Experience

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  Eurofinance d.o.o.

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2005

  Project manager

  The company Eurofinance d.o.o. was owned by BAT Srl, Udine. I divided my time equally between Italy and Slovenia, focusing on: structuring projects to secure EU funding, managing project finances and administration, and preparing key documents, including business plans, feasibility studies, and investment programs.

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  Mk projekt, d.o.o.

  Oct 2005 - Sept 2016

  Director

  Providing the best possible assistance in designing, organising, analysing and successful implementation of projects based on good ideas. Providing consultancy in forming project teams, designing appropriate structure of projects, finding appropriate financial funds (focusing on grants), financial and administrative management of the projects, monitoring and evaluation of programmes and projects, preparing supporting documents such as business plans, feasibility studies, investment programmes, strategies etc. Show less

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  Ministry of economic development and technology, slovenia

  Sept 2016 - Oct 2019

  Head of development funds service

  Coordination and simplification the procedures for obtaining and allocating European and national funds.

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  Spirit slovenia - public agency for entrepreneurship, internationalization and fore­ign investments

  Oct 2019 - Sept 2021

  Deputy director
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  Slovenian intellectual property office

  Sept 2021 - now

  • Director

    Mar 2022 - now

  • Acting Director

    Sept 2021 - Mar 2022
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  European patent organisation

  Dec 2023 - now

  Deputy chairperson of the budget and finance committee
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  Euipo - european union intellectual property office

  Nov 2024 - now

  Deputy chairperson of the management board