We are hosting Ardian Hoxha

Name: We are hosting Ardian Hoxha
Start: 2022-05-05T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-05-05T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Protik

Protik - Rruga Papa Gjon Pali II Tirana, 1001 Tirana
Thu, May 5, 2022, 6:00 PM (CEST)

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Startup Grind Tirana is hosting Ardian Hoxha, changemaker, entrepreneur, investor, and speaker, with 20+ years experience in jewelry, education, media, entertainment, food industry, and telecommunications. He is the founder and Chapter President of the Keiretsu Forum SEE (Southeast Europe).

Ardian will join us in a fireside chat and take us through this successful career journey of more than 20 years, sharing his stories, achievements and mindset with us.

Speaker

Ardian Hoxha

Serial Entrepreneur

Ardian is a changemaker, entrepreneur, investor, and speaker, with 20+ years experience in jewelry, education, media, entertainment, food industry, and telecommunications. He is the founder and investor in the American School of Kosova, Duplex Club, Albafone, Glam Radio, Green and Protein, SushiCo Kosova and SushiCo Albania. Ardian is also the founder and Chapter President of the Keiretsu Foru…

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Ardian Hoxha

Ardian is a changemaker, entrepreneur, investor, and speaker, with 20+ years experience in jewelry, education, media, entertainment, food industry, and telecommunications. He is the founder and investor in the American School of Kosova, Duplex Club, Albafone, Glam Radio, Green and Protein, SushiCo Kosova and SushiCo Albania. Ardian is also the founder and Chapter President of the Keiretsu Forum SEE (Southeast Europe). Keiretsu Forum SEE is the newest chapter in the Keiretsu Forum family covering 9 countries in the Southeast Europe region: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. Ardian holds an Executive MBA degree from the IEDC – Bled School of Management. He serves as a Board Member at AmCham Kosovo, and is also a very active Rotarian and a founding member of Rotary Club Prishtina. Awards and recognitions include but are not limited to:

- UNICREDIT Alumni Achievement Award; IEDC – Bled School of Management, 2012.

- FashionTV Nightlife Award; Cannes, France, May 21, 2013, during the Cannes Film Festival.

Moderator

Aneida Bajraktari

Balkans Capital

Co-Founder

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Aneida Bajraktari

Balkans Capital

Aneida Bajraktari is the co-founder and managing partner of "Balkans Capital" a financial consulting company based in Tirana helping companies unleash the transformative power of their finances.

Aneida is a key player in the startup ecosystem in Albania. She is the director of Startup Grind Tirana, a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs; lead organizer of Startup Weekend Tirana, the world’s biggest educational movement for entrepreneurs, curator at Startup Digest, a media company that publishes curated email newsletters on startup events and educational content in more than 300 cities. Aneida is recently appointed as the Senator of Albania in the "World Business Angels Investment Forum" an international organisation aiming to ease access to finance for businesses from start up to scale up to exit, with the ultimate goal of generating more jobs and more social justice worldwide. It is committed to collaborating globally to empower world economic development by creating innovative financial instruments for innovators, startups, and SMEs.

Aneida has organized numerous events with the desire to aid the development of the local entrepreneurial system. She has been invited as keynote speaker, mentor, jury member to different events. Her entrepreneurial spirit and pursuits not only engage and inspire but have also contributed in fostering innovation in the country.