Leadership · Named counterparty
Leadership.
Two co-founders, three named desk leads, and the governance bodies they answer to.
Procurement teams, EU coordinators, and regulated buyers should not need a discovery call to find a counterparty. Named leads, direct addresses, and SLAs are published; the governance bodies behind them are on the public record.
BVB AeRO Premium·ASC · Listed 2016
Audit Committee·Quarterly review
Risk Management·Continuous
R&D evidence review·5 working days
DPA review SLA·10 working days
Accountability structure
Who answers to whom.
On the public record. BVB current reports filed for every material event; the chain of accountability runs from the Board to four oversight bodies and the executive desks they monitor.
Board of Directors
Ascendia S.A. · BVB AeRO Premium · ASC
Statutory oversight · Capital allocation · Filings on the BVB public record
Board-level oversight
↳ Reports to Board of Directors
Audit Committee
Quarterly reviews; annual audit cycle.
Security & Compliance Council
Standing review of compliance frames and incident-response cadence.
Risk Management
Continuous; quarterly summary into the Board.
Executive management
↳ Reports to Board of Directors
Cosmin Mălureanu · CEO
Co-Founder 2007 · BVB listed signatory · Annual Report 2025
Named desk leads
Public-Sector Desk
Dragos Vasilica · 3-day RFI SLA
EU Programmes Desk
Gabriel Garban · 5-day LoI SLA
R&D, Compliance & EC DEC Desk
Gabriel Lazar · EC DEC member · 5-day R&D evidence review · 10-day DPA SLA
Institutional desk leads · Named officers
Three named officers, three direct addresses, published SLAs.
Dragos Vasilica
Director of Business Development
Public-sector desk lead · 3-working-day RFI acknowledgement SLA
Public-sector desk · Ministry of Education engagement lead · 3-day RFI acknowledgement SLA
Owns the public-sector RFI desk: ministerial procurement, framework-agreement enquiries, regional-authority engagement. Direct route for ministries, regional authorities, and national agencies.
Gabriel Garban
European Funding & Grants Lead
EU programmes desk lead · 5-working-day LoI turnaround SLA
EU grants development · Digital education · AI-enabled learning · Horizon Europe · Erasmus+ · Digital Europe · 5-day LoI turnaround SLA
Leads EU grants development for digital education and AI-enabled learning initiatives. Works with universities and education stakeholders across Europe on Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, and Digital Europe coordinator engagement, Letter-of-Intent turnaround, and dissemination work-package partnerships. EU programme positioning is coordinated with the EC DEC expert-group frame owned by R&D.
Gabriel Lazar
Research & Development Director
EC DEC expert-group frame · R&D evidence review · Compliance & Governance desk lead
EC DEC expert-group member · R&D evidence review SLA 5 working days · EN 301 549 · GDPR · NIS2 · 10-day DPA review SLA
Owns the R&D, platform, compliance, governance, and EC DEC expert-group frame. His background spans physics, engineering, thin films, spectroscopy, sustainability, education management, environmental-protection projects, and e-learning. As Ascendia’s member in the European Commission Digital Education Content expert group, he carries the bridge between research depth, accessibility, AI governance, and digital-education content quality.
