Mentors
Žiga Vavpotič
The more than five-year career of Žiga Vavpotič in business management is connected with the success story of Outfit7 (best known for the global phenomenon Talking Tom that evolved from a simple app to a global media franchise), where Žiga started as a contractor and two and a half years after selling the company to a new Chinese owner worth billions of dollars through various top management positions, took over the responsibilities of chairman of the board. After his two-year tenure, the company has grown in many ways, reaching a milestone of 10 billion downloads, making Outfit7 one of the largest and fastest growing international family entertainment companies in the world. He continues the successful cooperation with two new functions: Vavpotič is advisor to the President of the Management Board of Jinke Holding Group (owner of Outfit7) and non-executive director of Outfit7.
At the same time Vavpotič is the owner of Globaldreamvision, co-founder of Zavod Ypsilon (Ypsilon Institute), social company Simbioza Genesis, ABC Business Accelerator, co-initiator of the Center for Social Entrepreneurship the University of Ljubljana, the thought center Act Tank and many other socially interesting projects. Žiga Vavpotič is a graduate economist (UN), a university graduate political scientist majoring in international relations, he holds a master in Sociology and is the author of the following books: My very Own Book (Moja sr(e)čna knjiga), Moja žepna sr(e)čna knjiga and Srečna knjiga mojega življenja.