October 21 (SeeNews) - The Bulgarian Outsourcing Association (BOA) said on Monday it has appointed Ilia Krastev as new chairman of its managing board.
"He has many years of professional experience in entrepreneurship and business development in the area of business intelligence and new technologies. For more than 10 years he has been CEO of A Data Pro, a group of companies, which comprises the Southeast Europe's leading business intelligence provider SeeNews, the media monitoring and analysis agency Perceptica, the global renewable energy intelligence service Renewables Now and Identrics – the group’s dedicated AI and automation hub," BOA said in a statement.
The most recent data from BOA shows that the outsourcing sector in Bulgaria contributed 4.8% to the country’s GDP compared to 4.2% in 2016.
BОA was established in 2012 and unites the efforts of companies and organizations in the sector with the aim to increase competitiveness in the field and create additional conditions for increasing the number of foreign investors and development of good business practices.