Mentors
Dario Zorić
Director of the Rijeka Development Agency PORIN
The Rijeka Development Agency PORIN was founded in 1996 and since then it is constantly evolving as a supporting institution for the development of small and medium enterprises, and since 2004 as a development agency.
After completing graduate studies, Dario Zorić continued his specialization in leadership and management in Europe, the USA and Asia, and gained more than ten years of experience in creating and implementing projects, workshops and conferences and working in management and advisory functions. He worked on about 50 regional, international and EU projects.
He worked on about 50 regional, international and EU projects. He was the main coordinator of the GoGlobal, Sharps, HDO, GCC and Nets projects in the USA where he lived and worked on several occasions and studied (Lee Iacocca scholarship).
He was also elected to the advisory body of the directors of the Iacocca Institute (USA) for four years. In addition to managing the PORIN agency, he is a business consultant and trainer in the field of leadership, management and business development. He organizes various training modules for companies and start-ups.
LINDA POŠČIĆ BOROVAC
Director of the company CROCON d.o.o.
Director and owner of the company CROCON d.o.o. She represents more than twenty foreign companies and jointly brings to her clients only the best products and solutions.
The clients of CROCON d.o.o. are the largest Croatian shipyards, as well as smaller and overhaul shipyards and offshore and onshore industrial facilities (petrochemical industry, automotive industry…). Linda Poščić Borovac graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Rijeka and the University of Technology and Economics in Budapest. 2021. In 2021, she received an award from PAR University College in Rijeka for exceptional creative work and as an example of female strength within the business community. Before her current position, she worked in the same company as a sales and marketing manager.
Linda Poščić Borovac is a mentor, founder and vice president of the Happy ThinGS Academy Association and winner of numerous awards, including the Stevie Awards for Women in Business award in New York in 2015. She is the author of a book about business and people in it: “Disaster – diagnosis of modern business”.
Neven Kruljac
Director of the public utility company Komunalne usluge Cres - Lošinj
Director of the public utility company Komunalne usluge Cres – Lošinj, which operates
on the island of Cres and Lošinj and employs 120 employees. The company’s business activities consist of the following utility activities: disposal of municipal waste, maintenance of public cleanliness, maintenance of green areas, maintenance of cemeteries and funeral services, and management and maintenance of premises and buildings for retail market services.
Neven Kruljac is a civil engineering graduate with extensive and significant experience in managing utility companies. He is an expert in the digital and green transition of public companies and is considered to be an advocate of the vision of the utility company of the future.
Sandra Hrvatin
Director of finance and accounting in the company Came Adriatic d.o.o.
Director of finance and accounting in the company Came Adriatic d.o.o.
which operates in the industry of house and building automation, integrated solutions for automation control
and security of residential, public and urban spaces, which result in a healthier and more intelligent personal
and working space for people.
She received her higher education at the Faculty of Management in Tourism and Hospitality in Opatija. In her previous career, she worked for several large companies in the finance and accounting department.
. For years, she has been cooperating with the publishing house Verlag Dashofer from Zagreb, for which he writes professional articles and advises users in the fields of accounting, finance, internal audit and taxes Sandra Hrvatin is also the owner of Alfa Konzalting for business consulting of craftsmen and small entrepreneurs.
