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To their very first client, Jochen established Chevron Consultants in 2000 to provide support in an application within a regulated market. Over time, the company expanded and evolved into the Chevron Group, a prominent provider of compliance consulting, outsourcing, training, and audits in multiple jurisdictions. Today, the Chevron Group has offices in Frankfurt (Germany), Gzira (Malta), Milan (Italy) and Barcelona (Spain). Notably, one of the group’s members has been recognized as an ODR (Online Dispute Resolution) body by the European Commission since 2019. Apart from his involvement in compliance, Jochen also has a keen interest in technology. He has founded several tech companies and currently Read More

Aleksandar Popov is an executive legal and regulatory professional with more than 13 years of experience in contract management, public procurement, governance, compliance, regulatory affairs and strategic advisory. He has supported major public investments, EU-funded programmes and regulatory reforms, combining legal expertise with strategic leadership, commercial awareness and stakeholder management. His expertise spans contract administration, FIDIC contracts, procurement governance, audit, risk management, public policy and investment project delivery. He is a former Director of the Directorate for Supervision of Gambling and Gambling Activities at Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency (NRA) and has also held executive leadership positions within the Ministry of Read More

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