Experience

V+O Communication Romania

• Romania
• Public Relations and Communications Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager

  • Jun 2008 - Present



Avon

• United Kingdom
• Personal Care Product Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• PR Manager

  • Jun 2005 - Jun 2008



NACDA - National Convenience Stores Distributors Association

• Communications Manager

  • Feb 2004 - Aug 2005

  My main responsibility was to create and implement a coherent communication strategy for the association under the supervision of the President. Activities included but are not limited to: • Design and manage the yearly budget for the communication and members activities • Plan, develop and implement several networking events for our members: multiple golf tournaments across Canada, several seminars and the annual Industry Leadership Summit. • Organize the association’s participation to fairs and industry events and supervise the production of all necessary material (stand, flyers, brochures) • Prepare, write and distribute communication materials to the media, members and prospects (letters, invitations, press releases, articles, e-bulletins, information and sponsorship packages) Show less



BBDO Worldwide

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• PR Director

  • Oct 2001 - Sep 2003

  During my two years stay with BBDO Romania I produced amazing results and revived the companie's Communiactions department. Among the most important roles in my BBDO job I could mention: • I hired and trained personnel and I build a motivated PR team of 8 people, one of the best teams in the local ad market • I designed and managed the yearly budgets for the PR department and in this period of two years I tripled the profit (300% increase) • I applied my creativity and sales skills to prepared and conducted new business / client presentations and I generated in total a 400% increase of PR permanent clients • I maintained a strong professional contact with all the international / local PR clients like Henkel-Schwartzkopf, Pepsi Int., Wrigley’s Renault-Nissan, Effem, OTE International Group, Allianz. • I planed the strategic public relations “personality” for our clients and I supervised all the key activities implemented by my team for the organizations we represented Show less



Vodafone

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• PR Manager

  • Aug 1997 - Oct 2001

  CONNEX GSM (now Vodafone Romania) is the largest GSM operator in the country, owned (at the time I was employed) by Montreal based Telesystem International Wireless Corporation and AirTouch Vodafone Europe I was chosen to create and coordinate a regional PR Department, motivate and lead this team to reach corporate communication goals (media relations and public affairs) all over the country. • I interviewed prospective employees and I made hiring decision for 6 regional PR representatives located in six different areas of the country; • I developed the regional PR strategy of the company, I trained my people, and in 4 month the team was functional to manage the company ”image” to the outside word • I oversaw all my team’s communications activities, that included press releases, press conferences, speech writing, handling media relation and in 1 year we got more then 10.000 PR materials in all national and local mass-media Show less