Nikola Pavesic was born and raised in Croatia, studied in Italy, Switzerland and the UK where he graduated in international law and financial regulation. He started his career the public sector for the UN in Tanzania, followed by an engagement with the same organization in Japan from 2011. Counterintuitively, he started working in tech at the UN and subsequently switched to the private sector launching, running, and exiting a startup.

Nikola then joined Nikkei, the world’s largest business media publisher and owner of the Financial Times, where he led partnerships at the editorial innovation bureau. He is now a Director of DevEx & Startups at Infobip, one of the few bootstrapped unicorns globally with 70+ offices globally where he launched a startup program which now works with 600+ startups and 100+ investor partners around the world.