Chief Innovation Officer
With a Ph.D. in Cybernetics and Economic Statistics, over 20 years of experience in the financial field (banks, insurance, guarantee SME credit funds, commodities and stock exchanges, money transfer, NPLs, fin-tech and European funds), Daniel Dumitrescu worked in the last years as Innovation Risk Finance Expert for the European Commission and the Innovate UK Agency, CEO of the Romanian Commodities Exchange, CIO of InnovX BCR, Director of Startup Grind Bucharest powered by Google for Startups.
Starting with 2019 Daniel is actively building functional innovation ecosystems aimed at promoting the untapped potential of Central and Eastern Europe in deep-tech and future technologies by bringing together relevant stakeholders: Academia, RDI Centers, Startups, Spinoffs, Investors, Corporations and Financial Institutions.
Some of the open innovation projects and other managed projects partnered with Global Technology Players like Microsoft, UiPath, Google, Big 4: EY, Financial Institutions: BCR part of ERSTE Group, Elite part of London Stock Exchange Group, now bought by EuroNext, Raiffeisen Bank, Societe Generale EBS, Romanian Commodities Exchange.