Dipl.-Ing. Nikola Vasilev

The Bulgarian State Railways (abbreviated as BDZ or BDŽ) are state owned railway company, established in 1888, and are the largest railway carrier in the country. The structure of BSR/BDZ is a holding company with two main subsidiaries - BDZ-Passengers and BDZ-Cargo.

MBCHAM ( Macedonian Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce ) is active in promotion of cross business between Macedonia and Bulgaria and support of companies regarding the regulations in both countries. The Supervisory Board is monitoring the legality of material, financial operations and accuracy of the daily work of the Chamber.

BulgarTel Skopje is a subsidiary of BulgarTel in Macedonia. The company provides telecommunications services on the territory of Macedonia and the neighboring countries - Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, etc. The portfolio of the company fully covers the spectrum of telecom services provided by BulgarTel.

BulgarTel have own telecommunication network covering Bulgaria and extentions over the Balkan region and Europe through partnerships with international carriers. The main backbone is deployed along the gas pipe routes along Bulgaria plus a fiber optic cable towards Skopje, Macedonia. BulgarTel's customers are corporate clients with large number of offices within the country and worldwide having huge international traffic, other licensed operators in Bulgaria, ISPs, global carriers, system Integrators, etc.

BulgarTel is an alternative telecommunication operator, incorporated in 2004 as a subsidiary of BulgarGas and later one become a part of Bulgarian Energy Holding ( BEH ), which is a 100% state owned share holding company. The carrier network of Bulgartel is ranked third by length (2000 km) and structure on Bulgarian telecommunication market.

Vagono-remonten Zavod – Karlovo PLC ( VRZ Karlovo PLC ) was established in 1964 with principal business activities in repairs and maintenance of a railway cars and production of spare parts. Since 2007 the focus of the company was shifted on design,development and manufacturing of freight wagons for the Bulgarian and European markets. Customers of the factory are companies like AAE, GATX, BDZ, Aurubis, DB Schenker Rail and many more.

VRZ Karlovo PLC is freight wagon's manufacturer and maintenance's services provider in Bulgaria. With an investment of 10 mil euro (started in 2008), the company became one of the most modern and attractive on the market, with customers from all over the Europe. The company's portfolio contain platform wagons (like Sgnss), tank-wagons (like Zacns) and also spare parts, assemblies sets and VPI's maintenance.

The Advisory Group on SMEs was setup by the EU Commissioner Janez Potochnik with a view for receiving a balanced, independent and high quality external advice for the implementation of the 7-th Framework Programme (2007-13).

Strategy & Business development for the whole group of companies in Bulgaria - Saturn Engineering (R&D, manufacturing), Techno Park Sofia (property management) and Ultraflex Technology (sales). General tasks: Marketing plans and strategy, customers relationships & negotiations, contracts & agreements; Investments policy & companies growth; Company's management, processes optimization & operations excellence; QAD ERP consulting & fine tune-up management; European projects & programs incl. FP7.

Saturn Engineering is a private company, providing full-range of services in the fields of engineering design, software and product development, focused on the industrial, medical and consumer markets. The company is a ISO9001 certified since 2002 and is registered with the FDA to produce medical-grade products. Saturn Engineering was awarded as a "Innovative Enterprise" for 2006 in SME category and has a second award in the 2007's innovation contest.

Microsyst Ltd is an innovation R&D company, specialized in control and measuring automation, laboratory equipment, engineering design and industrial software. The company produces many types of control-measuring equipment: sensors, transmitters, process meters, controllers for temperature, рН, humidity, moisture, pressure, weight, level, flow and others; special-purpose controllers and systems; lab and hand-held equipment; data loggers for brewage pasteurization process analysis.