Board of

Advisors

Professionals that help us with advice, guidance and insights, in order to transform the Institute into a sustainable, long term association.

Răzvan Gheorghiu-Testa

Răzvan Gheorghiu-Testa is partner at Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații, having built up significant experience in corporate/M&A, real estate, taxation. Further to his expertise in real estate matters, he combines tax and corporate law skills, offering multidisciplinary strategies and solution in relation to a broad spectrum of property matters. He has been directly involved in many of the most important projects taking place in Romania, including acquisitions and disposal of real estate, investment and development real estate projects, and real estate finance. Răzvan Gheorghiu-Testa regularly offers planning advice on investments to major institutional investors, as well as international companies from a variety of industries, such as retail, consumer goods, steel, energy, telecommunications, oil and gas, pharma.

Dragos Petrescu

Dragos Petrescu is a Hospitality Industry self- made entrepreneur. Currently, his restaurant chain has 19 units and over 1350 employees. The Group turnover in 2018 exceeds 35 mil euros, the 3rd Group at national level, after McDonalds and Sphera. Dragos currently holds 3 main functions:
  1. President of Young Presidents Organisation in Romania
  2. HORA President (the Employers' Association in the Restaurants Industry)
  3. Member of Romanian Business Leaders Board

Tinu Sebesanu

Tinu holds a MBA, BSc in Technical Sciences, Bucharest Polytechnic Institute. He continued his higher education at Cornell and Boston Universities, specializing Hospitality Strategic Management and Finances. Since 2005, he is managing partner of Trend Hospitality, one of the leading hospitality consulting company in the region with more than 100 completed projects. Trend Hospitality has been also acting as the strategic developer for Wyndham Hotel Group in Romania, Bulgaria and the Republic of Moldova. He has a long term collaboration with EHL.