Author: Niya Ivanova

Аleksandar Popov is the Director of the Directorate “Supervision of Gambling and Gambling Activities” of the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency and he is responsible for the implementation of the state policy in the field of gambling. He has more than 10 years of experience in the field of state control over sectors with a significant concentration of public funds and has an extensive background in the development of legislation and management of public interest litigation, regulation, governance and public sector strategy. Aleksandar is a lawyer and he is certified as an internal auditor in the public sector.

Cosmina Maria Simion is the managing partner of WH Simion & Partners in Bucharest. She is a regulatory, technology,  intellectual property and corporate lawyer with more than 20 years of professional experience and expertise in various industries, with a particular emphasis on the gambling, media and entertainment and online industries. Cosmina is the First Vice President of International Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL), a non-profit association of gaming attorneys, regulators, educators, executives and consultants from around the world.  In the gaming field, Cosmina’s experience encompasses the full range of regulatory and operational gaming aspects for betting and gaming operators, software Read More

Marina Muchakova is a tax advisor with more than 15 years of experience in the field of tax optimizations. Since 2017 she specialized in the area of crypto taxes and crypto accounting and also in crypto payments. Marina Muchakova is a managing partner in accounting and tax company Vesta Consult; Founding Member in the Crypto Academy; Guest lector in University of Sofia and UNWE, blogger and content creator in various social networks as Tik Tok, YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn with more than 50 000 followers. Also Marina Muchakova is admin and owner of one of the biggest business groups for entrepreneurs Read More

Georgi began his professional path in digital marketing 9 years ago, dedicating himself entirely to developing performance digital marketing strategies and specialising in PPC, SEO, e-commerce, and Email marketing automation. His first occupation in Netpeak was as a Team Leader of the Project managers and the Sales department in the agency. Now he is responsible for all active and new client projects at Netpeak Bulgaria as well as for internal and external business processes. Since the beginning of his career at Netpeak, Georgi has managed dozens of client projects from Bulgaria and abroad, gaining solid expertise alongside the agency and Read More

Debora Dineva is an Associate in the Sofia office of Kinstellar, a leading independent law firm in Central and South Eastern Europe. Debora advises international and local clients on complex regulatory and compliance issues, including multinational companies and other investors in the gambling space (including manufactures of hardware and other gambling technology) on the rapidly changing gambling regulatory framework in Bulgaria, including in relation to gambling advertising. She provides full scope of legal services to clients in the TMT sector, including advice on personal data protection and IP rights. In addition, Debora has a background in dispute resolution, including commercial Read More

Maarja is head of compliance of the Omni Matrix Group, a fintech operating in payments, which also includes Kyros AML – the proprietary compliance tool for customer and transaction monitoring. Maarja is a lawyer that has mainly worked in EU regulatory, financial services (including crypto), ESG and competition and state aid law. She is a member of the Estonian Bar Association and the Bar of England and Wales. Most recently she worked at the Estonian office of the law firm Eversheds Sutherland. Before joining private practice she worked at the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for the Estonian Read More

Dr. Hristian Daskalov serves as the Chairman of the cybersecurity-focused European Digital Innovation Hub “Trakia” (Cyber4AllSTAR), which is uniting the Bulgarian Cybersecurity Association, the Institute for Information and Communication Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and the Union for Private Economic Enterprise, among other partners. EDIH Trakia is part of the EDIH Network under the Digital Europe Program of the European Commission, partner of ECSO and the Women4Cyber Foundation. Dr. Daskalov has previously served as an Executive Director of the National Student House under the Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Bulgaria (2018-2023). Author of 3 books Read More

Petar Iliev is an expert in digital marketing with over 9 years of professional experience. He began his career in 2015 as a Freelance SEO Specialist. In 2017, Petar joined the team at Netpeak Bulgaria, one of Eastern Europe’s leading performance marketing agencies, as a New Business Manager. In this role, he focused on collaborating with new clients and assisting businesses in their digital transformation process. His work involved developing personalized marketing strategies to help companies adapt to new trends and improve their online presence through SEO, PPC, CRM marketing, or promoting their mobile apps. Today, Petar holds the position Read More