Organizational structure

Founders and Partners

Roumen Nikolov, President & Executive Director

Dr. Roumen Nikolov is an Associate Professor at Sofia University, Bulgaria, Head of Department of Information Technologies. He has specialized in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, UK, and in Educational Technology at University of Twente, the Netherlands. Dr. Nikolov is a member of: the Faculty Council, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University; the Management Board, Center for European Studies, Sofia University; the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 3.6 - Distance Education (WG 3.6), the Central European Chapter of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). He has participated in several European projects (see also URL:http://www-it.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~roumen ).

e-mail: roumen@fmi.uni-sofia.bg

Ivan Stanchev, Director of International Affairs

Prof. Dr. Stanchev is a former professor at University of Economics - Sofia. He has been working at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, for the past five years. He is the Executive Manager of a MSc Programme in Educational and Training Systems Design. Prof. Stanchev is the representative of Bulgaria at the Technical Committee 3 (TC3) of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP). He is also a member of the IFIP Working Group 3.6 - Distance Education (WG 3.6), and Working Group 3.3 - Educational Research. He has a long record of participation in European projects, including a number of projects in Educational Technology, Multimedia, Human-Computer Interaction, Distance Education and Telematics with participation of countries from Central and Eastern Europe (see also URL:http://www.to.utwente.nl/user/ism/stanchev/personal.htm).

e-mail: stanchev@edte.utwente.nl

Vesselin Spiridonov, Trade Director

Mr. Vesselin Spiridonov used to be the director of the biggest (in the past) software development institute in Bulgaria - INTERPROGRAMMA. He is a former senior programmer at the UN Headquarter, the USA, the former executive director of BARIMEX Ltd, Sofia, and a former member (in the period 1980-1990) of the Working Group of Software Engineering to the COMECON Council for Computer Technologies. He has great experience in IT businesses and consultancy, finance, legal issues, project management and administration.

e-mail: vspirid@sparc10.fmi.uni-sofia.bg

All partners have already built a huge network of professional and business relations, including ones in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, that can serve for further extension of the activities of VirTech both locally and internationally.

VirTech Staff

VirTech has permanent staff of 9 employees and more than 50 contract based collaborators from Sofia University, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and businesses.