Management Team

General Manager: Davor Užbinec

Davor Užbinec, former general manager of the Cedevita Zagreb, has been part of the story of the development of KK Cedevita Zagreb from the very beginning. In 2005, he was appointed a member of the club’s board, and in 2015, he took over as General Manager. He came to this position with rich business experience in the field of logistics, transport and distribution, and held leading positions in companies such as Lagos, Lura and Atlantic Grupa. Even before taking up his professional position at KK Cedevita Zagreb, he diligently developed the club, focusing on the younger categories and the basketball school, which today unites more than a thousand children. As general manager of the club, he provided all the necessary organizational prerequisites for the sporting successes that followed. He relied on the club’s tradition and ambition of “fair play” and business. Davor Užbinec is one of the most deserving of the exceptional reputation that KK Cedevita Zagreb enjoys in international and European contexts.

Contact:
Tel.: +386 41 244 444
E-mail: davor.uzbinec@cedevita.olimpija.com

SPORTS Director: VLADO ILIEVSKI

Vlado Ilievski is a former top basketball player who, in his career, wore the jerseys of Partizan, Barcelona, Lottomatica, Tau Ceramica, Efes, Nymburk, Zagreb’s Cedevita and Ljubljana’s Olimpija, among others. Ilievski said goodbye to basketball in 2017, and in recent years he was the president of the Basketball Club Ilirija. The Ljubljana team, based below Rožnik, settled into a stable Slovenian first division team during this period, which also played in international competitions in the 2022/23 season.

During his basketball career, Ilievski won, among other things, the title of ABA League champion (2002), the title of Slovenian (2002), Spanish (2004), Italian (2008) and Czech (2014) national champion, and for many years he was also a member of the Macedonian national team, with which he participated in three EuroBaskets, and in 2011 he finished the competition in fourth place.

In the Dragons jersey, Ilievski played three times, namely between 2001 and 2003, between 2008 and 2009 and between 2009 and 2011, but in 2023, he returned to the Ljubljana club in a different role, as a Sports Director.

Contact:

Tel.: +386 31 810 609
E-mail: kresimir.novosel@cedevita.olimpija.com

Technical Director: Krešimir Novosel

Krešimir Novosel, the son of the legendary coach Mirko Novosel, is the former director of the Cedevita Zagreb Basketball Club, where he worked for eight years, after concluding his basketball career in Cedevita. From Zagreb’s offices, in 2015, the path led him to the position of ABA League director. Novosel has been the main operative of the regional competition until this year.

In KK Cedevita Olimpija, Novosel acts as technical director, and his main tasks will be related to communication with the management of various competitions, in which the member team of Cedevita Olimpija will play in the coming seasons, and at the same time he will be responsible for everything according to the guidelines and rules of competitions, both international and domestic.

Contact:

Tel.: +386 31 810 609
E-mail: kresimir.novosel@cedevita.olimpija.com

Finances: Nataša Peternelj

Phone: +386 [0]51 605 060
E-mail: natasa.peternelj@cedevita.olimpija.com

Marketing: Matic Lisac

Phone: +386 [0]31 810 904
E-mail: matic.lisac@cedevita.olimpija.com

Marketing and ticketing: Nika Gašparac

Phone: +386 [0]31 810 914
E-mail: nika.gasparac@cedevita.olimpija.com

Public Relations: Igor Jagić

Phone: +385 91 233 0218
E-mail: igor.jagic@cedevita.olimpija.com

Public Relations: Tine Ružič

Phone: +386 [0]40 705 424 or + 386 [0]31 810 896
E-mail: tine.ruzic@cedevita.olimpija.com

Staff: Matej Borkovič

Phone: +386 [0]41 407 263
E-mail: matej.borkovic@cedevita.olimpija.com

Staff: Frenk Mirnik

Phone: +386 [0]41 323 381
E-mail: frenk@cedevita.olimpija.com