Radu Georgescu

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Radu Georgescu (born 10 January 1968) is an entrepreneur in the software industry, business angel, founder, President of the Board and major owner of Gecad Technologies/Axigen, Avangate and GECAD NET.

He founded the first company, GECAD Software, back in 1992, before his graduation. In the following years he had a huge contribution to the growth of the company and to the worldwide expansion of its flagship technology - RAV Antivirus.

Radu had a successful and well-known exit in 2003 when he sold the antivirus technology to Microsoft, keeping into his company the top management team, part of the executive team and the impressive 11-year business knowledge. Having its top management team on his side, he reorganized in 2003-2004 the entire activity of the company into three new business entities mentioned before. He used each and every piece of business and technology knowledge acquired until 2003 to develop a mail server producer (Gecad Technologies/Axigen), an ESD and eCommerce company (Avangate) and a security organization (GECAD NET).

Now he is one the most famous Romanian entrepreneurs, well-known for its vision, clear mind and out of the box thinking, in the both local and worldwide software industry. Radu is also a frequent guest lecturer to software and entrepreneurship conferences, delighting his audience with visionary and energetic speeches.

Milestones

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• 2008 — Founder of the three companies and keeping a large majority in all of them, Radu focuses his present activity on envisioning future developments of his businesses, networking and investment.
• 2004 — Being absolutely autonomous, each of the GECAD Group’s companies where Radu is founder and President of the Board develops different software business. Gecad Technologies, with its AXIGEN as the flagship product, delivers innovative email solutions to i
• 2002 — Radu prepares the exit from RAV and finally, in June 2003, Microsoft acquires RAV Antivirus technology, in a deal that made the headlines at the time. Together with his top management team, Radu reorganizes the company’s activity and decides to use the
• 2001 — RAV tops 10 millions end-users worldwide, 150 distributors in 60 countries until 2003.
• 1995 — RAV begins to cash in, both online and through a worldwide classic distribution channel, gaining awards and worldwide recognition until 1998.
• 1994 — Radu sells his IP on CAD product and begins, together with his team a new adventure. He decides to focus on security, starting to develop RAV Antivirus
• 1992 — Founds the first GECAD company and develops company’s first commercial software product (a CAD tool)

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