I guide Founders / Owners / CEOs of small-to-midsized companies, as well as their leadership teams on growing their business faster, easier, and with more joy than they ever thought possible ... into the AI Economy. I was born and grew up in Bucharest, Romania. I was a University student, focusing on Computer Science, when at age 24 I defected (escaped) from Communist Romania, and after a few months in Western Europe (Rome, Italy) I arrived in the USA (I had family here). I completed my studies at University of Minnesota, and in 1984 graduated with a Master's Degree in Computer and Information Sciences, with a dual focus on Software Engineering (thesis) and ... Artificial Intelligence. Having worked for a number of software startups (both in Minnesota and then in the Boston area), I co-founded and ran as a CEO my first start-up in 1991, delivering a frontier high performance database engine. In 1995 I co-founded my second start-up, having invented a method of replacing SEC compliance materials on paper with digital equivalents. The company grew from 3 to 60 people in 18 months. It was sold two decades later, when it was a $34M business. In 1999 I did a turnaround of a 10-year old software company in Cambridge, MA. In 2001 I started a practice of Fractional Chief Products Officer for 7 SaaS companies, with a break between 2005 and 2011, when I started and grew my 3rd startup in the eLearning sector. In 2013 I shifted my focus to becoming a business growth guide. I started by being the first EOS Implementer in New England (and ~36 worldwide). I then expanded my toolkit to 3 other BOSs (Pinnacle, Scaling Up and 90os) plus a whole bunch of bolt-on services (e.g., Kolbe and Predictive Index, Red Teaming, Executive Coaching, and many more). To date I served 75+ clients worldwide. In 2023 I started my exploration of Generative AI, and added a new stream of services to my practice. I have two daughters who live in the NYC area, and two grandsons whom I adore. My hobbies include music (highly eclectic - having spend 11 years of my childhood in a music conservatory), any performance art, visual arts, travel, whale watching, philosophy, mysticism, energy arts, and many more.