Sara Lerota enjoys supporting the growth of the startup & entrepreneurial ecosystem in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond. She supported and coached more than 50 local and international IT startups, and had the pleasure to contribute to enhancing the local IT ecosystem while being the startup program manager of the first privately funded startup accelerator in the country and through organising various initiatives such as hackathons, conferences, forums, policy recommendations for startup laws®ulations etc. One of her fields of interest is partnership development, related to building a sustainable and successful startup ecosystem in her country and beyond. She is currently working as a strategic partnerships executive in Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation in B&H/MarketMakers, supported by the Embassy of Switzerland in Bosnia and Herzegovina, focused on creating sustainable jobs and businesses with primary focus on IT and business processes outsourcing sectors.