Valentin Deac is a highly motivated and dynamic professional with 26 years in the IT&C industry, out of which 21 years in various management or director positions in multinationals, and 6 years of academic level teaching experience.

Valentin worked at Nokia for 16 years, his last position in Romania being Executive Director of Nokia Romania until the end of 2010. Between January 2011 and January 2019, he worked in Berlin (Germany) on various Senior Director positions at Nokia and later at HERE Technologies (the world leader in location-based services), running in time Delivery and PMO groups and, at the end, being in charge on global level with the operations, hosting and support of the majority of HERE Location Platform services. After his return to Romania, Valentin worked for 3 years and a half at NTT DATA Romania, part of NTT Group, one of the top 10 System Integrators worldwide where he was the Head of the Delivery organization and later the Director of the Romanian High Performance Center.

Since October this year, Valentin took over the CEO position at jpard Solutions, a full stack enterprise commerce solutions provider, in a mission to deliver great and to lift its clients’ businesses for the opportunities of digitalization.

Valentin is a passionate public speaker and has been invited in the last 15 years as key presenter to several conferences and events in Romania and abroad.