Petar Ivanov

Petar T. Ivanov has been the CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria since May 2017. He has a vast experience in the ICT industry in CEE and the Emerging Markets. Entrepreneurial and innovative driver, with more than 20 years of visionary leadership, business development expertise and distinguished performance.

His professional career was enriched by multinationals such as 3Com/U.S. Robotics, Cisco Systems and Microsoft, where he had a senior leadership role across the 3Seas countries and a global strategy position for Business Strategy at Cisco Systems EMEA HQ in London. Additionally, Petar was actively engaged in the facilitation of the Innovation community locally and in CEE, by mentoring and consulting many Start-ups and Scale-ups companies. He was involved in the creation of the Southeast Europe venture capital fund at Cisco Systems, which supported many starting companies in SEE.