Strategy Advisor | Entrepreneur | Angel Investor | Board Member
Transylvania Angels Network
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Romania
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Serial entrepreneur & angel investor with 21 years of business experience in Romania, co-founded, T.A.N., a business community & angel network with 100+ members
Transylvania Angels Network is your gateway to the thriving world of angel investing and business innovation in Romania and the CEE region. Our approach, centered on learning to spread risk and maximize returns, assists members to begin &/or continue their investment journey and growing their portfolio of startup investments. We have invested over 3.7M euro in over 35 Romanian startups.
In addition we have evolved into a business community of nice & smart people who are collaborating with each other on various types of interesting business projects.
An American entrepreneur and angel investor with over 20 years of business experience in Romania. I love living and working in Cluj-Napoca. Enjoy possessing a strong knowledge about my adopted homeland; its history and its business environment.
Over these last 2 decades, I have created or managed companies in various domains, including: cybersecurity, A.I.-Visual Analytics, telemedicine, software & hardware development, consulting, training and development & adventure camps.
In 2018, I co-founded T.A.N., an angel investment NGO, whose 100+ members have invested over 3.5 million euro in 30+ Romanian startups.
I've been blessed with entrepreneurial success on two continents!
In the U.S., was part of the founding team or the founder of 10 companies in 8 industries, from 1987-2003, including taking 1 of them public on NASDAQ in NYC, through utilization of a reverse merger.
They operated across a wide range of domains: international logistics, solid waste management, recycling, real estate, documentary film making, benefits mgmnt., specialty coffee & public accounting.