B92 governing bodies

Supervisory Board

Mr Harlan M. Mandel
Mr. Mandel has been Deputy Managing Director of MDLF since 1998. Before that, he practiced law in the New York and Los Angeles offices of Morrison & Foerster, specializing in international litigation, intellectual property and new media law. He also serves on the investment committee for the Independent Press Association's loan fund for independent U..S media. He was awarded a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1989, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Mandel is a U.S. citizen and a member of the New York and California Bars. He lives in New York.

Mr Boris Husovic
Mr. Husovic serves as the representative of employees in the Supervisory Board. He has been with B92 since 1990, being involved in production and broadcasting of numerous radio and TV news programs on B92. Currently Mr. Husovic is an Intake Editor with B92 TV.

Board of Directors

Mr Veran Matic, Chairman
B92's Editor-in-Chief and General Manager. Mr. Matic has been engaged in journalism since 1984 with alternative and youth media in Belgrade, Zagreb and Ljubljana. He began his career with NTV Studio B, Belgrade's formerly independent television station. In May 1989 he established Radio B92, the first independent radio station in Serbia. Under his guidance, during the past 16 years, Radio B92 has set up and developed its numerous activities with focus on three media - radio, television and internet. Mr. Matic is also a co-founder of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM). He is one of the most uncompromising fighters for media freedom, and freedom of expression, leading him to receive numerous prestigious international awards for his work over the last 15 years.

Curriculum Vitae

Ms Elena Popovic, Board Member
Ms. Popovic is an attorney with eight years of lending and investment experience in emerging markets. Ms. Popovic joined MDLF as Counsel in 1997 and became its General Counsel in 2004. Before joining MDLF, Ms. Popovic worked as a coordinator of the Legal Policy Task force for the former Yugoslavia for the Forced Migration Projects of the Open Society Institute. Prior to that, she was secretary general of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia. Earlier, she served as secretary general of the Council for Human Rights of the Belgrade-based Center for Anti-War Action. She is a graduate of the University of Belgrade School of Law and holds an LL.M degree from the New York University School of Law.

Mr Jaroslaw Gora, Board Member
Mr. Gora is a Director of Finance of MDLF. He has extensive professional experience in the field of media strategy and investment analysis and has supervised a number of independent media investments in Central and Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union. Before joining MDLF in 1997, Mr. Gora managed the capital investment department of a Warsaw chemicals conglomerate. He has been on the supervisory board of the Polish Investment Association and was a Project Manager at the Foundation for Privatization in Warsaw. Mr. Gora holds an MA degree in Economic Theory from the SGH School of Commerce in Warsaw and attended the General Manager Program (TGMP) at Harvard Business School in 2001. He is a Polish citizen and lives in Warsaw.

Mr Sasa Vucinic, Board Member
Managing director of MDLF ever since he co-founded it in 1995. Previously, he worked in Prague as a media consultant to the Soros Foundations. In that position, he designed and oversaw projects assisting independent media organizations in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Vucinic was the editor-in-chief and general manager of Radio B92 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia's most important and respected independent radio station. He began his journalism career as a reporter at the weekly political newsmagazine Non, eventually becoming its editor-in-chief.

Mr Nebojsa Samardzic, Board Member
Lawyer, member of the Belgrade Bar since 1987, when he started his practice. Since 1996, actively engaged in the field of protection of independent media.

Mr Sinisa Mali, Board Member
Director of the NCA Investment Group company from Belgrade and member of the Board of Directors of Soko Štark Belgrade. M.A. at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade. Currently writing a doctor's thesis at the same faculty. Also, M.A.at the Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. (field: finance). Has a title of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and is a member of the CFA Institute. Has a license for portfolio manager for Serbia's Commission for Securities. Since 2001 worked as an assistant of the minister for privatization in the Ministry for Economy and Privatization and as a director of the Centre for Tenders in the Privatization Agency. Before that, he worked as an executive in the Financial Advisory Services part of Deloitte & Touche in Belgrade and Prague, as well as Credit Suisse First Boston investment bank (CSFB) in New York.

Jacob Grapengiesser, Board member
Member of the portfolio management team, joined East Capital in 2002. He was an analyst with Brunswick Emerging Markets for three years before joining East Capital. Prior to that, he worked at Khanty Mansiysk Oil Corporation (KMOC) in Moscow. He has studied at the Stockholm School of Economics, the Royal Institute of Technology and Cornell University, USA. Jacob is fluent in Swedish, Russian and English.

Business Board