Romania’s cybersecurity leadership is being shaped by practitioners who blend hands-on engineering depth with program governance, regulatory alignment, and the ability to scale security across fast-moving organizations. From telecom and technology to retail, manufacturing, and global service providers, the leaders below reflect a practical, execution-focused security culture—one that emphasizes resilient operations, measurable risk reduction, and security programs that can grow with the business.
Ilciov Adrian — Chief Information Security Officer, Rohde & Schwarz Topex
Ilciov Adrian has built a long-running security and technology career anchored at Rohde & Schwarz Topex, progressing through security leadership while also taking on responsibilities spanning safety engineering and human factors coordination. In his current role as Chief Information Security Officer, he leads information security governance and protection efforts from Bucharest, drawing on a background that includes IT management roles in audit and industrial services environments. His experience reflects a blend of operational leadership and security accountability across complex technical organizations.
Romeo Andreica — Chief Information Security Officer, AROBS Group
Romeo Andreica leads information security at AROBS Group with a strong emphasis on cybersecurity strategy, governance, and enterprise-wide risk mitigation. His profile highlights responsibilities across security frameworks, policies, procedures, technical and organizational controls, and executive-level reporting—ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility into security posture and progress. He brings depth across security architecture, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, compliance audits, security operations center governance, identity and access management, incident response, business continuity, and security awareness.
Victor-Andrei Nicolae — Chief Information Security Officer, RightClick Solutions
Victor-Andrei Nicolae’s leadership spans enterprise security and IT risk management, built on practical experience delivering both on-premises and cloud-based environments. In his Chief Information Security Officer role, he focuses on establishing a comprehensive information security and risk management program, partnering with business units on risk processes, and ensuring consistent policy and standards application across systems and services. His background also reflects strong operational capability across Microsoft 365 administration, cloud tooling, Windows Server environments, and security platform experience.
Grațiela Magdalinoiu — Chief Information Security Officer, Chain IQ Group AG
Grațiela Magdalinoiu combines security leadership with a strong governance and community-building dimension, grounded in experience across information security, anti-bribery and corruption, internal audit, compliance, and risk management. She is also closely connected to the local professional ecosystem through her leadership with the ISACA Romania Chapter, where she has contributed to partnerships across professional, academic, and public institutions. Her profile emphasizes people, ethics, and organizational culture alongside security and privacy awareness—positioning security as both a governance discipline and a leadership function.
Dmytro Lanovskyi — Chief Information Security Officer, EveryMatrix
Dmytro Lanovskyi describes a growth-oriented approach to security leadership, focused on building scalable, business-aligned programs that enable expansion while strengthening trust and resilience. His profile highlights experience building and scaling security programs in regulated, high-velocity industries and leading security for an international organization across multiple offices and a large workforce. His stated focus areas include security strategy, risk management, regulatory compliance, privacy, product security, incident response, board reporting, and security culture—framing security as an enabler of speed and sustainable growth.
Mihai Tanasescu — Chief Information Security Officer, TIU
Mihai Tanasescu brings a telecom-anchored leadership background into his role as Chief Information Security Officer at TIU, supported by extensive experience in service delivery, transformation, and security program management. His profile lists broad technical depth across mobile core network domains and protocols, paired with structured leadership frameworks and certifications in cloud security, information security management, and program delivery. This combination positions him to connect operational service environments with security governance and continuous improvement.
Alexandru Nitu — Chief Information Security Officer, Smartree
Alexandru Nitu’s profile reflects a product and engineering leadership mindset applied to cybersecurity, including experience leading development teams and improving organizational workflows through DevOps processes and agile practices. He notes driving security improvements through new modules and achieving ISO 27001 certification, alongside managing internal and client-driven security audits. As part of a leadership team, his scope includes building scalable cloud architectures with disaster recovery capabilities—linking reliability and resilience to security outcomes.
Daniel Monoranu — Chief Information Security Officer, Profi
Daniel Monoranu serves as Chief Information Security Officer at Profi, bringing experience that spans enterprise information security leadership and advisory work across multiple organizations. His background includes security leadership roles in retail and technology environments, including prior Chief Information Security Officer responsibilities and information security advisory work. The arc of his experience suggests strength in leading security across complex, operationally intensive environments where scale and execution discipline matter.
Silviu Fanaragiu — Chief Information Security Officer, Quartz Matrix
Silviu Fanaragiu’s profile emphasizes operational excellence and security enablement, supported by substantial experience in large-scale technology environments. As Chief Information Security Officer at Quartz Matrix, he builds on prior responsibilities spanning systems administration, security monitoring and compliance, security awareness training, and automation. His experience includes designing and running anti-phishing initiatives, improving documentation and standard operating procedures, and driving infrastructure and process improvements—practical foundations for building security capability in fast-moving organizations.
Alexandru Breban — Chief Information Security Officer, TMD Friction
Alexandru Breban brings a strongly hands-on security identity to his leadership role, with experience spanning multiple domains of information security—from network and endpoint security to infrastructure, penetration testing, and audit. His profile highlights a broad “full-stack security” approach, shaped by prior roles centered on incident management, internal penetration testing, security program improvement, and advisory support to enterprise architecture and product onboarding. He also references experience with automotive-focused security and assurance contexts, including TISAX.
Romania’s Cybersecurity Leaders and the Road Ahead
Romania’s cybersecurity leaders are increasingly defined by range: the ability to blend governance with technical execution, scale programs across distributed environments, and communicate security priorities clearly to business stakeholders. Whether securing product organizations, high-growth service providers, critical systems, or large operational footprints, the professionals featured here reflect a pragmatic, resilient approach—building security that works in the real world, not just on paper.