Eric Andrei Băleanu Email & Phone Number

I studied commerce and tourism and worked for more than ten years starting from early 90's as an entrepreneur in the field of organising events like proms, weddings and private parties. At the same time, I worked as a hardware IT Technician in late 90's at Mastery Electronics and Oktal Computers. I also had a music shop and a computer shop in Bucharest. In the early 2000's, I built in Bucharest with some friends a "neighborhood network" to provide cheap internet connections to neighbors and free internet to schools in the area.In 2005, together with other small ISP's, we interconnected with each other and set up a not for profit association to represent our interests. We name the interconnection point "InterLAN", from "Interconnecting Local Area Networks". Now, InterLAN Internet Exchange is the biggest IX in Romania and one of the main exchange points in southeastern Europe, being distributed all over the country and bringing together ISP's, CDN's, NSP's, state-owned companies, financial institutions, educational networks etc.InterLAN is a member of Euro-IX since 2008 and RIPE NCC since 2014 and hosted some major events in the recent years such as the 25th Euro-IX Forum in 2014, RIPE 71 Meeting in 2015, RIPE SEE 8 in 2018 and is also the initiator and host of RONOG Meeting starting from 2014, which in 2019 has reached its sixth edition. I was a Board Member at InterLAN between 2006 and 2011 and I am now President from 2012, representing the interests of local ISPs in Romania and actively involving into Romanian ISPs, Euro-IX and RIPE community projects.I am the owner and manager of a group of ISP's in Romania: Phoenix Telecom (known as Gemenii Network) is providing triple play services in some areas of the 2nd District in Bucharest and Bitway Telecom is a national coverage ISP providing B2B services in major cities in Romania such as broadband internet access, VOIP, collocation, webhosting, data carrier and LIR services. In 2009 I attended a master's degree in Business Law and later in 2012 I got my Tourism Brevet and set up a travel agency in Bucharest, where I am a shareholder and travel manager.I like to travel, organize events and build communities. I am a Wikipedian, RIPE Database expert, RIPE Atlas Ambassador, RIPE Meetings Mentor, member of Internet Society Romania Chapter and RIPE SEE Program Committee.

Listed skills include Telecommunications, Management, Networking, New Business Development, and 25 others.