Ecosystem
Mentors
Cristian Pațachia
Development & Innovation Manager
Manager with more than 20 years’ experience in the telecom industry, with expertise in a broad range of technologies, product development and innovation management. At the moment he is the Development and Innovation team manager in the Engineering department, coordinating multiple research projects in various fields such as: 5G & networks of the future, cyber security, smart cities, APIs exposure and monetizing, cloud technologies & IoT/M2M.
Ana Ciobanu
Startup Programs Manager
Ana brings over 15 years of expertise in entrepreneurship, working with startups from inception to maturity. As a community builder, she has actively contributed to the Romanian startup ecosystem, coordinating and implementing projects and programs for innovative companies, supported by Structural Funds in Romania or the European Commission. In 2023, she joined Orange Romania's Development and Innovation team and now leads the Orange Fab Accelerator, fostering growth and innovation.
Bogdan Cirița
Strategic Partnerships Manager
Sales professional with more than 20 years experience in business development and sales management, across different sales channels and business segmentation; passionate for business transformation through innovation, integrated IT&C solutions and startup synergies. Presently managing Orange Business Services in Romania partnership strategy and Orange Fab business synergies.
Marius Iordache
5G Technical Manager
With over 13 years’ experience in the telecomunications industry, Marius is currently leading the technical implementation of Orange's 5G network in Romania. He is CCIE certified and has vast experience in planning, designing and creating architectures for complex fix and mobile networks, in multi-vendor environments. He contributes to multiple techical research projects in the Horizon 2020, 5G-PPP framework.
Ioan Constantin
Cyber Security Expert
Ioan is a Cyber Security professional with more than 10 years of experience in the development, implementation and audit of cyber security systems. He joined Orange Romania’s Development and Innovation team in 2018, with active roles in multiple research and innovation projects in areas like Machine Learning, Threat Intelligence or Resillience.
Cristian Turcin
Cloud Services Product Manager
Product Manager with over 10 years of experience working in the telecom industry and banking. Background in both consumer and enterprise areas. Passionate about building enriching and functional products and experiences for customers. In Orange Business Services, he is managing and developing Cloud Platforms, Hosting and complementary professional services.
Andrei Son
Country Innovation Manager @Continental Romania
National Innovation Manager at Continental R&D Romania and the leader of the Advanced Engineering Romania group (ADAS AE-RO). Starting his career as a software developer for a Timisoara startup, he specialized in custom software solutions for business operations. He boasts a wide range of expertise in project management, information systems architecture, technical sales, online marketing, telemarketing, corporate auctions, and public financing projects.
Andrei Avădănei
President @Centrul de Cercetare in Securitate Informatica din Romania
President of the organization that presents DefCamp – the biggest information security&hacking event from Central and Eastern Europe. CEO of Bit Sentinel, a startup who provides informatics security services, meant to protect companies from cyberattacks. Andrei has more than 10 years of experience in IT and over 60 prizes from competitions, in tracks such as web&app development, algorithms or cybersecurity.Partners
Corporate & Institutional
Continental Automotive Group is one of the main suppliers of the automotive industry, with more 87,000 employees in over 170 locations. They all work in different areas, but have a common vision: a more safe, sustainable and interconnected mobility – those elements they are looking from Orange Fab startups as well.
AROBS, an Orange Business national partner, is a supplier for IT solutions and ready-to-use systems. With a startup mentality and over 25 years of experience, AROBS develops SW solutions for the automotive, aeronautics, maritime, medical, travel and hospitality industries, home automation, life sciences, IoT and enterprise applications.
The National Cyberint Center pleads and acts for the discovery, prevention and combating of vulnerabilities, risks and threats at Romania's cybersecurity. NCC supports, in partnership with the public sector, private sector and academia, a series of projects centered around building knowledge and capabilities in the cybersecurity domain, at a national level.
Technological
DefCamp
is the largest computer security and hacking conference in Central and Eastern Europe. It is organized by the Centre for Computer Security Research in Romania, CCSIR and every hosts over 1000 participants and 30 speakers, giving cybersecurity startups a unique opportunity to showcase their product and technology.
Hub Pass & Coworking Partners
Hub Pass is an Orange Fab initiative aimed to support founders’ mobility.
No matter where your business opportunities take you, you will have an available workspace and meeting-rooms for free, within our hub community all over the country. For example, if you are a Fab Lab member, when you travel around the country you can work from any community partner in Oradea, Timișoara or Piatra Neamt. This benefit is available for free to all the founders part of the Orange Fab program and all members of the partner hubs.
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RUBIK HUB
A community of communities, of startups and co-founders, mentors, investors, freelancers and nomads. "Our mission is to inspire, educate, connect and support founders to create successful global startups!"
FAB LAB IAȘI
A coworking space opened in 2017 with a 700 sq.m surface that offers flexible scenarios for use of the space (co-working, makerspace, training rooms). The space functions as an independent platform which will bring together innovation and the tech community from Iasi.
COWORK TIMIȘOARA
A coworking space opened in 2017 with the mission of helping entrepreneurs, digital nomads and other creatives find the perfect place to work.
