Meet the people at Ivy Exec who are working hard to elevate your career.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Elena Bajic

Passionate about entrepreneurship and and new ideas, Elena founded Ivy Exec while at Columbia b-school. Elena believes that small teams who are dedicated, driven and united around the same vision are capable of achieving amazing things. That"s why she loves working at Ivy Exec.

Chief Growth Officer

Alex Baranpuria

The greatest mistake one can make in life is to be in continuous fear that you will make one.

Director of Marketing and Member Services

Greg Hunt

Greg leads the marketing efforts at Ivy Exec. He’s based out of the NYC office and can be found most weekends watching soccer on the Lower East Side.

Chief People Officer

Sara Farkas

“When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing” ― Bo Schembechler

VP, Business Development, Market Insights

Sam Lippin

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

Accountant

Jessica Wong

"You can't be that kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute." - Tina Fey

Senior Manager, Digital Strategist

Lauren Lorenzo

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ― Aristotle

Director, Business Development, Market Insights

William Powell

“Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.” – Billie Burke

Manager, Business Development, Market Insights

Christian Ortez

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." - John F. Kennedy

Associate, Business Development, Market Insights

Stephanie Shang

"Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we're left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling not moving, assuming the worst that can happen, or we step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant." - Christian Yang

Associate, Business Development, Market Insights

Ismelka Gomez

"Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain" – Frida Kahlo

Business Development Associate, Market Insights

Blair Green

"I don’t like to lose — at anything…Yet I’ve grown most not from victories, but setbacks." - Serena Williams

Associate, Business Development, Market Insights

David Drillings

"Great moments are born from great opportunity" - Herb Brooks

Associate, Business Development, Market Insights, Consulting Vertical

Nick Rubino

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to reach my destination. - Jimmy Dean

Associate, Strategic Partnerships in Business Development, Market Insights

Maja Blagojevic

"Believe you can and you are halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

Sales Support, Market Insights

Marijana Kotevski

" The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement." - Helmut Schmidt

Senior Career Advisor, Team Lead

Andjela Milenkovic

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."

Career Advisor

Andrijana Milosevic

"So long, and thanks for all the fish." - Douglas Adams

Career Advisor

Anastazija Gavrilovic

"Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better." Samuel Beckett

HEAD OF RESEARCH, Market Insights

Tijana Mirkovic

Tijana oversees the execution of client mandates and research initiatives for Ivy Exec.

Project Manager, Team Lead, Market Insights

Ekin Zengul

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." -- Norman Vincent

Senior Project Manager, Team Lead, Market Insights

Filip Stanic

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too." -- Paulo Coelho

Project Manager & Business Operations, Market Insights

Zorana Mihic

"Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday." - Steve Jobs

Project Manager, Market Insights

Lara Radojkovic

‘When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day’- E. Woodward

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, DIGITAL STRATEGIST, Higher Education

Mirjana Ciric

Responsible for Strategic Development, Mirjana develops client relationships and delivers high quality results for Ivy Exec and its partners.

Account Manager, Digital Strategist, Higher Education

Sanja Jovanovic

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." - Anthony Robbins

Marketing Manager

Matt Sexton

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." - Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Content Manager

Mara Fahl

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker

Marketing Associate

Zorka Djurovic

Think like a lady, drive like a man.

Graphic Designer, Marketing

Jelena Tucic

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” - Haruki Murakami

Senior Project Manager, Market Insights

Milica Skutelis

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” - Zora Neale

Project Manager, Market Insights

Bojana Horvat

"Live now, make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again." - Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Senior Project Manager, Market Insights

MILOS PAUNOVIC

“I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun.” – Erlend Loe

Project Manager, Market Insights

Milica Vojinovic

When people try to rain on your parade, poke them in the eye with your umbrella.

Project Manager, Market Insights

Marko Pantic

"Don't try." - Charles Bukowski

Project Manager, Market Insights

Ana Karaleic

"There were so many things we feared and we shouldn't have. We should have lived." Ivo Andric

Senior Associate, Market Insights

Djina Nedovic

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." - David Bowie

Senior Associate, Market Insights

Nikola Jovanovic

"Life begins where fear ends" - Osho

Senior Associate, Market Insights

Tamara Stancic

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde

Associate, Market Insights

Antonija Sudarevic

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Associate, Market Insights

Ivana Djordjevic

Focus on the good & always do your best!

Associate, Market Insights

Milica Jarcevic

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. - Colin R. Davis

Associate, Market Insights

Anna Simonovic

“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”

Associate, Market Insights

Dejan Milos

“What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” - Mark Twain

Associate, Market Insights

Jelena Milic

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it." Estee Lauder

Associate, Market Insights

Nina Gruborovic

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle

Associate, Market Insights

Asja Rigonat

“Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.” Shimon Peres

Associate, Market Insights

Ivana Samardzic

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.” ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

Associate, Market Insights

Igor Cipe

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." - Orson Welles

Associate, Market Insights

Gala Ladisic

Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin

Associate, Market Insights

Mirjana Rajic

"The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures!" - Ben Shneiderman

Associate, Market Insights

Jelena Majkic

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. -Sir James Dewar

Associate, Market Insights

Selena Susa

What we know matters, but who we are matters more. - Brené Brown.

Associate, Market Insights

Valerija Marinkovic

Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn. - Drake

Research Support, Market Insights

MARKO POUČKI

May the Source be with you!

Project Manager, Recruitment Marketing, Higher Education

Milica Stankovic

"Comfort is the enemy of achievement." - Farrah Gray

Associate, Recruitment Marketing, Higher Ed

Tamara Mijailovic

''Surround yourself with people who challenge you, teach you, and push you to be your best self.'' -- Bill Gates

Recruitment & HR Specialist

Nina Kastratovic

"Yes, it's (almost) all about the money... But PEOPLE make money, so respect your employees. Invest in them. Care for them. The return on investment is at least duplicated."

Customer Experience and Mentorship Coordinator

Vanja Karlicic

"I don"t have any other message than don"t forget you are alive". J.S.

Customer Experience

Milijana Radic

“I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.” ― Erica Jong

Associate Director of Product

Dina Dobrivojevic

Dear bugs, beware! The test machine is ON.

Associate Product Manager

Murielle Hsieh

"You only live once? False. You live every day. You only die once" -- Dwight K. Schrute

Lead Software Engineer & Systems Architect

Andrej Bicok

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. -Martin Fowler

FRONT END DEVELOPER, Team Lead

Danijel Kosijer

"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way." - Keanu Reeves

Head of Software Quality Assurance

Slavna Dadic

No bug shall pass

UI/UX & Graphic Designer

Marko P. Manojlovic

File. New. Add. Transform. Move. Add Effect. Resize. Ctrl + Z, Ctrl + Z. Resize. Move. CTRL + C. CTRL + V. Save For Web. #Win.

BACK END SOFTWARE Developer

Milos Babic

“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.” - Edward V. Berard

Back End Developer

Jelena Vukojevic

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker

Front End Developer

Branislav Bacic

"The sky is not the limit, your mindset is."

Front End Developer

Marko Ljubanovic

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” — Albert Einstein

SYSTEM ADMIN & DevOps Engineer

Aleksandar Stancic

When he enters a shell he becomes a Super Admin!

Acquisition Strategies and Job Board Team Lead

Bojan Rajovic

"The customer"s perception is your reality" – Kate Zabriskie

Product Associate, Software System Analyst

Ivana Vujadinovic

Work is love made visible. – Khalil Gibran

Digital Marketing Coordinator

Katja Dragojlovic

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Andre Gide