Dr. Vladimir Preveden

Managing Partner, Zagreb and Southeastern Europe

Preveden: "Making croatia's economy competitive."

"I think it's absolutely thrilling to help transform Croatia's economy and make it competitive and modern. Tailoring global issues to Croatian businesses that are going international – I love this challenge!"

Vladimir Preveden, 37, is Croatian and grew up in Austria. He has been managing Roland Berger's Zagreb office, which is responsible for all of Southeastern Europe, since it opened in September 2003.

He studied industrial and mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Graz. Aside from a brief interlude as an investment manager, he has been working in strategy consulting since 1998. In 2003 he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna.

His areas of expertise are telecom, tourism and consumer goods. He also specializes in comprehensive business transformations, such as strategy development, change management and reorganization.