Gabriel Apostu

- Coordinating team of 15: IT audit (incl. SAP), SoX, and risk assurance in fin- tech, insurance, pharma and retail. - Managing clients portfolio and directing business development for IT risk assurance efforts. Achievements: - Led the audit of a large global fin-tech. - Led the third-party risk assessment for a large UK bank. - Recognized as good leader being close to people, coaching, and providing constructive feedback

- Unified audit operations across 14 countries with 132 auditors. - Understood ISO27000, NIST, PCI, ITIL, Cobit, GDPR, and ISO22301 by completion of audit IT governance, cybersecurity, operations, and service providers for infrastructure, applications, and databases. - Coordinated different IT audit teams across EU, US and South-Africa as per master audit plan. - planned and led all IT and technology audits across the Deutsche Telekom Group.

- Observing local governance and values, approving local strategy, and hire National director; and - Mentoring / coaching National Director and fellow board members on strategy, new products, financial sustainability, risk management, and corporate culture.

Led 20 people - matrix organization & complex reporting Coached people, increased engagement and empowerment Risk assessment & annual audit plan validated by Board Implemented QA process, and decisive follow-up process of overdue measures; Reduced overdue measures from 56% to 22% Member of Business transformation, Risk, Compliance, People & Culture Committees Turned-around internal audit team, satisfaction survey reached 3.6/4.0, increased productivity by 30% Green-field implementation of ERM function

Led 40 consultants, responsible for P&L, strategy, Go-to-Market approach; €6M direct sales Led business transformation, cost reduction, and strategic projects of Tier 1 companies in Romania Transformation program of the largest Romanian company (oil company, €4.9bn revenue) - led 2 year strategic operational efficiency program including controlling, capitalizing 7,000 rigs, migrating 22,000 employees to SAP HR, and post-implementation support Developed & led complex EU funded projects in public sector.

Managed 70 people, responsible for strategy execution, Go-to-Market approach; direct sales of €4M Led key accounts, Tier 1 international companies in oil, insurance, pharma, finance Business transformation of #1 oil company from 63 autonomous entities ie from 55,000 to 12,000 people Setup the largest shared service centre in southeast Europe - 1100 people Developed cost cutting products (e-Invoicing, e-Archiving), and cybersecurity Rescued large projects Strategic IT projects (Oracle and SAP)

Management consultant: - Diagnosis of financial processes, draft Oracle business requirements, products profitability analysis, and review of interfaces with core systems for MobiCom (#2 Jordanian telecom operator) - ERP selection process for A&D Pharma (#1 pharma distributor in Romania) - IT Audit of multinational companies - Telecom subject matter expert at regional level

Involved in large audit & SoX projects for Top 5 financial banks and trust funds in USA.

Managed 15 programmers & hardware engineers to develop and maintain 20+ in-house applications related to Chamber of Commerce and the Trade Register.