Team
Nelly Valcheva
Director of the Foundation
Nelly Valcheva graduated from a language high school and the University of Economics – Varna. She holds two master’s degrees: one in Accounting and another in Business Administration. In 2008, together with Jordan Petkov, Nelly founded Largo Art Gallery, which she has developed and established over the years. Nelly is the conceptual initiator and organizer of the International ExLibris Competition Varna, as well as many other visual and interdisciplinary projects, which she has developed throughout the years thanks to the help and financial support of Jordan Petkov and their family. After his untimely passing on November 7, 2020, due to COVID-19, she decided to establish a foundation in his name to continue the work of their life in his memory.
Milena Dimitrova
Member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors
Milena Dimitrova graduated from the National School of Arts "Dobri Hristov" in Varna with a major in Painting. In 2018, she earned a degree in Fine Arts - Painting from "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" University of Veliko Tarnovo. Milena works as an exhibitions and events expert at Largo Gallery, a family project founded by her parents, Nelly Valcheva and Jordan Petkov.
Svetoslava Savova
Member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors
Svetoslava has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Economics from the University of Economics – Varna and a master’s degree in Corporate Finance from "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" University – Veliko Tarnovo.
Jordan Petkov
Patron of the Foundation
Jordan graduated from the Technical University – Varna. He worked as a lecturer at the Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy, as a programmer at Societe Generale Expressbank, and, starting in 2005, founded a family-owned electronics manufacturing company with Nelly Valcheva. In 2008, the two of them established the Largo Art Gallery. Jordan was the pillar of the gallery, a moral and material support to its team. His love for art found expression in the creation and maintenance of this oasis of beauty. The gallery was a mission for Jordan - a mission to give something meaningful to others, to create something valuable and beneficial to society. He always believed that the gallery created something that could not be measured in money, something beyond the trivial and insignificant - a place of beauty, of spiritual cleansing, a home to something priceless and timeless: art. On November 7, 2020, Jordan left this world, but his spiritual legacy continues to live on through his family, his daughters Milena and Svetoslava, and the two companies he founded, both connected to the arts—Largo Gallery and Largonett Ltd. - a manufacturer of unique hardware-software electronics for musical instruments.