On October 19, BBBA held its Annual General Meeting in Novotel Hotel Sofia.
The guests were warmly welcomed by H.E. Rob Dixon, British Ambassador to Bulgaria. The event was opened by BBBA Chair Mr. Gilbert McCaul, who highlighted the main development of BBBA for the past 12 months and expressed his gratitude to the members for their engagement with BBBA’s activities.
The General Meeting proceeded with a presentation of the Bulgarian Expansion Bridge (BEX) by Genoveva Christova- Murray and Dilyana Haralanova. Afterwards, Desislava Miteva, BBBA Executive Director, presented our results from the past year, and our plans for BBBA strategic development, followed by a vote for the presented financial results and 2024 budget. All proposed changes were accepted by BBBA Members, namely number of allowed mandates of Board members from 2 to 3, and increase of the number of Board members from 7 to 9.
The most expected part of the evening was the elections of seven board members, who had the opportunity to present their ideas on how they would contribute to BBBA.
As a result of the votes of all present BBBA members, we would like to welcome to the BBBA Board of Directors Miroslava Kostadinova, Cook Communications and Evlogi Georgiev, IT Consulting Integration who were re-elected for second term serving the BBBA Board. We are also delighted to welcome Barry Brand, Dare to Care More, Georgi Tonchev, Elando, Hristina Trifonova, Vivacom, Kamelia Slaveykova, Shell, and Paul Wright, Optim Project Management.
Congratulations to them! We wish them a productive mandate and we are looking forward to working closely with them.
We would like to express our deepest gratitude to Gilbert McCaul for his service on the Board as our Chair over the last two years and his dedication to BBBA and its members. Special thanks to Genoveva Christova- Murray, Ligna Group and Bojidar Neytchev, PwC for their contribution to BBBA over their mandates as Board Members. We trust they will continue to actively participate in BBBA activities going forward.
Finally, we would like to thank all members for participating in the Annual General Meeting. We invite you to look through the photos from the event on our official Facebook page. Make sure you like and follow our social media channel so you stay posted with the latest BBBA news.