About us

Baltazar marketing operates as a team of professionals in a highly flexible project management organization.

Meet the team.

Founder, CEO

Blaž Branc, entrepreneur, sociologist with specialization in human resources management, author, trainer and lecturer. He began his career in 2001 at a start-up web company Domenca, where he first worked as a salesman. Later he took over webdesign department and led a group of 12 programmers, designers and animators. In 2007 he established his company Baltazar marketing and ran marketing operations for Mimovrste, a company that became the biggest Slovenian online store in 2009.
He's worked with domestic and international organizations like Porsche, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Toshiba, KD Funds, Si.mobil, Austrian airlines, etc.
Blaz leads a double professional life: one of marketer, specializing in product communication and sales engineering, and one of educator of adults.

His work as an educator of adults began in 2007. He focuses on start-up programs, innovative product development, product communication and soft-skills needed to assemble and run a great team.
In recent years, Blaz has been using gamification and game-design in his work as a practitioner and trainer. A few recent projects:

»From inspiration to innovation,« a fully gamified business conference on innovation (Ljubljana, Slovenia), recognized as innovation by the Slovenian forum of Innovation 2014 (world's first fully gamified educational business event);
"Let's play Life,« a training course in designing LARP (live-action role-play) for educational purposes (Poznan, Poland);
»Knudepunkt convention,« inspirational speaker (»Rejection: clash of personalities« (Copenhagen, Denmark);
»Dust over Assling city,« a stakeholder management LARP, with Ziga Novak (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
"Train2Game," a board games training course aimed at creating educational board games for NGOs (Patras, Greece);
"7 samurai," a fully gamified assessment center, with Ziga Novak (in progress, launch late spring 2015)
"The Big innovation game," a fully gamified in-company business educational laboratory (in progress; launch 2016).

He created his first board game at the age of 9. In year 2000, he developed a chess game for 3 players and a 3D Battleship (Sinking the ships) pen and paper game. Funny, but true.
Blaz also works as a mentor for several Slovenian mentorship programmes, such as Mentorstvo.si and ABC BTC Accelerator.

digital technology and user experience consultant

Peter Miklavc began his career as a designer and animator for webdesign projects. In 2006 he established a web company Mugo and has been its CEO ever since. Mugo has since specialized in cutting-edge mobile (iOS, Android, Bada) and web development. Peter understand how modern technology can enable businesses to achieve growth through development of their internal and market communication. Mugo's clients portfolio include companies like Akrapovič racing exhaust systems, Krka,...
Currently he works on Mugo's own social app called MugoSurf, a mobile community software for people sharing a passion - in this case, surfing.

game-design consultant, events organizer

Žiga Novak is an expert in edutainment, event management and tourism. In his work with organizations he promotes the use of storytelling, humour and participatory techniques for more effective group cooperation. As a student of International relations in Ljubljana, he was invited to join a one year Leadership development program in Boston, USA, sponsored by the Open Society Institute. Žiga holds a MSc degree in Politics of the World Economy (London School of Economics). In recent years he has been facilitating HRM trainings, developing his own event&educational venue (The Walnut Grove in Ljubljana) and running the Team Building Lab - a team building agency running top-notch edutainment solutions for the global market.

gamification and LARP consultant

Krzysztof Chmielewski is a full-time LARP (live-action role-playing) master coach, teaching LARP design since 2006. Kris created and ran his first LARPs in 1999. A veteran in the scene. He specializes in LARP for team buildings and corporate soft-skills training as well as arthouse-style LARPing.
Kris graduated in Politics and History. He also has a degree in directing and screenwriting. He holds a MSc degree in Mediation, Negotiations and Psychology in Business.
Currently he works as role-playing games design lecturer at Kazimierze Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He also gives lectures to high school teachers on how to use LARP and gamified drama. Specialist at GAMEDEC LARP Lab, Poland.
Kris is probably the only economic mediator in Poland that gamifies facilitation and mediation. Member of Games Research Association of Poland. Juror in the "Złote Maski" (Golden masks) competition - biggest LARP contest in East-Central Europe (2010-2014).

An invitation

Do you feel like our company could be an inspirational environment for your talent and skills?
If so, please write to Blaz (blaz@baltazar.si) and introduce yourself briefly to start the conversation. Thank you.