Daniel Vasilev Email & Phone Number

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

On top of my other projects, listed below, I created the first Economic department at Tavex SEE – I created the requirements for the Junior Economist role and hired two young persons, whom later I mentored on all aspects of our job – writing news and analysis, doing SEO, creating infographics, editing articles and the Gold Newspaper in Romanian and Serbian.I edited all their texts, providing feedback and praise, aimed at the constant growth and improvement of the two, and arranged various training sessions and outdoor teambuilding-like activities for the two. In the end, I left two self-sufficient economists and I am proud of my work with them.

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

At Tavex, the biggest bullion dealer in East Europe, I led and executed pivotal projects, oversaw the company’s economic media, online and offline presence, and started many initiatives.Managing all content for Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania, I wrote and edited economic and financial analyses, had regular media appearances, and supported all colleagues with insights. I coordinated external authors as well and was the primary speaker at events like conferences, interviews, workshops, and trainings. I wrote over 200 articles for Tavex and had dozens of media and other appearances.To enhance user experience, I introduced interactive infographics, making Tavex one of the first companies in Bulgaria and the first in Serbia and Romania to adopt such a tool. My work aligned closely with the marketing strategy – I supported email marketing, generated ideas, and provided various advertorial content.Being responsible for the SEO on the three markets, I managed a contractor company and ensured all articles, both new and existing, were Google-optimized. I also wrote content for landing and other pages on the site. This led to significant organic ranking growth and improved key relevant indicators.On my initiative, I launched a podcast on economics and finance, making Tavex one of the pioneers in corporate podcasting in Bulgaria. Moreover, I created dedicated Facebook groups to foster communities in each country and delivered unique content tailored to the audiences’ interests in economics, finance, and precious metals. There were almost 5 thousand people in the Bulgarian group when I left the company.As the Editor-in-Chief of The Gold Newspaper, the flagship print publication of Tavex, I directed the entire process of the paper’s creation – from concept to logistics, while simultaneously, contributing articles and charts, coordinating external authors, artists, and designers, and ensuring a seamless execution of print and delivery.

Sofia

German, Bulgaria

Sofia

Under 30 Bulgaria is the most important selection carried out by the magazine, featuring some of the most prominent, talented, creative, and entrepreneurial young people in the country. I was privileged to manage the entire project, my tasks including everything from the preparation of the nominations and assembling the jury team, to the organization of the event itself.

Sofia

Forbes Bulgaria celebrates the leadership, entrepreneurial, and managerial skills of women not only with the Forbes Women Society but also with the Most Important Businesswomen Selection. I was invited as a project manager of the selection shortly after I started working for the magazine in and have been in charge of it for the past three years. I hope my efforts, dedicated to selecting the leaders on managerial positions in the country, have driven more women towards business.

Sofia

Sofia

The Expert Club for Economics and Politics was a fast-growing media blog, created at the start of the decade. Aiming at providing independent economic and political analyses of the current global and local events, we not only became a distinguished voice of some young people in the media environment but were also responsible for various educational events and raising points and opinions probably no one else before us did. Starting as an economist, I quickly grew to Editor in Chief, while at the same time working on other projects (including in the media) too. Thus, my initial responsibilities of doing economic researches and writing analyses increased as well and eventually I did a wide range of activities, including:- Permanently looking for new topics to analyze and research myself;- HR management – I was responsible for finding and testing new authors for the needs of the media;- Editing all texts published by the media and working on their final layout;- Mentoring and guiding our staff, when needed, especially our interns;- Public speaking, including lecturing and doing interviews for all other types of media like television and radio stations. I am honoured to have the opportunity to mention that I as well as members of my team have been invited to some renowned conferences and discussion on topics like economics, education, and the environment;- SEO – in the highly competitive media environment, I had to make sure that the Expert Club for Economics and Politics stood out not only with the quality of its content but that the articles published are optimized for our marketing needs and that they are interesting for the public;- Social network management – all social channels were under my management and I had to ensure that the message of the media reaches as many people as possible;- Event management – we organized various public and educational events and I had to make sure that everything goes flawlessly and that our visitors are satisfied.

Sofia

As a part of the largest print media in Bulgaria, dedicated primarily economics, business, politics, and social news, my main responsibilities included news writing, especially regarding international business, macroeconomics, the oil and gas market, and the Bulgarian Stock Exchange. Since the articles I wrote were used in the daily newspaper, I had to make sure I schedule my efforts and timeframe well and send all my material without delay.

I was invited to fill in as a temporary replacement in The Oil & Gas Year. Working on one of their projects together with an international team of experts from all around the world, I was tasked with conducting researches on oil refineries, infrastructure updates, investments, key people in the management of some of the biggest oil companies in the Middle East, and strategic plans for development of the sector in the region. This required very precise scheduling of my efforts and the ability to find information from a huge variety of sources, many of which included news in languages, not familiar to me (like Arabic), for the purpose of creating a very detailed industrial profile of the region.

Plovdiv

At Aqualand I was a Marketing Manager during the active season of 2013. One of my main tasks was to change the demographics of the park guests, which by this point consisted predominantly of visitors of up to 25 years of age. Instead I had to make it a popular summer attraction for whole families, which I did – during my time as a Marketing Manager of the park, I managed to increase their share with 15 percentage points, while also growing the overall number of guests.For this task, I prepared an advertorial campaign at places most often visited by entire families and by several flyer campaigns at the city centre. Other than that I was also in charge of the social networks of Aqualand and was carrying out constant monitoring of the competing swimming pools in Plovdiv in order to make sure that the park under my management offered its visitors the best conditions on the market.

Sofia

The Institute for Market Economics is probably the most renowned non-profit organization in Bulgaria, whose goal is to spread the ideas of laissez-faire and to provide relevant analyses and commentaries on current socio-economic and political events. While at the institution I followed the news daily in search of topics for comments and wrote a wide variety of texts, including analyses, book reviews, event descriptions, and others. As an intern, I helped with data collection and analysis for several of the ongoing projects, carried by IME, among them research of the competitive advantages and investment opportunities of the economy of Kosovo and the Regional Profiles: Indicators for Development.In order to finish successfully my internship, I did a commentary on Gordon Tullock’s book Rent Seeking and did a research (linked) on the alternative cost of renewables in terms of jobs created. I think that up to this day it is the only research on the topic in Bulgaria and I believe I managed to provide valuable insights with it.