Putinica founded in 2000, together with Daniel Bogdan, software company IP Devel. In 2006, Adecco acquired 76% in IP Devel for a sum estimated at EUR7 million, while in 2008 the company founded by Putinica was entirely taken over by Enea for EUR3.2 million.
“I felt I lost my independence. There are moments when I regret, but there are also moments when I believe I made the right decision as we could not have grown without taking this step,” says Putinica about the decision to sell his company.
Today, Putinica is Enea vice-president, in charge with the company’s services unit in Europe and America, namely a quarter of the total business. In Romania, Enea generated turnover of EUR10 million in 2013.
Enea specializes in delivering software solutions for equipment that mobile telephony networks are based on. “We hold around 80% of the global market for this technology,” says Putinica.
However, the company also supplies software solutions in the healthcare field and for aircraft producers.
“In the past two years, we’ve focused our efforts on developing a new area for us: medical equipment. We are now working for the top three global suppliers of medical equipment controlling perfusions,” specified Putinica.
Enea’s biggest development center is in Bucharest, where the company has a team of 250 employees, some of whom have monthly salaries of as much as EUR2,000 or EUR4,000.
Putinica believes Romania has the potential of growing in the field of IT research and development as we “have enough brains and the IT programmer exodus ended several years ago”.
Romania cannot compete against India or China in volumes, but only in research and development, Putinica concluded.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)