Vladimir Antikarov - member of the jury in the "With Bulgarian In Our Hearts" contest
Vladimir Antikarov – member of the jury in the “With Bulgarian In Our Hearts” contest

Vladimir Antikarov is Principal at Verea Group LLC. With over 20 years of experience, Mr. Antikarov has served as a senior member of the corporate finance practice with the Monitor Group (1992-2005) now Monitor Deloitte, and as Senior Advisor to the CFO of Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (2005-2012).

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Mr. Antikarov holds an MBA in Finance from Boston University and was a Fulbright Scholar. A frequent professional panelist and invited speaker internationally, he is conversant in several languages and fluent in English, Spanish, Russian and Bulgarian.

Mr. Antikarov is the co-author, with Tom Copeland, of the bestselling book, Real Options, A Practitioner’s Guide, used by MIT, Harvard, the Wharton School and many other business schools. The book has been published in six languages and was the number one business book on Amazon UK. A member of numerous professional associations, most recently Mr. Antikarov has been elected by his professional colleagues as Regional Director of the 6,000+ member Washington DC chapter of PRMIA, the Professional Risk Manager International Association.