As the years go by, I find it increasingly difficult to define my own business and life framework. The good thing is that I no longer believe it needs to be defined. Instead, I find myself somewhere in the matrix of hospitality, project management, human resources, communications, gastronomy, wine, sociology, philosophy, politics, and various other related fields. Hence, I consider myself to be a multidisciplinarian in search of better and more responsible answers to hospitality and business challenges and a true believer in the power of continuous education. What unites all these interests is the Mediterranean, as an inexhaustible pool of inspiration into which millennia have been inserted, but also drawn from it. I find my natural habitat in the Mediterranean.
The decision to stay and live in the heart of the Mediterranean is one I make and reaffirm every day. That decision is largely determined by the wanderings and quests around the world I embarked on more than 20 years ago. The studies took me from my native Kotor to the almost neighboring Dubrovnik, but given the post-war period at the time, it was a quantum leap. Studying hotel management allowed me to enter the world of luxury hospitality management and go to the Far West, to the United States. From there, I continued to travel west, only to arrive in the Far East, China. I worked on three continents, in six different countries, on all seas, and visited more than 90 countries. Each of these experiences was a leap from culture to culture, and a leap from one hospitality and gastronomic heritage to another, a school for itself that has left a significant mark on me and my current identity and discourse. Thanks to the school of life and travel, today, I am mostly focused on innovation and people development, with a strong contextual approach to business growth, as well as operations and leadership.
Put in one sentence, I am a hospitality development and hotel operations specialist with over twenty years of international hospitality experience and several successful hotel and restaurant openings.
