Leadership

Lyubomir Minchev is a co-founder of Telelink and has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s growth and success. Following two leveraged buyout transactions, he became the majority shareholder of all companies within the Telelink Group in 2012.

In 2018, a corporate reorganization led to the Group’s core operations being divided between Telelink Infra Services and Telelink Business Services. Minchev retained a majority stake in all newly established entities, further strengthening his leadership role.

In 2020, Lyubomir founded Telelink Investments, a specialized investment vehicle consolidating all his investments in start-ups. Among these are three innovative intrapreneurial spin-offs originating from the Telelink Group.

Over the past two decades, Lyubomir Minchev has been a steadfast supporter of entrepreneurial growth, contributing to the success of more than 35 start-ups and scale-ups. His involvement as an investor, co-investor, and mentor has solidified his reputation as a dedicated advocate for innovation and business development.

Yordan Popov has been part of the Telelink family since the company was founded in 2001, and over the years he has held various management positions in it.

Under his leadership, Telelink has evolved into a group of businesses with a total turnover of more than 100 million euros, undergoing various corporate restructurings, including international acquisitions and sales, mergers, demergers and leveraged buy outs. Currently, Jordan Popov’s efforts are focused on the strategic development of the Telelink Infra Services Group, being directly responsible and monitoring the results of all the company’s offices in Bulgaria and abroad.

Yordan holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Sofia, and over the years he has successfully completed various executive training courses at Harvard University and the Instituto de Impresa.

Paun has been with Telelink ever since 2002, when he started as a Junior Engineer right after finishing his Bachelor’s degree in Communications Technologies from the Technical University of Sofia. He joined from Express Consult Sofia, one of the leading system integrators at the time.

Currently, as Telelink Infra Services Group Director, Paun is focusing on establishing enhanced and uniform operations throughout the subsidiary companies in Germany, UK, North Macedonia, Albania.

Setting from the first year of the Telelink’s operations, Paun has been active in and has filled in several high-level positions such as Country Manager for Telelink MK (North Macedonia).

He has completed a customized MBA program from the Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Spain.

Dinna Temelkova takes the role of Executive Director of Telelink Infra Services in October 2022. With more than 20 years of experience in the telecom and public sector, she focuses on strategic business development and company growth.

Prior to joining Telelink Infra Services, Dinna held key management positions at NOKIA, Alcatel-Lucent, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens Bulgaria, and Bull (Atos). For the past 3 years, she has been a consultant on large infrastructure projects. Her interests are in various fields. Dinna works with children from vulnerable groups, teachers, and students in the center for culture and art she founded in Sofia.

She graduated in International Economic Relations and International Relations at the University of National and World Economy.

Julian is a long-term professional, strictly results-oriented. He is a senior executive and CFO with over 10 years of experience in leading telecommunication infrastructure development businesses. Has a proven track record in end-to-end business operations and creating and sustaining exponential growth.

He has been with the Telelink family since 2016, currently leading all administration, finance, HR, certification and legal aspects of the company in the UK.

MSc in Engineering and MBA, passionate about sustainable business management and development.

Stiliyan is an expert with more than 20 years of experience in the field of telecommunications. He has been working in the Telelink group for 16 years, having passed through various positions. He has been with the English company since its inception in 2016.

He values personal communication and maintains direct contact with both the company’s customers and employees. According to him, the successful implementation of projects is directly related to good interpersonal relations and support within the team.

Stiliyan holds a master’s degree in Radio Communications from the Technical University in Sofia, having previously graduated from the Technological School for Electronic Systems.

Velichko joined Telelink back in 2001, when the company was established. Gaining unique technical, operational and managerial experience in the forefront of telecom projects, he rises through the company to lead the network infrastructure department, which is of considerable strategic importance. Since 2023, he has been the Technical Director of Telelink Infra Services.

He is passionate about people development, growing deeply human organisational culture and organisations that are effective in achieving their goals.

He graduated from the Technical School „Alexander Stepanovich Popov” in Sofia. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and a Master of Science in Business Finance.

Dragan joins Telelink MK in 2008 as Executive Director. He has overall responsibility for the business operations and development, finance and people management.

Dragan has spent over 15 years in the technology industry, focused on network infrastructure, system integration, security and automation projects. During his management Telelink MK implemented some of the country’s most ambitious modernisation, greenfield and new-build projects.

He has graduated from the Saint Kiril and Metodiy Skopje University with Master’s Degree of Electrical Engineering.

Lyubomir takes the role of Executive Director of Telelink GmbH in 2015, when Telelink group expanded its presence in Germany. He drives the business development, oversees the company operations, and takes care for the administrative and the finance management. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of Telecom Network Infrastructure Design, Deployment and Maintenance.

Lyubomir graduates the Faculty of Communications in the Technical University in Sofia with Master’s Deгree in Radiocommunications. In 2009 he gets a PMP Certification and in 2014 successfully completes the Telelink Management Development Program by IE in 2014.

Lyubomir joins the Telelink Group with its establishment in 2001. Over the years he takes different management roles such as Installation Department Manager, Key Account manager and Network Infrastructure Business Unit Manager. He actively participates in different M&A initiatives across the Group, outsourcing projects and the development complex communication solutions.

In his current role as Operations Director of Telelink Albania, Nikola is now focused on the establishment and setting up our network infrastructure business in Albania.

Nikola has been at Telelink MK since the beginning of 2008 when he joined as Site Engineer immediately after graduating from the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Skopje. Subsequently, he continued to move up step by step holding several managerial positions with various responsibilities.

Nikola is passionate about supporting team members in their individual professional and personal growth, empowering and building winning teams to help the growth of the company.

He holds a Master’s degree of Architecture and Engineering.

Martin leads the Project Management Office structure, overseeing that business projects are executed effectively and efficiently. He develops and maintains project management methodologies, standards and tools, ensuring that the PM team is trained according to the industry leading project management standards and certifications.

Martin joined the Telelink Infra Services in February 2019. Previously he has over 20 years of experience working in managerial roles in various industries and a solid background of managing large and complex technological projects and programs internationally. His main drivers are integrity, trust and respect while creating and maintaining an engaging and friendly team environment.

Martin is a Project Management Institute (PMI®) certified Project and Risk Management Professional, has several other certifications related to project management and marketing, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Economics.