Dushan Spalevich is a serial entrepreneur and investor with working experience in 5 different countries.

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Dushan graduated from Natural Science and Mathematics High School, a leading Slovenian educational institution, which produced the most Slovenian Prime Ministers and successful entrepreneurs. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. During his studies, he worked as a travel guide and office representative in different countries for the biggest Slovenian tour operator. This experience allowed him to work in different cultural environments and learn some of his 6 foreign languages. He also successfully set up 2 representative offices in Spain and 1 in Italy as startup projects.

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Soon after his graduation Dushan had become the youngest manager responsible for a business operation of a FMCG multinational company SC Johnson in Slovenia, reporting to a cluster headquarters in Milan, Italy. Multinational company provided him with a great opportunity to explore and learn the corporate structure and business processes of big enterprises. 

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As a very young manager responsible for a whole country business he was personally acknowledged by at that time, global SC Johnson CEO Bill Perez, by his personal visit to Slovenian headquarters. 

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In 2004 he co-founded and managed a self-funded startup project in Russia, which had successfully become the biggest in-door advertising media operator with more than 250 employees, 18 subsidiaries and 50.000 advertising locations in the biggest Russian cities. It was a perfect playground where he used previous experience, structure and knowledge from multinational company. 

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Dushan is also a private investor with more than 20 years’ investment experience in different asset classes including stocks, bonds, commodities, ETFs etc. and was a big fan of asset allocation portfolio management.

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As a start-upper by the soul and a private investor, Dushan was immediately attracted by the new opportunities of blockchain technologies and new investments vehicles in the form of  token sales: TGE, ICO, IEO etc. After several investments in blockchain startups, blockchain & tech space became his full time passion and work at the same time.

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Today, Dushan is a founder of iBlock Capital - a private investment fund focused on venture investments in the emerging digital economy, and founder & host of iBlock TV Youtube channel, specialized in covering digital economy startups ecosystem & venture investments. 

He is also a speaker, panelist & moderator at different conferences and events around the world.