Working towards a prosperous

BiH

Who We Are?

Restart operates as a business embassy for foreign companies offering turn-key solutions, including end-to-end project concierge services for new investment setups with legal and administrative transparency.

Our mission is to foster new investments and create new jobs in BiH by serving as a trusted broker, bringing together capital, know-how and connections.

We started almost five years ago. At that time, representatives of the Bosnian American Friendship Association (BAFA) and SEEBA met, sharing an idea to launch a project that will help investors coming to Bosnia and Herzegovina and ease their pains with the administration. They approached development agencies for funding and Restart was born.

Today, BAFA and SEEBA representatives are members of our Management Board.

What we Achieved in the Past Years

Our Team

Emina Z. Pintarić

Managing Director

Emina Z. Pintaric is a young professional with nine years of diverse legal experience in the private, nonprofit and governmental sector. She worked as an associate for international, regional and national law firms such as Descartes Solicitors in the UK, top-tier law firm Wolf Theiss from Austria and BDK Attorneys at Law from Serbia, as well as the consultant for international organizations such as Transparency International, IFC, World Bank Group, USAID REG Project.
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Email: emina@restart.ba

Mak Lončar

Project Assistant

Mak joined Restart’s team as a Project Assistant in 2020. With focus and commitment, his adaptability to a foreign environment makes him a great team player. One of his tasks includes the organization of marketing resources, data management, and CRM.
He is also a student at the School of Economics and Business in Sarajevo (EFSA - SEBS), where he is currently studying Financial and Marketing Management.
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Email: mak@restart.ba

Ambassador

Marina Ahmić Lučkin

Ambassador

Marina is a procurement and supplier management professional, based in Toronto, Canada.

She is passionate about connecting Small and Diverse companies with Enterprise Organizations and enhancing their visibility across various geographies and industries.

Her experience spans from strategic sourcing to contract negotiation and relationship management.

Marina is always happy to connect with small, diverse companies and try to help them gain access to international prospecting.

Meet Our Management Board

Adnan Berberović

Management Board Member

Adnan founded SEEBA in 2010, a consulting company in Stockholm that provides services in the field of business and digital strategies. The Stockholm office performs sales and consulting in Scandinavia, while a network of partners in BiH and other countries in Southeast Europe deliver digital tools to improve the performance of their clients.

Nura Eston

Management Board Member

Nura was born and lives in Toronto. Nura is a marketing consultant and relationship builder, sharing her skills and experience with everything from working with multinational corporations to volunteering for small community endeavours.

Randall Puljek Shank

Management Board Member

Randall holds a PhD in Political Science from the Radboud University Nijmegen. His doctoral research deepened his interest in the intersection of civil society and politics of ethnically divided societies, and chapters of his dissertation appeared in the journals Cooperation and Conflict, and Voluntas.

Hana Pašić

Management Board Member

Hana previously worked for the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and in Geneva, Switzerland. She has a Masters degree in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and a Bachelor in political science from the University of Sarajevo.

Our Founders

SEEBA

Co-founder

Founded in 2010, SEEBA is a business consultant firm that supports leaders in the digital and analogue transformation phase. They help public and private projects, organizations and companies to reach their goals and fullest potential. SEEBA supports enthusiastic and driven business leaders on the path to sustainable growth and development of their businesses and organizations.

Bosnian American Friendship Association

Co-founder

BAFA is the most prominent organization of the American diaspora in Bosnia. It’s a membership-based community whose mission is to enhance human and social capital in both countries through the promotion of volunteerism, diversity and responsibility. BAFA started its work as a non-formal organization in 2011, but was officially registered in 2014.

5 Years & Counting!

Established in ’15, RESTART is thankful for the support received from MarketMakers and the gracious funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

The main focus of the partnership had been to establish a recognized brand under the name Restart and open an office with experts who would be able to offer support for a number of concrete projects designed to proactively reach out and utilize the full potential of Bosnian and Herzegovinian diaspora and other investors.

Through the support of MarketMakers, and with funding from the SDC, Restart became an embassy of sorts for diaspora and other investors, handling their business requests and dealing with complicated legal procedures. Through this partnership, Restart and MarketMakers created a high-quality reference point for potential investments coming in from the diaspora network and their contacts around the world.

The MarketMakers project (Making Markets Work for the New Generation, also known as MMW4NG) is working to promote the creation of decent job opportunities for young people in BiH.

In 2017, Restart signed a five-year service subcontract as part of USAID’s Harnessing BiH Diaspora for Economic Development Activity (Diaspora Invest).

The project has three key components:

Leveraging diaspora input into the development of an institutional policy framework for diaspora investment
Expanding diaspora direct investment by providing technical assistance and grants to eligible, early-stage SMEs and startups
Developing a sustainable local platform to provide business services and investment facilitation to diaspora

For the duration of the contract, Restart will provide support to FMI through the implementation of various components of this project, with emphasis on designing and implementing technical services related to establishing a diaspora online business network and conducting diaspora outreach, networking and business-to-business activities.

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