"I entered the wine business completely by accident. Back in 1998 a banker friend asked me to help with the management of a troubled wine company in South West Bulgaria. He knew I appreciated wine, and had been traveling around and visiting wineries, reading about wine and certainly drinking quite a bit of it. My first day at Damianitza was shocking, to say the least. Concrete tanks, huge capacity, mediocre wines… It was not my wine."

He was involved in winemaking quite accidentally soon after he graduated the Faculty of Biology at St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University. Ivo was invited by Filip Harmandjiev to take part in a project, which should have lasted not more than 5-6 months, however today he is still a part of the winery team.

In 1998 Borislav was brought on as chief agronomist at Damianitza.

In 1992 he graduated the Higher Institute of Chemical Engineering in the Major Automation of Production. He joined Damianitza in March 2001. Consecutively he occupied different positions with continuously increasing responsibilities, requiring increasingly higher professional skills and competence. Since 2003 he has been successfully managing the manufacturing process in the winery.