United group (UG) announced that there was a change at the top of the company. The founder of the company, Dragan Šolak, will no longer be the chairman of the Advisory Board, and Vikotrija Boklag the CEO of the majority-owned BC Partners group, reported Yahoo Finance.
The new CEO of the group will be Stan Miller, and his deputy Libor Voncina.
"During the six-year partnership with United Group, together with Dragan and his team, we quadrupled the size of the company and turned it from a regional operator into one of the leading European platforms with a clearly strengthened positioning towards the European Union," BC Partners chairman Nikos Statopoulos said on the occasion.
After the strategic sale of UG's assets outside the European Union, the company is now focused on important developing markets within the EU, Statopoulos explained. With a proven track record of success in managing European telecommunications companies, "Sten and Libor are the right managers to lead UG into a new phase of its strategy."
"We thank Dragan and Viktorija for their work so far in building the company and wish them success in their future endeavors," Statopoulos said.
United Group's strategic shift
The change at the top reflects United Group's strategic shift towards European Union markets, after completing the monetization of its telecommunications assets outside the EU earlier in 2025 with the sale of SBB to E& PPF and the sale of Net TV Plus, as well as the rights to sports broadcasts in the Western Balkans to Telekom Srbija. This property was sold for 1,5 billion euros, reports Yahoo Finance.
United Group today serves over 40 million users, generating around three billion euros in revenue and around one billion euros in EBITDAaL in its key markets.
United Group operates in eight countries and employs more than 15.000 people. United media manages 60 TV channels, 40 portals and numerous print and radio media.
Tectonic disruption in the Serbian media market
In Serbia, this group includes the television stations N1 and Nova S, the newspaper and portal Nova and "Danas", and the weekly "Radar".
As "Vreme" previously wrote, the N1 and Nova S cable televisions already have a contract with the cable operator SBB on transmission and compensation for each connection. That contract is still in force, even though the former sister company SBB has been sold.
United Group's transactions led to a tectonic shift in the Serbian media landscape. Now Telekom's channels are present on all networks, and their Arena sport has a monopoly on sports broadcasts.
