Mission
Asociatia Directorilor de Tehnologia Informatiei si Comunicatiilor din Romania – known as CIO Council Romania is a non-for-profit association that represents the community of CIOs and IT Executives from Romania. CIO Council Romania joins together the CIOs and former CIOs from a large number of major companies from Romania. Members are accepted by invitation only and approved by the Board.
Our mission is to provide to our members an exchange forum for sharing of best practices and executive development, real case studies from the industry, common challenges and issues through a collaboration platform.
We support the personal and professional development of our members and support for career evolution. We support the professional development of the IT professionals from Romania.
We are a ‘vendor–independent’ association and we provide free support and advices for professional development of the Romanian IT industry from the end-user’s perspective cooperating with the three IT market pillars: government, vendors and end-users. We put all our efforts to support the development of a clean and transparent information society at the European level. We support the digital education and digital inclusion of the society.
We act as an IT knowledge base and advisory center for the business community and the IT community from Romania, providing support to conferences, seminars or workshops as requested.
CIO Council Romania is a member of the European CIO Association since 2017.
Organization and Governance
CIO Council Romania was founded by five founding members Felix Enescu, Calin Rangu, Yugo Neumorni, Laurentiu Mandu, Bogdan Dumitrescu in 2005.
CIO Council Romania is led by a non-remunerated Board (Consiliul Director) elected by the General Assembly. The Board is led by a non-remunerated President.
The board sets the overall policy and direction for the CIO Council Romania and the funding is through the membership fees.
CIO Council Romania does NOT involve in political positions and does not represent the interests of any company or association.
How to become member of the CIO Council Romania
To become a member, you should be a the Head of IT of a company that has more than 25 mil EUR revenues. You should be recommended by a member and your application should be approved by the Board.
Since 2017 CIO Council member is affiliated to the European CIO Association(eurocio.org) the only pan-European association that represents the CIOs in Europe.