Management team

The operations and the development of EA – The Entrepreneurship Academy is coordinated by a management team comprised of:

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Ilinca Păun

Academy Director

Cosmin Alexandru

Dean & Head Coach

Ioana Ceaușu

Educational Program Manager

Luiza Amzolin

Marketing & Admission Manager

Ana Călin

CFO - Chief Financial Officer

Elvis Gherghinescu

Assistant Program Manager

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Examination Board

The Examinations Board at the EA – The Entrepreneurship Academy is the body that objectively and expertly determines whether or not a student meets the conditions set by the education and examinations regulations in relation to their knowledge, insight and skills required to obtain a degree.

It holds a fundamental role in monitoring the quality of the examinations, since it determines, in an objective and expert manner, whether or not a student meets the final attainment level of the BBA program. For this, their independence is essential and our Examinations Board operates independently from the management team.

All members hold high expertise on the content of our BBA program (understanding of the educational programme’s subject matter), on the assessment expertise (how to ensure quality) and on the legal and procedural aspects of how the assessment takes place.

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Alexandra Florea

Chair

Alexandra Florea is a private equity professional with 20 years’ experience in international mergers and acquisitions. She started her career as a corporate lawyer with a leading global law firm and advised on major privatisations and large-cap acquisitions across Central and Eastern Europe. Since leaving law, she has been involved in PE-backed investments throughout Europe, Asia and beyond. She is a member of the Examinations Board of Team Academy Netherlands and lectures on Private Equity and Venture Capital at Entrepreneurship Academy. Alexandra has a law degree from the University of Bucharest and an MBA (distinction) from London Business School. She is also a Results Trained Coach (Neuroleadership Institute London) and writes a monthly column on seeking meaning in ForbesLife Romania.

Radu Atanasiu

Member

Radu Atanasiu has successfully managed projects in publishing and real estate. He currently dedicates most of his time to the academic career, but still manages a few private projects and does angel investing in tech startups. Radu has started his teaching career in 2013 at Maastricht School of Management Romania. He taught Decision Making and Critical Thinking for Business for the Executive MBA, the Master in Management, the Fast Track Management Program, and for many executive or open-enrollment programs. Radu teaches at the Entrepreneurship Academy from the beginning. He also taught a series of massive online open courses (MOOCs) on the German platform iversity.org, starting from 2014. These courses had tens of thousands of students from all around the world. Radu Atanasiu was invited to teach in Maastricht (NL) and Prague (CZ). He is currently towards the end of his PhD studies in Amsterdam, at the Vrije Universiteit. The topic of his research is "Heuristics in managerial decision-making".

Raluca Raschip

Commercial Director @ GFK.

With a marketing background, Raluca has built a 20-year business experience in management. By managing the GfK Consumer and Retail Business Unit for many years, Raluca has led several different kinds of teams, from sales teams, to research and operational teams, towards performance. She has offered marketing and research consultancy to the key players in the Romanian market, covering areas like Market and Consumer understanding, Brand Development, Category Management to both retailers and manufacturers and others. However, developing people on top of developing business has always been the utmost satisfaction to Raluca. As a result, she trained herself in Systemic Coaching and got certified by the International Coach Federation. Since September 2019 she has been team-coaching at The Entrepreneurship Academy, following her mission of creating the new generation of leaders in Romania. Raluca is also the Commercial Director of GfK Romania, Consumer Panel Services.

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