Albena MARKOVA

Country Managing Partner, PwC Bulgaria

Albena Markova has over 24 years of professional services experience with PwC and for the past 10 years has been leading the PwC consulting practice across South East Europe, covering 8 countries. She has led several projects for private and public sector clients in various industries and a focus area of experience have been the company-wide business and organizational transformation programs. Her areas of expertise include strategy and policy development, gap analysis and diagnostic assessment, performance management, programme implementation and change management, organisational and process redesign, stakeholders’ engagement and communication. For the last five years, Albena has led some of the most significant projects across SEE supporting policy reforms in important public sector areas such as public administration reform, SMEs, vocational education, digital government, just transition, sustainable development, transport and mobility, access to finance

Iordanca-Rodica IORDANOV

Minister of Environment

Marcel SPATARI 

Advisor to the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs

Dinu BUMBACEA

Country Managing Partner, PWC Romania

Dinu has over 27 years of experience in professional services, of which 19 years as a Partner. Dinu started his career in PwC Romania, where he spent over 18 years. In the past eight years, he was Partner and Department leader in other consulting companies. During his career, Dinu coordinated a wide range of consulting projects in Romania and Central and Eastern Europe, in various industries including financial services, energy, telecommunications, healthcare, public sector and private equity.

Sahba SOBHANI 

Director of Istanbul International Center for Private Sector Development, UNDP

Sahba Sobhani is the Director of UNDP IICPSD. Mr. Sobhani brings 19 years of experience in the private sector in Silicon Valley, Singapore and at UNDP as Programme Advisor, Team Leader and Programme Manager including as the technical lead for the recently endorsed UNDP private sector strategy. He has significant partnership development and advocacy experience with the private sector working with over 100 companies and business organizations and a track record of operational leadership, innovation and management of 6 global UNDP-led strategic multi-stakeholder partnerships and initiatives in the area of business and development including the Business Call to Action Initiative, the Connecting Business Initiative and the G20 Global Platform on Inclusive Business and has been the principal author and content manager of all 5 major UNDP-led reports in the area of private sector in development, Previously, he managed two key UNDP private sector initiatives in the executive office of the former Administrator of UNDP, Mark Malloch Brown, including the Commission on the Private Sector and Development, and the African Financial Markets Initiative. He co-authored Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor, the seminal report of the Private Sector Commission produced at the request of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Mr. Sobhani was the managing editor of the African Stock Markets Handbook. He is a graduate of Yale University and the Fletcher School of Diplomacy (USA).

Dieter PSCHEIDL

Head of European Affairs and ESG Vienna Insurance Group AG Wiener Versicherung Gruppe

Pscheidl started his 25-year professional career in the insurance sector in various positions with Austrian, GermanBand Italian insurance groups. From 2004 to 2015 he has been the representative to the European Union of the Austrian Insurance Association (VVO), dealing with key files of European insurance regulation such as Solvency II, the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) and Packaged Retail and Insurance￾Based Investment Products (PRIIPs). In 2016 he was appointed Head of European Affairs of Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) and is based in Vienna and Brussels. Founded almost 200 years ago, VIG is the leading insurance group in Austria, Central and Eastern Europe, serving more than 22 million corporate and retail customers in 30 countries. VIG’s European Affairs department has a twofold mandate: in the external relationship representing VIG’s interests vis-à-vis the European Institutions and in the internal relationship supporting all business areas facing EU issues. In 2021 his responsibilities were extended to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) group issues.   

Vitalie CORNICIUC

Vicepresident - CFO, Victoriabank

Vitalie CORNICIUC is Vice-president, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of BC Victoriabank SA. After 10 years with KPMG in Moldova, Vitalie joined in July 2018 the management team of Victoriabank after Banca Transilvania from Romania and EBRD became major shareholders of the Bank. During his career, Vitalie gained extensive experience in finance, accounting, and auditing. He was involved in various audit and advisory projects, including diagnostic studies and due diligence projects, risk management, and IFRS transition projects, many of them being in the financial services area. As CFO, Vitalie is responsible for the coordination of financial and accounting teams, being involved in budgeting, internal and external reporting, various transformation processes, communication with the Board of Directors, authorities, etc. Vitalie is a certified auditor by the Ministry of Finance of Moldova, by the National Bank of Moldova, and by the National Commission for Financial Markets. Since 2012, he is also a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) from the UK. Besides the above mentioned, Vitalie was also an IFRS trainer, speaker at various events organized by the Ministry of Finance of Moldova, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova (ASEM), World Bank, the Association of Professional Accountants and Auditors of the Republic of Moldova (ACAP), on audit and accounting topics. He taught the Financial Analysis and Audit modules at Tri Executive MBA organized in Chisinau by Toulouse Business School. He speaks fluent Romanian, Russian, English and French.

Marcela LEFTER

CEO & Founder, Sedera Group , Co-Chair, AmCham Moldova Green Transition Committee

Marcela LEFTER is an energy professional, experienced in energy sector for about 22 years, including power distribution and renewable energy. Marcela Lefter is the CEO and founder of Sedera Green. Sedera Green is providing high-level assistance to international and local companies, interested to invest, develop or extend their energy businesses. The business areas are: development of the utility scale renewable energy projects, EPC for commercial use PV plants, distribution of the renewable energy equipment. Marcela Lefter is an already recognized voice of promoting the green transition, decarbonization & massive deployment of renewables. Within AmCham Moldova, Marcela leads the Green Transition Committee and is a BoD member. 

Ina SANDU

Organization, Human Resources and Communications Director, Lafarge Moldova, Member of the Holcim Group

Holcim Group employs 80 000 people, with production sites in around 70 countries; present in Moldova via the cement plant from Rezina and Innovation Center from Chisinau.

Vitalie BUTNARU

Senior Finance Officer, Trans - Oil

Vitali Butnaru – Senior Finance Officer at Trans-Oil Group - a leading agribusiness in the Central and Eastern Europe, employing 2’800 people across the region. Vitalie coordinates a broad range of Trans-Oil operations and is the ESG ambassador of the Group. During his career, Vitalie coordinated several M&A transactions, debut Eurobond issuance by a corporate from Republic of Moldova and contributed to development of the sustainable finance. Vitalie is a speaker and Trans-Oil’s ambassador at different events, organized by Citi, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America. He is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

Cristina MINDRESCU

CSR Manager, Orange Moldova