Cretu, who had been the operations director of RCS&RDS – the largest cable TV and fixed Internet service provider in Romania for two and a half years, took the position of managed services solution director for Central and Eastern Europe and Nordic Region at Huawei as of this month. He will be supervising the projects of the Chinese company from Bucharest.
One of his main projects while at RCS&RDS was the expansion of the fiber optics network, according to Cretu’s LinkedIn profile, which also shows his new position with the Chinese company.
Huawei, which had 320 employees and posted almost 300 million lei (EUR68 million) revenue in Romania in 2010, grew to almost 1,000 employees and RON700 million revenue last year, according to Finance Ministry data.
Octavian Cretu began his career at Romtelecom in 1995 and left in 2011, when he was network operations director. He then worked for Huawei for nine months and moved to RCS&RDS in 2013. (EUR1=RON4.4235)
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)