing in hospitality real estate across CEE & SEE. With experience across both hotel operations and real estate advisory, she brings a rare dual perspective, combinin ...
Hubert Abt, FRICS, has more than 35 years of experience in the real estate industry—ranging from project development and land banking to the structuring of equity and mezzanine financing.
In 2012, he founded New Work Offices, now one of the le ...
Jiří Suremka has 24 years of real estate experience and has been involved in numerous transactions across the CEE region. He is Partner at complexRE, a boutique advisory platform connecting independent real estate professionals across Europe ...
Milica Nikolić has more than 22 years of experience in commercial real estate advisory and market development across the office, industrial, and retail sectors in Serbia. She is recognized as one of the leading professionals in the local real estate ...
Andrej Sovrovic is a member of the Executive Board of Delta Holding and the General Manager of Delta’s hotel business. With an academic background in Political Science from University College London and International Political Economy from Lond ...
Entrepreneur and business Visionary, Foreign Direct Investor Consultant, Tax and Legal advisor, Project developer in Real estate sector. Mr. Samonig is the owner of Ecovis CF Confidas Ljubljana and Managing Partner of Ecovis SEE doo Belgrade. Since h ...
Gabriela Basovska joined Hyatt in 2023 and serves as Director of Development for the EAME region.
Gabriela is responsible for overseeing new hotel development, franchise and management contract transactions for Hyatt's hotel brands in Northern E ...
Petar Orlic is a lawyer with over 20 years of experience specializing in acquisitions, finance and real estate development across the UK and mainland Europe. He works with a diverse clientele, including institutional investors and banks, focusing on ...
Nicholas N. Bouri is a Partner at NGB Group, a family-owned industrial real estate development and investment firm headquartered in Bucharest, with operations across Romania, Greece, and an a planned expansion in Serbia.
NGB’s founders and par ...
Aselle is a Corporate and Banking Partner and Head of the Real Estate Finance team. Aselle specialises in banking and corporate law. She acts for banks and real estate investors in corporate transactions and secured lending transactions, drafts and n ...
Mikhail Kolesnik joined MINOR Hotels as Regional Development Director in 2025 to grow the company in the new regions. He’s responsible for development in South Eastern Europe, including Serbia, Bosnia&Herzegovina, Montenegro, Romania, Bulga ...
Starting from 2018, Leon is the Owner and Managing Director of "We Share Space doo".
We Share is Serbia`s largest serviced office provider with over 30,000 sqm in its portfolio, present in all of Belgrade’s A class buildings. Current ...
Milica Puricelli is the founder of Puricelli Design Studio and an architect, hospitality concept strategist, and designer specialising in luxury hotels, resorts, wellness destinations, and high-end residential projects across Europe, Balkan region, M ...
Dr. George Bobvos, Development Consultant to Wyndham Hotels & Resorts for SEE brings 41 years of international, cross-industry top management experience spanning 16 countries.
George spent 11 years in top positions (CDO/Regional Cluster Head) in ...
Nemanja Bucinac is the Founder and Managing Advisor of Stonedge, an independent boutique advisory firm delivering retail and office leasing strategy, asset repositioning and market expansion services across Central and South-Eastern Europe.
With ove ...
Mrs. Cvetkovic is in charge of managing the MPC Development, TO and Innovation department and serves on the company’s strategy, leadership and valuation committees with her vast retail and office experience. Prior to this, Jovana held the posit ...
Tomislav Čeh is a hospitality veteran with almost 30 years of experience in the hospitality and tourism industry. He joined the PKF Hospitality Group in 2018 and is based in Vienna (Austria), Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Zagreb (Croatia), where he serv ...
Nebojsa Nešovanovic started his professional career in 2003 at the company SHM Smith Hodgkinson in Belgrade in the position of analyst, from where he advanced to the position of deputy director. At SHM Smith Hodgkinson, Mr. Nesovanovic was in ...
Marija Novakovic is the Program Director at Data Science Conference, where she leads the development of conference programs focused on AI, data science, and emerging technologies. She works closely with industry leaders, researchers, and business exe ...
Bojan has almost 20 years of experience in the real estate industry, covering leasing and sales of premium residential properties, and high street retail properties and has dominant expertise in office market portfolio, including leasing, sales ...
Development and Expansion Manager with 17+ years of experience leading large-scale retail and F&B expansion across Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina. Expert in site acquisition, lease negotiations, project leadership, asset m ...
One of the first commercial real estate professionals in Serbia that built a career and gained experience on local market and from the recognized professionals from the SEE Region in brands Colliers, CBRE, NAI Global and domestic brand Novaston. With ...
Dayana Kanazireva is Development, Marketing & Sales Director and Member of the Board of OKOL Lake Park, a large-scale integrated golf, hospitality and residential destination development in Bulgaria, located near Sofia. OKOL Lake Park brings toge ...
With an extensive expertise in hotel operations, I have moved on in hotel asset management for more than 14 years. From feasibility and brand affiliation, to construction or hotel management/turnaround, or even restaurant concept development I was in ...
Vladimir is an entrepreneur and educator who has been dealing with new technologies in education for more than two decades.
Currently, he is the director of partnerships at the EdTech Center of the Western Balkans, he is the director of a company fo ...
Djordje Popovic is a CEO at Trivera Energy, with more than 20 years of relevant experience and focused on turning decarbonization into measurable business value. With a rare blend of legal precision, strategic thinking and commercial drive, he builds ...
Stefan Catic is a hospitality advisor, deal specialist and strategic advisor focusing on operator selection, transaction structuring, and brand-driven hotel and serviced living concepts. Since 2018, he has advised on and executed several hundred proj ...
Kosta Gligoric is a graduate architect with over ten years of experience in facility management, building on a strong background in architectural design and construction delivery. Through his work in hospitality and in the maintenance of commercial a ...
Milan Cvetkovic is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of W Hospitality Group, in charge of the operational strategy and development of the portfolio of award-winning restaurants. With rich experience from the Hilton Belgrade hotel, Milan today focuses ...
Nikola Petrovic is a lawyer with a pronounced international and academic dimension in his career, specializing in real estate law, M&A and financial law. He graduated in law at the University of Belgrade with an average of 9.97, and then complete ...
Takuya Aoyama, Balkan hotel expert
Since he began his first role in hotel development in 1996, Takuya has worked in companies including Holiday Inn Worldwide, Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Hyatt Hotels Corporation, sourcing and negotiating hotel agreements in Japan, Korea, Microne ...
Anina Milanovic, World Bank strategic advisor for BELEX, Serbia
Anina Milanović is a World Bank Strategic Advisor to the Belgrade Stock Exchange and a global expert in digital finance and capital markets. She advises on innovative financial instruments, with a particular focus on the integration of digital asset ...
Ian Bogle, Founder and Creative Director, Bogle Architects, BArch (Hons) MArch RIBA ARIAS CKA SKA FRSA
Ian was born in Glasgow in April 1970. He studied architecture and urban design at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1993. He qualified as an architect in 1994 while working for the Glasgow firm, The Parr Par ...
Michal Maco, Country manager, Corwin, Slovenia
Michal Maco is the Country Manager of Corwin Slovenia, a real estate company focused on sustainable and responsible city development. His academic background is in urban planning, which is one of his greatest passions. As the head of the largest loca ...
Mahmuta-Maša Aganović-Tukušić, MRICS, Founder and CEO, Infinity Capital Advisors
Mahmuta-Maša Aganović-Tukušić is an accomplished interdisciplinary strategist and advisor specializing in investment and development within the tourism sector. As the founder and CEO of Infinity Capital Advisors, she brings a wealth o ...
Bojan Jevtić, CEO & Co-Founder at Avalon Real Estate
Bojan is a seasoned real estate professional with over 17 years of experience, having held key roles in several renowned companies. Throughout his career, he served as Country Manager at Coreside Savills and as Regional Director of the Office Agency ...
Tjidsger Wierda, Corporate sustainable Partner, Walvius Partners
Tjidsger Wierda is a Corporate Sustainability Partner at Walvius Partners, serving the European commercial real estate sector. Leading a team of dedicated professionals, Tjidsger embeds himself within companies, assisting with corporate sustainabilit ...
Sevda Cadir, MRICS, Head of Feasibility & Valuation | Hospitality Advisory, Win Advisors, Romania
Sevda Cadir MRICS is Head of Feasibility & Advisory at Win Advisors, specializing in hospitality real estate across CEE & SEE. With experience across both hotel operations and real estate advisory, she brings a rare dual perspective, combinin ...
Hubert Abt, FRICS, CEO & Founder of New Work and workcloud24 AG
Hubert Abt, FRICS, has more than 35 years of experience in the real estate industry—ranging from project development and land banking to the structuring of equity and mezzanine financing. In 2012, he founded New Work Offices, now one of the le ...
Jiří Suremka, Managing General Partner, complexRE, Czech Republic
Jiří Suremka has 24 years of real estate experience and has been involved in numerous transactions across the CEE region. He is Partner at complexRE, a boutique advisory platform connecting independent real estate professionals across Europe ...
Milica Nikolić, Managing Director, iO Partners Serbia
Milica Nikolić has more than 22 years of experience in commercial real estate advisory and market development across the office, industrial, and retail sectors in Serbia. She is recognized as one of the leading professionals in the local real estate ...
Andrej Sovrovic, Member of the Executive Board of Delta Holding & General Director of Deltas hotel business
Andrej Sovrovic is a member of the Executive Board of Delta Holding and the General Manager of Delta’s hotel business. With an academic background in Political Science from University College London and International Political Economy from Lond ...
Alexander Samonig, Managing Partner, ECOVIS SEE, Serbia
Entrepreneur and business Visionary, Foreign Direct Investor Consultant, Tax and Legal advisor, Project developer in Real estate sector. Mr. Samonig is the owner of Ecovis CF Confidas Ljubljana and Managing Partner of Ecovis SEE doo Belgrade. Since h ...
Gabriela Basovska, Direktorica razvoja, EMEA, Hyatt International
Gabriela Basovska joined Hyatt in 2023 and serves as Director of Development for the EAME region. Gabriela is responsible for overseeing new hotel development, franchise and management contract transactions for Hyatt's hotel brands in Northern E ...
Petar Orlic, Real Estate Partner, Hamlins, England
Petar Orlic is a lawyer with over 20 years of experience specializing in acquisitions, finance and real estate development across the UK and mainland Europe. He works with a diverse clientele, including institutional investors and banks, focusing on ...
Nicholas N. Bouri, Partner, NGB Group, Romania
Nicholas N. Bouri is a Partner at NGB Group, a family-owned industrial real estate development and investment firm headquartered in Bucharest, with operations across Romania, Greece, and an a planned expansion in Serbia. NGB’s founders and par ...
Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood, Corporate and Banking Partner & Head of the Real Estate Finance, Hamlins, UK
Aselle is a Corporate and Banking Partner and Head of the Real Estate Finance team. Aselle specialises in banking and corporate law. She acts for banks and real estate investors in corporate transactions and secured lending transactions, drafts and n ...
Mikhail Kolesnik, Regional Development Director, Eastern Europe&CIS, Minor Hotels
Mikhail Kolesnik joined MINOR Hotels as Regional Development Director in 2025 to grow the company in the new regions. He’s responsible for development in South Eastern Europe, including Serbia, Bosnia&Herzegovina, Montenegro, Romania, Bulga ...
Acim Leon Pantelic, Owner - Managing Director, We Share Space doo, Belgrade, Serbia
Starting from 2018, Leon is the Owner and Managing Director of "We Share Space doo". We Share is Serbia`s largest serviced office provider with over 30,000 sqm in its portfolio, present in all of Belgrade’s A class buildings. Current ...
Milica Puricelli, Founder, Puricelli Design, London, UK
Milica Puricelli is the founder of Puricelli Design Studio and an architect, hospitality concept strategist, and designer specialising in luxury hotels, resorts, wellness destinations, and high-end residential projects across Europe, Balkan region, M ...
George Bobvos, Development consultant, Wyndham hotels & resorts, SEE region
Dr. George Bobvos, Development Consultant to Wyndham Hotels & Resorts for SEE brings 41 years of international, cross-industry top management experience spanning 16 countries. George spent 11 years in top positions (CDO/Regional Cluster Head) in ...
Nemaja Bucinac, Founder & Managing advisor, Stonedge
Nemanja Bucinac is the Founder and Managing Advisor of Stonedge, an independent boutique advisory firm delivering retail and office leasing strategy, asset repositioning and market expansion services across Central and South-Eastern Europe. With ove ...
Jovana Cvetkovic, Development, TO and Innovations Director, MPC Properties, Serbia
Mrs. Cvetkovic is in charge of managing the MPC Development, TO and Innovation department and serves on the company’s strategy, leadership and valuation committees with her vast retail and office experience. Prior to this, Jovana held the posit ...
Tomislav Ceh, Managing Director, Head of Adriatic Sea & Blask Sea & Greece, PKF Hospitality Group, Austria
Tomislav Čeh is a hospitality veteran with almost 30 years of experience in the hospitality and tourism industry. He joined the PKF Hospitality Group in 2018 and is based in Vienna (Austria), Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Zagreb (Croatia), where he serv ...
Nebojsa Nesovanovic, MRICS RV, Senior Director and Head of Valuation Department, CBRE SEE, Belgrade
Nebojsa Nešovanovic started his professional career in 2003 at the company SHM Smith Hodgkinson in Belgrade in the position of analyst, from where he advanced to the position of deputy director. At SHM Smith Hodgkinson, Mr. Nesovanovic was in ...
Marija Novakovic, Program Director, Data Science Conference
Marija Novakovic is the Program Director at Data Science Conference, where she leads the development of conference programs focused on AI, data science, and emerging technologies. She works closely with industry leaders, researchers, and business exe ...
Bojan Jevremović, Leasing Director, Office Portfolio, MPC Properties
Bojan has almost 20 years of experience in the real estate industry, covering leasing and sales of premium residential properties, and high street retail properties and has dominant expertise in office market portfolio, including leasing, sales ...
Nino Stepinac, Development & Expansion Manager – Retail & F&B – CEE & Balkans, JYSK
Development and Expansion Manager with 17+ years of experience leading large-scale retail and F&B expansion across Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina. Expert in site acquisition, lease negotiations, project leadership, asset m ...
Nikola Djogatovic, Commercial Real Estate SEE Specialist, Sintaksa Real Estate, Serbia
One of the first commercial real estate professionals in Serbia that built a career and gained experience on local market and from the recognized professionals from the SEE Region in brands Colliers, CBRE, NAI Global and domestic brand Novaston. With ...
Dayana Kanazireva, Development, Marketing & Sales Director and Member of the Board of OKOL Lake Park
Dayana Kanazireva is Development, Marketing & Sales Director and Member of the Board of OKOL Lake Park, a large-scale integrated golf, hospitality and residential destination development in Bulgaria, located near Sofia. OKOL Lake Park brings toge ...
George Cristea, Managing Director, Hosplace - Hotel Asset Management, Romania
With an extensive expertise in hotel operations, I have moved on in hotel asset management for more than 14 years. From feasibility and brand affiliation, to construction or hotel management/turnaround, or even restaurant concept development I was in ...
Vladimir Dojcilovic, Entrepreneur and educator, Serbia
Vladimir is an entrepreneur and educator who has been dealing with new technologies in education for more than two decades. Currently, he is the director of partnerships at the EdTech Center of the Western Balkans, he is the director of a company fo ...
Djordje Popovic, CEO, Trivera Energy, Serbia
Djordje Popovic is a CEO at Trivera Energy, with more than 20 years of relevant experience and focused on turning decarbonization into measurable business value. With a rare blend of legal precision, strategic thinking and commercial drive, he builds ...
Stefan Catic, Director & Head of Operator Search, PKF hospitality group, Austria
Stefan Catic is a hospitality advisor, deal specialist and strategic advisor focusing on operator selection, transaction structuring, and brand-driven hotel and serviced living concepts. Since 2018, he has advised on and executed several hundred proj ...
Kosta Gligoric, Facility manager, Tenderly, Serbia
Kosta Gligoric is a graduate architect with over ten years of experience in facility management, building on a strong background in architectural design and construction delivery. Through his work in hospitality and in the maintenance of commercial a ...
Milan Cvetkovic, Operations Director, W Hospitality Group
Milan Cvetkovic is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of W Hospitality Group, in charge of the operational strategy and development of the portfolio of award-winning restaurants. With rich experience from the Hilton Belgrade hotel, Milan today focuses ...
Nikola B. Petrovic, Partner, Law Office Petrovic
Nikola Petrovic is a lawyer with a pronounced international and academic dimension in his career, specializing in real estate law, M&A and financial law. He graduated in law at the University of Belgrade with an average of 9.97, and then complete ...