Andrej Nabergoj
Co-founder and Neophile-in-Chief at NEO - New Europe Online.
http://andrej.nabergoj.com

I am a wine and jazz aficionado, dedicated chess and guitar player, suede flower stick junkie, shotokan  and shorin-ryu karate apprentice, Zen scholar and avid student of Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese. I enjoy random graph theory problems and digging into social network analysis methods. I am a father and I love life.

I co-founded several internet companies in South East Europe including Aventures, Parsek, Httpool and Easyweb and was CEO of Parsek from 1999 to 2006, where I led Parsek's growth from start-up to 100 engineers organization (online banking and insurance).

I fell in love with Japan, where I started Parsek&AT together with Masao Tejima, former President of Macromedia Japan. I developed alliances with Dentsu, Scient and Sony Global Solutions, but most important, I met my new family in Kuma & Miharu, the greatest restauraters-wellness masters in the world.

I founded YES - Young Executives Society, a charitable association of 100 young influential businessmen in South Eastern Europe, and I'm member of the Presidency of the Young Entrepreneurs for Europe, an organization representing over 35.000 entrepreneurs from EU. I'm chairman of CEED, the non-profit Center for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development, which I co-founded with USAID, board member of the Institue for Business Informatics, and member of the Investment Committee of RSG, the Slovenian Development Fund.