Program

Evaluation Board

Our experienced evaluation board will help us make the best startup evaluation and make sure we get THE most promising teams into the program. Time to meet them:

• Bogdan Iordache

  Co-Managing Director, MVP Academy

  Bogdan is the founder and board manager of How to Web and TechHub Bucharest. Tech entrepreneur at heart, Bogdan has been deeply involved with the development of the tech community in Bucharest and in the region, contributing to the development of other tech initiatives as Tech Angels and Innovation Labs. Bogdan has founded Conectoo, an email marketing service, sold to Conversion Marketing, and has worked as an investor with 3TS Capital Partners. Also, he has been a mentor for accelerator programs such as Seedcamp, Springboard, TechStars, Hub:raum, LauncHUB, Eleven or HackFWD.

• Mircea Vadan

  Program Manager, MVP Academy

  Mircea’s focus is on digital products and acceleration programs for tech startups. Along the years he worked in 3 startups as business developer, marketing or product manager. In the last 2 years he focused on acceleration programs for startups and workshops on topics like customer validation, product definition, product metrics, user acquisition, user engagement and investment. Nowadays, he is working on MVP Academy and he also contributes to the startup ecosystem through his volunteer work at Cluj Startups.

• Tudor Stanciu

  Startups Community Manager, TechHub Bucharest

  Through the intellectual property and general legal advice he’s given in the past couple of years, Tudor has gained some valuable insight on what problems entrepreneurs and their projects face.
  With a background in programming and law, he is now investing more time in understanding the “how”s and the “why”s, by expanding his horizons: he co-authored a couple of failed projects and a semi-profitable startup currently in pivoting mode, and he creates content and handles social media on a regular basis for This is NOT a Storm, Refuga and Digital2Law. As a Startups Community Manager at How to Web, Tudor is providing support for all the stakeholders involved in the Startup Spotlight competition.

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  Cosmin Ochisor

  Business Development Manager, hub:raum

  Cosmin is highly experienced in a wide variety of business fields within or near the telecom industry: Directory Services, Value Added Services and general new business development. His extensive set of skills and knowledge also encompasses re-organization/outsourcing processes, M&A; and working with multi-skilled international teams. Moreover, he is a product manager experienced in product development, marketing communication (ATL&BTL;) and rolling-out new products on the market.

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  Robert Knapp

  Co-Founder & CEO, CyberGhost

  Robert Knapp is the Co-Founder & CEO of CyberGhost, one of the best known VPN suppliers worldwide. The company is headquartered in Bucharest and now has more than 30 employees who established an extraordinary service with more than 7.5 million users in a very short time.

• Carmen Sebe

  Angel Investor

  Carmen is a technology industry executive with a significant operational, general management, P&L;, international experience. She has an extensive experience with new products and markets, business partnerships, transition planning and execution, organisational development and product development and an in-depth knowledge of multi-channel go to market models.

• Mihai Sfintescu

  Private equity / Venture Capital Investor

  Mihai is a Partner at 3TS Capital Partners, one of the leading private equity and venture capital firms in Central and Eastern Europe. He specializes in Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions Management. In the past, he was the Founder of Abilito Capital, Senior Partner at Altria Capital, Director and previously an Associate/ Transaction Manager at CA IB and he worked as an Analyst at Capital SA.

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  Bogdan Ripa

  Director of Product, Fitbit

  Entrepreneur at heart, Bogdan has co-founded his first startup when he was only 21 years old. He started by doing outsourcing work (consultancy for websites, web apps, ERP systems, analytics tools), but he got bored by doing repetitive things and decided to make a shift and start building his own products. 6 years later, the company he Co-Founded was bought by Adobe Romania, where he worked in engineering and product management, until last month, when he decided to return in the startup environment. It’s then when he decided to join Vector Watch, one of the most promising Romanian Startups, as Director of Product.

• Adrian Gheara

  Co-Founder, Neobyte Solutions

  Adrian is a consultant and investor in technology startups. He founded several online projects, with successful exits, and he’s now helping other local entrepreneurs grow their business. He specializes in Online Business Development, Software/Web Product Development, Project Management, and he is an experienced Technology Consultant and Angel Investor.