The only two members kept in the company’s Board are Dante Stein, former adviser to Prime Minister Victor Ponta, and Razvan Filipescu, head of the National Tourism Authority. Stein is Chairman of Tarom’s Executive Board.
According to data published Wednesday on Tarom website, the airline’s new Executive Board includes, beside Stein and Filipescu, Iulian Matache (Transport Ministry state secretary), Gabriel Dumitrascu (director of the Privatizations Division within the Energy Department), Radu Mihai Fleanta (Tarom pilot), Toma-Dorin Cimpeanu (former state secretary with the Ministry for Information Society) and Dan Valeriu Andrei (former director with the Transport Ministry- the aviation segment).
The four Board members replaced are Manuel Donescu, Florin Luca, Constantin Sebesanu and Ovidiu-Petrisor Artopolescu. Another member, Bogdan Speteanu, left the airline’s Board one and a half months ago, the same sources said.
Early November 2013, the Transport Ministry revoked Tarom’s Executive Board following conflicts between the board members and the company’s Chief Executive Officer Christian Edouard Heinzmann, and appointed new members.
Tarom was set up in 1954 and is controlled by the Transport Ministry.