Tomaz Oresic - Group Head of Marketing - Central and Western Europe

Tomaz is an energy utility manager with international experience in energy sales as well as in the energy related legal issues.

Tomaz holds a  Mechanical Engineering diploma from the University of Maribor, where he graduated in 1996. Subsequently, he studied an MBA programme at the same University.

In 1998 Tomaz became the Director of the GLAS 2000 d.d. consultancy. His engagement in the electricity sector coincided with the creation of the electricity market in Slovenia.  Tomaz applied experience gained in the German electricity market and was the first to provide new services in the Slovenian electricity market, offering contract negotiations, pooling and other services for the industrial customers.

Tomaz subsequently joined Elektro Maribor d.d., the second largest Slovenian distribution company in 2003, where he was appointed Member of the Board. His responsibilities included primarily electricity supply, trading, services and strategic development of the company.

Tomaz is also the Chairman of the annual international conference on electricity market and distribution ENERGIJA 08 (www.energija08.si), as well as a programme committee member and a speaker at several international events, focusing on energy legislation issues, unbundling and electricity supply activities.
 
Since 2007 he has served as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ETRA 33, the power & distribution transformer company from Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Tomaz lives and works in Maribor, Slovenia.