Barbara was born in Rijeka, Croatia. After graduating from the University of Economics in Rijeka she started her career at T-Mobile and quickly took over the department of customer finance, specializing in collection.
After ten years at T-Mobile she went on to continue her career at a company that was new to the Croatian market, EOS Matrix.
She has developed the company from its very start into the leading company. It is now in receivables management in Croatia, generating a yearly turnover of more than EUR 6 million. In 2010, she successfully launched business operations as part of a green-field project in Bosnia and Herzegovina.