Our story & Team

Konstantin Hristov, CEO and co-founder

Konstantin is a person with unlimited imagination and excellent communication skills. He is accurate as a German, punctual as a Swiss watch, and determines the work pace in the office. Kosta knows how to motivate and encourage the team, but is also stick when necessary. He studied management in Leipzig, Germany and worked for Citigroup and VM Ware prior to co-founding the favit Network.

Nenko Ivanov, CTO and co-founder

Prior to taking the CTO position at favit, Nenko spent a semi decade in the leading Bulgarian web agency Icygen, working on the development of complex, globally marketed web services and products.

He was fluent in PHP and Python long before achieving a reasonable level with his mother tongue. He somehow didn't know where or when to stop and as a result now he can use perfectly almost all programming languages. Nenko is a real technology polyglot. The variety of choices that he masters allows him to architecture and create fast, powerful and scalable web applications. Nenko is a proud father of two sons: a baby boy called Daniel and the Real-time engine of favit.

Atanas Youroukov, Head of Product Design and co-founder

The mixture of technical skills and business sense of Atanas, combined with his knowledge of Internet technologies, visionary thinking and creativity made him the youngest Bulgarian web entrepreneur, launching his first web company at the age of 17. Atanas professional experience includes business consultancy at the French VC-funded IKALEO project (telco) and managerial position at Bluvizia, an affiliate company of Icygen, where he was responsible for the company's operations on the French speaking markets and for the launch of the Bluevizia global e-commerce platform.

Vasil Stoychev, All-in-one Developer

If code can truly be viewed as poetry, then the code that Vasil writes certainly passes for a masterpiece. Seldom can one encounter such a beautifully written, commented and optimized code than the one produced by Vasko. He humbly describes himself as "develodesigner" – a mixture between a designer and developer. Vasil achieved this level by mastering php, perl, Python, C/C++, even 3D modeling. Vasil is a Zend certified engineer with profound interest in OOP.

Maxim Krizhanovsky, Head of Performance Division

Maxim started his programming career while he was still studying at the National High School of Mathematics and Applied Sciences. He was building computer games and set up a simple web site to share them with the world. He changed paths by chance and jumped into PHP development in 2004, quickly obtaining a Zend certificate. At the same time he was leading a computer security column for IDG media Bulgaria.

Svetla Nikolova, Community Manager

Svetla is the office beauty. She is the only girl in the office and the regular communication with the favit programmers made her extremely tech savvy. Svetla spends tons of energy and love to make sure the favit users have the best possible experience from the very first time they register with the service and that their needs and questions are always answered in the fastest possible way.

Martin Linkov, Marketing and PR

Martin is obsessed with languages. He studied Latin, Ancient and Modern Greek. He was always interested in learning and understanding why people do the things they do. What is their motivation and what can be done from a service and communication point of view to better answer even unrealized and unexpressed needs, like the need for a better organized information stream. Martin is among the leaders in the digital marketing field in Bulgaria and is a renowned speaker in both Bulgaria and Greece.

Besim Donmez, Community Manager

After Graduating from the American University in Bulgaria, Besim led the Communication Department of a big construction company. With the very start of the favit platform Besim changed ships and is the key factor for penetrating the huge, very active and rapidly growing Turkish web market.