Gligor Tashkovich

Minister Tashkovich serves on the advisory councils or regular boards of several organizations and companies. He is also a Registered Representative with Sharenett Securities LLC, a broker-dealer, which provides dealflow on its proprietary platform for family offices. Previous to that (2006-2008), he completed a successful two-year mandate as the Minister for Foreign Investment of the Republic of (now North) Macedonia where his team attracted approximately US $1.5 billion dollars of new projects into the country sharply increasing the national GDP. His entrepreneurial projects include being part of teams that developed the Internet worldwide; the creation of Mobile Telesystems (a GSM mobile carrier which today is the largest mobile phone company in the former Soviet Union) 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. In 2019, he started his second term on the Cornell University Council. He lectures on a variety of subjects around the world (most recently in India, Las Vegas, and Costa Rica) and is honored to volunteer with the Three Dot Dash program since 2013 and as a Judge for Rise For The World (a joint venture of the Rhodes' Trust at Oxford University and Schmidt Futures) since 2021.