The Open University Business School

The Open University

University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

National College of Computer Science "Tudor Vianu"

Scoala 79, Ion Creanga

"Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism

Experienced Product Manager. Serial Tech Entrepreneur. AI graduate. 
Co-founder & CPO - StreetSmart Mobility.
Co-founder & COO - RisersNet.

🚀  On a mission to revolutionize the way businesses and entrepreneurs capture funding and business opportunities, leveraging the capabilities of Generative AI.

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Stealth Startup

Founder & CEO

I learned a lot about startups, communities, innovation, collaboration, and risk-taking. This is my way of giving back and I consider myself lucky to have inspired a great team to join our venture.

RISERS NET is the non-profit community built around experienced people. We bring them energy, we work on discovering their entrepreneurial mindset, help them discover complementary founders (peers or from younger generations).

Risers Net

COO | Co-Founder

Independent innovation consultant and product manager, supporting companies to set up, implement, and optimize end-to-end innovation processes for idea generation, digital transformation, and agile delivery

Coached both startups and older companies, founders, and employees, into design thinking processes and techniques

I've worked as an independent consultant, working with companies of all sizes. Some of these roles have been very hands-on, helping early-stage startups get products to market or supporting scale-ups with implementing product management and design thinking best practices. Others have been more strategic and managerial, helping teams understand modern frameworks, identify constraints, and adopt best practices. I've managed and mentored teams both in-person and remotely. I've helped a number of companies source and manage external partners, and hire talent.

Experience in Fintech, Payments, Travel, Transportation, Retail, OTT, Broadcast, Sports, - B2B,  B2C, B2B2C

Hands-on with Jira, Confluence, Trello, Moqups, Figma, InVision, Slack, Hubspot, Google Analytics, Google Drive, Mailchimp, Eventbrite, Optimizely

Self Employed

Freelance Product Manager to Head of Product

Antler

Entrepreneur

R² Factory at Rolls-Royce works with corporate members to build data-informed innovations for the world’s most demanding industrial environments. We’re the data transformation pioneers at the heart of Rolls-Royce, combining advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning with deep domain knowledge and system engineering expertise.

As the Head of Residency, I play a crucial role in establishing a rich and vibrant innovation ecosystem, purposefully crafted to enable us to accelerate the establishment of breakthrough innovations that harness new or emerging technologies in support of our product and services strategy.

I work with the wider R² Factory leadership team to identify, scope, lead and deliver Residency programmes (experts-in-residence, ecosystem-in-residence) with innovation support agencies including academic institutions, governments, NGOs, venture capital firms, corporate/market accelerator programmes and technology incubators that support the creation, integration/alignment, development and deployment of effective ecosystem partnerships with innovative digital businesses for R² Factory collaborative networks.

Rolls-Royce

Head of Residency and Products - R² Factory

BestShot is the smartphone app that works together with existing smartwatches to help passionate tennis players who want to save different notes, skills progress and fitness KPIs, avoiding the hassle of writing the necessary information after each event, training or match, and allowing them to track their progress in an easy and intuitive manner, by using artificial intelligence and expert advice.

Bestshot

Senior Product Manager

Alternative Data meets crowd-intelligence, empowered by Geolocated Surveys.
Instantly connect with knowledgeable cohorts of individuals anywhere in the world. Obtain unique insight for sound financial decision making and due diligence processes.
GrapeData started with a vision to bridge the information gap between the financial industry and on-the-ground individuals. Financial markets take time to process information in niche sectors and difficult to access locations, while most of on the ground people have a piece of this information.

GrapeData

The Super Adaptable Heart of Your Energy Efficient Dream Smart Home
Stunner is the Smart Solution that integrates all the important existing automation devices to provide the best experience for user comfort and energy savings, using machine learning to learn about users’ behaviour.
#AIontheEdge #AI #EdgeAI #MachineLearning

StunnerAI

The AI platform digitalizing all your interactions with Transport, Cultural, Social, and Recreational providers, contributing to the transformation of urban agglomeration into friendlier and healthier cities.

Worked with a huge corporate tour operator and an airline company to launch the first B2B partnerships to help us implement our vision: to be the ground steward for Airline Companies and Tour Operators (B2B2C business model)

Currently working alongside the CEO to fundraise for additional resources, liaising with VCs and pitching to famous accelerators and incubators from the US, UK, Spain, and Italy,

StreetSmart Mobility

Chief Product Officer | COO | Co-Founder

I have joined Apiary Book to implement Product Management processes, manage Product Strategy and Innovation, clarify goals, establish Monetization Strategies, Sales and Marketing Plan. I changed the storytelling and coached the CTO (and beekeeper) to deliver better presentations.

Successfully raised investment and joined two accelerators, Bethnal Green Ventures in London and Techcelerator from Gapminder in Bucharest.

We were also invited to join Google for Startups Residency Program in London and made it to Techstars final shortlist, with good chances of catching the next cohort.

I led, managed and executed the entire Strategy, Fundraising and Hiring processes, therefore acting as  CEO.

I repeatedly pitched the company in front of large audiences and I am particularly proud of being congratulated for having great storytelling skills, by experienced professionals.

Apiary Book was the complete SaaS solution for management of apiaries, integrated manual data input and IoT monitoring of beehives and aimed to provide an innovative predictive beekeeping system decision based on machine learning.

Apiary Book

Chief Product Officer | Acting CEO | Co-Founder

Conducted and organized market research on mobile streaming monetization for Sports Content
Brainstormed and designed an integrated project for a celebrity: website / app / video /copywriting

OWNZONES is a media and entertainment company that delivers world-class viewing experiences across all OTT environments - web, mobile apps and connected devices.

OWNZONES Media Network

The legendary and most-popular events at Campus London, ever: #SpeedPitch (Co-Founder Dating & Speed Pitching) and #GaPGaS (Got a Problem? -> Get a Solution!).

HHH is the largest community for tech startups in the UK and we are completely committed to supporting and helping all those involved in the tech startup scene become huge success stories in their own rights. Besides helping early-stage startups and people thinking of starting an entrepreneurial venture, we also guide well-established startups with initial funding, growth strategies and new funding rounds!

Hipsters, Hackers & Hustlers

Product Manager | Event Organizer

Following my passion for travel and the revamped interest for Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in particular, I identified a series of problems in this sector and some possible solutions

Some of the products are: a travel marketplace bringing passionate business people together through sports, a “save for later” app that helps building, searching and sharing travel bucket lists and a micro-influencers affiliate marketplace.

Stealth Travel Ideas Incubator

Product Manager

Shared Sales and Project Management office providing IT and Media solutions using a local team, and carefully selected freelancers and companies.

Co-ordinated, grew and managed the activities of cross-functional teams of between 5 to 20 people, including engineering, business analysts, UX designers, QA, marketing, sales and professional services.
Provided consultancy in funding and international presence, events and conferences for tech companies
Looked for international partners, investors, business angels and investments funds.

FramesFX

Owner | Sales and Marketing | Product Manager

#Mobile Ticketing #Mobile Payments #PublicTransport #Mobility #Routing
A startup that used Public Transport NFC cards as identification platform for loyalty cards, cashback programs, discounts, physical check-ins and event ticketing

CardSimplus

Product Manager | Managing Director | Founder

A SaaS web portal for monthly maintenance payments for residential buildings
Received an Angel Investment only based on the Vision Deck

parter.ro

Product Manager | Founder

#advertising #ecommerce, #PublicTransport #Vending Machines
Product Manager for the end-to-end Mobile ticketing solutions for the local transport operators in Bucharest and all major cities in Romania and Mobile payments for Vending Machines
Managed the opening of a new office in a huge market from the Middle East, liaising with the local partners Provided the trainings and knowledge transfer for the technology and business processes

The largest Premium Rate aggregator in Romania (Premium SMS, Premium IVR, iTV, micropayment, televoting, interactive games etc). Providing services also in Bulgaria, Moldova, Hungary and Turkey. More than 16 Romanian TV channels use our services.

SimPlus

Marketing Director | Product Manager

Responsible for Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova

OSL Distribution - Master Distributor Red Hat and JBoss for Eastern Europe and Russia

Country Manager Romania - Red Hat and JBoss

Enterprise-Class Software & Services. Distributor for Red Hat, JBoss, EnterpriseDB, Zimbra. 
eSolutions was established in 2001 as a 100% Romanian venture, offering professional software development services to the Enterprise market in Romania.

We developed an app to improve the retail pricing strategy for Carrefour. When I joined eSolutions as a partner they were already developing a custom software solution for them. I helped them transform the custom software mentality to building real products, then sell them to multiple clients. I have shaped the product roadmap and managed the entire backlog for it, delivering 3M EUR additional revenue only during the first year.

The company (eSolutions) was acquired by a German company, Tarent and they implemented the pricing software into their portfolio: https://www.tarent.de/en/pricing-tools/price-management-with-rupio-pricing/

We have also developed an eCommerce Solution and an Intranet Portal, both based on Liferay with independent portlets. They were both enterprise grade products and could be easily integrated with different systems like Active Directory, CRMs, ERPs, Rules Engines, Enterprise System Bus, etc. 

In the Intranet Portal we integrated different modules like dashboard with shortcuts to internal tools, internal news, internal calendar, holiday request and management, sick days management, expense claims submittal and management based on cost centers, help desk, etc. 

Using our modular approach the eCommerce Solution could be easily adapted and modified and we could accommodate different rules (for instance the end user price could vary in conjunction with the temperature outside).

Another product that we developed and implemented at some of our clients was an intelligent warehouse management system with stock optimization and automated supply order management for an extended retail chain.

eSolutions

Co-Owner | Marketing and Sales Manager | Product Manager | Training Manager

Consulting firm that offers specialized consultancy for IT Projects and accessing EU Structural Funds

Andrei Brad