Gligor Tashkovich

During 2013, Minister Tashkovich serves on the advisory councils or regular boards of several organizations and companies. He is also a Registered Representative with AlphaSource Capital Securities LLC, a broker-dealer, which solicits new investors for the hedge funds. Previous to that, he completed a successful two-year mandate as the Minister for Foreign Investment of the Republic of Macedonia where his team attracted approximately US $1.5 billion dollars of new projects into the country. His entrepreneurial projects include being part of teams that developed the Internet worldwide; the creation of Mobile Telesystems (a GSM mobile carrier) and the Moscow International Business Center/Moscow City Center Project; the importation and distribution of Time magazine in the Republic of Macedonia (which turned the Capital Assets Pricing Model on its end); the development of the AMBO Trans-Balkan Oil Pipeline project and other ventures. Earlier assignments included working for Digital Equipment Corporation in France and Switzerland and the World Economic Forum. Minister Tashkovich earned his B.A. from Cornell University's College of Arts & Sciences and, later, his dual-major M.B.A. from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management. He lectures on a variety of subjects around the world and is honored to have been chosen as a Three Dot Dash Mentor in 2013.