Prof. Natalia Futekova, PhD

Prof. Dr. Natalia Futekova is Vice-Chairman of the Management Board of the Bulgarian Association of Information Technologies (BAIT) and part of the department “Higher Education” in the organization.

He has over twenty years of management experience in the field of development, implementation and management of ERP class business software. Successfully combines an entrepreneurial career in the field of technology with academic and scientific activity, as well as active participation in educational and other social causes. For 11 years she was Chief Assistant in the Department of Information Technology and Communications at the Faculty of Applied Informatics and Statistics at the University of National and World Economy (UNSS). Among the courses she has taught there are “Customer Relationship Management”, “Enterprise Resource Management Systems”, “Informatics”, “Human Resource Management in ERP” and “Customer Relationship Management Systems”.

Natalia Futekova founded the ERP Academy — an innovative project of companies from the ERP industry in Bulgaria, which join efforts in order to make higher education closer to the real needs of business, and future personnel maximally prepared for the labor market in the field of business management and information technology. Together with the Higher School of Insurance and Finance, they created the Master's program “Business Software and ERP Platforms”, which is the first of its kind in Bulgaria.

Since 2017, Natalia Futekova is a member of the Management Board of the Bulgarian Association of Information Technologies (BAIT). In February 2021, she was elected Director of the Information and Communication Technologies Department of the Laboratory for Scientific and Applied Research at the Higher School of Insurance and Finance (VUZF).