Tudor: Most important accomplishment - boosting IBM investments in Romania, despite recession

Over the last five years, the share of equipment sales fell significantly in IBM's turnover, while software and services boomed. The company boosted its number of clients on the SME segment and is no longer completely dependent on big contracts, says Mihai Tudor.

Investments made by American company International Business Machines (IBM) in Romania in the past few years, which continued even after the local economy went into recession, leading to an increase in the number of employees of the IT giant, were the biggest performance of his four year and a half mandate at the helm of IBM Romania, Mihai Tudor told ZF in an interview. He was promoted at the beginning of the year as CEO of IBM South-East Europe.
"My most important accomplishment is Romania's positioning on IBM's geographic map," says Tudor, specifying that each investment project carried out in Romania has been won as a result of an internal competition with other IBM subsidiaries in other countries. Whilst in 2006, when Tudor came to Romania, the company only had operations in Bucharest, IBM has since expanded to Timişoara (2007) and Braşov (2009).