Simona Popa Email & Phone Number

Romania

• I lead the Scale to USA accelerator, a program for pre-series A startups in Europe looking to access the US market & capital.This consists of:- Building strategic relations and organising the immersive business trip to.
• Plan the curricula
• Run the Founders’ Bootcamp for startup founders and organise the Demo Day at the end of the program
• Organise the selection process and the interviews
• Am a lead mentor for the startups, consulting them in the challenges & blockages they are facing, on topics such as: business model, innovation, team development, investment, valuation, pitch decks, partnership.
• Build relations with relevant investors, networks and mentors in order to facilitate introductions for the startups to the relevant people

Bucharest, Romania

• I coordinated (was the main liaison) for 1m euro worth of IT educational projects for corporations and Ro Government
• I built relations with the regional managers of Microsoft and Cisco in order to win large scale training projects
• I built long term relationships with vendors Microsoft and Cisco in order to understand, align and promote their training strategy in Romania - and organised marketing campaigns accordingly

Bucharest, Romania

Createrra is a company delivering L&D (learning & development) programmes for leaders. I joined as the second full-time staff and in 1 year I contributed to building up the company to a point where it runs over 20 programmes yearly for 400 clients.The company stopped its events due to corona virus-related legal restrictions.As the executive director, I was.

Bucharest, Romania

I developed online courses for the Microsoft team around the world based on their needs.Using adult learning principles, my aim was to create interactive and easy to use courses that were taken by thousands in-house Microsoft staff and collaborators around the globe. This involved collaborating with a team in USA and in Romania on a daily basis as well as.

UK

An award-winning social enterprise focused on empowering, connecting and supporting leaders aged 18-35 through innovative & experiential educational programmes. From inception to growth, I led the implementation of all key areas of the business including development and delivery of educational programmes, business development, sales and marketing..

As a consultant for them, I managed 2 national projects: 1. The development of an innovative educational reform for UK GovernmentMy responsibilities included lobbying the UK Government, building relationships with key shareholders, leading consultations and developing a fund-raising strategy.Results:- Coordinated the development of the proposal, the.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Passionate in building and developing a network of entrepreneurs within East and West Midlands, I was mainly in charge of:- Developing, connecting and training entrepreneurial student societies in 20 institutions across East and West Midlands (15 universities, 5 colleges).- Building relationships with the relevant high-level management within the.

Building and developing a community of high calibre entrepreneurs

Birmingham, UK

Enterprise Academy was a social enterprise started with the purpose of empowering aspiring entrepreneurs through experiential educational programmes and a start-up accelerator.I was responsible with the development and delivery of experiential workshops on leadership and communication in universities across the UK. I was also responsible with writing.

AIESEC - the largest student-run organisation world-wide.The trainers pool is a network of trainers and facilitators in AIESEC UK specialised on workshops and interactive sessions for conferences focused on empowering leaders.I organised and delivered sessions at regional and international level focused on leadership, teamwork and communication with.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

- organise social events and day trips for 600 international postgraduate students at The University of Birmingham

Ba, International Relations

Business Mastery, Business, Entrepreneurship

This is an immersive programme on business taught by the top trainers in the world in the area of entrepreneurship and business.

Organizational Leadership

http://www.hesselbein.pitt.edu/student-leadership/overview.php

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