Business information - management and organization

Mission

OPATIJA 21 d.o.o. strives to provide its users and clients with the highest quality service for parking and use of the sports infrastructure owned by the Company, taking care of environmental protection, continuously investing in technology and improving the infrastructure, taking into account the long-term sustainable business of the Company.

Vision

OPATIJA 21 d.o.o. is one of the leading companies in the Republic of Croatia that perform communal and commercial activities of parking organization and billing based on efficient organization through continuous investments in technology, employees and parking infrastructure.
By investing in sports infrastructure projects in cooperation with the City of Opatija, we strive to make the area where we operate more pleasant and desirable for life, to the satisfaction of our founder and users of our services. We make sure that we manage the assets entrusted to us effectively, taking into account compliance with the highest environmental standards, and we are focused on continuously improving the quality of the services provided with long-term sustainable business.

Goals

• Satisfied users,
• Financially stable and long-term sustainable business,
• Long-term secured capacities for providing parking services for buses,
• Construction of additional sports infrastructure projects in cooperation with the founder,
• Effective cooperation with the local community and the founder,
• Environmental protection according to the highest EU standards,
• Satisfied and educated employees,
• Transparent, socially conscious and law-abiding business.

Igor Štok assumed his duties at Opatija 21 d.o.o. on August 1st, 2017, in accordance with the decision of the Mayor of Opatija. For years he has worked in the parking management sector of the City Utility Company for the City of Rijeka and was among the first employees of "Rijeka Promet" when they took over the parking lots in Rijeka (1999-2004). Just before assuming his new responsibilities at Opatija 21, he was employed as the head of GIS, WEB and ADP sector by the City of Rijeka’s waste management company "Čistoća".

Education:

• 1994 - Faculty of Maritime Studies in Rijeka
  Professional title / License: Merchant Navy Lieutenant
  Issued by: Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Communications of Croatia
• 1997 - Faculty of Maritime Studies in Rijeka
  Professional title / License: Maritime Traffic Engineer
  Issued by: University of Rijeka
• 2003 - GIS Geographic Information System - Intergraph software solutions (USA)
  Professional title / License: Certified to work in a Geomedia professional environment
  Issued by: Authorized Representative of KvarnerCAD d.o.o., Croatia
• 2005 - WEB design
  Professional title / License: Certified for creating and maintaining WEB pages (iSite)
  Authorized representative: Perpetuum mobile d.o.o. Zagreb, Croatia
• 2011 - Project Management
  Professional Title / License: EU Project Manager (MAN-S297-1039)
  Issued by: ECQA (European Certification and Qualification Association) - Piarstengasse 1, 3500 Krems, AUSTRIA

Work experience:

• 1993. godine - Lošinjska plovidba d.o.o.
  1996. godine - Coca Cola Beverages d.o.o. - organizacija poslovanja u prodaji
  1999. godine - Rijeka promet d.o.o. - organizacija parkirališnog prostora u Gradu Rijeci
  2001. godine - Rijeka promet d.o.o. - organizacija poslovanja Carinsko-kamionskog terminala Srdoči
  2002. godine - Član projektnog tima za preseljenje postojećeg i izgradnju novog multi-modalnog cestovnog terminala (predstavnik TD Rijeka promet d.o.o. i Grada Rijeke) u radnom timu na nivou Županije primorsko-goranske, Gospodarske komore te Općine Matulji.
  2003. godine - KD Čistoća d.o.o. Rijeka - Voditelj odvoza otpada iz pomorske djelatnosti
  2004. godine - KD Čistoća d.o.o. - Voditelj odvoza i deponiranja separacionog otpada na području Gradova: Rijeka, Kastav, Bakar i Kraljevica te Općina Klana, Jelenje, Viškovo, Kostrena i Čavle
  2005. godine - KD Čistoća - Voditelj službe GIS-a, WEB-a i AOP-a, Organizacija poslovnih procesa, izrada WEB portala i uvođenje Geografskog informacijskog sustava (GIS) te organizacija automatske obrade podataka
  2006. - Voditelj tima za izradu GIS podloga na području jedinica lokalne samouprave Klana, Čavle, Jelenje, Kastav i Kraljevica
  2008. godine - Voditelj tima za uvođenje ERP sustava (cjelokupnog informatičkog poslovnog rješenja) u tvrtke: TD Energo d.o.o., TD Rijeka Promet d.o.o, KD Vodovod i kanalizacija, KD Kozala, KD Autotrolej i KD čistoća d.o.o.
  2008. godine - Medijski trening za PR u ovlaštenoj tvrtki za osposobljavanje u djelatnosti odnosa sa javnošću
  2009. godine - Kandidat za Zamjenka gradonačelnika u Gradu Opatija (komunalni resor)
  2012. godine – odobren projekt IPA Slovenia – Hrvatska - Voditelj projekta REUSE sa hrvatske i slovenske strane. Partneri na projektu: HRVATSKA - Grad Rijeka, Grad Kraljevica, Općina Klana, KD Čistoća, SLOVENIA - Regionalna razvojna agencija Notranjsko kraška, Općina Cerkno, Općina Ilirska Bistrica
  2022 - Elected president of the Supervisory Board of the Croatian Parking Association

Mladen Sinožić was appointed as a member of the company's Management Board on January 1, 2024, but he performed the duties of director independently earlier in the period from 2009 to 2017. In the period from 2021 until his appointment as a member of the Management Board, he held the position of Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Opatija 21 d.o.o.

Education:

• 1979 - 1984 Fakultet za pomorstvo i saobraćaj, Rijeka, Tehnološko - organizacijski smjer
• 1974 - 1978 Gimnazija - opći smjer, Opatija
• 2005 - 2006 NLP - Licencirani praktičar Memory Managementa, licencirani praktičar META komunikacija
• 1987 Vanjska trgovina (Državni certifikat)
• 1979 Programer na računalu - Programski jezik Cobol

Work experience:

• 10.09.2018. - 31.12.2023. Konzultant – Moj projekt, obrt za usluge
• 01.12.2017.-04.09.2018. Rukovoditelj sektora parkirališta – Opatija 21 d.o.o.
• 01.08.2017 – 01.12.2017. Voditelj izgradnje objekata - Opatija 21 d.o.o.
• 07.2009 - 31.07.2017 Direktor - Opatija 21 d.o.o.
• 10.2008 - 06.2009 Izvršni direktor - Opatija 21 d.o.o.
• 08.2000 - 09.2008 Direktor - ANA d.o.o.
• 04. - 08.2000 Manager za nautiku - Hotel Bonavia, Rijeka
• 04.1999 - 03.2000 Direktor - Adriatic Nautical Academy (ANA) d.o.o.
• 12.1997 - 03.1999 Zamjenik voditelja i financijski komercijalist ILBAU Hrvatska d.o.o., Podružnica Rijeka
• 05. - 12.1997 Akviziter životnog osiguranja - Safe Invest d.o.o. Hrvatska
• 1995 - 04.1997 Direktor marketinga i odnosa sa javnošću - ACI d.d.
• 1994 - 1995 Zamjenik direktora marketinga - ACI d.d.
• 1989 - 1994 Samostalni referent prodaje u marketingu - ACI d.d.
• 1986 - 1989 Zamjenik šefa poslovnica i komercijalist Emona Globtour Rijeka - Opatija
• 1985 - 1986 Vježbenik - KEI Turizam, Opatija

Memberships:

• NK Opatija 2015 - 2019, član Izvršnog Odbora (Uprava)
• NK Opatija 2011 - 2015, dopredsjednik Uprave
• Grad Opatija 2011 - 2013, Sportski savez, dopredsjednik Izvršnog Odbora
• HGK Rijeka 2005 - 2009, predsjednik, Odbor Strukovne Grupacije iznajmitelja plovila i škola jedrenja
• HGK Hrvatska 2005 - 2008, član, Vijeće Udruženja nautičkog turizma
• HGK Hrvatska 2005 - 2008, član, Odbor Grupacije iznajmitelja plovila
• NK Opatija (nogomet) 1999 - 2005, član / dopredsjednik Uprave
• HGK Hrvatska 1992 - 1995, član, Izvršni Odbor Udruženja marina

Fernando Kirigin, the town mayor of Opatija acts as the Assembly of Opatija 21 d.o.o.

Fernando Kirigin was born 1971 and raised in Opatija. Prior to entering politics, he gained significant business experience, and after an internship at Transadrija and Jadroagent - Rijeka started his own business projects, among which the international trading company stands out. Since 2018, he has been the director of the Port Authority of Opatija - Lovran - Mošćenička Draga, and in that time he launched a number of projects that enabled the development of the port area in places on the coast of the Opatija Riviera. After graduating from the Faculty of Management in Tourism and Hospitality, he was educated in Rijeka, Zagreb, and in Great Britain and Germany, and is currently a doctoral student in the study of Management of Sustainable Development at FMTU.

From an early age he was also involved in sports, for many years he was actively involved in competitive windsurfing, and recreationally in various sports, from skiing to running. In two terms he was the president of the Sports Association of the city of Opatija, and now he is the vice president of the Executive Board of the Sports Association of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. As a successful sports worker, he was elected in 2020 to the Supervisory Board of the Croatian Olympic Committee.

He became a member of the SDP in 2007, when he became actively involved in politics, and since 2017 he has been the president of the Opatija branch of the party, but he has also held the position of political secretary of the Opatija SDP, a member of the county SDP committee council, town councilor and for six years president of the Councilors' Club in the Opatija Town Council, deputy mayor and president of the Opatija Town Council.

The current composition of the Supervisory Board was appointed on 17 September 2025:

• Damir Lovreković, Chairman of the Supervisory Board
• Igor Puž, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board
• Adriano Uković
• Ivan Vidaković
• Renato Brnja (employee representative)

• Head of Finance and Project Management - Ljubica Cesarac
• Parking manager - Vedran Lepšić