Founders

Valya Chilova
Managing partner in MARKETOR Ltd

Valya Chilova is a Managing partner in corporate communications consultancy agency MARKETOR Ltd. She has more than 12 years of experience in working on marketing consulting and corporate communications , 7 years of which as a Managing director the full service advertising agency A Team. PR and marketing consultant with the Manager magazine and a partner for many years of UNDP and the European Commission on projects related to the corporate social responsibility. Valya Chilova participates in Trade and Distribution Committee with CEIBG, holds the position of a municipal councilor at Sofia municipality and a deputy chairman of the Supervosory Board of the Privatization Agency.

Valentin Panayotov
Publisher of Pari newspaper

Valentin Panayotov is a well known name in the Bulgarian publishing business.
In 1991 he, together with his partners, founded the Pari newspaper, which is the first Bulgarian economic daily paper and one of the first Bulgarian private media.
Mr. Panayotov is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Director of Business Media Group AD, who publish the Pari newspaper .
The company is owned byValentin Panayotov and Bonnier Business Press – a Swedish company, publishing a number of daily economic papers in different European countries. Valentin Panayotov is a member of the Board of Managers of the Union of Publishers in Bulgaria, of the Board of Managers of the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum, of the Board of Managers of the Industrial Capital Association and other business and public organizations.

Irina Yordanova
Director European projects and CS, CEIBG

Irina Yordanova is Director European projects of the Confederation of Eployers and Industrialists in Bulgaria,( CEIBG). Chair of the Management Board of the Municipal Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium Enterprises. Chair of the Permanent Commission on European Topics and Civil Society Relations at Sofia Municipal Council.
Mrs. Yordanova is a Vice-President of the Harward Club in Bulgaria and a member of the NATO Defense College Alumni Association.