Christo Petkov

Responsible for strategic product positioning, product life cycle management and profitability of the Education and Training Product Lines globally. In charge of market development activities [VoC / MRD / NPV / CDP analyses] as well as new product development and the execution of RnD projects. Providing input to the broader business / marketing strategy including pricing, PnL and competitive analyses, implementing promotions and cooperation projects.

Responsible for the strategic product positioning, product life cycle management and profitability of the Fiber Optic Hardware Product Line in EMEA and APAC. Establishing sales and marketing strategies, competitive analyses as well as new product development and long-term demand forecast. Creating a business link between the Regional Engineering teams, Manufacturing, Application Engineering and Sales & Marketing.

Assisting Marketing and Product Line Management in implementing the mediando PIM project: Identifying EMEA FOH “core” and "high-runner" products based on marketing strategy and tail management revenue calculations. Team support in designing master products and product variants as well as in creating and collecting attribute data for numerous hardware products and data loading.

Providing project advisory services as well as financial intermediation for several Bulgarian companies and entrepreneurs in the field of alternative and renewable electricity generation.

Initiation and support of a business deal with a Chinese company in the field of high-quality tool-steel. Rotating through different departments in order to become acquainted with their specific duties and functions. Negotiating data feed fees with different lead and zinc price data vendors. Web site design.

Implementation of desk studies on the EU Commission’s China related SPRING (原泉) project. Analyzing historical EU-China relations and current Chinese economic issues as part of the EU Commission’s ECRAN project tender application process. Composing monthly issues of the World Bank’s ECAbit network newsletter, preparing and participating in conferences in the field of innovation and technology transfer. Database and web site maintenance.

Team support in every aspect of daily operations: deriving analytic solutions to various economic models and equations, preparing country and bank analyses, database and web site maintenance.

Preparing statistical data and analysis with focus on central bank organization and governance Evaluating central banks’ annual reports with regard to the housing market crisis

English Language Teacher

English Language Teacher

Consulting medium-scale enterprises on how to improve their standards of customer acquisition and service and interpreting for foreign guest speakers.

Chinese Language Training - Mandarin

Various language courses in modern and classical Chinese; Diverse courses on Chinese history, politics and economics

Industrial Organization, Monetary Theory, Game Theory, Economics of Information, Economics of the Welfare state, Economic Policy, Public Finance