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ROB KRIZANOVIC - FITNESS SOLUTIONS

Over 6 decades combined experience in Fitness Industry brings the very best in team work. Effortlessly, we determine your business needs and together we establish suitable strategy. From there we work together for to achieve results.

TEam and partners

Marina

Social Media content creator

Snezana

Senior Interior Designer

Dragana

Social Media Strategy and Management

Jessica

Career development partner

Robert

Founder/MD

Nathan

Fitness Education partner

Justen

Recruitment partner

Uros

Web developer

Dragan

Graphic designer

Marina

Entrepreneur
Master in Fitness and Nutrition Coaching
Founder and MD of Big Triumph UAE

Biography

Working with a range of clients across GCC for over 13 years, Marina has dedicated her life helping people to achieve a balanced lifestyle that encompasses all dimensions of health and wellbeing. Her philosophy focuses on continual learning as she never stops improving her knowledge and skills, according to the recent demands within the fitness industry. She is also constantly working on developing psychological guidance and counselling to assist and inspire her clients to be positive and not to think of giving up on their journey to the goals they desire.

That unique approach helped Marina gain the trust of the most eminent individuals of Dubai who still, after more than a decade come to the gym and start their session with an enthusiasm of a beginner. Passionate about combining a proper technique in Fitness Coaching with the latest approach in Precision Nutrition, she believes that we all, regardless of our current conditioning, are able to achieve the goals that we set for ourselves. Years of experience and countless results accomplished are witnessing how efficient and systematic Marina’s life-changing system is.

Marina’s main areas of expertise are Nutrition and Lifestyle Coaching, Sports Performance, Toning and Sculpting. But one of the biggest professional and personal challenges for her is supporting women during their pregnancy and post-natal period. Being a mother of two herself, a goal to help moms “get back in the game” is the greatest task for Marina, but also one of the biggest professional qualities. With an extensive background in motherhood and coaching, she creates a training environment that not only motivates but also empowers moms to continually challenge themselves in a fun and rewarding way. The way that is result-driven, but also ever-changing and creative, pleasant and joyful at all stages.

Being on top is what Marina is doing for a living, proving constantly her capabilities of lifting people in the same direction. To achieve significant, sustainable life change and make it the way of living.

Snezana

Senior Interior Designer

Biography

Good design is a result of f ine balance between form and function. Snezana’s wide experience and talent has helped her fast climbing career.

While and after her studies she had an active role in fitness as instructor for 10 years, and this experience helped her develop leadersh ip skills as well as better understanding of the sports based environments.

Snezana is described by her coworkers and designers as conf ident leader,committing fully to her projects, passionate with always clear vision. She has been loved for her humanity and smile on and ott work.

Snezana has established her self as Interior Designer f irst in Serbia for 8 years and then in last 4 years in MENA region.Taste of modern sophistication runs trough her designs while she is always looking for interesting and eye catching details. After

f inishing Master Degree in Architecture,and working for 8 years in companies for unique, custom furniture and interior design, she received experience for details and materials in wide range of projects from retail, sports and residential.

In 2014 she worked on “fast track” project of Sheraton Resort & Convention Hotel renovation in Doha,which gave her major experience in hospitality design and was her f irst project in MENA region.Hospitality has always been the most demanding f ield for any designer.

The most important experience Snezana had was working for world No.1 hospitality giant design firm from Los Angeles, Studio HBA Office in Dubai where she worked on wide range of 3,4 and 5 star hotels. Her biggest and most demanding project was award winning design for Hard Rock Hotel Dubai, 101 floor high rise with a view over the Dubai Marina.Design for this Hotel was most challenging as of huge amount of coordination was needed, from art. lightning,signage, 3d rendering teams,drafting teams, landscape, memorbilia, etc. Her role in the company was to lead team of Dubai based designers and coordinate design with teams in Bangkok, Singapore, India, Phillipines,USA, while meeting clients,consultants and hotel operators. High standards of HBA International developed Snezana’s designed skilled even further.

One of the highlights was certainly working on the Dubai Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Library Interior Design concepts.

After fast track life in Dubai, she has moved back to Doha working on number of residential and hospitality projects within company from Doha.

Dragana

Master in Communications, Journalism, and New Media

Biography

Dragana Radosavljevic, or @dubaiblogger as she is popularly known on Instagram is Dubai’s famed lady entrepreneur into social media and public relations. Her expertise, yet charismatic personality alongside exceptional networking skills enable her to successfully promote many high-end brands in both, lifestyle and business level. Being a professional journalist into politics, a media business owner and a caring human soul above all, she has a keen eye for truth and the ability to let that truth shine through, reaching thousands of her social media and blog followers. And these are exactly characteristics that made Dragana famous in the region, her positive attitude and lifestyle choices, hence the genuine, meaningful content she chooses to share with her audience.

Dragana has over 10 years’ client Digital Marketing experience and has helped corporations such as Emaar, Nakheel, Landmark Group and countless others use social media to drive online visibility and generate leads. She also has many fitness brands and individuals included in her portfolio helping them to establish businesses in UAE and promote their services and programs within Dubai millennials population. Renowned brands, businesses and organizations have loyally made Dragana their preferred choice for various marketing engagements.

Alongside big Hollywood names, influencers, and A-list celebrities, she participated in multimillion-dollar campaigns for worlds famous brands and corporations, performing as their top brand ambassador in the Middle East region. She also has interviewed established names of the global scene, as well as several members of the Emirati Royal Family, adding to her reputation of versatility and professionalism in communicating with different personalities.

Providing a high level of lifestyle photography and meaningful content, she has become a brand Influencer to high net worth men and women and business owners across the Gulf countries and globally. Dragana’s experience, professionalism, and affable personality are only a few of the traits that have made her one of the top Social Media personalities in the UAE & Middle East region.

Dragana’s rich knowledge of the digital world and up to date improvements enable her to deliver on both social media management behind the scenes and publicly presented influencer marketing. Combined with her ever-expanding reach on an international scale, and locally oriented networking performance, Dragana brings leverage to any potential client.

Jessica

Training & Development Director

Biography

Home town: Durban, South Africa
Current City: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Training experience: Fourteen year’s experience in designing and executing training material, four years with Mark Williams, and over five year’s within the UAE.

Jessica is most commonly described as “a passionate trainer with a rare love for people,” and her ability to teach employees, leaders and organisations how to inspire people. With a bold goal to help build a organisation in which the vast majority of people go home everyday feeling fulfilled by their work.

Jessica discovered her passion for people development at Virgin International, one of the world’s most innovative and creative brands for staff development. During her nine years’ Jessica designed and facilitated end-to-end corporate training and development programs in conjuntion with ‘C’ level executives. With a flair for travel and embracing new cultures Jess was headhunted to work in Middle East with Gold’s Gym to set up their MEA Learning and Development department. The purpose of the role was to build a sustainable learning and development division to promote a ‘hire from within’ philosphy while reducing attrition rates and improving company culture.

In over fourteen years of training, Jessica has designed and facilitated hundreds of training material covering: Customer Service, Courageous Conversations, Leadership Development, Aspiring Managers, Company Induction, Employee Relations, Time Management, Communication, Effective Performance Management, Employee Engagement, Facilitations skills (Train the trainer), Sales and Service, Authentic Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Self Insight, DISC profile analysis and Human Resources Management.

Jessica’s innovative view and approach on business and leadership have enabled global companies to increase their competitivness, retain staff, promote from within, build strong leadership teams and lower attrition rates. Jessica received an opportunity to meet Sir Richard Brandson for these unconvetional training methods with Virgin.

Being in the region has given her an opportunity to apply her knowledge regarding people to the understanding of culture and embarking on a challenging but fulfulling passion to develop local talent in the GCC.

Robert Krizanovic

Entrepreneur
Master in Sports and Exercise Science
Founder and MD of Rob Krizanovic, Fitness Solutions

Biography

Building his career for over 20 years, Robert, has been operating clubs in Europe and Middle East, while learning about the business from within. Developing and acquiring a variety of different skillset, in a career of personal growth from Coach through Manager to COO, Robert gained unique experience in Fitness Industry both as “student” and as leader. By his own words, Robert describes his career as “interesting journey with fortunate mix of passion, dedication and belief”. Fitness First Middle East, Gold’s Gym Middle East, have been just a couple of big names with whom Robert has learned everything about managing people and business, club operation and strategies. His latest experience in specialized fitness boutique studios gave a special note on his career. With an experience ranging from big international chains to local brands; small boxes to big boxes; traditional fitness businesses to specialized studios; high end luxury offering facilities to basic set up fitness facilities, Robert has helped numerous businesses to find their way, and helped to bring investors vision to reality.

Passionate about making dreams come true, Robert has been led by 4P’s which he installs in every business model: People, Product, Process, Profit. People being in center of the Health and Fitness Industry business, Robert place this “element” in pedestal of the building hierarchy. “Everything in Health and Fitness evolves around People. Whether they are internal clients- employees, or external clients – members, our industry has seen magic happens when teams work seamlessly together.” – Robert explains. And just like that, Robert builds and network of experts, with whom today he works on various projects.

Robert’s experience being in the facility, handling day-to-day operations for over 2 decades, operating every aspect of the business to the detail, puts him ahead of all the others. Talking about his experience Robert says:” I am proud of what I have achieved, however still humble enough to appreciate a chance of learning every day. This is people business and as such, we must adopt. Fitness Industry has seen major shifts in last decade, and it continues to be one of the most evolving and rapidly changing industries in the World. It would be silly to say that we have seen it all.”

The best is yet to come!

Nathan Brown

Director of Corporate Wellness
International Facilitator

Biography

A former pro- sporting athlete, Nathan was a 4 x New Zealand Kick Boxing Champion and has a 3rd Degree Dan Black Belt in Karate; this started his journey as an all-round  facilitator and group training fitness coach.

Nathan was part of the start up team for Fitness First Middle East in 2006 and held the position of Leadership Manager and Master Trainer for 12 years.

As one of the most influential contemporary health and fitness leaders, Nathan is a trained AIE facilitation educator who has coached over 4,000 instructors across the globe. He was the original pioneer who introduced Les Mills to the Middle East in 1998  and was also a former Master Trainer for the world renowned group fitness phenomenon.

Nathan is the founder and creator of TOA (The Warrior Athlete) which is a high intensity program and JUNGLE, an outdoor and indoor group training concept. He is also a dedicated wellness and health coach and believes our life journey starts with sound parental guidance.

His mantra is simple: Eat nutritious food  with real value, move your body more than you sit, create happiness for yourself when ever possible!

Justen Akko

Recruitment partner

Biography

Justen is a dedicated, passionate and driven fitness enthusiast with 11 years of experience in the fitness industry, working in various exclusive and top health clubs in South Africa and Dubai.

Since most of his professional career was spent in the fitness industry, as a company owner, Justen combined his experience and knowledge to help fellow fitness professionals have an opportunity to build their career abroad. Headhunted by a recruitment agency years ago, Justen points out his positive experience in the process: “Inspired by the recruitment company that found a job for me and helped in the onboarding process in what was my first job overseas, I wanted to set up a business that will instill security and trust and help fitness professionals in such an important step in their life. Deciding to work abroad and stepping out of the security of home is such an important decision. I wanted to be the link between the wish and opportunity, by creating a process that is coated with security.”

A decision was made, and he had become a specialist in recruiting for all fitness positions when he founded the Fit Staff Recruitment company in 2020. The company’s mission is to identify and help fitness professionals with their ideal fitness job.

In the past 2 years, Justen has helped dozens of fitness professionals set sail towards greater achievements.

Uros Pajic

Web Developer
SEO Specialist

Biography

As a young boy Uros was interested in learning about the world around him and how he could help future generations. Invisible for untrained eye, but essentially the way how things function was his focus of interest. Wanting to save the environment for the future generations he enrolled at the University of Novi Sad where he studied Environmental Engineering. This is where he first met with the innovations, new ways of problem solving, and technology application in everyday life.

After graduating from the University, he discovered his biggest passion: web development and SEO management. He dedicated most of his time developing his skills and knowledge about his newly found passion. Long hours of problem solving, analytical approach and creative thinking are in the essence of both. The results are visually clear to everyone, yet the mechanism of creation and the design of things is known to only few. Uros is one of them.

In 2018, Uros took further and co-founded a company for Website development and Digital Marketing called Digital Circle. Through his company he expanded his network and aimed to reach further. Lately Uros and his team have expanded their offering and begin to create e-commerce platforms.

Through sophisticated e-commerce platforms creation that he specialized in, he helps businesses to place their products and enter the market. Understanding clients’ expectations and providing bespoke functionality though website while strategically incorporate the best practice through UI/UX is his “trademark”.

In words of his clients: “Without Uros we would not have found ways in placing our products on internet nor we would have ever stood out in crowded market of online selling. Thanks to Uros, his SEO strategy and website building technique we are able to reach more customers”.

Dragan Jelic

Graphic Designer

Biography

Clients describe Dragan as creative individual who designs attractive, nice, and functional brand visuals that are innovative and, often, exceed expectations. Since early childhood Dragan was attracted to drawing, painting and photography. His passion grew further as he has been discovering more about the art through high school and later through his studies at the university.

After graduation from the University of Novi Sad, at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, he earned a MSc degree in Graphic Engineering and Design. He specialized in elements of Brand Identity that includes visual corporate identity, marketing visuals, application of design in printing, logo design, overall branding, website design, and 3D modelling.

His qualification and knowledge Dragan applied in dozens of projects. His process of creation starts with exploration: understanding client’s vision for the brand, product and service offering, personality of the brand and target market.

Constant innovations in IT industry and new trend in technology related designs are the reasons for his continuous learning and research.

He believes that understanding the brand and its message, clients’ ambitions and direction for the product, service and company is crucial for success. His biggest satisfaction is happy client with whom he can find out the best possible creative design solution and functionality.