Colin Lovering has been living and working in Romania since 2009 when he arrived to offer consultancy and advice to organisations looking for growth and profitability. He is currently a sales Consultant with Corporate Office Solutions as well as Chairman of the British Romanian Chamber of Commerce who are at the leading edge of supporting international investors to Romania as well as assistance to organisations, big and small, looking to conduct bilateral trade between the UK and Romania
He previously worked and lived in the USA and France where he trained and coached literally hundreds of sales professionals and Managers across Europe, North America, The Far east and South Africa.
Colin is also heavily involved and committed to supporting disability and homelessness in Romania and actively speaks and helps in both areas. His other activities include being Senior Tutor with the Institute of Sales Management and an associate lecturer at the University of Bucharest.
A father of two boys (Dan & Matthew) and a recent Grandfather to Frederick, Colin also enjoys football and rugby as well as a game of golf whenever possible.

As a Maths-Computer Science graduate of “Lucian Blaga” University in Sibiu, Maria Manuela Catrina’s first steps in career were made as a teacher, first at “Samuel Brukenthal” College in Sibiu and later as university assistant and lecturer within the Economic Informatics and Computer Science at the “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu. Between 2001 and 2004 she worked as advisor of the Prime Minister of Romania and starting with 2005 she has been parliamentary advisor within the Chamber of Deputies.
In 2013 she joined the “Ovidiu Sincai” Social Democratic Institute as Executive Director and also as member of the Directors’ Board and of the Scientific Council of this prestigious social democratic think-tank. Also, since 2013 she has been Director of the “Ovidiu Sincai” European School, a project undertaken by the Institute under the aegis of the Council of Europe. In February 2017 she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Communication and Informational Society.

Shibu is a strong professional with over 18 years of experience in services industry, across diverse roles in service delivery, project management, product development, domain management and training.
He has 16 years history with Genpact across multiple roles and geographies. In his current role as Genpact Chief Operating Officer, he is leading 10000+ full time employees across 12 delivery locations in Europe, Latin America and Africa, providing business process management and consulting services across a range of industries.

Cătălin Iorgulescu joined Samsung SSCE in October 2016 as General Manager bringing with him 17 years of professional experience in top managerial positions and international exposure across multiple industries.
Over the last 10 years, he acted as General Manager for WNS Romania and held top management positions within McCann Erickson Group and Deloitte.
He started as CFO, then acted as Deputy Managing Director advising EMEA Regional Office on extensive reorganization projects for the McCann Erickson group in Romania.
In 2011 he was nominated as CEO of the Craft Worldwide Romania – an SSC producing advertising materials for McCann Worldgroup in Europe.
Catalin is a Fellow ACCA member and holds an ISACA Certification as Information Systems Auditor since 2002 and respectively 2003.

I have an experience of 10 years in working with students and in different research and consulting projects.
Currently I work as advisor in Ministry for Business Environment, Commerce and Entrepreneurship (InvestRomania) and also I am Associate Professor in Bucharest University for Economic Studies, Department for Economics and Economic Policies. My main activities are related to guiding and supporting foreign investors in their projects in Romania, to teaching students in fields of Economics and to researching foreign direct investments as my PhD and Post-doctoral thesis are focused on this topic.

Krzysztof Kmuk is CIMA’s Emerging Markets Development Manager for CEE region, handling the creation of business developments in the green fields, setting up new connections for CIMA in CEE with Corporates, Tuition Centers, and Universities, as well as creating the Marketing strategy for supporting CIMA brand and equity in new markets. Krzysztof has joined CIMA in February 2015.
His experience spans over more than 15 years’ experience in Business Management, Sale and Trade, with proven skills in managing successful projects, as well as operational management, in multicultural business environments.
Krzysztof has graduated from the Technical University in Gdansk with a MA in Economy & Management in 1999, and has an Executive MBA from the London Business School/HEC Paris/WUT, attained in 2008.

Olivier Hecq joined Société Générale EBS in October 2014 to start up the IT Shared Service Centre. He has been leading it since then, and the center is currently 300 staff strong. Olivier came with a strong experience in the domain, having lead, previously and during 6 years, an off-shore IT service center for other company.
Before these off-shoring experiences, Olivier was a consultant since 1990 and had various functions and roles on a worldwide basis: software development, support/HelpDesk, consulting around IT operations and IT organization efficiency topics, global strategic alliances, capability development etc.

Mr. Scuta is currently responsible for managing and directing the activity of the Office Department and Tenant Representation across Romania for implementing the best strategies for company’s clients: landlords and occupiers. Based in the Bucharest office, Mr. Scuta, and the team’s main focus is the Romanian office and occupiers’ market. Mr. Scuta has extensive experience in the Management of Office Leasing and Tenant Representation Team, after running the Office Teams also in CB Richard Ellis and BNP Paribas RE Romania. The clients he has worked with range from large multinational companies and development firms to individuals. With more then 150,000 sq m leased under his management (Deutsche Bank, GE Money, EA Games, ExxonMobil, Microsoft, Honeywell, Daimler Mercedes, P&G, Cisco, Hochtief, Lufkin, etc.), Mr. Scuta has accumulated extensive experience in a wide range of transaction types (lease renewals, acquisitions, consolidations, built-to-suit, etc.) in Romania.

As the Executive Director and Member of BCR Pensii Management board, Melania is a powerful and charismatic professional with more than 20 years of experience in the financial services area. During time, Melania held various key positions within major players from banking industry such as BCR, Unicredit, BRD and Raiffeisen Bank. At BCR Pensii, besides sales and marketing strategies, Melania is very involved in financial education projects, constantly promoting a balanced lifestyle in which the long term savings represent an essential component. Melania also holds an Executive MBA diploma from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

Managing Director for VASTINT Romania since 2009, Antoniu Panait has an executive experience of more than 10 years, mainly in real estate.
With a strong foundation, built on legal studies, embracing diverse operational responsibilities including administrating complex portfolios and evaluating investment opportunities, at only 31 years old he took the challenge to build and grow the VASTINT team and projects in Romania.
Antoniu Panait is now in charge of a portfolio of three major projects in Bucharest. Timpuri Noi Square is located in district 3, with up to 100,000 m2 of class A office and retail as well as 50,000 m2 residential space planned, and Business Garden Bucharest, located in district 6, will bring up to 43,000 m2 of class A office and retail space to the market. VASTINT has also acquired a 48 Ha site in the Sisesti area, in close proximity to the Straulesti terminal, with a subway station and park-and-ride facilities, with a view to develop a mixed use, primarily residential development.

Mihaela Dobre is Stefanini EMEA’s Training & Development Manager, with more than 11 years experience in creating effective Learning & Development strategies, developing and delivering training programs in Outsourcing, and IT&C business environments.
Mihaela has been with Stefanini for 9 years and was instrumental in developing Stefanini’s European Training practice to what it is today. Mihaela also has a global coordinating role for various Training & Development aspects. She holds a CIPD Diploma in Learning and Development and a Master degree in Human Resources and Communication.

Mihaela has 15 year of experience in leading global operations and support sales teams within shared service centers from IT and Telecom industries. Her main strength is to build, train and develop new organizations, so far over 9 different teams. Known for delivering outstanding results in growing support renewals revenue, as well as building and delivering successful business development and operations support strategies which helped the organization to reduce costs, improve efficiency and work productivity. Throughout her career she had global business exposure and remote management experience, building and leading teams and projects in Romania, Czech Republic, India and China, covering JAPAC, NAS, and EMEA.

Daniel Idzkowski holds the position of an Associate Director at the Global Corporate Relations team for CIMA, The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. For the last 4 years Daniel has been managing relations with large multinational organizations helping design, develop, implement and optimise finance learning programmes. Daniel’s main focus over the past years has been the Global Business Services qualification program develop jointly with The Hackett Group, and he brings a wealth of insights on the topic of talent management and development across the SSC/GBS and BPO organizations. Prior to joining CIMA, Daniel has been working 5 years for a top global HR Consulting company focusing on executive assessments, managerial audits, talent management and executive search projects. His educational background is Management and Marketing studies on the faculty of Enterprise Management on the SGH-Warsaw School of Economics.

In his current role, he is responsible for Wipro’s IT in Romania and Ireland. He is currently based in Bucharest, Romania, where he joined in 2008. He has over 15 years of IT and Global operations experience across various industry verticals and his area of expertise includes IT operations management, business analysis and change management.

A professional with a comprehensive picture of all aspects in People Operations (PO), with more than 5 years’ experience in diverse PO leading roles. My passion is making differences in the business environment by empowering people, building and strengthening healthy organizational cultures. Most of my experience is gained in a fast growth and rapidly changing organization.
I have the confidence that no business transformation is possible without people and leaders equally transform and grow – and this is how an orgasational culture can become a key differentiator for the business and its performance. My determination is to build programmes that enable and inspire people to bring their best to and from work – daily.
Specialties: Agile People Operations, People Operations strategy and execution, Leadership Development, People Development, Talent Acquisition, People Analytics, Mergers and Acquisitions, HR systems implementation, Compensation and Benefits, People Engagement.
Endava is a privately-owned IT services company, with over 15 years of experience of working with some of the world’s leading Finance, Insurance, Telecommunications, Media, Technology, Retail and Travel companies helping them evolve and transform their businesses to meet the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s customers.
We have over 3,300 employees located in offices in North America and Western Europe and delivery centres in Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Moldova, Bulgaria and Colombia.”