Tomislav Dominković, Hrvoje Josip Balen & Mislav Balković

Tomislav Dominković, Hrvoje Josip Balen and Mislav Balković are the founders and co-owners of Algebra, the largest and fastest-growing educational group in Croatia.

During its 23 years of existence, educational programs of various types in Algebra have been completed by more than 120,000 individuals, and annually about 15,000 students and students of various ages enter its system. Algebra originated from a vision of a different, agile and self-sustainable education system and today focuses on undergraduate and graduate education, lifelong learning, corporate education, helping high school students prepare for graduation, digital primary education, educational consulting and digital publishing. As the best rated professional study in Croatia according to the European criteria of the quality assurance system (ESG), Algebra conducts undergraduate and graduate studies in computer science, multimedia, design, digital marketing, computer game development and data science and the e-Leadership MBA program in collaboration with one of the leading American business schools, Kelley School of Business, University of Indiana, USA.

Today, Algebra is the most important educational partner of companies such as Microsoft, Google, AWS, Oracle, Cisco, Adobe, Red Hat, VMware and many others, and it is also a prominent member of many eminent academic initiatives. Hrvoje Josip Balen, Mislav Balković and Tomislav Dominković are the winners of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 award.

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Croatian entrepreneurship has once again shown that it has the strength and potential, and the sixth edition of this most prestigious world award in entrepreneurship presented the most successful and brought additional motivation for business development and perseverance.

“Despite all the hardships that befell us this year, with great energy and desire, we managed to fight back and continue to develop our dream. We come from a sector that is not primarily perceived as entrepreneurial, from the education sector, but we were committed to building a successful system by which we will participate in creating new ideas, added value, and future professionals for the benefit of all of us. Thank you to fellow entrepreneurs for the recognition, which will certainly serve as an additional motivation for us in the days to come,” said Hrvoje Josip Balen from Algebra during the proclamation.

Algebra continues to grow from strength to strength, their offerings are unique and robust. Their portfolio of solutions and accolades are preceded by their ability to pay attention and zero in on the needs of both aspiring professionals and the Croatian market. Learn more…

Congratulations Algebra on this great achievement – The LLPA