TAMARA TRNINIĆ GONDI

Head of Communications

Tamara Trninić-Gondi is the Head of Communications at Foodscale Hub, with a background in marketing, journalism, and film and TV production. She has seven years of experience in broadcast journalism and six years in managing dissemination and communication for EU projects, alongside work in film and music festivals. She earned a Bachelor’s in marketing from the University of Novi Sad as well as two Master’s degrees—one in Marketing with a focus on Arts and Culture and another in Film Production. Her passion for cultural dialogues, languages, literature, the arts, and science shapes her approach to communications. At Foodscale Hub, she leads dissemination and communication for Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects, overseeing the organization’s overall outreach.

DUŠAN PEVAC

Head of Finance

Dušan Pevac is the Head of Finance at Foodscale Hub. He has experience working as an external accountant and payroll associate, working mostly with SMEs and entrepreneurs. Before that, he was an intern at NIS (Gazprom Neft), where he assisted senior financial analysts in cash flow calculations and preparing internal financial publications. Dušan got his bachelor’s degree in Finance, Banking, and Insurance and has completed his master’s thesis in Accounting and Audit.

PROF. MLADEN RADIŠIĆ

CEO

Prof. Mladen Radišić is a university professor in the area of Business and Finance, and he has the position of CEO at Foodscale Hub. Mladen has been holding various management positions and has participated in numerous EU-funded projects (CIP/COSME, FP7/H2020, etc.). He has previous experience in running large-scale projects and organization of international EU-funded business accelerator programs. These projects and programs have delivered more than 12 mEUR to more than 150 European SMEs and startups, covering sectors such as agrifood, ICT, manufacturing, logistics, health, finance, energy, and environment. His fields of interest are financial and small business management, international project management.

MAJA RADIŠIĆ

Head of Operations

Maja Radišić is a Head of Operations at Foodscale Hub. She obtained MSc degree at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences. She has more than 15 years of experience in the business and research sector, along with experience in business acceleration for innovative start-ups and SMEs. During her career, she has been involved in numerous large-scale international projects, with a project portfolio of over 100M EUR (involved in project implementation and/or proposal preparation). Her main focus is mostly related to project management (project implementation and proposal writing); setting, conducting, and monitoring of the open calls; monitoring of the sub-projects & beneficiaries from the open calls; organization of promotional activities; contribution to the preparation of reports; organization of training sessions, etc.

DARKO MANDICH

Founder & President

Darko Mandich is an entrepreneur with experience launching ventures in the food and biotechnology industries both in Europe and the United States. Driven by his commitment to giving back to the community he started from, he founded Foodscale Hub. His vision is to make a positive impact on the future startup ecosystems that are creating solutions empowering the wellbeing of humankind and our planet. He is very passionate about bees, and his latest venture MeliBio is set to use science to produce honey without bees and remove the pressure of commercial beekeeping on wild and native bee species.

d@foodscalehub.com

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