A New Generation of Bankers

With over 20 years of operational, sales and leadership positions in the Financial Industry, he was 15 years part of Banca Transilvania’s story where contributed through his passion and executive experience, being part of the successful team which transformed a small bank into the most important financial group in Romania.

For the last 5 years he was Deputy CEO of BT while for 9 months, back in 2015, he was CEO/ President of Volksbank Romania, after the acquisition of BT, leading that side of one of the largest and most complex bank integration projects on the local market.

Born in Sibiu, Andrei graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies in 1997. In 2005 he finished an Executive MBA from ASEBUSS and Kennesaw University, followed by top leadership and development programs of University of Chicago Booth, School of Business. He is an experienced financial and organizational culture advisor and mentor, intersted in FinTech Industry. He is also a supporter for the entrepreneurship and innovation.

Andrei trusts in humanity and is very passionate about “the greater good” concept: he envolved his experience and passion in diferent social projects, he is interested in social entrepreneurship, the behavior and the motivatior factors of the new generations, support for the communities, especially in the education and development projects.

A Transformational Leader

Ionut began his career as an entrepreneur, setting up the brokerage firm. Following this, he worked for 10 years in two corporations: ABN AMRO Bank as Corporate Vice-President and Banca Transilvania for 7 years, as Deputy CEO.

Since 2007 Ionut Patrahau became extremely interested in Healthcare. Following the completion of his first year at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, he set up the Division for Doctors in Banca Transilvania.

In 2012 he managed, as a CEO, the Private Healthcare Network Regina Maria. He coordinated the team which transformed “Regina Maria” into a solid, profitable and strategically future oriented company.

10 years after, although still collaborating with banks, as member of the Supervisory Boards – Banca Carpatica, as well as Agroindbank and Victoriabank, both from the Republic of Moldova – he remained very involved in the healthcare and medical services.

Immediately after his departure from Regina Maria, he founded, together with brain surgeon Sergiu Stoica, the BRAIN Institute, a future neuroscience centre. Meanwhile, in 2014, he became President of the Modern Neurosurgery Foundation, with a mission to modernize both the neurosurgery applied in Romania, as well as patient care and treatment, in general.

Ionut Patrahau has a Bachelor in Economic Science - ASE 1995, and then he graduated the EMBA program of ASEBUSS and Washington University of Seattle, back in 2000. In 2004 he attended the The General Manager Program for Executives at Harvard Business School, and Mergers & Acquisitions Program at Wharton School of Business, University of Philadelphia (2005).

Ionut is today the Dean of the Brain Academy of Healthcare Management, promoting the exchange of ideas with those who want to change and improve the Romanian medical system.

He has a long track history in the software industry. He was a key contributor to the creation and development of the leading business software product and brand, “Charisma” ERP. He used to work for 15 years at TotalSoft, both locally and internationally, out of which almost 6 years as COO of the company, a leading Romanian player in the technology sector.

Since 2017 Daniel has started his entrepreneurial journey, by founding and managing Keez.ro, the digital platform which aims to disrupt the accounting services for the Romanian SME-s market.

Daniel Mateescu has a Bachelor in Computer Science and graduated in 2015 the MBA Program of Tiffin University.

Iulian Padurariu is a well known business strategy consultant, with experience in strategic marketing for over 15 years and about as many projects managed which won EFFIE awards. Following several Marketing Director positions of large corporates, he began the entrepreneurial journey in 2005 with the opening of Jack Trout’s consulting office in Bucharest.

Since 2008 he has been active in Vienna, maintaining a close relationship with Romania and other CEE countries, both for consultancy projects and to attend various workshops in educational projects. With a General MBA from Webster and a Professional MBA from Vienna's Wirtschaftsuniversität specializing in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Julian Padurariu is a major supporter of entrepreneurship, often bringing to attention innovative concepts and business design methods around the concepts of positioning and differentiation.