Entrepreneur/NGO
Founder and CЕО of the Listen Up Foundation. Social entrepreneur by soul. Listen Up Foundation is the winner of the Reach for change for Bulgaria in 2015 for their idea to launch for the first time ever an innovative equal access services platform for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people in the region. Ashod is Deaf and he believes that if access to information, education and career development is available, self-confidence and sense of equality will bring for better quality of life for the Deaf community.
Animator
Dimitar is an animator and background designer. He graduated from The University of Westminster in London, UK. Dimitar has worked for companies such as Cartoon Network Studios Europe, HUTS JWT and Strata Advertising. He is the creator, lead writer and art director of "The Golden Apple" animated series.
Producer
Elena graduated in Communication, Culture and Media in the UK. She has worked as a producer and project manager for multiple companies and festivals such as the East Winds International Film Festival, Kinematograf LIVE, RCR Films Spain, Worldwide FX and Ubisoft Sofia. She is also the head producer of Studio Zmei - the production company behind The Golden Apple animated series.
Hristo Panchugov
Assistant Professor
He is an assistant professor in political science at NBU and a PhD student at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski ". He has a Master's degree of Political Science at Central European University in Budapest. From January 2013 he is the head of the political party "Blue unity." The research interests of Hristo Panchugov are in the field of political parties, interest representation and lobbying, foreign policy, European integration and international relations. He is a chorister in the chamber choir "Sofia" and loves photography.
Digital marketing and communication expert
Ivo Iliev is a CEO of InteractAge Ltd. He works in the field of organizing, consulting and the realization of local and international digital marketing campaigns for companies from EU, USA and Russia.
Kalin Ivanov
Kalin Ivanov is a IT professional. His passion is improvisational theatre.
Associate Professor
Maurice Grinberg is a Chairman of the foundation "ASSIST - Supporting Technologies. He is an associate professor in the department of "Cognitive Science and Psychology" at NBU, a researcher at the Research Center for Cognitive Science at NBU.
He is an expert in technology eye-tracking, work with the system for eye tracking, e-learning, usability and effectiveness of e-learning systems, measurement and quality of education.
Student/ English Language teacher
Neely was born in Bulgaria from an Indian mother and a Syrian father, she grew up in Syria and spent a few years in different Arabic countries as an expat. She moved to Sofia more than 2 years ago and continues working as an English teacher while studying International Business Communication.
Music band
Nasekomix (Насекомикс) are a Bulgarian musical group from Sofia. Their style could be described as an avantgarde minimalistic mixture of electronic music, jazz-rock, punk, indie, fusion' and trip-hop. The group themselves define it as 'melodramatic pop' with drum & bass and electronica influences.
The band's name is a portmanteau blending the Bulgarian words nasekomo (insect) and komix (comix).
Business executive and altruist
Sasha Bezuhanova is a senior executive and altruist with 20 years executive business career in HP and a multi-dimensional track record of service to society. Her long list of business achievements and social development engagements throughout the years involves positioning Bulgaria as an ICT center of global significance, boosting the entrepreneurial culture and women empowerment in her home country Bulgaria and at European level. Two years ago she left her business career and devoted herself to supporting social prosperity trough enlightenment and civic engagement. She founded MoveBG - civil platform for collaboration and constructive public debate, reconfirmation of the democratic principles and definition of the long-term strategies and innovative policies for development of modern Bulgaria.
Vladimir Bozhilov
editor-in-chief
Vladimir Bozhilov is a senior assistant professor in Astronomy at the Faculty of
Physics at Sofia University, Bulgaria. His main scientific interests are in AGN
(active galactic nucleus – quasars and blazars at high redshift), cosmology,
exoplanets and habitability.
Since 2010, Mr. Bozhilov is an active science communicator. He won second
prize in FameLab – Bulgaria 2010 competition for science communication and
took part in the first national TV-show for popular science (“Beautiful Science”),
aired on the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) in 2011. He is also an editor-in-chief of “BBC Knowledge –
Bulgaria”.