Mihai Tudor climbs up IBM's corporate ladder

Mihai Tudor, 50, who had been running the domestic subsidiary of US IBM giant since July 2006, has been appointed general manager of the world's biggest provider of IT services for SE Europe. He will be in charge of the overall business in five countries, namely Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.

During Tudor's term with IBM Romania, the company's turnover went up from 39m euros in 2006, to 51m euros in 2009, and the subsidiary's number of employees more than doubled, to over 500 people. Moreover, IBM strongly developed its outsourcing and IT services centres, a unit where another over 1,000 people work at present, particularly for Western European clients. Also, IBM last year operated another major investment in Romania, taking over the operation of Petrom's data centre.
Mihai Tudor has been working for IBM since 1993, a period during which he filled several positions, inclusively outside Romania.
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