Dejan Kalinikov, Managing Director.

Mr. Kalinikov has more than 10 years of professional experience with private equity investments working for SEAF, and is currently also engaged as a Managing Director of SEAF Macedonia II fund. In the period 2009 – 2011, he served as a Chief Operating Officer and member of the Board of Directors of the telecommunications operator One (part of Telekom Slovenije Group), and as a President of the Board of Directors of One to One (formerly Germanos). His professional experience includes positions in Lucent Technologies, Macedonian Business Resource Center, and several Macedonian IT companies. Mr. Kalinikov was a member of the task force for creation of the National Strategy for Information Society in the Republic of Macedonia, member of the National ICT Committee, member of the Listing Committee of the Macedonian Stock Exchange and member of the National Committee for Entrepreneurship and Innovations. As a former President of the Board of Directors of AmCham in Macedonia, Mr. Kalinikov continues to serve in AmCham as an ex-officio member of the AmCham Board of Directors. Mr. Kalinikov was also member of the Board of Directors of the Macedonian National Foundation for Organ Transplantation, and is active member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Directors.

Mr. Kalinikov received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with concentration in Computer Science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia. As a Ron Brown Fellow (a fellowship presented by the US State Department to top performing young professionals in Eastern Europe), he completed the MBA program at the Emory University in Atlanta, GA. As a result of his academic achievements, he received the American Marketing Association Award and was admitted in the prestigious business students’ scholastic association, Beta Gamma Sigma. Mr. Kalinikov is fluent in English and the Slavic languages spoken in the Balkans.