It has been 7 full years since Raluca founded Perceptum as a Concept boutique of innovative marketing ideas and the agency has proven itself through the numerous result-oriented creative campaigns designed and implemented so far. Prior to setting up the Agency, Raluca held marketing management positions in major banking, auto and pharma companies.

Cosmin Ochișor has an extensive business experience in telco industry, but also in reorganization, outsourcing and M&A processes. Currently, he is developing the incubation program of Deutsche Telekom, coordinating hub:raum investments in Central and Eastern Europe. Also, Cosmin is responsible for start-ups management in the portfolio of the incubator of DT group in CEE

Lucian Romascanu, a graduate of ASE Bucharest and with an EMBA with the University of Washington, Seattle/ASEBUSS has a long experience in media and held top position with important Romanian media companies like Ringier or Dogan Media/KanalD.

His role within TailWind is to increase the presence of Project Agora within the digital landscape and to make it the preferred destination of the advertisers’ programmatic budgets. In the same time Romascanu and his team will grow the market share of Sizmek adserving solution, part of TailWind portfolio.

Project Agora, which was officially launched in December last year in Romania and Greece, aims to bring laissez-faire in advertising by creating trusted, brand safe marketplaces that add value to advertisers while protecting the interests of local publishers.

Within five months from its launch Project Agora Romania onboarded eight top Romanian publishers and ran campaigns that reached higher KPIs than the industry average.

Mr. Daniel Badoi is Application Development Specialist at Accenture, having more than 10 years of experience as a software developer or team leader and holding a degree in Computer Science from The Technical Military Academy of Bucharest. During the years, he was involved in several large projects on different platforms within the Romanian Ministry of Defense. His interests span throughout a wide range of technical areas, with a special focus on mobile technology field.

Matei has been working in the advertising and communication field for the past 6 years. He is currently the Digital Strategy Director at Leo Burnett Romania, where his responsibility is to ensure a coherent digital communication for the agency’s clients. Loves creating value and stories that matter, avoids using technology for technology’s sake and creativity that doesn’t deliver on business objectives. Won multiple local and international awards on work with clients such as P&G, Samsung, Telekom, HP, GSK, Pernod Ricard, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. However, he considers his greatest achievement launching his own startup in countries such as Romania, Brazil, Ireland and, soon, USA.

Dragos Stanca is the founder and CEO of ICEEfest – Interactive Central and Eastern Europe Festival – and a board member of TDG, one of the leading digital marketing groups in CE, SE Europe and MENA.

He is also overviewing the TDG’s operations in Romania: ThinkDigital (ad network and media services) and TailWind (ad tech and programmatic advertising)

As entrepreneur and/or investor, he founded several companies and projects (the most well known, Q2M, being acquired in 2012 by TDG).

Dragos occupied in his 30’s CEO positions in two of the most important publishing groups in the Romanian market and in his 20’s he was active as a journalist (working with local and international media groups).

He holds a master in economics (“Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj) and an eMBA in media (Scandinavian International Management Institute, Denmark).

He’s blogging from time to time on dStanca.net (but you have better chances to stay in touch with him on his Facebook page).

Ionuț Buhă is the lead Product Manager at Easyhost, the Romanian based company that offers top tier services, from web hosting and dedicated servers to managed services and e-commerce solutions. With 10+ years under his belt managing and developing websites, Ionuț’s career path has seen him take on dynamic and constantly shifting industries, such as the online music industry, for which he succesfully designed and implemented new products.

Passionate about technology and all things internet related, Ionuț has turned towards the hosting industry to develop innovative products for the Romanian cloud computing market and to accelerate business growth and go global.

Adrian is an investment professional with over 10 years of experience in equity research, portfolio management and non-executive board membership. He is currently Vice-president at Franklin Templeton, where he has research responsibilities for listed and unlisted companies in Romania, Georgia and Croatia.

His previous experience includes roles at Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers in London and BT Asset Management in Romania. He holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a bachelor degree from Richmond, the American International University in London. He is also an active member of the start-up and angel investing community in Romania.

Eduard Pughin is one of Maguay’s founders, back in 1992 and he is now acting as Operations / Executive Manager of the Company. He graduated Polytechnic University of Bucharest with major in Electronics and Competitive Management and also CODECS Open University. Mr. Pughin is a member of Intel Board of Advisors for EMEA, since 2012.

Maguay is one of the leading Romanian system builder of computer systems: servers, storage, notebooks, PCs, marketed under its own brand, integrator of complex IT projects and software developer.

The 2^nd European IT company receiving the European Eco-Label (Eco-Flower) for its computers in 2008.

According to IDC, Maguay is the largest Romanian producer of servers. In the last 10 years Maguay held the 5th position in Top 5 Server vendors, being surpassed only by major manufacturers.

Maguay received from Intel Corporation at CeBIT Hannover 2012 the award for outstanding contribution in education on Intel server technologies.

Maguay team has international recognition, exemplified by following partnerships:

Intel Technology Provider Platinum, Oracle Gold, Fortinet Platinum Partner, VMware Enterprise, Seagate C-OEM, and Microsoft Partner.

Dan Nechita is Counselor to the Prime Minister of Romania on information systems and cyber security. He graduated the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. with an M.A. in International Relations and Columbia University in the City of New York with a B.A. in Economics and Political Science. At Columbia, he worked for two years as a research assistant at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.

 He also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the George Washington University, at the World Security Institute (the Global Zero nuclear disarmament initiative), at the Brookings Institution Center of Executive Education, and at ABC News – as a reporter and writer for the reputed political analysis publication The Note.

He was President of the Jack Kent Cooke Scholars Association, Hub “ambassador” of the Sandbox Network in Washington, D.C., and a Board Member of the Columbia Club of D.C.

Alexandru Jijian is an E-Commerce consultant with more than 12 years of experience. He runs the SAP hybris Sales Department as Head of Omni-Channel Strategy at Evozon Systems, oldest hybris partner in Central Europe and one of the most important Software Consulting companies in the region. Having a wide variety of projects in his portfolio, from bootstrapped start-ups to large, corporate projects spanning complex B2B and B2C scenarios like Auchan Romania or Bridgestone Turkey, Alexandru focuses on keeping companies closer to their customers.

He’s an active part of the local E-Commerce Community, regularly transferring knowledge through trainings related to User and Customer Experience, Project Management, Business Analysis, Integrated Marketing, Sales and Logistics.

He’s also the biggest Omni channel fan you’ll meet at this conference. Come and say hi, he’s got answers to your E-Commerce questions!

I’m a journalist based in Bucharest, Romania, trying to find stories nobody else is writing.

My features and analyses have appeared on ZDNet.com, WIRED, Vice Motherboard, and the Romanian media.

I’m news editor for PRO FM radio in Bucharest, Romania, and I cover Southeast Europe for ZDNet.com, CBS Interactive’s business technology website, having written stories on Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Moldova, Ukraine as well as Lithuania.

I have 18 years of experience working as a radio journalist, 8 as a print & online reporter/editor covering science and technology, and 4 as a TV news voice-over.

Before joining Deveho Software Consulting, Carmen has spent over 15 years in the IT industry working with different big players in business software industry in Romania, where she held a variety of sales and marketing positions like sales manager, senior account manager and major accounts manager for ERP and CRM business lines. Prior this, Carmen focused on ERP market since 1995, starting with an international ERP provider where she held a variety of positions as Consultant, Business Analyst, and Project Manager.

With a strong knowledge on ERP solutions, Carmen joined Deveho Consulting Group in 2012 as sales director. She has overall responsibility for developing Deveho’s business in Romania and developing Sage’s presence in the Romanian ERP market.

Deveho Consulting Group is an international business partner focused on multi-country implementations of Sage X3, utilizing recognized best practice in technical and fiscal implementations. The company is based in France, with subsidiaries in Romania, Slovakia, Spain and The Netherlands.

MD in Electronics and Telecommunication,

EMBA in “Développement des entreprises”.

Proven competencies in Sales, Project Management, Leadership,

Performance Management, Change Management and Negotiation.

Mitu Morega has a strong track record of performance in high-paced organizations under very competitive market conditions. His passion for technology brought him to High-Tech Systems & Software as a Business Development Manager applying his experience in turn-around projects, launching new ideas and structuring portfolios, creating and continuously coaching teams for high performance. His proficiency in start-up operations, brought him opportunities to open several new branches in competitive markets and met targets for break-even and profit performance.

Former project director and product manager for Pentalog’s largest customers in the telecom sector, Marius has contributed to the strengthening of Pentalog’s presence on the US market. His experience in ramping up large offshore teams for customers across various domains has enabled him to gain a valuable insight regarding the digitalization of the recruitment process and he now contributes in order to enhance the roadmap of SkillValue’s IT skills assessment platforms.

Marius enables new partnerships with recruitment agencies, job boards, software publishers and MOOC providers, extending SkillValue’s current network of affiliates and resellers across the globe.

Stelian Campianu has a 20 years experience in IT. He graduated the Politehnica University from Timisoara, where he holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, and managed to turn his hobby for IT into a successful career.

Stelian Campianu joined ETA2U in 2005 in the position of Executive Director, with the role of supporting the company’s transformation towards a national player on the Romanian IT Market. Nowadays, ETA2U is the most important System Integrator located outside Bucharest and one of the Top 10 IT Companies in Romania.

Before joining ETA2U, Stelian worked for Solectron, a multinational Electronic Manufacturing Services Company where he held a management role at European level, being responsible for IT services delivery on all European Manufacturing Sites.