Biography
Andrea Budin, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, ICT for Industry & Society Andrea Budin received her BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb and her MBA degree at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management. After nine years of working as a research engineer and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, she joined Ericsson Nikola Tesla in 2000. During the first couple of years at the company she was the innovation manager within the company’s research and development unit, followed by a line management role within the same unit. For the last decade she has been mostly involved in marketing, sales and business management activities, in the recent years primarily in the e-health area. She has since 2005 been a lecturer at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management, delivering courses on operations management. She is one of the longstanding conference chairs within the annual International Convention on Information and Communication Technologies MIPRO and a member of its International Program Committee.