ABP’s mission is to connect and empower Bulgarian professionals via a platform focused on networking, mentoring and community involvement
ABP aim is about establishing and nurturing long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with people from different professional fields.
Whether sharing similar ideas, hobbies or just a drink; networking will help you develop and improve your skill set, stay on top of the latest trends in your industry, meet prospective mentors, partners, and clients, and gain access to the necessary resources that will foster your career development.
Or mentoring program is designed for university students, young and seasoned professionals interested in building lasting friendships and accelerated corporate career development. The goal of our mentorship program is to foster informal relationship between knowledgeable and educated individuals. We match those that make their first professional steps with experienced professionals that possess a multitude of knowledge in the same industry or area of interest.
ABP strives to promote everyone’s strengths, curiosity, individual passions and desires. ABP is heavily involved in the Bulgarian Community throughout the Chicago metro area and hopefully able to reach out to other areas soon.
ABP main community involvement goal is to capture as much Bulgarians children and adults in their early educational and professional carrier in order provide them with guidance and support for higher education, better job placement, focused career growth, on top of any other aspiration they might have.
Key Community Focus Areas:
Volunteers
The Association of Bulgarian Professionals wants to invite its ABP members to various volunteering activities we need help with. Please note this is volunteer work, and one can always start or stop participating if time constraints. This also provides an excellent opportunity to get to know other ABP members and expand your network.
1. Social Media Content Manager
– Work with LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Website
– Regular posting or seek content sharing
– Creative imaging of ABP, Videos
2. ABP Event helper/coordinator –
– Mail lists, dates, places, picture taking
– Engage other professional people you know
3. Website Manager
– Design/development/maintenance
– Rebuild our website/add functionalities
4. Mentoring – Subject Matter Expert
– Schedule 20min intervals of virtual Office Hours at a time that fits your schedule
– 1-to-1 engagement where knowledge and guidance are shared around a specific topic or need
5. Donation Campaign Manager
– Various activities to raise funds for the organization
– Work closely with other team members on overall long-term strategy.
Thank you again for your contributions and support.
Lubomir has a B.S. in Finance from UIC at Chicago, MBA from LFGSM and certificate of Leadership from Kellogg School of Management. Professional with 20+ years of financial experience of which the last 10 in the new product and strategic marketing development within the pharma industry
Тihⱷmir is a strategic leader, Purdue MBA with experience from world’s largest companies, delivering on M&A deals, new product launches and other multimillion dollar business development projects by leading teams and negotiations with top US corporations and startups in Technology, Healthcare, Retail and Consumer goods
Svetoslav has a Master of Energy Engineering from University of Illinois at Chicago as well as an Associate Degree in HVAC & Bachelor’s degree in Facility Management from New York City College of Technology . He has more than 15 years of Mechanical, Building Automation and Management experience
Ph.D. Candidate - Chavdar is an IT executive with over 20 years of experience, known for developing industry awarded enterprise solutions and creating a company culture of success in the Fortune 500 financial services sectors of banking and insurance. Graduate of TU-Sofia, Harvard & MIT
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