Milka Privodanova

Milka grew up in Bulgaria. From July 2001 she spent six and a half years as Associate to the Chairman at Telelink, alongside a year in 2007 as Publisher of Ego Magazine in Sofia, where (in her telling) advertising revenue doubled within three months and the magazine won Magazine of the Year in 2008. She went to business school in 2008 and explored real estate, private equity, and a class called “Managing Media Companies” that she fell for. Her business school case study: how to monetise Facebook in 2008. Microsoft hired her out of business school.

From January 2009 to November 2011 Milka was Business Development and Business Operations Lead for Microsoft CEE, based in Prague, managing Windows Consumer, Windows Phone and Online businesses across twenty-four countries, doubling CEE online revenue in two years through partnership deals in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Russia. In November 2011 she moved to London as Bing Product Marketing Manager for Western Europe, then in March 2012 became Bing and Bing Ads Evangelist for Western Europe, where she played a key role in growing search revenues 400% in three years and addressed more than 5,000 decision makers across 18 months. In June 2015 she was promoted to Sales Director Bing UK, where she led the transition of strategic clients from Yahoo to Microsoft and built annual revenues past $230m. Shortlisted for Manager of the Year in 2018 and 2019.

In June 2020 Milka joined Pinterest as Country Manager UK, NL and Nordics, and won Media Leader of the Year (Media Owner) twenty months in. In October 2022 she was promoted to VP Head of EMEA at Pinterest for three years, sitting on the Council of the Advertising Association. In October 2025 she joined LinkedIn as VP Marketing Solutions, Large Customers International, working with the world’s largest B2B audience: 1.3 billion members, 70 million companies, and a platform that recent Profound research identified as the number one source for LLMs answering professional queries.