Advisor Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship at MIT. Entrepreneurship and VC expert Said Business School, University of Oxford University. Former Managing Director, South Eastern European Private Equity and VC Association and member of the Representative Committee, European Venture Capital Association (InvestEurope). Former Chair Romanian Innovation Ecosystem Commission. Spent a year at Harvard Kennedy School focusing on the role of smart money for kick-starting and/or strengthening entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world. Eisenhower Fellow (2008). Mason Fellow, Harvard (2010). Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum (2014), Distinguished Fellow Award Eisenhower Fellowships 2023.