Mugur Isărescu is the Governor of the National Bank of Romania. He became the Governor of the National Back of Romania in September 1990 and he kept his position ever since, with the exception of an eleven months period (22 December 1999 to 28 November 2000), during which he served as Prime Minister of Romania. He is also a member of the Romanian Academy.

Janusz Piechociński is the President of Polish - Asian Chamber of Commerce. He also held the position of Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Poland between 2012 and 2015.

Lachezar Bogdanov, manager at Industry Watch Bulgaria and partner of Forbes Bulgaria. Also, since 2003, he is a member Bulgarian Macroeconomics Association.

Michael Broniatowski, Editor-in-Chief at Forbes Poland. He began his career in 1979 on TV, where he worked until martial law and in 2013 he co-founded a new all day news channel in Ukraine - Espresso TV. Currently, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of TVN SA.

Rafi Rosenfeld, publisher at Forbes Israel and co-founder of RB Media, in 2011.

Maija Golubovica, former Managing Editor of Forbes Baltics since 2014, present economic analyst.

Mile Vasic, is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Romania. He is also President of the European Marketing and Management Association since 2007 and Member of the EURAM since 2012.

Ján GÁBOR is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Slovakia to Romania. He also held the position of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic.

Victor Vlad Grigorescu is the Minister of Energy. He has 8 years experience in the Romanian public administration. In 2014 , he worked in the Department of Energy, among others, holding the position of adviser of the Ministry for Energy.

Mihai Daraban is president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania since 2014 and President of CCINA Constanta since 2002. As President of CCIR, Mihai Daraban represents business environment with political decision-makers and international organizations and helps boosting economic, trading and investing contacts with representative organizations for the business field. His efforts aim: CCIR positioning as a factor of moderation among political decision-makers and the business community, supporting Romanian companies on foreign markets, increasing internal and external trade, relaunching vocational education, designing Romexpo as industry leader of trade fair in Romania. Also, has the aim to represent the interests of the business community in relation to both the central authorities and other public or private organizations, locally and internationally.

Ludwic Sobolewski is a Polish lawyer and the CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange. Between 2006 and 2013 he was CEO of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE).

Ion Sturza is a Moldavian important politician and businessman. He has also served as Prime Minister of Moldavia between 19 February and 12 November 1999.

Emil Dumitru is the president of ProAgro and also former director of the National Organization Inter- Wine ( ONIV ).

Iulian Popescu (Partner Musat & Asociatii) is one of the experienced professionals in aspects of corporate and commercial law, specializing in telecommunications, IT & media, environment and transport, mergers and acquisitions, public and private projects and negotiating commercial contracts. Over the 12 years he had spent at Musat & Asociatii, Iulian Popescu counseled some of the largest operators of technology and telecommunications, internationally and locally, some major media and IT companies, on the whole spectrum of issues related to legal IT sector (software and distribution services, online commerce and data protection). Maritime and aviation transport are highly qualified specializations in which Iulian Popescu has an impressive experience, particularly in connection with shipping and associated legislation, where he managed a number of important mandates of litigious and non-litigious law on disputes and multi-jurisdictional transactions.

George Cătălin Costache performs in the business world with an experience of nearly 30 years. Before becoming CEO of Siemens in Romania in 2012, George Catalin Costache has held various management positions in companies such as Danfoss, Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies and Siemens.

Mrs. Kinga Daradics has been appointed the Country Chairman of MOL in Romania and Chief Executive Officer of MOL Romania in May 2011. MOL Romania covers the Romanian operations of MOL Group, encompassing upstream, as well as downstream activities. The company has over 1 billion USD turnover, being Top 10 biggest tax payer in Romania. MOL Romania has significant B2B (wholesale, card, bitumen, LPG, petrochemicals, lubricants) and B2C businesses (loyalty programs, promotions, service station operation). Kinga started her career within MOL Group in 2003 and prior to her current position she led the Card Products division of MOL Group, coordinating the activity of 9 countries in CEE and strategic cross-European partnerships.

Daniel Boaje is CEO of McDonald's in Romania since March 2011, a business covering 21 cities in Romania with 68 restaurants and 4,000 employees. Since 2016, McDonald's is part of the company Premier Capital, partner of McDonald's development in Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania and Malta. Graduate of the Executive MBA Asebus, Daniel Boaje has a solid experience in management and leadership at McDonald's, the company he worked for 10 years until 2004 and in which he returned in 2010 as Business Development Director. His career was consolidated in the financial field between 2004-2010, when he was Operating Director and after that, Executive Director of IFN-BNP Cetelem Paribas.

Adrian Erimescu, CEO and co-founder of Imobiliare.ro - the largest real estate portal in the country - has an experience of over 16 years in the Romanian online real estate field that brought the company to a turnover of 2.5 million euro in 2015. This year, Imobiliare.ro was the subject of one of the largest transactions in the category of online business in Romania, a majority stake was taken over by Swiss media group Ringier.

Ciprian Glodeanu is Partner in the law office of Wolf Theiss Bucharest and energy practice group coordinator. His extensive experience includes legal assistance given to national and international project developers of solar, wind and hydro in both the planning phase and in the implementation. Also, Ciprian was involved in projects of conventional energy, especially oil and gas. With an impressive history of legal project coordination, Ciprian is a supporting the development of renewable energy sector in Romania. He is also Chairman of Romanian Photovoltaic Industry Association - RPIA, which was founded on his initiative in 2012, the association aiming to facilitating networking among the players of national and international active in the solar sector in Romania, and facilitating communication between them and regulators . Being a key figure in the energy sector, Ciprian is frequently invited to participate as a speaker at national and international conferences, having as main topic of discussion renewable and conventional energy in Romania. Ciprian is ranked by international legal guides as a "Leading Lawyer" also received the "Lawyer of the Year 2011 Energy in Romania" by AvocatNet.ro.

Dan Ștefan Founding Partner at Autonom. After studying in France and the USA, Dan Stefan worked in a consulting company, and all the money he had earned were invested on the stock exchange in Romania. As he told "there was a time when it wasn’t very difficult to make money on the stock market, you just left them there to grow." With that profit was established Autonomous Rent-a-car by Dan Stefan and his brother, Marius.

Doru Lionachescu is currently President and Principal Partner of Capital Partners, the largest independent consulting company in mergers and acquisitions and corporate financings from Romania. He spent nearly 11 years in various management positions in banking at ING Bank, Citibank and Bancpost.

Horia Manda is the Managing Director of Axess Capital, company that manages funds of Romanian-American Enterprise Fund (RAEF), Balkan Accession Fund (BAF) and Emerging Europe Accession Fund. Also, he coordinates the entire investment process, from initiation to signing transactions, financing and managing capital investments.

Ionuț Simion is a Country Managing Partner at PwC Romania since 2015. He also holds the position of President of Amcham and he is involved in several high level projects with the local authorities and international organisations in relation to the improvement of the business environment and modernisation of the tax system.

Robert Redeleanu has joined UPC Romania in 2013, in the position of Chief Marketing Officer, after more than 15 years in the consumer goods industry, both in Romania and abroad. From the 1st of July 2015 Redeleanu Robert is CEO of UPC Romania.

Vlad Craioveanu is a 34 years old Romanian impact entrepreneur. Idealist and a strong believer that a greater good can be achieved in today’s pragmatic world, Vlad is co-founder and CEO of Impact Hub Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca and former Partner of Business Models Inc. CEE. Following 4 years of volunteering in a NGO and 6 years of corporate work in marketing and business development, Vlad enjoys the most working with NGOs, start-ups and companies in structuring their business models for maximizing their impact.

Marcel Foca, is the 1995 shareholder and general manager of Intergraph Computer Services (ICS) and the local partner of American Corporation Intergraph Corp., an innovator and market leader company for more than 30 years in the field of mapping and geospatial technology.