Governance

He was born in Rijeka where he graduated from the Faculty of Engineering and obtained the title of mag. ing. mech. He completed an MBA programme at the Zagreb School of Business, orientation Petroleum and during his career, he has attended several additional seminars and professional training courses in the country and abroad.
He began his career at the Croatian petrochemical industry as an intern, and from 1997 to 2004 he performed multiple managerial and executive functions, including the post of the President of the Management Board of DINA d.d. Afterwards, as the director of the investment company Coca-Cola Bottling Energy Ltd., he managed the construction of several energy projects in the Republic of Hungary. He was the executive director and member of the Management Board of the company Trast d.d., one of the leading logistics companies in the Republic of Croatia, after which as the President of the Management Board he managed the project for the operative restructuring of the company Mirna, Rovinj.
He came to AD Plastik Group in 2012 as a general director of the company ZAO PHR (today AO AD Plastik Togliatti) in Russia. He was appointed President of the Management Board in 2015.
He is specialized in change management and crisis management.

He graduated from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology in Zagreb, and over the years he has attended a series of educations related to the business management system. He gained his first work experience after his studies exactly at AD Plastik as a Production Technologist, and two years later he became a Quality Manager at the Zagreb production site. For thirteen years, he had worked as a Lead Auditor of business management systems at Lloyd’s Register EMEA and he had been a Lead Assessor for quality, environment, energy, occupational safety and health as well as information security management systems in more than 200 companies. He was actively involved in the introduction and verification of the EU ETS system for greenhouse gas emissions trading in Croatia. Ivan is an authorized internationally registered lecturer for business management, business risks management, energy and quality management systems. From the beginning of 2020, he has been contributing to the development of production, logistics and quality of AD Plastik Group with his knowledge, experience and skills, and seven months later he became a Member of the Management Board.