Pizzeria Napoli, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Samo Kraker - working for Adecco in Slovenia, thus knowing and recommending competent IT people to companies in Slovenia that are facing skills gap in IT area. He was born in Ljubljana and raised in Dol pri Ljubljani. He finished EF and worked for Mikrostar during study and later at ITS Intertrade (which was in 2004 bought by S&T). After serving his time in Slovenian Army (he enjoyed it) he worked for Intertrade Computers, today known as Alterna Intertrade. In between he also worked for Icon which was acquired by Dialogic. He has a 5 years old son and he used to shoot pool and para glide. When he was younger he was singing in choir Glasbena Matica and was several years ago also running candidate for mayor of his hometown Dol. One of his recent books was Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - and that was while ago :) At the moment he is fully engaged with finishing his house. Later, when he will have loads of money and all the time in the world, he will master piano playing and have his own jazz bar. Thumbs up.


Pizzeria Napoli - one of the top 5 in Ljubljana.

Divaka, Sofia, Bulgaria

Elena Georgieva - doing her best at NDB to build and maintain positive and fruitful relationships with IBM Software business partners on one side and IBM constituencies on the other. She was born and raised in Sofia. In famous yellow pavement district. She studied Electronics at Technical University of Sofia. She was teaching English during study and after graduation she worked for Tornado Sistems and NET IS SAT where she had a very good time with her colleagues, especially when they had some sort of interesting promotion with Danzka vodka :) She likes gymnastics and skiing and her latest book was an Indian love story about Tadj Mahal and how and why it was build.
She recently got infected with a serious motorbiking virus and there's no cure for it. She will ride heavy bikes in the future - that's her destiny.


Lubomir Todorov - at Tamplier successfully selling hot Bulgarian properties at even hotter Bulgarian real estate market. He was born and raised in Sofia. Another Todorov is also a famous wine producer in Bulgaria, but has nothing to do with Lubo, though. He studied Computer Science at Technical University of Sofia. He was a bartender during study and after graduation he worked for IBM Bulgaria before joining Tamplier. Recently he is crazy about off-road 4x4 driving with Kom-Emine Trophy being one of the most famous routes in Bulgaria. One of his recent books was about Templars and Lucifer. He likes playing table tennis and one day he will have his own off-road club, cars and route.


Pink tram in Sofia.


Divaka or "Savage" - a very nice and popular place in Sofia.


Troyanska Slivova spirit - from town Troyan.


Pepper "bjurek" with feta cheese. There were also some other dishes and all of them were very good! Bulgarian cuisine in general is very good. I love it.

Elita, Ljubljana, Slovenia

One of his latest and favourite books was by Janez Suhadolc. Janez Suhadolc makes pretty cool chairs.


Some people don't like to have any digital footprint whatsoever. The person I had lunch with in Elita wants it to remain that way. Therefore no name mentioned here. His name is very common though: "Name Surname" returns 813 pages on Google. And there are so many of his exact namesakes.
He works at KPMG as an auditor. He likes his Aprilia Pegaso.


Not much effort and love in those menus. Low cost, low value. Elita hardly being the appropriate name.


Elita is right next to HQ of Mobitel, the biggest mobile operator in Slovenia. Mobitel has 72% market share. I guess the cars on the picture are not from Mobitel employees :)

Since iTunes music purchasing is not available in Slovenia, we use Dime-for-a-tune: Street Edition 1.0 instead :)

Merlin, Budapest, Hungary

Budapest by night.


Bar menu projected on the wall with a beamer. Club Merlin in Budapest is pretty innovative.


Names of Hungarian models and their order of appearance at the fashion show.

Marek Swierad - successfully growing VMware software business in Eastern Europe through developing competent and committed channel. Marek was born in southern Polish city Tarnow, moved to Australia when he was six and stayed there with his family for five years. After Australia they moved to Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. In the year 2000 he moved to Vienna, where he is living and working today. He started with Math study at University of Alberta and then switched to Finance which he finished in Vienna at Wirtschaftsuni. He worked for Informix, which was bought by IBM and later moved to VMware. He likes rugby, mountain biking and Chico, his chiuaua. He did a lot of partying when he was younger and still does some today. He also travels a lot. Given a short time to answer, he has no idea what he would really do with a lot of time and money. Maybe create newspaper for Vienna ex-pats, or high quality food delivery service in Vienna. Who knows?

Black rubber pigeons. Neat.

Budapest by (sunny) day.

Doing a sawing machine rim job in Budapest. One of a kind.

Paparoti, Jarše, Slovenia

Davorin Gabrovec - CEO and co-owner of Intera. Born and raised in Ptuj. His University education is still an open chapter: EPF and FS finish lines are in sight. Have been for a while, though :) He worked for several web development companies (Amadej, Hal, Mikropis, ...) before he founded Intera some other colleagues. He used to be very active in kick-box, but now he is mostly busy with golf and badminton.One of his biggest passions lately is also FOREX. With a lot more money and time, he would probably again create a company, create something new, exciting, from scratch. One of the best ways of forward thinking. After a long golf game at Arboretum there was not much time to pay attention to Pizzeria Paparoti. Maybe next time.