Yugo Neumorni is President and co-founder of CIO Council Romania, the national association representing the country’s IT Directors and CIOs. With more than 33 years in the technology industry, he has led complex digital transformation programs across the energy, manufacturing, and logistics sectors, bringing deep expertise in cybersecurity and cyber defense, IT governance (COBIT), data privacy, ERP, business intelligence, and IT systems architecture.
He is also an active private investor and an advisor to venture capital and private equity funds operating across Eastern Europe, and serves on the advisory boards of several AI, cybersecurity, and energy startups.
His executive career spans Chief Information Officer roles at major organizations including Deloitte, Vimetco, Hidroelectrica, Cargus, ClusterPower, and ContourGlobal. At European level, he served as Chairman of the European CIO Association (EuroCIO), was a member of BCS Elite (British Computer Society), and President of ISACA Romania. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Forum International de la Cybersécurité (FIC/InCyber), Europe’s foremost cybersecurity forum.
He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Bucharest and an Executive MBA from ASEBUSS – Kennesaw State University (2009). He has been CISA-certified since 2001 and previously held the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) credential.