Founded in 2006 in Vodnjan, Infobip employs more than 1,500 people globally and operates through 61 offices on 6 continents. Only in 2018, 4.7 billion people, i.e. two thirds of the world population used their services. Their success story is built on their main product, cloud communications platform and services that can reach nearly seven billion users and things in more than 190 countries, enabling flawless mobile communication between business entities and their users - on every channel and device, in any part of the world. The ability to quickly adapt to local market conditions and willingness to take risks to provide the best possible service, became their trademark.

The winners were selected among the following finalists: Jadranka Boban Pejić of Biovega, Tomislav Car, Nikola Kapraljević, Matej Špoler and Josip Bišćan of Infinum, Tomislav Knezović of Prostoria, Jako Andabak of Sunce koncern and Alen Magdić of Multinorm, who was also a finalist in the last year’s program.

The finalists and the fifth EOY award winner, who will represent Croatia in June in Monaco and compete for the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year title, were chosen by an independent judging panel. The judging panel was comprised of President and CEO of Atlantic Grupa Emil Tedeschi (chairman), investors and entrepreneurs Nenad Bakić and Saša Cvetojević, and previous EOY winners Alan Sumina, Đuro Horvat, Marko Pipunić and Mate Rimac.

The program has been supported by Raiffeisenbank Austria acting as general sponsor, Tele2 as silver sponsor, Interkapital Group, PPD Croatia, Wiener osiguranje Vienna Insurance Group and Vina Belje as sponsors, and American Chamber of Commerce in Croatia, Croatian Employers’ Association and HAMAG-BICRO as partners.