Co-founder & Managing Partner

Ivan Grlic is a serial entrepreneur and problem solver. Ivan started his first business, CMT Group Balkan, in 2005, built and then sold it in 2009. He then became a partner and regional director of Naton HR for several years before starting his second business, Primus Group, in 2014. It is now one of the fastest-growing HR agencies in Eastern Europe. While he still owns it, it is under professional management.

Sun Data World was his third business in only his third decade. The goal of the company is to tap into Ethiopia’s vast renewable resources and build Data Center infrastructure and deploy the latest cloud services that will allow the country to become one of the digital hubs in Africa and the world in the years to come. He is an active seeker of opportunities in emerging and frontier markets, especially in energy and technology.

Principal

Sohail Alangari is a Principal at SparkLabs Saudi Arabia, bringing over five years of experience in management consulting, business development, and investments. He has a strong foundation in energy development, digital transformation, and technology implementations.

Before joining SparkLabs Saudi Arabia, Sohail held key roles at firms such as Synergy Consulting, where he contributed to major government infrastructure projects, and Algihaz Holding, where he managed strategic partnerships and business expansions in the power sector. He also worked at PwC, driving digital transformation initiatives for government clients.

Sohail holds an MBA from IMD Business School in Switzerland and a BEng in Electrical Engineering from Al Faisal University in Saudi Arabia. Fluent in both English and Arabic, he continues to leverage his expertise to foster growth and innovation in the investment landscape.

Partner

Bodin Scepanovic specializes in portfolio management and private equity across a range of industries. In 2021 he was appointed as youngest executive of Taj Holding Group in Saudi Arabia to lead its investment arm. He managed a USD 1.4bn portfolio across six verticals - retail, aviation, healthcare, manufacturing, IT and services. Under his leadership the portfolio tripled in size within 3 years.

In 2021 he was appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Montenegro Works, a state-owned holding with USD 3.1 billion in assets under management. During his tenure the company initiated strong reforms to improve the quality of business culture within the portfolio.

Earlier in his career, he was an Associate at Dare Associates in Milan, Italy where he worked on business transformation in real estate, water sports and sheet metal manufacturing. During 2014 Bodin worked in the business intelligence unit of UniCredit bank.

Bodin earned a Masters of Science in Finance from Bocconi University in Italy. He also attended Dartmouth College, where he studied economics.

In 2022 Bodin started his first entrepreneurial journey by investing and developing a 5 star boutique hotel on the Montenegrin coast.