Mr. Mark Klein graduated from RWTH Aachen with a master degree in mechanical engineering in 1996 and with an MBA in 1998.
Mr. Klein started his career as a Consultant with McKinsey & Company. For several years he consulted telecommunication and high tech companies in Europe and the US in the area of marketing and sales. In 2005 Mark joined Vodafone Germany where he held different leadership roles in marketing and sales functions in the fixed net and mobile business.
In 2012 Mr. Klein decided to change teams and he became Senior Vice Present Marketing Europe within the Deutsche Telekom Group. In 2014, Mr. Klein was happy to take on a new challenge and he started as CEO for T-Mobile Netherlands. TMNL is front runner in the area of digital transformation, and as CEO, Mr. Klein is working hard to strengthen their position as the mobile expert in the Dutch market.
Mr. Ivica Mišetić, Ph.D., graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Zagreb in 1983. He earned his Master's degree with the thesis "Marketing in Travel Agencies" and his Doctor's Degree with the dissertation "Air Carrier Marketing Management".
Mr. Mišetić started his career as Regional Sales Manager of Slovenian air carrier Adria Airways, where he was employed from 1985 to 1991. He then moved to Croatia Airlines in March 1991 as one of the founders of the Croatian carrier and was promoted to Senior Vice President for Marketing and Sales the following year.
In early 1995, Mr. Mišetić was appointed Head of State Protocol for the Republic of Croatia and Ambassador, simultaneously holding Ambassador status. Upon his return to Croatia Airlines in 1997 he took the position of Chief Executive Officer.
Under the leadership of Mr. Mišetić, Croatia Airlines became one of the first airlines to fulfill the requirements of the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA). Mr. Mišetić also initiated the modernization of the fleet and took the airline into the Star Alliance in 2004. As a result, Croatia Airlines is now a leading airline in the region.
Since 2002, Mr. Mišetić has been a Member of the Presidents’ Committee of the Association of European Airlines (AEA). In 2009, he became Chairman of the AEA and Member of the IATA Nominating Committee. He is also a Council Member of the Croatian Tourist Board and Supervisory Board Member of Hrvatski Telekom.
In October 2010, he joined Atlantic Grupa d.d. as General Secretary, at the time of the acquisition of Droga Kolinska. Also in 2010, Mr. Mišetić was elected Lecturer at the University of Zagreb, and headed the Marketing Course at the Dubrovnik International University. In November 2011, he was appointed, for the second time, to the National Council for Higher Education.
Mr. Mišetić has received several decorations from the Republic of Croatia for his contribution and achievements and has been awarded the French Legion of Honor Medal.
Dr. Oliver Knipping is Vice President, Area Management Croatia of Deutsche Telekom AG.
Having started his professional career in Deutsche Telekom Regulatory Affairs, he was assigned to HT-Hrvatske telekomunikacije from 2004-2009 and held a senior position in Deutsche Telekom Mergers and Acquisitions until 2012.
Prior to receiving a PhD from University College London (2002) he graduated from Humboldt University Berlin in economics (1998).
Mr. Damir Grbavac is President of the Management Board of the Raiffeisen Mandatory and Voluntary Pension Funds Management Company d.d., Zagreb.
Mr. Grbavac holds bachelor’s degree in economics and master’s degree in business finance from Zagreb University. He is licensed pension fund manager and holds Croatian financial adviser’s certificate.
Before joining Raiffeisen Pension Fund team, he was Board president of Raiffeisen Securities, brokerage and M&A arm of Raiffeisen Group in Croatia and before that Investment Banking Executive Director in Raiffeisenbank Austria, Zagreb. In parallel, during the first 2 years with Raiffeisen Group, he was a Board member of Raiffeisen Investment, at that time corporate finance arm of the Group in Croatia.
He started his work carrier in Đuro Đaković Group in Slavonski Brod, Croatia. He held different positions there from credit executive in Group internal bank to deputy general manager of the Holding Company.
In the past, he was a member of the initial Administrative Council of Central Pension Register, Supervisory Board member of Zagreb Stock Exchange, Supervisory Board president in Medika Ltd., Zagreb and member or president of supervisory boards in some other companies. He was a member of working group of Croatian EU Accession Negotiating Team on financial services chapter.
Ms Evelyn Jakobs holds a diploma in Business Administration and she has graduated from the European Business School, Oestrich Winkel, Germany.
After 2 years at the university and having published a book in 1997, she started her international career with Wal-Mart.
In 2001, she joined Deutsche Telekom AG at the Internal Audit department. Since then she has held several managerial positions in Germany and abroad.
After having moved from T-Mobile Slovensko in Bratislava to the Europe Headquarter at Deutsche Telekom in Bonn in 2009, she headed the Channel Management department, being responsible for market invest Europewide and for running several strategic transformation/digitization programs within the footprint.
Currently, Ms Evelyn Jakobs holds the position of Lead Commercial Steering and is also responsible for Commercial Strategy and Performance Management of the DT Europe Portfolio in the B2C area.