The highlights in the career of Hrvoje Kolarić, Master of Pharmacy and Master of Business Administration (MBA, IEDC), Belupo’s Chairman of the Management Board and Podravka’s Management Board Member, include the prestigious post as Director, Niche Products and Business Development, at BMS Pharmaceuticals.

He was also Director at PharmaSwiss d.o.o. Hrvatska and at Farmaceutika. In addition, he managed business processes relating to cooperation with Belupo on the production of their Cardiology range.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Kolarić was Pharmaceutical Department Manager at Bristol-Mayers Squibb’s Representative Office for Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and then Antiallergenic & Respiratory Product Manager at Schering Plough’s Representative Office in Croatia.

He was appointed Management Board Member responsible for Marketing, Sales & International Markets at Belupo in May of 2005 and then reappointed in May of 2010. In 2012, he was appointed Chairman of the Management Board at Belupo. In late December of that same year, he was appointed Management Board Member at Podravka. 

He took an active part in numerous training courses designed to build sales and negotiation skills, first line management trainings, sales efficiency trainings, finance trainings, etc.