Member since August 2026
I'm a senior sales executive based in Boston. Over the past 10+ years I've worked in B2B partnerships and technology sales, mostly with SaaS companies and scale-ups, helping European companies enter and grow in the U.S. market.
I started in B2C sales and recruitment before moving into tech. My work is about figuring out who to talk to, getting the meeting, and building the relationship from there.
Outside of that, I co-founded Gather, a monthly in-person professional community in Boston that connects people across industries, and founded the Bulgarian Professionals Network. I'm also the Boston co-chair of Retail Women in Tech. In 2025, I spoke at Startup Boston Week about cold calling and pipeline building.
I speak on:
- Cold outreach and pipeline building
- Business development and sales
- Partnerships and relationship building
- Networking and community building
- U.S. market entry for international companies
I'm passionate about intentional community-building and connecting people. My mom works in theater, so I grew up around the arts. I love of live music, dance (I used to dance salsa), and stand-up/theater. I also learned a somewhat decent Spanish as a pandemic hobby in addition the few languages I already speak.
I'm an extrovert. But in February, I was working from home, alone, and I looked at my LinkedIn and realized I had over 5,000 connections. Five thousand people I was supposedly connected to, and I was sitting there feeling like I was speaking into the void.
So I invited a few people to get together in person. Six people showed up to that first one. Two of them became my Gather co-founders.
Today it's grown into a community of over 120 people, across industries in Boston: the startup community, AI leaders and tech groups, realtors, scientists, educators, humans. It's helped me build confidence, expand my network, and launch partnerships I never imagined. I celebrated 20 years in the U.S. in a bar downtown with a couple of randos and two friends who turned into collaborators, and set the beginning of my "networking" journey.
I've spent my life adapting. Born in Bulgaria, moved to Russia as a teenager, then in the early 2000s, four countries in the span of a couple of years. I got used to walking into rooms where I knew no one and figuring things out from there. I have friends scattered across the world because of it, which is my most cherished "possession."
I studied economics and German, worked in study abroad, then landed in tech. I didn't come from a technical background, so for a while I felt like I was still figuring out where I actually fit. Eventually I realized the thing I'd been doing my whole life, adapting fast, reading a room, connecting with strangers, wasn't a gap. It was the actual skill. I'd just never called it that.
That's what brought me to networking and now, speaking. It's the same thing I've always done: walk into a room of strangers and find the connection. A lovely human I met along this journey calls me the Bulgarian Connection and I love that.
I'm an extrovert. But in February, I was working from home, alone, and I looked at my LinkedIn and realized I had over 5,000 connections. Five thousand people I was supposedly connected to, and I was sitting there feeling like I was speaking into the void.
So I invited a few people to get together in person. Six people showed up to that first one. Two of them became my Gather co-founders.
Today it's grown into a community of over 120 people, across industries in Boston: the startup community, AI leaders and tech groups, realtors, scientists, educators, humans. It's helped me build confidence, expand my network, and launch partnerships I never imagined. I celebrated 20 years in the U.S. in a bar downtown with a couple of randos and two friends who turned into collaborators, and set the beginning of my "networking" journey.
I've spent my life adapting. Born in Bulgaria, moved to Russia as a teenager, then in the early 2000s, four countries in the span of a couple of years. I got used to walking into rooms where I knew no one and figuring things out from there. I have friends scattered across the world because of it, which is my most cherished "possession."
I studied economics and German, worked in study abroad, then landed in tech. I didn't come from a technical background, so for a while I felt like I was still figuring out where I actually fit. Eventually I realized the thing I'd been doing my whole life, adapting fast, reading a room, connecting with strangers, wasn't a gap. It was the actual skill. I'd just never called it that.
That's what brought me to networking and now, speaking. It's the same thing I've always done: walk into a room of strangers and find the connection. A lovely human I met along this journey calls me the Bulgarian Connection and I love that.