Emmett King is COO and a minority shareholder at Wirtek, a publicly traded European software and electronic engineering solutions company. He is a businessman from America, with over 17 years of practical experience in Romania. He loves living and working in Cluj-Napoca and has traveled to most of the regions of Romania. Enjoys a good knowledge of the country and its history, and is working to improve his proficiency in speaking Romanian.

Adrian is the CEO & founder of SmartDreamers, a VC backed recruitment and marketing automation company, boasting clients such as L’Oreal, Siemens, Temenos, Infosys, UiPath, and others. Prior to building SmartDreamers, Adrian was part of another HR tech startup, cumulating over 8 years of experience in the recruitment tech space.

Vlad Sarca is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is also one of the board members at Sparking Capital, a venture capital fund focused on pre-seed & seed investments.

Gerald Pollak is a very easy going person. He’s a Venture Capital Investor at Capital300, a young VC fund from Vienna, and his career was an interesting series of pivots. He started off as a professional rower, even participating in the World Championship, and the European University Championship.

Thibaut is a 32-year-old passionate entrepreneur, deeply involved in his projects. He says, and I quote: For me there is no such thing as failure, it is simply a more or less long success, which requires more or less pivots and time. By questioning themselves regularly, with enough energy and a united team, any entrepreneur can succeed;).

Eastern Europeans, and Romanians in particular, aren’t as focused on marketing as they should be. Grai Group set out to change that.

Eventmix is a platform that allows event organizers to set-up online conferences, workshops, webinars, concerts, or even courses, all happening on the client’s website. It’s a much needed service, both now with the new coronavirus in full swing, but also later when we do find a vaccine, because the recent pandemic has put a strong emphasis on the online world.

Good news for any start-up and early scale-up specialised in automation that is located in the CEE region and Turkey. You can apply now through 30th of August in the second edition of the UiPath Automation Awards, a competition founded by UiPath where you can win 50.000 euros and the chance to form a partnership with the automation behemoth, UiPath.