Protecting Europe in Turbulent Times
Bucharest Leaders Summit: Enduring Power of Solidarity
Speakers 25 May 2022

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CYBER-SECURITY

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Moderators

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Ioan-Cosmin MIHAI
Cybercrime training officer at the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL),
Vice president of the Romanian Association for Information Security Assurance (RAISA)

Ioan-Cosmin MIHAI is a researcher, trainer, and conference speaker, with an experience of more than 15 years in cybercrime, open-source intelligence, and cybersecurity. He is a cybercrime training officer at the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL), monitor of the Ad-Hoc Raising Awareness Working Group from the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), associate professor at “Al. I. Cuza” Police Academy, honorary professor at CT University, India, founding member and vice president of the Romanian Association for Information Security Assurance (RAISA).

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Maria-Manuela Catrina
Director
Ovidiu Sincai
European School

Maria-Manuela Catrina has a background in mathematics, computer science, cybernetics, as well as training in security and international relations.
In the early 2000s, Ms Catrina had the first opportunity to join the high levels of government as advisor for the Romanian Prime Minister, after which she continued as parliamentary advisor for Romania’s Chamber of Deputies Speaker.

Ms Catrina has joined the executive branch as Secretary of State at the Romanian Ministry of Communications and Informational Society between 2017 and 2019. Here, she has dedicated her time to steering the complex preparations for Romania’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union (Jan-Jun 2019). Her mandate includes broader aspects of international relations and European affairs, as well as more specialized areas, such as cybersecurity, AI and satellite communications. In addition to handling the numerous European legislative files stemming from EU’s Digital Agenda for Europe and representing Romania at the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council, she also coordinated a number of high level national groups tasked with ensuring the security and resilience of Romania’s IT and telecommunications infrastructure.

Ms Catrina who was nominated among top 50 Women of Influence in Cyber-security in Europe is passionate about digital transformation and promoting women in technology.
Since 2013, Ms Catrina is the Director the Ovidiu Sincai European School, the Social Democratic Institute’s key leadership project, under the aegis of the Council of Europe.

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Speakers

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Dragoş C.-L. Preda
CEO
National Radiocommunication Company

Dan Cimpean

Dan Cîmpean
Director
National Cyber
Security Directorate

General Director CERT-RO - Intro & PR Overview

Dan accumulated over 20 years of experience in cyber security, risk management in Brussels, Bucharest and internationally. He led professional teams that supported European Institutions, National Competent Authorities and large industry actors in defining and implementing their cyber security policies, strategies, operational and technical measures. Since May 2020 he was appointed as General Director of CERT-RO by decision of the Romanian Prime Minister. He has the exciting mission to lead the effort for transforming this great organisation.

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Alexandru Petrescu
Minister of
Communication and Informational Society 2018 - 2019

Toma Cimpeanu

Toma Cîmpeanu
CEO
National Association
for Information
Systems Security
(ANSSI)

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Ciprian Teleman
Minister of
Research,
Innovation and
Digitalization
December 2020 -
September 2021

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Ioan-Cosmin MIHAI
Cybercrime training officer at the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL),
Vice president of the Romanian Association for Information Security Assurance (RAISA)

Ioan-Cosmin MIHAI is a researcher, trainer, and conference speaker, with an experience of more than 15 years in cybercrime, open-source intelligence, and cybersecurity. He is a cybercrime training officer at the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL), monitor of the Ad-Hoc Raising Awareness Working Group from the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), associate professor at “Al. I. Cuza” Police Academy, honorary professor at CT University, India, founding member and vice president of the Romanian Association for Information Security Assurance (RAISA).

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Magda Popescu

Magda Popescu
Outside Legal Counsel to Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit - Europe, Middle East & Africa

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Maria-Manuela Catrina
Director
Ovidiu Sincai
European School

Maria-Manuela Catrina has a background in mathematics, computer science, cybernetics, as well as training in security and international relations.
In the early 2000s, Ms Catrina had the first opportunity to join the high levels of government as advisor for the Romanian Prime Minister, after which she continued as parliamentary advisor for Romania’s Chamber of Deputies Speaker.

Ms Catrina has joined the executive branch as Secretary of State at the Romanian Ministry of Communications and Informational Society between 2017 and 2019. Here, she has dedicated her time to steering the complex preparations for Romania’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union (Jan-Jun 2019). Her mandate includes broader aspects of international relations and European affairs, as well as more specialized areas, such as cybersecurity, AI and satellite communications. In addition to handling the numerous European legislative files stemming from EU’s Digital Agenda for Europe and representing Romania at the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council, she also coordinated a number of high level national groups tasked with ensuring the security and resilience of Romania’s IT and telecommunications infrastructure.

Ms Catrina who was nominated among top 50 Women of Influence in Cyber-security in Europe is passionate about digital transformation and promoting women in technology.
Since 2013, Ms Catrina is the Director the Ovidiu Sincai European School, the Social Democratic Institute’s key leadership project, under the aegis of the Council of Europe.

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Daniel Ionita

Daniel Ioniţă
CEO
Cymed

Catalin Patrascu

Cătălin Pătrașcu
Global Security Operations Manager at CyBourn

Catalin Patrascu

Global Security Operations Manager at CyBourn

Having more than 10 years of experience in the information security field, Catalin is currently managing the security operations of CyBourn – a global SOCaaS and ManagedXDR provider. He is a recognized member of the international Incident Response community, holds various cybersecurity certifications, and activated in both governmental and private sector, covering multiple industry sectors.

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Dan Tofan

Dan Tofan,
PhD
Cyber Security
Expert

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Sergiu Zaharia
Director Cyber Strategy Advisory, Deloitte Romania

Director Cyber Strategy Advisory, Deloitte Romania

Sergiu joined cyber security domain more than 20 years ago, having various roles like security engineer, CISO, trainer and cyber strategy advisor for organizations from multiple sectors, including defense, telco, manufacturing, banking, insurance, or retail, currently leading the Cyber Strategy Advisory unit of Deloitte Romania.

Member of various groups of experts during his career, like NATO technical groups, Business Continuity Management and Crisis Management groups of excellence, or as Cyber Security Task Force Leader in ANIS (Employers’ Association of the Software and Services Industry), Sergiu benefited from the best environments for innovation and creativity on cyber security topics.

He has a master’s degree and a merit diploma in IT Security from the Military Technical Academy of Bucharest and is preparing the PhD with the aim of improving application security review using natural language processing methods.

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Alexandru Anghelus

Alexandru Angheluș
Cyber Security
Consultant
CEO Prodefence

Angheluș Alexandru

Cyber Security Consultant
CEO Prodefence

Educational Director of the Cluster of Excellence in Cyber Security Romania - CYSCOE
Collaborator - Cyber fraud and attacks analyst - National Directorate of Cyber Security Romania
Partner "FinCrime" - Financial cybercrime Analyst - Babeș-Bolyai University Project
Pentester - Health Infrastructure - Cyber Volunteers 19 Romania
Lead/ Auditor - ISMS - ISO 27001, Cyber Security Specialist, Pentester, Cybersecurity analyst (Fraud, Malware and Cyber Attack), Data Protection Officer.

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Alexandru Lazar

Alexandru Lazăr
Lawyer, Law Professor, Honorary Consul of Romania in the Balearic Islands

ABOUT
Lawyer, Partner at IntLaw Abogados, with headquarters in Barcelona (Spain). Law professor at different institutions/universities. Honorary Consul of Romania in Balearic Islands.
Alexandru´s activity particularly focuses on Corporate Compliance, M&A, Corporate, Contractual and Commercial Law, but throughout the years I’ve specialized in the following practices:
• Advice in M&A operations
• Advice in operations developed in cross-country jurisdictions
• Joint ventures, disputes between shareholders, financial and corporate restructuration
• Advice in private equity operations
• Advice in relation to CSR
• Advice, design and implementation of Corporate Compliance programs;
• Advice in relation to E-Commerce
• Advice in Fashion Law and Sports Law
• Advice in pre-bankruptcy proceedings and acquisitions of productive units in bankruptcy process
• Advice in national and international contractual relations
• Advice in the process of internationalization of the Company
Due to his high connection to the business ecosystem of Central and Eastern Europe, Alexandru has been appointed immediately after his incorporation as Director of the Central East European Desk. Additionally, he is the Director of the Corporate Compliance Department and of the Desk on Balearic Islands.

AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS
• May 2010, 1st prize at the Fiscal Law category, at the second Edition of the International Law Prize ISDE-IABA (Inter-American Bar Association), being the youngest winner (25 at the time).
• June 2014, 1st prize for International Private Law category, at the sixth Edition of the ISDE Prize.
• January 2016, the ‘Mihai Eminescu’ excellency in Business Law prize, granted by Occidentul Romanesc magazine.
• October 2017, Premio del Jurado Asociación Española de Escuelas de Negocios.
• February 2018, Medalla de Oro al Mérito en el Trabajo, Asociación Española de Economía y Competitividad.
• May 2018, the excellency prize, granted by Occidentul Romanesc magazine.
• October 2018, included in Top 100 best Romanian professionals abroad all World Wide, granted by Repatriot.
• Published several articles in specialty magazines in Spain and Romania.
• Co-authored the Spanish Chapter of the International Law handbook ‘International Joint Ventures’ with Dennis Campbell (Director at Center for International Legal Studies, Austria).
• Also is the founder of the legal blog Legal Outside The Box: www.legaloutsidethebox.com

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS
• Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Barcelona ICAB- (Barcelona Bar Association) from 2009
• Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Islas Baleares (Balearic Islands Bar Association) from 2019
• Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Case Law and Law, as Associated Collaborator (Real Academia Academia de
Jurisprudencia y Legislación, Colaborador Asociado)
• Member of the Club Español de Arbitraje- Founder of the Romanian Chapter
• Associate Professor at the Law School of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona
• Collaborator Professor at the Law School of ESADE (starting in fall of 2021)
• Associate Professor at the ISDE Law School
• Academic Co-Director of the Course in Fashion Law and Design -Moda y Lujo: Derecho, Empresa y Marketing- by ISDE and IED (2019-2020)
• Academic Director of the LLM in Corporate Compliance by EIS (Economist Innovative School)
• Co-coordinator of the Course ”Regulatory Compliance and U.S. Law” (1st Ed. March 2018 and 2nd Ed. March 2019, and 3rd Ed. September 2020) at Fordham
University in collaboration with EIS

EDUCATION
• Law studies at the University of Granada in Spain
• Master in International Business Law by I.S.D.E.
• Master in International Law, Foreign Commerce and International Relations by I.S.D.E.
• Master in Legal Research by E.S.A.D.E.
• PhDC in General Principles of Law, Economic Law and Business Law at ESADE Barcelona, ICADE and DEUSTO (in excedency at the moment).

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Mihnea Moisescu
Dean of Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers Science, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest

Mihnea Alexandru MOISESCU, is a Professor, PhD coordinator at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers. He is currently serving as Dean of the faculty.
Mihnea Alexandru MOISESCU holds a Bachelor Degree in Automatics and Computer Science, a Bachelor Degree in Biophysics, a Master Degree of Science in Biophysics and a PhD in System Engineering. He is specialized in the areas of Discrete Event Dynamical Systems, Advanced Robotics, Advanced Communication Systems and Information Systems. He is author of more than 80 research papers in International Engineering Conferences and Congresses and 13 research papers in international journals indexed in Web of Science. His research experience includes participation and management of more than 18 national founded projects and 4 international projects.

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Octavian Fratu
University professor at Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest

Octavian Fratu graduated the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute (now the University Politehnica of Bucharest) in 1986 and has PhD in Electronics and Telecommunications at the same university since 1997. Since 1991 he is member of the Telecommunications Department, and since 2004 he is university professor in the same department of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, UPB. His areas of scientific research include mobile communications, radio communications systems, data transmissions, wireless sensor networks and IoT systems, as well as communications security and cyber security issues. He is the author, co-author and publisher, for the last 35 years, of over 15 books published in recognized publishing houses and over 90 articles in scientific journals. He has participated in about 60 research projects obtained through national or international grants (FP6, FP7, H2020 funded by the European Commission or Science for Peace and Security, funded by NATO), being the coordinator of 12 national and 4 international projects.
For the past two decades, Mr. Octavian Fratu has been an active member of the IEEE, Romania Section, of the IEEE Communications and Antenna and Propagation Societies and of the IEEE Romania Section Communications Chapter. He is also currently a member of the UPB Senate and the UPB Senate Committee on Scientific Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer.

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INDUSTRY

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Moderator

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Vladimir Iulian
Alexandrescu
Spokesman
National Institute of
Statistics

Speakers

Oliver Varhelyi

Olivér Várhelyi
European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement

Olivér Várhelyi is the Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement in the European Commission.
Before joining the Commission, Mr. Várhelyi served as Hungary’s ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary at the Permanent Representation of Hungary to the EU from 2015 to 2019. He is a lawyer by profession, who began his career in the Ministry for Industry and Trade in 1995. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1996 where he held different positions with a special focus on the European Union. After being the Head of the Legal Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he went to Brussels where he became the Head of the Legal Services in the Permanent Representation of Hungary. Before becoming the Permanent Representative of Hungary, he was the Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU between 2011 and 2015.

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Florin Spataru
Minister of Economy

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Aurora Mordonu
Head of Unit in the DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
European Commission

Aurora Mordonu is Head of Unit in the European commission, in the DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. She has 20 years of professional work experience in international economic affairs. She has worked as research fellow at the United Nations University. She has been at the International Monetary Fund as Senior Economist in the European department, working on country surveillance. She spent her largest part of the career in the European Commission, working for DG Economy and Finance, for the Taskforce on Brexit negotiations, and since over 3 years she is working on competitiveness in the department for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs.

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Mișa Popic
CEO Romaero

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Gabriel Țuțu
CEO, CN Romarm SA

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Laurian Anastasof,
CEO IAR Brașov

Constantin Vasilescu

Constantin Vasilescu
Executive President
of the
General Union of
Industrialists of
Romania UGIR-1903

Petru Ianc

Petru Ianc
Honorary Member of
The Technical
Scienses Academy
of Romania

Adrian Negrescu

Adrian Negrescu
Manager
FRAMES

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Marinela Drăcea
President of CIROM

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