This year, the "Entrepreneurship for Non-Profit Organizations" Program celebrates its 10th edition in a different, "recovery" format - the LET's GO Social Enterprise Recovery Program. The Program includes 15 organizations from all over Bulgaria, which will have to adapt to the new environment and needs. All of them will receive intensive mentoring support in three main areas - financial planning and sales, marketing and advertisement, business development. They will then have the opportunity to compete for a financial grant.

The mentors at LET's GO are experienced experts in various business fields, eager to share everything they know with social enterprises and help them develop their potential. The Program has already started with a series of 45 online meetings between the participants and the mentors, dedicated to the plans of the social enterprises for development of their ideas and activities.

"The Program is extremely useful to us, it gives us a lot in order to move things forward! Talking to mentors is extremely useful to us, because otherwise we will not be able to get this external feedback on our plans and ideas, so that we can make the best decision for action. "- said one of the organizations after the first consultations.

"Don't lose focus!" is the general message of the mentors. They see the success of their involvement as helping organizations to be more focused on concrete steps to meet the challenges they face, but at the same time not to lose the long-term vision for development they have.

We are glad to present the mentors of LET’s GO 2020:

 

Marketing and advertisement

Baycho Georgiev - Marketing and Product Specialist with over 6 years of experience with a main focus on the marketing of IT and educational products and services. His experience in the field was gained in companies such as pCloud, Nemesis Software and Karoll Financial Group, and in 2013 he co-founded the 9 Academy Business Academy. Currently, Baycho is the marketing and product manager of the Bulgarian company Coursedot, which develops the largest network of IT trainers in the world.

Milena Stratieva - Marketing and Sales Manager at the “Sofia” Theater and co-founder of the 9 Academy Business Academy, where she is responsible for the training program. She is also the executive director of the “NINE” Foundation, which organizes 9 Academy. As a freelance PR consultant, she has worked for East-West Publishing House, Huawei, Bosch, Frezco, MaxBike, the Hope for the Little Ones Foundation, “Kids With Developmental Problems” Foundation, and the Duke of Edinburgh International Award - Bulgaria Foundation. " and others.

Iva Koleva - Expert in the field of communications, corporate social responsibility and the development of socially responsible projects. She is the founder, chairwoman and inspirer of the “Idea in Action” Foundation, which has become popular for promoting sustainable green charity in Bulgaria. She is also one of the winners in the annual ranking of Darik Radio "40 under 40" for 2014 for young, successful and inspiring people in Bulgaria.

 

Financial planning and sales

Georgi Hristulev - Sales Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, Mediator. Manager of the digital agency Web Direct, partner in the accounting company QBS, manager of the Law and Finance Agency Ltd. For the period 2014-2020, more than 4,000 people from almost 1,500 companies attend the trainings he leads and organizes. The book "From Love to Sales", published by Georgi, is a practical guide to improving sales skills.

Pavel Lisev - Master of Fnance at Lund University of Economics and Management, Sweden. Associate Mergers and acquisitions in the Unicredit group. Analyst at Entrea Capital - a leading independent Bulgarian consulting company in the field of investment banking. Capital Analysis Analyst at Analyst Group AB, Sweden.

Gergana Daskalova - Corporate Clients Manager at Unicredit Bulbank. With a view of different sectors of the economy, business specifications and the ability to assess risk in decision making. In-depth financial analyzes and economic justifications in the process of structuring transactions with clients.

Ivan Raichkov - Director of Operations at Unicredit Bulbank. Deputy Chairman of the Payment Systems Committee at the Management Board of ABB, as well as a representative of ABB in the Working Group on Evolution and Maintenance of Schemes at the European Payments Council. Member of the National Auxiliary Organization for Accession to the SEPA Schemes / NASO / to ABB.

Iliya Patsev - regional expert Investment Products in Unicredit Bulbank, Pleven Region. He accepts as his mission the distribution and introduction of investment products on the market in Bulgaria.

Teodora Nikolova - Business Clients Manager at Unicredit Bulbank since 2017. Her main responsibilities are related to attracting new clients and maintaining connections with current SMEs.

 

Business development

Tsvetelina Teneva - Founder, Senior Consultant and facilitator at The Business Institute. She is an experienced practitioner in the fields of entrepreneurship, business innovation, market strategies, business development. She also is a methodist and facilitator in the Innovation Laboratory of Mtel, the Innovation Laboratory of Samsung, the Academy "Innovation in Action" of Solvay Sodi and Aurubis Bulgaria. Teneva is PhD candidate on "Innovative business models for social entrepreneurship" under a joint program between VUZF and Copenhagen Business School.

Svetlan Stanoev is a Founder, Senior Consultant and Facilitator at The Business Institute. He is an experienced practitioner in the fields of entrepreneurship, business strategies, performance management, business development. He also is a methodist and facilitator in the Innovation Laboratory of Mtel and had project participation in the initiative for innovation and entrepreneurship "Unbound" of Unicredit Bulbank. He was a restructuring consultant at KPMG, Chief Financial Officer at Orbitel, Executive Director of the Serres Investment Fund.

Pavel Hriskov - founder of Hriskov Group with a main focus on development and vision. He works at Hewlett-Packard as part of a team responsible for supporting IBM Mainframe zOS technology. In the meantime he joined the insurance broker Together Bulgaria and later became a co-owner of the company. In 2016 he co-founded a consulting company in the field of accounting, tax consulting and legal protection.

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 FUND: Social Enterprises is developed by Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law with the support of the America for Bulgaria Foundation, UniCredit Bulbank, Telus International Europe and Accenture Bulgaria.