Our Team
We are a team of experienced business advisers, with over 200 years of cumulative experience across all relevant business topics and industries. All our colleagues worked many years in top global consultancies and/or in large companies in Romania; many of them are or have been in Board positions in major companies.
What sets us apart from other consultancies is really the breadth and the depth of our expertise, due to which our consultants can hit the ground running and can add immediate value to your business.
Short introduction of our key team members:
Vasile Iuga
One of the most experienced consultants in Romania, with over 30 years of experience in international standards for financial reporting, financial audit, business evaluation and restructuring, corporate governance, in takeovers, mergers, acquisitions, privatizations and strategic consulting, in Romania and Eastern Europe.
Former Country Managing Partner of PwC in Romania, Managing Partner for PwC in SEE, member of the Board of PwC CEE.
Extensive audit, consulting and financial experience across industries; member of the Board in several major companies.
Lectured over 200 national and international events on topics including energy, financial sector, economic development, competitiveness, financial markets, privatization, infrastructure and industrialization, financial reporting, governance, regulation, financial audit, evaluation
George Dorobantu
Over 15 years of consulting experience with PwC Romania, managing large transformation projects in Romania and CEE. Extensive experience in several industries, including automotive (former CEO of a large automotive group with operations in Romania and Germany) and healthcare (former Strategic Projects and M&A Director for an important Healthcare group in Romania).
Paul Gheorghiu
15 years experience in management consulting and management positions, with a focus on strategy and operations, having coordinated a series of full-cycle organizational transformation projects. Managing Partner for Romanian business consulting companies, former senior consultant at PwC, chairman and member of the Board in several major Romanian and international companies.
Under Paul’s direction, his teams have managed significant cross-functional development efforts for a large portfolio of private and public sector companies from various industries, including IT and technology (RPA, machine learning, AI), energy, telecom, manufacturing, pharma and healthcare.
Elena Popa
Over 10 years of management consulting experience, focused on organizational design and business transformation, cost optimization and benchmarking, market assessments, commercial due diligences, strategy definition and implementation
Experience in both in public and private sector, across industries
Our Strategic Partners
To complement the experience of our team, we established strategic partnerships with top firms in relevant business areas:
- Legal services
GNP Guia Naghi si Asociatii, a top law firm ranked by Chambers, Legal 500, GCR (among others), with particular strengths in Pharma & Regulatory, Competition and State Aid, Public Procurement, Data Protection, Compliance, Corporate M&A, IT&C, Disputes Resolution, Intellectual Property
Belciu & Jambori, an experienced law firm with a strong focus on commercial law with over 20 years of experience on the Romanian market, working with clients on all business topics, from contracting to labor and commercial litigation.
- Insolvency
Belciu Insolvency, an established insolvency practice with clients across industries, which works very closely with the related law office, complementing each other's capabilities.
- Compliance and risk management
ASCENTOR is a professional services organization providing advisory and assurance solutions to medium and large companies across all major industries in Romania and South Eastern Europe since 1995. The firm has built its foundation on the experience of its partners, all from international advisory firms and multinational organizations.
