Mother from Croatia. Father from Bosnia-Herzegovina. Born 1977 in Germany. Worked several years in the Entertainment and Film-Production industry in Germany. Studied from 2000 to 2004 Business Administration with Mayor in Marketing and Strategy in Bochum (Germany). Worked at the same time in Merchandising and Trade-Marketing for W.L. Gore & Associates in Munich (Germany). Obtained 100% scholarship for Master in International Business program at the Rennes - International School of Business (France). Worked afterwards on a three months International Business Development project for a leading automotive supplier in Germany (Hella KG).
I Live since 2005 in Guadalajara (Mexico). Here I worked as the Director of Innovation at the Tecnológico de Monterrey University. I still teach Strategic Business Model Innovation, The Dynamics and Diffusion of Innovations, and Services Marketing.
Over the past three years, I have worked on a series of multi-disciplinary business development projects across a broad range of industries and facilitated business model innovation work-shops and conferences to diverse audiences in Mexico, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.
Since March 2010 I am pursuing the development of "The PassionBusiness Project". Our goal is to design competitive and profitable business models for people who have identified their passion, but lack the skills, competencies and channels to convert their passion into business (for more information check out http://passionbusiness.net).
