# Miodrag Skrbic

Miodrag Skrbic (Serbian Cyrillic Миодраг Шкрбић Hotkovci, January 20, 1956) is a Serbian entrepreneur and former football player.

## Education

He attended the "Ognjen Prica" high school in Sarajevo and graduated as a student of IV-2 class. This class was declared the best in the former Yugoslavia and Miodrag Skrbic the best student.
Miodrag Skrbic holds a master's degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Sarajevo, at the Department of Informatics, and basic graduate studies ended in 1978 at the Telecommunications Section.

## Sports career

In his early youth he was professionally involved in football and in 1973–74. was the first team player of FC Željezničar from Sarajevo. In 1973 he joined the Yugoslav youth team of coach Ante Mladinic in a generation with Zajec, Vujkov, Kranjcar, Pavkovic, Vlah and Mustedanagic. He dropped out of his playing career during his studies but returned to football as a graduate engineer in 1978–1982. played for FK Famos Hrasnica.
From 1987 to 1989 he was a football referee in the First Federal League of Yugoslavia.

## Professional career

Miodrag Skrbic is one of the first private entrepreneurs from the former Yugoslavia.
He founded the first partner company "Grad" in 1989 in Sarajevo. In the early 1990s, after the outbreak of war, Skrbic went to Germany and took over Ned Electronics, as one of the partners.
After opening of Eastern European countries in 1993, Skrbic moves to Czech Republic where, with the participation of company Tesla Votice, establishes company specialized in information technology in the field telecommunications – Strom Telecom, together with Nihad Hurem and Mirko Jelcic. Following the successful start-up of the company, Strom Telecom acquires a stake of Tesla Votice and the Tesla Votice plant itself, thereby establishing the most famous Prague telecommunications company. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, company expanded its operations to Russia and to the countries of the former Soviet Union, Germany and Central Europe, and Africa. At the Geneva Fair in 2003, Strom Telecom entered the US market for the first time and signed a contract for the delivery of its own digital communication systems.
In February 2007, Strom Telecom, together with Sitronics TS Holding (part of AFK SYSTEM), successfully entered the London Stock Exchange, thereby opening access to international capital. Strom Telecom then begins cooperation with AFK SYSTEM, which at the end of 2007 acquires Strom Telecom and merges it with Sitronics TS, which later changed its name to NVision.
After the successful transfer of ownership of Strom Telecom, he founded several smaller companies in several European countries, of which in the period from 2007 to 2011 through consolidation, a business system was created under the name NITES Group, which operates successfully in Central and Southeast Europe.

## Corporate social responsibility

Throughout his entrepreneurial career, Miodrag Skrbic has made an effort to create educational opportunities for young people through funding their higher education and at prestigious European universities and their subsequent employment within the NITES Group. In addition to his education, Skrbic also provides professional placements for students at NITES Group companies.
Admiring the great scientist Nikola Tesla, Skrbic in association with the civil society organization "Luka Praha" endorsed the translation and promotion of the novel "Tesla, a portrait of a masked mask" by Vladimir Pistal, winner of the NIN journal Award.