MENTORS
Dr. Aurel Brudan is the founder of The KPI Institute, a multinational consulting business with offices in 5 countries and 8 cities, serving high-profile customers.
He holds qualifications in economics, marketing, research, project management, and leadership.
Specializing in business performance, Aurel has worked with numerous public and private sector organizations, such as the Victorian State Government, National Australia Bank, Australia Post, Centrelink, or the EAB Group, improving the way they manage performance at the organizational, operational, and individual levels.
Mihail has experience in both technology startups and international consulting. In addition to that, he has worked for the Romanian Prime Minister’s office on projects related to the digital transformation of public services, cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, critical infrastructure protection, and the implementation of programs supporting R&D and technology startups.
He is an advisor to the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on cybersecurity and an academic researcher in Artificial Intelligence, in the field of Natural Language Processing.
Ovidiu is an experienced professional, with over 20 years of experience within the IT field. A mathematics, tech, and art enthusiast who is at the peak of his career. A fervent entrepreneur, eager to share his knowledge and help those at the start of their business journey pursue and fulfill their goals. He started out as a developer but quickly moved on to specializing in enterprise architecture, IT leadership, and training/coaching. He also worked as a Cyber Security expert, trainer, and an external consultant for a series of major clients, being involved in over 50 large-scale IT projects within various industries, such as finance (payments industry, stock exchange), banking, corporate management (ERP, document management), defense, Research & Development, and E-Commerce.
He is proficient in Agile Frameworks, Could Computing, SaaS, Blockchain, smart contracts technologies, exploratory utility robot technologies, and collaborative flying Quatro copters.
He is passionate about crafting great, innovative products, learning about new specializations, and building high-performing teams. Ovidiu is a great mentor, with a broad perspective over the IT industry, which makes him a sharp assessor and visionary.
We are happy to have him on our team!
Maryo runs his own business in cybersecurity and business continuity. He has more than 15 years of experience in managing IT medical projects, both nationally and internationally. He attended management courses at Open University and is PRINCE2 certified. He is actively involved in promoting the concepts of interoperability and cybersecurity in his field of activity.
Dan has more then 29 years of experience in Energy sector more ten 10 in executive positions, covering from Production, Distribution and Energy Sale. He has extensive experience in cloud migration projects.He also worked in big4 consultancy companies, delivering strategic projects for the government.
He is an innovator, highly skilled in IIoT, SCADA, energy specific data mining, voice processing, handwriting processing and processes mining and transformation using AI.
Oana has an extensive experience of over 20 years of designing learning interventions and implementing educational projects in non-profit and corporate companies (from small entrepreneurial environment to international corporate one).
In the last years she started an academic pursuit on teaching entrepreneurship and doctoral studies on cultural anthropology at Unviersity in Bucharest, Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences.
Specialities: project management, development design, financial analysis for SMEs, innovation, learning and training, organizational design
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