Meet the people at Ivy Exec who are working hard to elevate your career.
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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.
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Chief Growth Officer
Alex Baranpuria
The greatest mistake one can make in life is to be in continuous fear that you will make one.
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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
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VP, 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.
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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
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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
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VP, Business Development and Strategic Partnerships, Market Insights
William Powell
“Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.” – Billie Burke
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Senior Business Development Manager
Ian Turk
If you always put limits on everything that you do, be it physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and your life. There are no limits, only plateaus and you must not stay there. You must go beyond them. -Bruce Lee
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Senior Manager, Business Development - Market Insights
Steven Hakim
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston S. Churchill
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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
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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
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Account Manager, Market Insights
Maja Blagojevic
"Believe you can and you are halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
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Sales Support, Business Development, Market Insights
Isidora Hadzic
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James
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Client Relationship Associate, Business Development, Market Insights
Violeta Velisavljev
Opportunities don't happen. You create them.
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Sales Support, Business Development, Market Insights
Miroslav Kiceskulov
"The best thing about the future is it comes one day at a time" - Abraham Lincoln
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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, DIGITAL STRATEGIST, Market Insights
Mirjana Ciric
Responsible for Strategic Development, Mirjana develops client relationships and delivers high quality results for Ivy Exec and its partners.
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Account Manager, Digital Strategist, Higher Education
Sanja Jovanovic
"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." - Anthony Robbins
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Project Manager, Team Lead, Market Insights
Ekin Zengul
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." -- Norman Vincent
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Marketing Project Manager & Member Services Team Lead
Zorka Djurovic
Think like a lady, drive like a man.
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Career Advisor
Anastazija Gavrilovic
"Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better." Samuel Beckett
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Acquisition Strategies and Job Board Team Lead
Bojan Rajovic
"The customer"s perception is your reality" – Kate Zabriskie
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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
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Digital Marketing Coordinator
Katja Dragojlovic
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Andre Gide
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Content Marketing Associate
Snezana Petrovic
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” ― Albert Einstein
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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
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HEAD OF RESEARCH, Market Insights
Tijana Mirkovic
Tijana oversees the execution of client mandates and research initiatives for Ivy Exec.
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Project Manager, Recruitment Marketing, Higher Education
Milica Stankovic
"Comfort is the enemy of achievement." - Farrah Gray
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Senior Project Manager & Business Operations, 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
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Project Manager, Learning & Development Specialist, Market Insights
Milica Skutelis
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” - Zora Neale
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Project Manager, Learning & Development Specialist, Market Insights
Bojana Horvat
"Live now, make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again." - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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Account Manager, Market Insights
Marko Pantic
"Don't try." - Charles Bukowski
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Senior Project Manager, Market Insights
Filip Stanic
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too." -- Paulo Coelho
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Project Manager, Market Insights
Milica Vojinovic
When people try to rain on your parade, poke them in the eye with your umbrella.
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Project Manager, Market Insights
Djina Nedovic
"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." - David Bowie
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Project Manager, Market Insights
Tamara Stancic
“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde
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Project Manager, Market Insights
Nikola Jovanovic
"Life begins where fear ends" - Osho
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Project Manager, 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.”
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Project Manager, Market Insights
Ivana Djordjevic
Focus on the good & always do your best!
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Project Manager, Market Insights
Anna Simonovic
“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”
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Project Manager, 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
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Project Manager, Market Insights
Igor Cipe
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." - Orson Welles
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Project Manager, Market Insights
Nina Gruborovic
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
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Project Manager, Market Insights
Ivana Samardzic
“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.” ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
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Project Manager, Market Insights
Mirjana Rajic
"The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures!" - Ben Shneiderman
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Project Manager, Market Insights
Valerija Marinkovic
Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn. - Drake
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Project Manager, Market Insights
Nada Lukic
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius
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Project Manager, Market Insights
Tamara Pejcinovic
''Surround yourself with people who challenge you, teach you, and push you to be your best self.'' -- Bill Gates
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Senior Associate, Market Insights
Jelena Majkic
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. -Sir James Dewar
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Senior Associate, Market Insights
Milica Jarcevic
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. - Colin R. Davis
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Senior Associate, Market Insights
Milutin Beocanin
I don't search, i find. - Madonna
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Senior Associate, Market Insights
Miomira Zivkovic
Change is the only constant. - Hearclitus
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Senior Associate, Market Insights
Jovana Djurdjic
Be the glitch you want to see in the matrix.
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Senior Associate, Market Insights
Selena Susa
What we know matters, but who we are matters more. - Brené Brown.
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Senior Associate, Market Insights
Andrijana Milosevic
"So long, and thanks for all the fish." - Douglas Adams
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Senior Associate, Market Insights
Katarina Nicic
What we think, we become. - Buddha
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Associate, Market Insights
Mihajlo Cukic
There are no mistakes, only opportunities.
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Associate, Market Insights
Milena Biga
One day, it will look like it all happened overnight.
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Associate, Market Insights
Nina Asanin
"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
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Associate, Market Insights
Ivana Kazic
"If you don't dare to take a chance, you have already lost."
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Associate, Market Insights
Marija Crnogorac
Leadership is not necessarily about being the loudest in the room, but instead being the bridge or the thing that is missing in the discussion and trying to build a consensus from there. - Jacinda Ardern
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Associate, Market Insights
Kristina Andric
"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces." - Will Rogers
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Associate, Market Insights
Andjela Strikovic
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
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Research Support, Market Insights
MARKO POUČKI
May the Source be with you!
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Associate Director of Product
Dina Dobrivojevic
Dear bugs, beware! The test machine is ON.
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Lead Software Engineer & Software Architect
Andrej Bicok
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. -Martin Fowler
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FRONT END DEVELOPER, Team Lead
Danijel Kosijer
"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way." - Keanu Reeves
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Head of Software Quality Assurance
Slavna Dadic
No bug shall pass
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Associate Product Manager
Murielle Hsieh
"You only live once? False. You live every day. You only die once" -- Dwight K. Schrute
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Front End Developer
Branislav Bacic
"The sky is not the limit, your mindset is."
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Back End Developer
Jelena Vukojevic
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
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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
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Recruitment & HR Specialist
Nina Miskov
"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."
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Junior Recruiter
Ivana Skamla
"You may never know what results come from your actions, but if you do nothing there will be no results."
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HR & People Operations Coordinator
Ilijana Kladar
If we don't tell people how we feel, how will they know?
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Administrative Operations
Vanja Karlicic
"I don"t have any other message than don"t forget you are alive". J.S.