Contacted by ZF, Roman said he would be involved in a new business, without specifying if it is his own business or if he will take over a position in another IT company.
“All my life I have been an entrepreneur and, after ten years with IBM and ten years with S&T, I still believe in a future for the next ten years, in a structure suited to the future needs of the Romanian IT market,” he told ZF.
In the ’90s, Dan Roman was already one of the well-known names in the local IT industry, as a director within the Institute for Computers (ITC) – an institution founded in 1967, which played a key role in the development of the local industry.
Several directors that used to work within ITC in the communist period became top entrepreneurs or managers in the local IT&C industry after 1989, similarly to Roman. They include Nicolae Badea (Orange shareholder, owner of Computerland), Vasile Baltac (owner of IT group SoftNet), Dan Bedros (former head of Alcatel) and Silviu Hotaran (former head of Microsoft Romania, currently manager of a training company).
In 1990, Roman founded one of the first private companies in Romania, Romanian Business Systems (RBS), which he sold in 1995 to American giant IBM. In the wake of the acquisition, RBS turned into the current IBM Romania.
Roman started to work for S&T in 2002, when the services provider acquired eNet Data, a company he had set up in 2000 in Austria.