Board of Directors

Sir Paul Judge - Chairman

Sir Paul Judge MA, MBA has wide international experience in the commercial, public, political and not-for-profit sectors.

He is the Chairman of Greenhouse Investments and Schroder Income Growth Fund plc and a Director of ENRC plc, of the United

Kingdom Accreditation Service, of Standard Bank Group Ltd of Johannesburg, of Tempur-Pedic International Inc of Kentucky and of Abraaj Capital of Dubai.

His honorary offices include being an Alderman of the City of London, the President of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and of the Association of MBAs, the Chairman of the British-North American Committee, of the North American Advisory Council at the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, of the Enterprise Education Trust, of the Museum of Brands and of St Dunstan’s College and Deputy Chairman of the American Management Association based in New York. He is a Member of the Advisory Boards for the UK-India Business Council, for HEC in Paris and for the Athens University of Economics and Business and a Member of the Council of the Crown Agents. He has honorary degrees from Cambridge, Westminster and City universities.

Following his education at Cambridge University and at the Wharton Business School, Sir Paul worked for Cadbury Schweppes and then led the buyout of their food interests to form Premier Brands which was successfully sold in 1989. He was subsequently Chairman of Food from Britain, Director General of the Conservative Party and a Ministerial Adviser at the Cabinet Office. He has more recently been Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts (2003-6), President of the Chartered Management Institute (2004-5), Master of the Worshipful Company of Marketors (2005-6), Chairman of Teachers TV (2005-8) and a Member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (2008-2010). He was the key benefactor of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.

James Thornley - Vice Chairman

James Thornley is a British chartered accountant who has been living and working in Belgrade since 2002. Through his wife’s family connections, James has been visiting Serbia regularly since the mid 1990s and has a strong interest in its history and current affairs. James is one of the Belgrade based audit and advisory partners in the international accountancy firm KPMG, which is one of the leading and fastest growing consultancy and accountancy firms operating in Belgrade. In addition to serving the corporate sector, James and KPMG are active in the field of corporate and social responsibility, being a board member of the recently formed Serbian Business Leaders forum. KPMG seeks to take a leading role in the development of ethical and socially aware business practices within the Serbian business environment, promoting the fair treatment of employees and the consideration of the environmental implications of business decisions. James is a member of the Board of Directors of British-Serbian Chamber of Commerce. James has two daughters aged 8 and 6.

Avram Balabanovic

Avram Balabanovic is the managing director of CTL Components Group plc, a group of engineering companies based in London.

After electronic engineering studies at Belgrade University, Avram has been engaged in extensive trading contracts in Central and Eastern Europe.

As a member of the British team Avram participated in EU conferences on investment in Yugoslavia and Turkey.

During the 1990s Avram was Treasurer of Democratic Encounters, Paris and Serbian Information Centre in London.

Avram is also a founding member of Serbian Council of Great Britain and a trustee of the Serbian Society in London.

Marija Bojovic

After completing her education in the United States, Marija graduated from Belgrade University and obtained her LL.M. in International Business Law from the Central European University in Budapest. Her areas of expertise include finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and international commercial arbitration. She is listed in the European Legal Expert directory in the field of commercial law and is one of directors of the British-Serbian Chamber of Commerce (BSCC). Marija’s previous experience includes five years as partner in Bojović & Dašić, legal practice with the Serbian branch of PricewaterhouseCoopers and five years as an associate in the office of Prica & Spasić. Marija is fluent in English and competent in German.

Vladimir Djukanovic

Vladimir Djukanovic is a partner in Cirsio Capital LLC, an investment firm based in London. He is in charge of several special situation strategies for the fund. Before that Mr. Djukanovic was a head trader for John Levin & Co. Europe, a New York based investment fund with over $11 billion under management. His career started as an analyst in JP Morgan Asset Management in New York. Vladimir spent 7 years and held the post of the head of equity derivatives and portfolio trading at JP Morgan Asset Management. He is also an active private investor in Serbia, his home country, where he holds several majority equity stakes in firms in different industries. Vladimir is also the Chairman of the Golf Association of Serbia. He graduated from DePauw University, USA

Darko Hajdukovic

Darko Hajdukovic is responsible for the primary market offering for international companies at the London Stock Exchange. Darko joined the Exchange in 2007 looking after the Exchange’s offering for fixed income securities.

Before joining the Exchange, Darko was an independent consultant specialising in financial regulation and regulatory economics. His previous engagements include working for the EU Commission and DLA Piper, where he worked on various projects assessing the effectiveness of the EU regulation and its impact on the economic development of the EU member states. He also acted as a consultant in several privatisations in Central and Eastern Europe.

Darko is a member of the Royal Economic Society.

Gregory Hammond

Greg Hammond is a leading Corporate Finance lawyer in the City of London. His practice encompasses mergers & acquisitions (including privatizations), equity capital markets, private equity and bank finance in the UK and internationally. He has particularly good Serbian M&A experience, having successfully closed one of the few large-scale, fully-negotiated M&A transactions in Serbia, when he represented the seller in its disposal of a controlling stake in one of the leading Serbian mobile telephone operators. He also has excellent knowledge of Serbian capital markets laws and issues. He was instrumental in establishing The British-Serbian Chamber of Commerce in the UK and has been a Director and its Company Secretary since its incorporation.

Jelena Krzanicki

Jelena Krzanicki is a Director and a member of the Board of Directors of the British-Serbian Chamber of Commerce in London. Her role includes promoting and developing the BSCC in the United Kingdom and in Serbia.   

Jelena was born and raised in Belgrade. After moving to the United States in 1994 to finish high school, she continued her education at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She graduated Cum Laude as a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the McDonough School of Business in 2001. Jelena started her career in Foreign Exchange at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York. She moved to London in 2004 to pursue an opportunity at Lehman Brothers where she worked until July 2008 as a Director on the Foreign Exchange Options Trading desk. Jelena currently works as a graphic designer for The Registry real estate business journal published in San Francisco and as an Events Manager for Council of British Chambers of Commerce in Europe (COBCOE).

Jelena is also a founding member of the Serbian City Club in London, which is the largest Serbian business network in the UK with over 1100 members and a member of the General Committee of the Serbian Council of Great Britain, a charitable organization.

Besides her constant and passionate involvement with Serbian diaspora organisations in Britain, Jelena spends her time travelling and exploring the far corners of the globe.

Jelena is married to Daniel and lives in London.

Michael O'Leary-Collins

Michael O’Leary-Collins FRSA, MBA, LLM is Chief Executive of Greenhouse Investments and has worked in banking, media and technology industries in Australia, Asia, USA, EMEA, Eastern Europe over 25 years. After early appointments with the Mitsubishi Bank and the Sydney Futures, Michael founded and managed a number of diverse businesses through the 80’s - 90’s. After a period of further study, became Business Development Director of the UK’s Wace Group plc, then the world’s largest integrated print and pre-press group, became a Partner of a US based international technology management consulting group James Martin & Co to establish the firm’s European venture consulting capability. In April 2000 he established a venture consulting and corporate finance group, Greenhouse Investments has over the last five years concluded substantial transactions in South Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and North America.

Served as a Resident Industrialist for the UK Government’s Department of Trade and Industry, a founding board member of the charitable trust Australia Day Foundation promoting the economic and cultural attributes of his home country, a director of British-Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Michael is a graduate of Australia’s Bond University School of Business and Bond University School of Law.

Milos Stefanovic

Milos was born and raised in Belgrade. Upon arrival to the UK in 1991, Milos studied at the University of Surrey where he obtained a BEng and a PhD in Engineering and Satellite Communications, respectively. In 2000 Milos joined Citibank, where he is currently a vice president providing corporate finance for energy corporations in Emerging markets, including Central and Eastern Europe. In 2006 Milos obtained an MBA from INSEAD in France.

Milos has been actively involved representing the Serbian community in the UK for a number of years. He has been reelected as a vice president of the Serbian Council of Great Britain for four years in a row and is one of the founders of the Serbian City Club based in London which is the largest Serbian business network in the UK with over 1100 members. Following his advisory role to the British-Serbian Chamber of Commerce since 2008, Milos formally joined its Board in 2010. Milos is a keen runner, a polyglot and a cultural explorer.