With a degree from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and two years of practice as marketing manager for Wella Romania, Carmen Tanasie joined the EMBA program of ASEBUSS Romania in 1995. She refers to the experience as “a turning point for me in understanding business and business people.” Already equipped with technical knowledge and experience, Carmen found the opportunity to be able to grow in an environment of thriving ideas and inspiring individuals.

In 1997, having graduated from the EMBA program, Carmen became the new marketing manager at Coty Romania. Her career followed a similar path in the years to come. After performing as marketing manager for Beiersdorf Romania, Carmen has taken on the responsibility for CEE region and for the Austrian market as well, being appointed Regional Senior Brand Manager Skin Care, and, later on, she took the world-wide responsibility Brand Management NIVEA Sun at the same company.

After 11 years as a marketer in the beauty industry, Carmen changed fields and took on the position of marketing manager of Prodal Group. From that point she went on to be partner at AT-Concepts, a consultancy company and then the marketing manager for OZONE Laboratories Bucharest.

Since 2007, Carmen Tanasie is the CEO for Omnicom Media Group in Romania, thus adding yet another striking professional experience to a career that speaks success to peers and commoners alike.

The majority of us strive to find success or at least to learn its true meaning throughout our entire life. From this perspective, we could easily say that Manuela Plapcianu, CEO at Artmark, is a successful leader. Some define success as the art of finding your true potential. Manuela defined this much coveted concept as “that place where we see ourselves as we really are, with our true potential, where we can afford the luxury of being ourselves on all accounts: emotionally, mentally, professionally, personally.”

Manuela Plapcianu held between 1996 and 2000 the position of Branch Manager at ABN AMRO Bank and afterwards, between 2000 and 2002 the position of Head of Network at CitiBank.

Having had what most would have considered a brilliant career up to that point, in 2002 Manuela took that extra step after graduating from ASEBUSS’ EMBA program she upgraded her profession to top executive positions in major banks at international levels; after 4 years of being Vice-President for HVB/ Unicredit, Mrs. Plapcianu became Deputy Chairman at the same company, and later on CEO for Bancpost/EFG Eurobank Romania.

With a degree in engineering, an established career in banking and, starting from September 2009, a new beginning into the art world, Manuela learned that “excellence conjugates itself in the same manner in all domains.” According to her, the two years of the ASEBUSS EMBA experience has gone a long way in teaching her this lesson.

At this point, her CEO position at Artmark shouldn’t come as such a big surprise, it all being in essence a natural progression in Manuela Plapcianu’s career that could simply be described as artfully successful.

With an education in construction engineering at the Technical Military Academy, and then, a master in Construction, Iulian Mangalagiu started his career as a Sales and Marketing Manager at Rigipis Romania, starting from 1999 and up until the dawn of 2005, when he decided that a change was due and thus accepted an offer at Henkel Romania in the position of Business Unit Manager. Mr. Mangalagiu remembers that this change came just as he was on the brick of graduating from his EMBA program that he attended at ASEBUSS.

The pinnacle of Mr. Mangalagiu’s career, so far at least, is concentrated around his current function of CEO at Ceramica Iasi through which he was able to reconfirm his position of valuable business man and leader/visionary in the social, political and professional environments of North-East Romania. Consequently, a local newspaper from Iasi has awarded him, back in 2009, the honorific title of Prime Minister in a hypothetical Government of technocrats. Mr. Mangalagiu is also a member of the Businessmen Association from Iasi, through which he tries to improve the collaboration with neighboring countries such as Ukraine and Moldova .This goes to show the steady and potent trust system that Iulian Mangalagiu has built through a career marked by not only success but true professionalism as well.

Florian’s managerial career started in 1996 at the Fieni Factory where Mr. Aldea lead the activity of the Maintenance division up until the year 2006. For the next year, 2006-2007, he coordinated the strategic development projects of Carpacement Holding. Starting from 2007 and until 2010, Florian Aldea held the position of General Manager at Carpat Beton, thus coordinating the HeidelbergCement operations on the Romanian market. For several months, starting from September 2010, Florian Aldea was the Executive General Director at Carpacement Holding and at the beginning of 2011, he was offered the General Director position that he maintains to this day at the same company.

The owner of a bachelor diploma in electronic engineering from the Polytechnic University in Bucharest, a Master degree for executives in Business Administration from ASEBUSS in 2007, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2010, Florian Aldea is a constant pursuer of knowledge and innovation both from the technological perspective of his profession and the social and economic variables that are to be found in the global business world.

Apfelbaum Zemy is one of the two Managing Directors at Wizrom Software.

In preparation of his issuing profession, Apfelbaum Zemy attended the classes of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Bucharest which he graduated in 1997, in the interim having won a one-year scholarship in Paris.

Before graduating from the ASEBUSS EMBA program, on the beginning of 2008, Zemy Apfelbaum was promoted Managing director at the company to which he has remained loyal for well over 15 years.

Mr. Apfelbaum made his entry into Wizrom Software as a consultant in the year 1996, a position from which he was to learn and grow to become at first, the Implementation Manager, and then, in the year 2000, a Consultant Manager.

The position that Cosmin Bucur held as a Senior Dealer at ABN AMRO Bank Romania between 2001 and 2004 can be qualified as Mr. Bucur’s first steps into what was to become a successful banking career. In 2004 he advanced within the company to become the Head of FMD Romania, a position that he maintained for three more years, until 2007, only to change it yet again for that of Deputy Country Treasurer and General Manager for Romania (2007-2008) at the company within which he grew from a managerial point of view, ABN AMRO Bank.

One year later, in the third quarter of the year 2008, Cosmin Bucur receives an offer for the position of Deputy Head of Global Markets, which he decides to accept, enrolling into the RBS Bank team for Romania. In September 2009, Cosmin Bucur settled in the Country Treasurer position for Romania at RBS Bank.

Academic pursuits wise, Cosmin has a bachelor degree at the University of Transilvania, and a graduate EMBA at ASEBUSS (2006), both of which contributed to a successful career for Mr. Bucur.

Daniel Boaje is the current holder of the Senior Business Development Director position at McDonald's Romania.

Daniel Boaje has grown within the McDonald's Romania, starting as a Operations Director in 1994, a position that he’s held up until 2004, when Mr. Boaje decided to expand his area of knowledge and professional experience by accepting the position of General Manager at Cetelem Romania. It is here that he’s remained for the next 6 years when, at the beginning of 2010, he took up an independent position of Internet Business Consultant thus adding to his knowledge of this specific Romanian business sector. In June of the same year, Daniel Boaje returned to the Romanian division of McDonald's in the position the he currently holds, that of Senior Business Development Director

Mr. Boaje’s academic path carries him through a commerce degree at the Academy of Economic Studies, in 1993, and an EMBA degree granted through the ASEBUSS program, back in 2003.

Daniel Pana, the current Marketing Executive Director for BCR, is a prominent figure on the Romanian business market with a career that spans well over 13 years. As part of this position, Mr. Pana’s core responsibilities involve designing the bank's annual marketing plan and training the marketing and sales personnel in a perpetual effort to improve the customer service techniques.

Forever on the look-out for perfecting his knowledge base, Daniel Pana boasts an impressive academic portfolio. For starters, he has an engineering degree in aeronautics from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and has graduated from the EMBA program organized by ASEBUSS. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Management of Marketing at the Economic Sciences Academy in Bucharest and since 2010 he has enrolled in the Berlin School of Creative Leadership. This last endeavor is a direct consequence of his interest in everything that is social media, digital communication and innovative approaches to what should be every company’s main focus: the customer.

Cornel Oprisan is the retail manager at IKEA Romania since 2007, when he was offered the chance to lead the company’s first steps on the Romanian market. He was, therefore, the new division’s first employee, and can be credited for setting up a professional and efficient team and for coming up with a business strategy that spoke to the peculiarities of the Romanian environment.

It is due mentioning that Mr. Oprisan started his career back in 1990, when he accepted the position of researcher at the Army Institute of Research. It was that very year that he graduated from the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest.

In accordance with an expanding pallet of interests, Cornel Oprisan took on a part time job as an engineer at Alltrom, or what was to become JVC Romania. In 1993 as a consequence of his promotion to service director within Alltrom, Mr. Oprisan decided to dedicate his full concentration towards this new avenue. In 1995 he became the technical director at JVC Romania and in 1996, the general manager for the same company.

Cornel Oprisan graduated in 2004 the EMBA program organized by ASEBUSS.

Monica Minoiu has an overall experience of well over 13 years in management positions that covered domains such as finance, administration, sales-marketing and especially supply chain.
Monica took her first steps into the Romanian business environment as a Logistics Director at ROMSAR Cosmetics SA back in 1999.
One year later, she was holding the position of Product Manager at AXA Merchanting, where she will stay for two more years (2000-2002). Her next step was accepting the position of Procurement Manager- Indirect Acquisitions at INBEV Romania. She was then promoted to the position of Procurement Director for Romania, a function that she will maintain for the nest two years. In 2005, Monica will climb the company’s hierarchical ladder to the position of Procurement Director for the Balkan region, and in 2007 she is named the Procurement Director for Europe – Centre of integrated acquisitions services. Throughout her activity within INBEV, Monica has acquired remarkable performances in the area of re-engineering processes, integrated units of service, elaborating and administering budget processes, building and developing multidisciplinary and international teams.
The year 2007, alongside with successfully graduating the ASEBUSS EMBA program will represent a period of time of major changes. It is now that Monica decides to become an entrepreneur by implementing her dissertation paper, „Re-engineering of purchasing activities”. This initiative will come into effect with the setting up of the InCharge Management Consulting Company back in 2008.
Since 2008 Monica Minoiu has been, at the same time, a lecturer at Exec-Edu where she has been giving classes of Stock Management, Operations Management, Developing Your Leadership Competencies, Cost Reduction, Performance Indicators, Operations Management and Budgeting Systems.

Adriana Paun founded the Top Executive Agency, the first European organization providing sustained support for candidates in top management positions aiming to change jobs or careers. Adriana is experienced in start-up, reorganization and crisis management, being specialized in the identification of top management talents. She has worked for over sixteen years in Human Resources and seven years in Research & Development, at an international level, working and living in Romania, Belgium, France and Swtizerland. She has worked as HR Director for Orange Romania, Mobistar Belgium, Human Resources VP for international mobility at France Telecom and Director of Executive Recruitment for Schindler SA.
At present, she is Managing Director for Paun HR Consult, in Brussels, a company which offers consulting services in various areas of HR.
An engineer with a diploma from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest 1986, and EMBA ASEBUSS graduate from 2000, a certified trainer in HR management by specialized firms in the UK.
Is a member of known professional associations in Belgium and Europe: EMEA Recruiters, Execunet, European HR Professionals, Public Speaking Network, Human Capital Institute USA, Professional Women International Belgium. For four years, she has been in the top 50 most powerful women in Belgium, according to Trends Magazine.

In September 2011, Iulian Costea was promoted to the Marketing Director position for the Middle East and Africa, representing the French telecom equipment producer, Alcatel Lucent. Iulian is responsible with creating and implementing the marketing strategy, with gaining new customers and with creating business opportunities.
Prior to this position, Iulian steadily advanced within the Alcatel Romania Company from the Project Manager position within the Tendering Department (2002-2004), to that of Marketing Manager for the IP Solutions department (2004-2005), to that of Deputy Marketing Director (2005-2006).
Owing to the competences that he’s shown throughout the years, Iulian has occupied the following positions within Alcatel-Lucet: Chief Marketing Officer for South East Europe (2006-2010), Head of Marketing, Strategy and Customer Solutions, for almost two years (2010-2011). During this last position, he was in charge with coordinating the marketing activities for the CIS, Northern and Eastern regions of Europe.
For a short period of time, he was a system engineer for West Bank (SanPaolo IMI) Romania, back in 2002.
A true testament to his academic accomplishments, Iulian Costea’s first contact with the labor market was in the position of Professor’s Assistant within the very University that he had graduated, the Polytechnic University of Bucharest.
Back in 2008, Iulian Costea graduated the Executive MBA program organized by ASEBUSS.