Vote Dorin for APG Board
My Dear Coleagues I feel bad that I am late with a presentation of mine in front of you but I just realized that this year I should celebrate 40 years of working in aviation . Bertrand request that we present ourselves in front of you made me remember a lot of history since I joined Tarom in 1978 after graduating University . I decided to be a candidate for the Board again , now for a last election period as I trust I have a long experience with APG as we were among the first to join aprox 15 years ago when there were aprox 15 members and I think should be now in better position to valorize my experience with APG and in aviation business , in general . So you can know me better and decide if you still wish to vote for me I have decided that best ideea would be that I share with you some of my memories ( in brief )
Management Experience ( more recent ) 2013 – 2014 Member of the Board of Administrators of Romanian Civil Aviation Authority 2012 – 2013 Member of the Board of Administrators at Targu Mures Airport 2007 – till today Member of the Board of Directors of Air Promotion Group – a worldwide association with headquarters in Paris 2005 – till today President of AROPA – Asociatia Romana a Operatorilor Privati din Aviatie (
Romanian Association of Private Operators in Aviation ) 2006 – till today member of SKAL Club Bucharest with various management positions 2004 - till today member of Lions Club Millenium with various management positions
Private Business ( all aviation ) 1999- till today
President and main shareholder of :
- Romanian Airport Services – majority owner of first handling company at Baneasa airport Bucharest and first FBO in Romania . Now handling also at Otopeni Airport , Sibiu , Craiova , Oradea , Suceava, Satu Mare .Main clients are WizzAir , KLM , Turkish .. - Regional Air Suport - owner and CEO - an aviation support company that is GSA for SN Brusseles Airlines , Air Serbia , LOT , Meridiana , .. Member of APG- Air Promotion Group where I am a member of the Board for the last 6 years. IATA authorized training center for DGR and Authorised Dealer for Jeppesen in Romania + Pilotshop.ro - Regional Air Services – Main shareholder and Managing Partner – owner of Tuzla Airport, the first private airport licenced by our CAA and published in AIP , with own fleet for agriculture works , aerial publicity , licenced aviation school for ATPL ( A ) and CPL ( H) , parshuting school , off-shore workers transporter by helicopter , Diamond Aircraft authorized maintenance station , Guimbal Helicopters dealer . - Travelmaker srl – main shareholder - inbound Touroperator since 2005 .Very good reviews from Trip Advisor . Also a IATA authorized travel agent . Vicepresident of TA Incomming Association -RAS Techniks srl - main shareholder - PART 145 line maintenance facility authorized for B 737 and A 320 family
Other past business adventures 1997-99 Director General and major shareholder of OGDEN Services (handling operator)
Saw opportunity of bringing second handling operator at OTP and initiated negotiations with Ogden America to come to Bucharest Start up operations and facilities in Romania Brought up major customer airlines: Alitalia, British Airways, Air France,Turkish Airlines, Hemus Air, JAT. Gaining aprox 35% of the whole market In ’99 have sold the shares in this company and built a small house
1995-00 President Romanian Airport Services ( FBO) -
Romanian Aviation
- Bucharest
This company was created from scratch with just 3 staff in 1995 and now it has 120 staff . It has always been a profitable company, now internationally recognized. Number 3 FBO in Europe in study organized by “Aviation International News “ magazine . Number one station in Wizzair network for 10 months in 2010 .
1993-96 Co-administrator of some smaller companies - Bucharest - AERORENT SA – a company with many shareholders that was doing trading (sold in 1997 to an English lawyer) - Profit Expert - an accounting and audit company set up as joint venture with a similar Swiss Company. - Capital Digest - and Capital Invest - small companies intended to do some media and stock market business (sold to a UK legal company in short time)
1993-96 Director LARTOURS (travel agency) Bucharest
1990-96 Director General of LAR - Romanian Air Lines
Bucharest
started first independent airline in Romania based on a 5 years lease contract with Air Force with the idea of giving to public use the former presidential fleet of aircrafts.We organized all government flights from 1990 till 1993 and a lot of charter flights
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Communist Period 1988-89 Chief of International Relations Division in Civil Aviation Department – Romania Bucharest 1998-88
Tarom Director for North America
New York
succeeded to introduce a third flight to New York and even get the traffic to fill it
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1986-87 Chief of International Relations Division in Civil Aviation Department – Romania Bucharest in charge with negociating and concluding Romania’s air agreements , approval of landing and overflights relations with ICAO and all other international relations of our Civil Aviation Department
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1985-86 Director for Tarom in UK London - succeded to get the cargo BAC 1-11 of Tarom leased to an UK airline: Anglo-Cargo three BAC 1-11 leased for a long season to British Island Airways in conjunction with Pegasus Holidays - seriously involved in the start up of Ryanair with three BAC 1-11s leased from Tarom 1983-85 Director for Tarom office in Singapore Singapore - promoted the ideea of marketing in the whole area and in short time became in charge of South – East Asia - travelled a lot in the area and managed to increase flights occupancy working with more agents - started to recover some Tarom bad debts in the area 1981-83 Director for Tarom office in Libya Tripoli - one Boeing 707 and then two BAC 1-11 aircrafts leased to Lybian Arab Airlines for a long time. That helped tremendously Tarom to become efficient at that time. 1978-81 Economist with TAROM - Romanian Air Transport – with different assignments for two years in all economic departments of the airline part of a team that was in charge with UK charter market created a special charter product named – Holiday Class – that has been operational only for one season till I left to Tripoli
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1974-78 - summer jobs during university period -
working as guide and car rental clerk for Romanian Automobile Club and HERTZ during the summer holidays of my universitary studies
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receptionist with a hotel in Bacau - Romania
Education 1978 - graduated International Economic Relations (Foreign Trade) Faculty with Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest ( ASE ) during 3 years I was President of Students Union in my faculty ( with 2200 members ) 1996 - started economics PHD studies with same specialisation and in 2000 have become doctor in economics with a thesys on “Product distribution in transports” concentrating on the idea of distribution for inter-modal transports.I have got the PHD degree in December 2001. 2007 - till today I am a part time professor with University of Politechnics Bucharest – Faculty of Aeronautics 2012 – part time professor for Logistics with Academy of Economic Studies - Master Degree studies 2014 – till today – part time professor with Romanian American University