Žiga Vavpotič

Outfit7
Mentoring, Partnership, Investing
Žiga Vavpotič has extensive experience in the management of companies, in recent years the company Outfit7 (Talking Tom).

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.

Key competencies
Investing / M&A Business / Strategy Sales / Business Development
Key Industry
Gaming & toys Education & knowledge management Communication & collaboration Real estate & interior design Leisure, travel & tourism
Mentor in Programmes
P2 2020 SEF SI-SK 2019 SEF
Market type experience
B2B B2C
Foreign market experience
Cyprus India China United States
Experience with companies in development stages
Other
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