ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Commission of previous year's ECV'11 competition

Case studies will be evaluated by:

Ramūnas Bičiulaitis - Chief financial officer of Danske bankas. PhD in Social Sciences - Financial Management.

Ingrida Šimonytė took a position of Lithuanian Minister of Finance from July 2009, after more than twelve years of progressive carrier within the Ministry of Finance. She started as Chief Economist of Tax Division, was Head of Indirect Taxation, later - Director of Tax Department and since 2004 she was Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance, in charge of fiscal policy, taxation and financial accountability.

Petras Auštrevičius - member of the Seimas (Parliament of Lithuania), Deputy Chairman of the European Affairs Committee, Former chief negotiator for Lithuania's accession to the European Union.

Gordon Fyfe - Coca-Cola Hellenic Baltic Public Affairs and Communication Manager. With over 25 years of management experience in both the public and private sectors, he has lived and worked in the Baltics on and off since 2002. He has also lived and worked in Poland and Romania running projects on behalf of the UK government and the European Commission. His current role gives him responsibility for public affairs for Coca-Cola Hellenic (CCH) in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. CCH is one of the world's biggest bottlers of Coke operating in 28 countries. 

Alexander Kochetkov - Experienced senior executive with more than 16 years of broad international experience in all aspects of management consulting. He is an author of the numerous articles covering such topics as cost optimization, risk management and corporate strategy. Before starting his own entrepreneurial career Alexander has worked for Big 4 consulting firms - PWC in Russia and KPMG in the Baltics.

Eugenijus Savičius – Director of Lietuvos Junior Achievement from  1993.   At present JA Lithuania is recognised as the  leader of economics and business education in Lithuanian schools. JA Lithuania deliver more than 10 programs, each year about 20000 students participate.

Professor Sigitas Urbonavičius is the Head of the Marketing Department at Vilnius University’s Faculty of Economics. In addition to his academic activities, he has worked as a business consultant or has assisted in the selection of consulting services from other consultants for more than 300 companies in Lithuania, Croatia, Slovenia, the Russian Federation, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia and other countries.

Vytautas Dikčius, PhD in Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Vilnius University. His academic interests include marketing research methodologies, research of market orientation of enterprises. He has published a book on marketing research and 16 articles in scientific journals. During 1996–2004 he was a project officer of BAS programme at European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. He has been a marketing consultant in the consulting company EKT Group for 12 years and performed more than 20 different projects.

Aurimas Račas - winner of ECV '07 and ECV '09 as well as several other international business competitions. After graduating from Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and starting his career in management consulting at Ernst & Young Lithuania, he recently moved to Denmark and joined Transaction Advisory at Ernst & Young Denmark. Apart from his daily office life, he leads an alumni organization of his high school as well tries to get involved in various projects from time to time. Just to broaden a perspective.

Vaidas Lukoševičius - UAB Rimi Lietuva, Category Group manager. Vaidas has 12 years experience in Retail and Category management.

Motivational videos will be evaluated by:

Tadas Vidmantas - film director, screenwriter and director of photography, earned several prestigious awards in Lithuania and abroad.

CV's will be evalueated by:

Grafton Recruitment is a leading provider of recruitment solutions and is one of Europe's largest independent firms, placing experienced staff in all industry sectors, functions and public services.