MojPosao – Internet recruitment and selection in Croatia

Nenad Bakic. Graduated in applied mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, in 1991, and afterwards obtained a masters degree at the same department with the thesis ‘Quantum groups and Crystal algebras’. He spent a year at graduate studies at the Pennstate University, USA. Mr. Bakic finished a 3-year International Chartered Financial Analyst program, and was educated in leading international investment banks. He attained to, and was invited speaker at numerous international financial conferences and workshops.

After graduating, Mr. Bakic worked for several years as teaching assistant at the Department of Mathematics of University of Zagreb. In 1996 he started his own company for financial markets research, but soon joined a leading Croatian bank where he led various departments (Investment banking research, Investor relations), and managed several projects (pension funds project, various M&A projects).

In 1999 he re-activated own advisory company Tau advisory, specialised in corporate finance, asset management advisory and research, and venture capital advisory. The company executed various transactions and advised domestic and international clients in several projects in the 1-20 USD million range.

From June 2001 to June 2002 he served the CEO and fund manager of Helios obligatory pension fund, where he is currently an adviser.

Simultaneously with his career in finance, Mr. Bakic started-up MojPosao, an Internet recruitment and selection company. The company has been defining and developing the Internet recruitment market in Croatia and is the market leader. Mr. Bakic supports several other start-ups.

He teaches various finance courses at the Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb. Apart from Croatian, he speaks English and Italian.