Ivana joined the Hemofarm Foundation team as a Project Manager in September 2022.

Before entering the world of CSR and philanthropy, Ivana has had 20 years of agency experience in advertising and communications; she has worked on development, strategic planning, management and execution of communication campaigns in various industries, with local and international clients. During her agency career, she has had the opportunity to get acquainted with and work on important CSR and humanitarian projects which were among those that received the largest number of awards in the region. In the past two years, she was engaged with the Catalyst Balkans marketing team on spreading the stories about charity activities of individuals, small and large enterprises/companies throughout the region.

She is proud of having had the opportunity to participate in creating the ‘The Most Important Call in Life’ CSR campaign and in one of the most successful humanitarian actions in Serbia – the ‘Battle for Babies’.

Marija joined Hemofarm Foundation in February 2025, as project manager, with almost 20 years of experience in project management and communications.

Prior to her role at the Foundation, she worked with the International Rescue Committee in Serbia, where she, as Grant Manager, successfully managed a diverse portfolio of projects across multiple European countries. Marija’s versatile professional background spans 15 years in public relations, where she developed and implemented communication strategies for both business and nonprofit sectors. She has created and executed PR campaigns across various industries and coordinated large-scale events such as conferences and festivals.

A mom of Dunja, in constant pursuit of making this world a better place.

She was appointed the Senior Corporate Affairs and Communications Director of Hemofarm in July 2014.

She was formerly a Program Director for RTV, Director and Editor of Informative Program in RTV B82 and one of the founders of RTV B92, as well as a journalist and editor for Radio Belgrade.

She was born in 1968. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade.

Prof. Dr. Svetozar Putnik is the Director of the Clinic for Cardiac Surgery at the Clinical Centre of Serbia.

He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, where he also earned his master and doctor’s degree. He teaches the subject Surgery with Anaesthesiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. He completed residency training in general surgery and fellowship in cardiac surgery. He passed training in the Netherlands, USA and France. As an author and co-author, he published numerous papers. He is the principal investigator on the international project ‘Avatar’, initiated at the Clinical Centre of Serbia.

So far, he has performed over 5000 cardiovascular procedures and a significant number of surgical procedures in the area of peripheral vascular surgery and implantation of a free-standing pacemaker. Prof. Dr. Svetozar Putnik is one of the initiator of the program of mechanical support of the circulation and cardiac transplantation and also of the coronary artery surgery performed on a beating heart.