Food and Agriculture Alliance

Tamara Penjić graduated from the Faculty of Technology of the University of Novi Sad, and then completed postgraduate specialist studies at the same faculty. She continued her professional development at numerous specialized trainings and study programs in the country and abroad. She started her career in 2000 at CARNEX d.o.o. Vrbas meat industry, in which she developed professionally and gained rich experience in all segments of food production and safety, quality and risk management issues, in the domain of standards and regulatory framework crucial for the food industry. During her career, she successfully performed tasks in various positions, gained many years of experience in senior management, and since 2016 she has been performing the duties of the Meat Industry Executive Director in the CARNEX company. During her career, she successfully managed several important industrial projects on automation of production, construction of a new plant, reconstruction of facilities. Active in the work of several organizations and working groups. She is the president of the Association for the Development of the Quality of Meat and Meat Products (Serbian Quality Initiative). She holds the position of President of the Council of Technologists. She actively participates in the changes and improvement of legal regulations, as a member of several working groups for the drafting of the Rulebook at the Ministry of Agriculture, she is an active participant in numerous professional, scientific and thematic gatherings. As an expert in the field of meat production and meat products, food safety and management, she is the author and co-author of numerous professional papers and texts published in the country and abroad. She is married and the mother of one child.

Rodoljub Zivadinovic was born on February 20, 1973 in Aleksinac. He is a doctor of medicine, an epidemiologist. He has been beekeeping since 1992. He has been the president of the Serbian Federation of Beekeeping Organizations (SPOS) since 2008. He is the author of 4 books, as well as the editor and co-author of 5 books. He was awarded by the President of Serbia with the Gold Medal for his merits in beekeeping in 2014. He was the editor of 2 magazines and a member of the editorial board of 4 magazines. He is the youngest president of SPOS of all time. By fighting counterfeit honey, it reduced their appearance on the Serbian market by 60%. He designed, provided funds and built the Plant for the placement of beekeepers' honey. Honey is now marketed without intermediaries. He managed to fight for the change of a large number of laws and regulations in the field of beekeeping and their adaptation to European regulations. He made Serbian beekeepers more competitive on the world market. He is a great fighter against the illegal production and distribution of food, and he managed to significantly reduce such occurrences in the beekeeping sector with his constant activities.

Marjana Davidović is a Country Manager of Nestlé for the Southern Adriatic region, which includes Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia. Marjana gained a lot of experience in the company by significantly contributing to the rise of the sales sector. Her career at Nestlé started in 2007 as a sales develompment managed and in 2013 she became a sales director. In 2019, excellent results recommended her for the position of executive director of the NESCAFÉ category of the Nestlé company in Poland and Baltic countries, from where she came to the main management position of the company in Serbia. Since coming to this position, Nestlé has recorded extraordinary business results, starting the construction of a new factory in Surčin, introducing regenerative agriculture processes with local suppliers, bringing new categories of products to the market, becoming a leader in food donations to the vulnerable population, and during pandemic, ensuring the safety of employees and smooth suply chain processes. Marjana is a mechanical engineer by education, she is married and has two children.

Dragan Pusara is manager with 20 years of experience in leading different profiles and formats of instiutional and project teams. Expertise in the field of quality, where in addition to the work experience, I also have an academic education. I created a national programme for certification of food quality and safety through creation of a regulatory and institutional environment for the construction of quality infrastructure in Serbia. I also established a regulatory framework for trade in fresh products and developed a national wholesale system through the implementation of OECD standards. I introduced standards of good corporate governance in the public sector through rationalizations of activities, establishing institutional and international cooperation, and continuously improving the quality and efficiency of services in the public sector. The author is also a member of the BFC Technical Committee, which is successfully implemented in six countries in the region. I am also a member of the ATS team who passed the first European peer evaluation where I performed duties of Deputy Director, QMS as well as the lead assessor for the 17000 series of standards. I am also an assessor for the standards 9001, 15189, 14001, 15189 and HCCP 22000. I also gained experience in the development and management of member organizations. I have developed negotiation skills with the ability to think strategically, a clear vision and experience in managing complex regional projects. I am the author of numeral articles, newspaper columns and publications. I was also engaged as a speaker, panelist and conference moderator. Also, I was a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade. Currently in the position of acting director of Accreditation body of Serbia.

Vladimir Milicevic graduated from Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade Zootechnics (Animal Husbandry), after which he has been building work experience in a small business since 2005 - in the company S.M.K.R Milićević he gained more than 10 years of experience as a HACCP team leader and production director, dealing with management processes of production and processing of meat and meat products, control of the production process and ensuring compliance with HAACP rules related to food safety in the production and distribution process. Since 2018, he has been running his own meat production as the owner, HACCP team leader and production director. He has been the Mayor of Paraćin since 2020. In addition to an active career, he has been professionally engaged in photography for more than 10 years - as a photographer and videographer, he was engaged in more than 300 commercial events, participated in more than 100 international photo exhibitions, won more than 50 international awards, and in 2017 had a solo exhibition "Light and Darkness", one of the most visited solo exhibitions in Paraćin. Independent exhibitions were also opened in Aleksinac and Kumanovo.