Proorocu Aurel George

Aurel George Proorocu has over 14 years work experience in both IT and Marketing fields by combining and managing advanced technical skills with entrepreneurial spirit and C-Level managerial experience. He started his journey as a professional chess player at the age of 6, and in 2004, he won the “Romanian Chess Champion” title with his club team. At the age of 16, Aurel followed his entrepreneurial spirit and started his own ISP Company in Bucharest. CN was sold when he finished high school at the age of 18, having a maximum peak of 600 clients. Aurel continued his career in the IT field, working as a Network Engineer, Senior System Administrator, Product Manager, Technical Project Manager,Team-Leader and IT Manager. In 2011 he became a member of MENSA, and in 2012 he continued his studies with a MSc in International Management at “Telecom Ecole de Management Paris”, ranked 22nd place in Business Schools worldwide. During this program he was elected in the Academic Council and won 3rd Place with the School’s Chess team at the “20e Trophée Ernst&Young des Grandes Ecoles”. He received an A-grade in his final thesis “How can Orange face the future?”. At the age of 27 he joined the Executive MBA class of TEM as the youngest student ever to be enrolled in this program, having part of the courses at Stanford University/US and Institute of Management Technology/India. Aurel graduated with A+ in June 2016, and in the same year he was included in the "100 Faces of Innovation" volume published by Financial Times and Nemira