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Bio

I am currently legal and compliance director for Profi Rom Food (Profi), which is the most extended modern retail network in Romania, having over 1700 stores within the country, being the third biggest retailer on the Romanian market in terms of turnover.

I am also a member of the board of directors of the Retailers for Environment, association which includes ten of the biggest retailers, including Profi. The association has as main objective the development and implementation of the Deposit-Refund System in Romania, which is the largest circular economy project. With the help of this system, we will be able to have a cleaner and greener environment and achieve the collection and recycling targets imposed at European level by the European Union’s new circular economy package.

I am a highly experienced legal director, with over 15 years of practice in banking, IT&C and retail industries, in strong international environments. Besides having graduated law school, I also have a university degree in management and business administration, and I have master’s degrees in business law, human resources and in financial banking and stock management. I believe in continuous development of both soft skills and industry/job specific competences, so I completed several legal educational programmes (e.g. IP, consumer protection, environment, food safety), also communication, presentation and negotiation skills, AML and so on.

After spending eight years in banking industry, I had the opportunity to join one of the biggest retailers which had at that moment, just entered the Romanian market. By such, I was involved from the beginning in developing the legal expertise within the company, being exposed to all business areas. After that, I acted as general counsel for a group of companies which had business lines in different areas: telecom, technology, money transfer and food delivery, having a worldwide presence.

Since December 2020, I joined Profi as legal and compliance director, where I am currently responsible for ensuring that our business is legally and regulatory compliant. In this respect I am managing currently all the legal, compliance and regulatory areas within the company: legal, food safety, quality for private label, import-export, medical devices, environment, public affairs, being also responsible for compliance and data protection. Having such extensive role has giving me the opportunity to develop myself and to have a greater exposure to the business. In this sense, since 2023, I am also a member of the executive committee of the company, being involved in decision making processes and in setting and implementing the company’s strategies.

I strongly believe that the biggest achievement of an internal in-house legal/general counsel is to become a strategic partner for the internal clients. And that can only be achieved by having a great team supporting and working in the same direction, being at the same time easily adaptable in a very dynamic market and being able at the same time to focus on the core matters. I believe that this leads us to becoming strategic business partner.