Dejan Paravan, PhD

Dejan Paravan, PhD, Executive Director responsible for sales and purchases: Dejan Paravan began his career in 1999 as a researcher at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, where he earned his doctoral degree in 2004 with a dissertation on risk management on the electricity market. After receiving his doctoral degree, Mr. Paravan was employed by Istrabenz energetski sistemi, d.o.o., where he performed functions at various companies of the Group, with a focus on developing electricity sales to end-customers. He served as the general manager of IG Prodaja, d.o.o. from its incorporation onwards. His work involved setting up and developing the infrastructure necessary for selling electricity to end-customers in Slovenia. He was also a member of the management board at Austrian Power Vertriebs GmbH in Vienna and the manager of Istrabenz-Gorenje, d.o.o. When GEN-I was transformed in 2006, he was appointed member of the management board responsible for electricity sales, the purchase of electricity from producers who use renewable sources, the purchase of electricity from cogeneration plants, and the development and management of GEN-I’s organizational unit in Nova Gorica with a five-year term. As an executive director, he is also responsible for the supply of electricity to customers on foreign markets, and is the director of three of the Group’s foreign subsidiaries.