Cristian Herghelegiu returns to Gecad group as CEO of Gecad Net

Newsroom 10/12/2013 | 11:28

Cristian Herghelegiu has been appointed CEO of Gecad Net, after previously acting as CEO of Elefant.ro online bookstore, since February 2013.

This represents a return of the manager to Gecad, after previously working for the group as head of software development between 2000 and 2002, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Herghelegiu is one of the most experimented managers in the IT industry. For two years, between November 2011 and February 2013, he acted as country manager of PayU Romania (formerly Gecad Romania), which was taken over by Naspers fund.

Between August 2009 and April 2011, he was the general manager for Romania of Central Europe On-Demand.

He also worked as Microsoft Dynamics lead at Microsoft between January 2007 and October 2008.

“The main target is to grow the presence of the company on the local market, to develop new business directions and partnerships that consolidate the position of the company as leader on the market of providers of IT solutions and services to small and medium enterprises. On the long term, we will evaluate the opportunity to introduce new products and services on other markets in the region as well,” said Herghelegiu.

As a strategic direction, Gecad Net will include in its offer more cloud-based services. Gecad Net has ended the first half of the year with a turnover that was 15 percent higher than in 2012.