7. ICV Croatian Adriatic Region Workshop

Dr. Mladen Meter, is a consultant and managing director of Business effectiveness Ltd. for business consulting in the field of controlling, finance, management, accounting, internal audit and business information systems (ERP/SAP). He has extensive experience in management positions in international companies (Kaufland, Generali, Basler) and is currently working independently and with renowned foreign partners on numerous projects in Croatia and abroad. He received his Master's degree in 2005 from the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, in 2006 he finished Controlling Stufenprogramm at Austrian Controller-Institut in Vienna and passed the examination for the Certified Controller. In 2012 he attained his PhD from the Faculty of Economics in Split. He also attended the IEDC Bled School of Management. He is  internationally certified HICHERT®IBCS consultant and trainer, certified consultant partner for IBCS certified solutions for management reports and presentations. He is a certified internal auditor for banks, financial institutions and information systems and is a member of consultants network of certified consultants of HAMAG for areas: business planning, finance, organization and business management. He has been a senior lecturer at the AACSB accredited business school for a number of years, and has lectured in Germany at ESB Business School in Reutlingen and at CBS International Business School in Mainz. He is European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - EBRD's consultant. He also frequently teaches on open and in-house education in Croatia and abroad.

Bálint Palotai is Head of Strategy Innovation and Sales at Horváth & Partners. He has 18 years consulting background and speaker on several international strategy forums and conferences. He is thought leader in strategy setting and execution design, leader of several transformation programs, designing performance managament of strategy execution (incl. Balanced Scorecard). Bálint is Co-Founder of several datadriven strategy action methodology like branch network optimization with external geoinformation data, dynamic pricing using transactional and client data, differentiated service offering design using behavioral segmentation of clients.

Gábor Ádám, Head of  Analytics Center of Excellence, Chief Data Scientist at Horváth & Partners. He has 14 years BI and Analytics consulting background, BI, data and analytics strategy and roadmap design including technology ecosystem maturity assesment and development recommendations (having experience in sevaral platforms like SAP –ECC6.0, HANA, BW, BOBI, SAC, BPC, SQL, PowerBI, Tableau, Microstrategy, R, Python, Cloudera, SPSS, IBM TM1 (PA). He is lecturing at several universities and executive MBA programs, has participated in ERP transformation programs, designing future Steering Concepts and embedded it into full IT Ecosystem from ERP to single point of truth Datawarehouse to Management Reporting and Analytics. He lead several Management Reporting and Dashboarding projects in Middle East, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Romania and Hungary and is Co-Founder of several datadriven strategy action methodology like branch network optimization with external geoinformation data, dynamic pricing using transactional and client data, differentiated service offering design using behavioral segmentation of clients.