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Ms. Aleksandra Skoric
Managing Director
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Ms. Skoric has devoted much of her career to bringing access to finance and business development services to small and medium enterprises in the developing nations. Aleksandra has designed, developed, appraised, and structured investment projects in a variety of sectors in more than twenty countries in the emerging markets. The sectors of experience comprise both general manufacturing and financial markets transactions for both debt and equity investments. |
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Increasing International Finance Corporation’s (The Word Bank Group) presence through start-up of consulting operations devoted to small business development, in countries such as Bangladesh, Balkans and China. |
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A multi-million consulting and advisory work in the area of small business linkage programs around large private sector extractive industry (mining, oil and gas, and aluminum) and construction investments. |
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Ms. Skoric’s unveiled ‘Access to Finance’ programs in China and Bangladesh, and managed due diligence performed on 10 financial institutions wishing to downscale to lending to small business segment. |
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She designed successful banking symposiums on international best practices in lending to small businesses, and has raised more than half a million dollars in sponsorships for these programs. | |
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As part of her investment structuring experience, Ms. Skoric processed more than US$400 million in financial transactions in the manufacturing sector, in more than twenty countries globally, participating in due diligence, transaction structuring, negotiations, restructurings, syndication, supervision and turnarounds. Transactions comprised both small business and large corporate transactions. |
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Country Experience: Australia, Albania, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, China, Croatia, France, Fiji, Mexico, Mozambique, Philippines, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, South Africa, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Serbia and Montenegro, and Zambia. |
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Ms. Joanna A. Savvides
Food Processing, Senior Advisor
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Ms. Joanna A. Savvides is a global business development professional with extensive experience in food processing, international strategy and SME development.
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Ms. Savvides, a fluent Serbian speaker, has broad background in new product development, consumer goods sales and marketing, project management and distribution. With her strong leadership and communication skills, Joanna has worked in almost every part of the world. Her previous experience includes Pinnacle Food Corporation, Campbell Soup Company, Philadelphia World Trade Center, and Transworld Ventures LLC.
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As Exports Director of the “Pinnacle Food Corporation”, Joanna researched and developed products and labels suitable for specific markets and consumers. She assigned distributors in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. |
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In the “Campbell Soup Company”, Joanna was responsible for the development of the Central American export business. She assessed production facilities for the most profitable production and distribution of products and introduced new products in the region. |
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The establishment and management of the World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia. Joanna was responsible for putting the WTCGP on the map as the premiere international organization in the region and managing the services and programs offered to exporting and importing local companies. |
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Joanna is the recipient of several awards: the “Women of Distinction Award” from the Philadelphia Business Journal, the “Global Leadership Award” from the Consular Corps Association and the “Global Business Award” from the UN Association.
Country Experience: Asia, Europe, Middle East, Latin America and United States. |
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Ms. Alice Savic
Food Processing and Non Profit Sector, Strategic Planning
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Ms. Savic has extensive background in developing, implementing and measuring strategic and business planning initiatives and processes in the companies, and in working with profit and non-profit companies alike. Ms. Savic’s strong skills led her to work for “The Coca-Cola Company” in Atlanta Georgia headquarters, where she was in charge of strategy, planning and innovation development.
She developed the Fountain’s Division first business model as well as planning processes and directions, including strategic, marketing and financial templates. As a Product Manager, she increased profits for the company by measurably improving the quality of products and services received from global suppliers.
Alice has strong facility to empathize and work across cultures and functions, translating what is valuable and important to diverse stakeholders. |
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Ms. Savic’s selected accomplishments over the last years include:
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Established performance management routine for $4B division of The Coca-Cola company, setting precedent for routine operations. The routine enabled the division to: deliver its annual plan closing the gap between the plan and actual performance, establish the next year’s priorities and implement a new business model. |
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Developed and implemented a new development process to guide investment decisions. She created a stage-gate process and decision-making framework through which new products and services were evaluated for a new innovation group at the Coca-Cola company. |
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Designed and applied strategic framework that aligned priorities across division’s functions. Facilitated agreement on key elements of new framework based on collectively defined criteria across functions that previously had their own basis for establishing priorities.
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Ms. Savic’s previous experience includes The Coca-Cola Company, Lockheed-Martin Aeronautical Systems Company and McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Corporation. Ms. Savic is fluent in English, Serbo-Croatian, French and Russian.
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