Stoycho Nedev is an entrepreneur at his heart. He started coding back then in 1984 when he was 13 years old on a pirated by government Apple II clone. During the communist regime and Cold War importing computers was banned by the Western World government. He was so inspired by computers that he devoted himself to IT throughout his career.

In 1994 he co-founded DAVID Holding with a few like minded inspired IT specialists. The company is specializes is business software development and implementation like document and process management, ERP and industrial IoT.

Stoycho Nedev has a master’s degree in computer engineering. As an young entrepreneur he also studied marketing at The University of Delaware.

About 15 years ago he started to invest and find a new passion – fintech – the intersection point of IT and finances. He studied prof. Robert Schiller’s Financial markets courses at Yale and is a big fan of his behavioral economics and investing theory. He is a private investor and loves to invest his own money mostly in fintech startups using crowdfunding platforms. Stoycho Nedev is big believer in democratization of finances and investing made real today by fintech, DeFi, peer-to-peer and crowdfunding platforms.

Martin has been working for the last 10 years with innovative product around the world. His real passion is startups and right now is helping 7 project in Bulgaria and the US to create their business model and develop their product. During 2020 and 2021 Martin’s company – GoStartups has lunched 8 projects and has helped 2 startup companies to reach ROI. Martin is leading another company called Assetify which has closed seed round of 250K EUR in 2020.

In his spare time Martin rides a Harley Davidson motorcycle and enjoys playing guitar.

As a Director Business Development (Russia, CIS and CEE) and Head of Global Telecom Partnerships at Viber, Atanas is responsible for the expansion of the customer base and increase of the user engagement across various markets on one hand in some of Viber’s key regions with over 100M customers and forging strategic partnerships with leading telecoms around the world on the other. He has more than 12 year expense in the fields of technology, business development, product management and pricing.

Tsveti Kyoseva is an experienced Innovations & Business Development practitioner, whose 15-year career path encompasses numerous managerial positions in renowned international telecom and tech companies. She was the lead of the first TelCo Innovation Center in Bulgaria and has since worked with a large number of knowledge incubators and universities in the field of product innovation, beta-testing and market validation. Tsveti is an MBA graduate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Vienna and has a PhD in the field of commercialization of technological innovation.

Mrs. Kyoseva joins Methodia in the spring of 2014 as a Vice President, leading the Business Development, Projects & Innovations Department until 2016, when she heads Methodia as a CEO. At present she teaches Innovation Management and Business Development as part of some renowned Master Programs in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Bulgaria, while actively pushing for Methodia’s international expansion and success.

Andrew Lombardi is one of a new breed of businessmen: the enlightened entrepreneur. He has been writing code since he was a 5-year old, sitting at his dad’s knee at their Apple II computer. Having such a deep affinity for the computer model, it is no surprise that at the age of 17 he began to delve deeply into the inner workings of the human mind. He became a student of Neuro Linguistic Programming and other mind technologies, and then went on to study metaphysics. He is certified as an NLP Trainer, Master Hypnotherapist and Time Line Therapy practitioner.

Using all of his accumulated skills, at the age of 24, Andrew began his consulting business, Mystic Coders, LLC. Since the inception of Mystic in 2000, Andrew has been building the business and studying finance and economics as he stays on the cutting edge of computer technology.

Sergey Andreev is a certified Business Intelligence expert in Reading, UK and Openbravo ERP v.3.0. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Technologies and Software Development from the Technical University of Sofia, as well as a Master’s degree in Oil and Gas Technology at the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy. He is fluent in Russian and English.

At the end of 2017 he took over the management of Overgas Holding Group.

From 2014 to 2017 Sergey Andreev was Deputy Executive Director of Information and Management Systems at Overgas Inc. AD and was responsible for the strategic and operational management of Overgas, the implementation of innovative IT solutions and the improvement of the efficiency of existing platforms.

In 2010 he headed the management of analytical teams and IT projects at Metodia AD, and three years later became vice president and member of the board of directors of the technology company. He managed ERP implementation teams in Bulgarian and foreign companies.

He began his professional development at Overgas in 2004 and managed the development and implementation of specialized software, business and quality management systems. He also participated in the development of the corporate integrated information system, the SAP, GIS and ERP systems in Overgas.

Over the years, he has also participated in a number of independent international Web application development projects for small and medium-sized companies.

For two consecutive years (2016 and 2017) he was nominated for IT Manager of the Year by CIO in the categories Management, Innovation and Efficiency.

Radoslav Nikolov has been working in SAP Labs Bulgaria for 15 years. Radoslav is Managing director of the strategic development center in Sofia since 2014 and at the same time holds the position of Senior Vice President “Research and Development” in SAP. The company has over 780 software professionals who are working in the field of software development and the latest SAP in-memory and cloud technologies. Radoslav has graduated in “Mathematics” at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski “. He has Geometry and Information and Communication Technologies specialization, and also has graduated the leadership program in one of the leading university in Business Administration – INSEAD.

Dimiter Kolev is a software specialist with vast experience in developing and integrating software applications and systems. He has worked for various international companies delivering projects in USA, UK, Germany, Japan and others. He has B.S. in Engineering degree and PhD in Electronics and IT. At the moment Dimiter Kolev is a Manager in Accenture Bulgaria and oversees the execution of its software projects.

Aleksandar Zahariev is a finance professional and entrepreneur with over 10 years of professional experience. He started his career in the financial audit industry.

Gradually he stepped into the IT service sector working at Software Group’s finance department.

Most recently Alexander joined the finance team of the world’s largest stablecoin by market capitalization – Tether as a consultant.

He is also founder of CryptoDesk and FairSpin. Both projects are aimed at developing the nascent space of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.

Alexander holds a master’s degree in Professional Accountancy from UCL, UK and bachelors’ degree in Economics and Finance from Jonkoping University, Sweden. He is a Chartered Certified Accountant awarded by ACCA, UK.

Dr. Svetlin Nakov (https://nakov.com) is a passionate software engineer, inspirational technical trainer and tech entrepreneur, with 20 years of experience in a broad range of programming languages, software technologies and platforms. He is a speaker at hundreds of events, an author of the 12 tech books and trainer of 50 000 tech students in software engineering and digital skills. Svetlin is co-founder of several highly successful tech startups and non-profit organizations. Currently, he is innovation and inspiration manager at SoftUni (https://softuni.org) – the largest tech education provider in South-Eastern Europe.