Gabriel Marin - Chief Executive Officer
Gabriel Marin, is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Omnilogic. Mr. Marin graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest in 1984 and got a PhD in Economics and Computer Science in 1996. He established Omnilogic in the autumn of 1992 with only $500, built and has lead it until today as one of the most visible success stories of the incumbent Romanian market economy.
“As a former basketball player, I understood that in business, as well as in professional sports, there’s no room for second place. We build our business based on a platform of performance, honesty and non-compromise and we have targeted the leading position in the domestic market from the very beginning. I’m happy that we succeeded in reaching that position as fast as our second business year. Later, as our growth rate was significant and constant, we started to consider the region and even the whole of Europe, as the potential next frontier, and now I’m quite positive that we’ll be able to transform it into reality. Transforming Omnilogic into a billion Euro company and position it among one of the leading European IT&C companies is ultimately, one of our main objectives” mentioned Marin.
Also a passionate Harley-Davidson biker and a cricket fan, Mr. Marin acknowledges the responsibilities that successful businesses owe to the community in which they work and live. As one of the preeminent Romanian companies, Omnilogic has actively involved itself in the day-by-day life of its community, investing efforts and money primarily not only in sports (main partner/sponsor of the Romanian Basketball Federation) but also in cultural areas (one of the main sponsors of the National Opera in Bucharest).
On the social side, in 1994 the Omnilogic Foundation was established. The purpose was charitable, trying to keep children off the streets, by offering them the option of team sports (basketball) in an organized, clean and healthy environment with professional coaches, offering sport scholarships to gifted children, as well as medical and financial support to the elderly, retired players, coaches and their families. Since 1994, more than 6000 children have participated in the Omnilogic Foundation activities.
Ion Ivascu - Chief Financial Officer
Ion Ivascu was the second employee of the Omnilogic when the company was founded in 1992.
A graduate of the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest and also has an MBA from Washington University (Seattle), Mr. Ivascu is in charge of the overall financial operations of Omnilogic.
Ion Ivascu strongly believes that beyond technology, Omnilogic’s strengths comes from its excellent financial planning as well as from its strong expense control procedures.
"Building up a coherent financial strategy, in terms of supporting the accelerated development of a company started with 500 USD to a corporation with estimated revenue of 200 million USD in 2009 is not an easy job. Look around and watch similar Romanian companies in our business during the last 10 years, imploding as soon as they reach a certain revenue. The main reason in my opinion, was not the sales process itself, but the lack of planning and relaxation of expenses.
Without those two issues under control, it is practically impossible to survive these days in our more and more challenging IT&C environment.” said Mr. Ivascu
Sorin Dragomir - Chief Operations Officer
Switching to Omnilogic in January 2008, as Chief Operations Officer, Mr. Sorin Dragomir took over several key responsibilities, including the authority to oversee the activity of all middle management back-office executives both for commercial operations (purchasing and material management) and for the internal technology related support operations.
A graduate in Commercial Studies from the Academy of Economic Studies, Sorin Dragomir, focuses on strategic, tactical, as well as short-term operations management.
An experienced industry executive, Mr. Dragomir has most recently served as Chief Information Officer at Generali Asigurari where he was responsible for the company’s development strategy, the IT system’s architecture, and the company’s business processes and information flows (Business Operation Management).
“Managers need to understand the complexity of the real work behind the company’s core operations, and the final accountability in this regard rests with the level of synchronization between the front-office and the back-office activities in order to act as a coherent entity.” said with Mr. Dragomir, whose primary objective is constant operations improvement, both at technology level and on the material management and logistics side.
Anna Cseresnyes - Corporate Credit & Financing Manager
Anna Cseresnyes joined Omnilogic in 1995. Also a graduate in Economics and Computer Science, Mrs. Cseresnyes is in charge of the company’s corporate financing policies. In her position, she is a key member of the management board, interfacing practically with all levels of company management.
Her responsibilities include overseeing the company’s corporate credit and financing functions and developing the respective policies in order to sustain the dynamics of this rapidly growing business.
"Financial operations performance has both a critical part and a beautiful part. You have to work perfectly balanced between these two. The volume of work is sometimes directly linked to the volume of the paperwork asked for by the fiscal and financial system. This is my fearsome enemy, complying with all these demands correctly and on-time. On the other hand the beauty of building-up and implementing complex and exotic financing solutions to the increasing demanding requirements of Omnilogic business gives me a high level of professional satisfaction,” mentioned Mrs. Cseresnyes.
Ion Mocanu - Chief Technology Officer
A graduate in Telecommunications from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, and also a veteran executive in multi-service operators and technology multinationals such as Romtelecom and Intrarom, Mr. Mocanu joined Omnilogic from his previous position as Director for Network Deployment & Integration at Ericsson Romania.
In his position, Mr. Mocanu is responsible for the delivery of technical and professional services solutions both within the company and for Omnilogic customers, creating and developing mostly those services that embody advanced industry-specific technologies. Beyond that, he oversees and manages the pre-sales technical staff, a critical element in defining complex solutions for the sales process.
Within the closed Management Board of Omnilogic Mr. Mocanu is also in charge of the coherence of the technology policies of the company, policies used by the sales departments as well as by the internal technical support specialists.
“Let’s be honest, in the IT&C business today core technology is quite flat, so defining original solutions that could improve the efficiency and the profitability of our company does not rely anymore on the manufacturer side as it happened in the past, but on our side, based on our engineers capabilities to imagine and to build up complex solutions based on already established technologies.” said Ion Mocanu.
Sebastian Banica - Senior Director Direct Sales
Sebastian Banica, Senior Director - Direct Sales, joined Omnilogic in 1999, at just the right time, as he likes to say. By that time, the company had begun a major re-structuring process, and initiated new strategic lines-of-business, the most important being the Telco & Networking vertical. An Engineering and Robotics Polytechnic University graduate, he was responsible for every major telecom infrastructure project where Omnilogic was involved in the Romanian market. "I was lucky, but this luck hides a lot of hard work. And there’s a lot of hard work at the frontline, of course.
Recently promoted to Senior Sales Director to Omnilogic Direct Commercial Division (including Enterprise and Telco), Mr. Banica is presently in charge of all Omnilogic direct sales business verticals. His main objective is to get his team to the top: the most performant and competitive sales team in the domestic IT&C area.
"We have become customer centric – the client has become our main asset. We are in a process of a continuous change: Omnilogic has changed the classical sales model for one that adds more and more value – this means quality services along with the products – to all its direct customers." said Mr. Banica.
Vali Gaitan - Senior Director Indirect Sales
The year when Vali Gaitan joined Omnilogic was 1997. Since then, Mrs. Gaitan has never ceased in supporting the company’s effort to build a strong customer reputation and a year-by-year growth in revenue and profitability.
Having graduated from the University of Electric Power, she was soon in the position of taking the information & technology industry very seriously, joining her first IT company in the early ‘90s. Mrs. Gaitan considers herself fortunate to be able to work both in a very challenging environment and also with most of the major global vendors – such as IBM, HP, Sun, Dell, Oracle, Lexmark, Xerox, Oracle, a.o. for more than 15 years.
That particular period helped her understand the realities of the mature/international business vs. incipient business standards of the Romanian economy, as they were at that historical time. Later on she left Omnilogic and joined Lexmark Romanian as sales officer for 2 years, both extending her experience in international business and enlarging the understanding of the IT&C market from a manufacturer point-of-view.
Returning in the autumn of 2008, Mrs. Vali Gaitan is presently responsible for the whole of Omnilogic’s indirect business, meaning the bundle of more than 800 partners spread all around the country across all verticals of business (SMB, Public, Enterprise or Telco). Along with maintaining and developing the above mentioned partner network, she is also in charge of the setting-up of new business partnerships with various technology suppliers.
Claudia Beimel - PR & Media Coordinator
Claudia Beimel joined Omnilogic in January 2004 bringing with her the professional experience gained at the FM broadcaster Radio Contact for several years. A graduate from the Academy of Economic Studies (Bucharest) in 1997, Mrs. Beimel is responsible for the PR and Media Coordination activities.
The other main objective of her position is the constant focus on strengthening the brand awareness of Omnilogic both in the domestic and international markets. Mrs. Beimel has developed a responsible branding program, sustaining the company’s effort in gaining that desired national and international recognition.
"The often-invoked phrase “Invest in people” is an understatement for Omnilogic. I'm proud to be a part of this team, where people are making its business shine. Its management team, together with its sales and technical engineers, have always been motivated by the spectacular and continuous development of Omnilogic business, as well as by its rising brand awareness within the information technology sector both at the domestic level, as well as at the regional and European level." mentioned Mrs. Beimel.
