Sasha Bezuhanova

Sasha Bezuhanova is the founder and board chair of MOVE.BG – civil platform for collaboration and constructive public debate, reconfirmation of the democratic principles and definition of the long-term strategies and innovative policies for development of modern Bulgaria. Before devoting herself to that cause in 2013, Sasha has a 20-year business executive career in HP where she took on various management roles. Her last position was Director of Public Sector for the world Growth Markets at Hewlett-Packard. Previously she has managed the Central Eastern Europe Public sector business of the corporation. Before that Sasha was the General Manager of Hewlett-Packard Bulgaria for more than 10 years, positioning the company as the leader in the local ICT market and driving important investment in the country where HP employs today more than 5000 people.
Sasha is Chair of the Boards of European Center of Women in Technologies, Bulgarian Center of Women in Technologies, Technical University in Sofia and Bulgarian School of Politics, co-founder and board member of the Initiative for Social Empowerment . She was named Digital woman of Europe for 2013 and one of the Top 100 Challengers in New Europe 100 for 2015 and holds many other national and European awards for her contribution to social development.
She founded her own yearly Entrepregirl Award for supporting young women to develop their entrepreneurial ideas into business.
Sasha is the initiator of EDIT.BG – open network initiative for digital innovation.
She is an Honorary Consul of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to Bulgaria.
Sasha Bezuhanova holds an Executive Master’s Degree in International Negotiations and Policy Making from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Master’s Degree in Electronics from the Technical University of Sofia, and Executive qualifications from INSEAD, Stanford and others.
Sasha is married with one daughter.