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Aiswarya is a Sustainability professional with a work experience of over 5 years. She holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia and a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from Calicut University, India. The first four years of her career has been a mix of research and field activities having worked as a Civil Engineer for Safwan Petrotech, Kuwait (2007-09), a Research Associate for Centre for Environment and Development, Kerala (2010-11), a Carbon Researcher in ZED habitats, Bangalore (2011-12) and a Junior Research Associate at Infosys Ltd, Bangalore (2012-13). She is an Indian Green Building Accredited Professional (IGBC AP) and has completed training on GRI-G4 Guidelines for Sustainability Reporting. She has also worked on ISO 14001, 14004:Environmental management systems, AS/NZS 4360:Risk management and OHSAS-18001:Occupational Health and Safety.

She currently works at Solaron Sustainability Services as an ESG Research/Sustainability Analyst and is responsible for the following:

• ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) research and risk analysis for companies across multiple regions and industries.
• Performing customized screening exercises to enable institutional investors undertake responsible investment decisions.
• Conducting stakeholder engagement exercises for in-depth understanding of issues and add leverage to industry and company research reports.
• Preparing Weekly risk alerts and in-depth theme based ESG research

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Having a Law degree from Transilvania University in Brasov, Alexandru has previously worked as a legal advisor for several insurance companies. He started his collaboration with Solaron in 2009, primarily as an ESG Analyst for several data collection projects. Alex was soon promoted to the senior analyst position considering his deep ESG conceptual understanding and analytical capabilities. He is currently part of Solaron's Data Collection team.

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A Romanian citizen, she graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bucharest, in 2008. She also earned a master's degree in Molecular Biology in 2010 from the Faculty of Chemistry.
Before joining Solaron in March 2010, she worked as a chemical analyst at the University of Bucharest and as a purchasing analyst at Golden Foods Snacks. Since March 2010, she has been involved in several data collection projects for external clients at Solaron as well as in the Solaron News project. She currently works as an Independent Summary Analyst in the News Project. Her work consists of summarizing and publishing on the client's platform, controversial articles about companies operating in different fields of activity. She also implements the corrections for the collecting analysts, who collect the controversial articles, in the corresponding fields and gives the error points to them.

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Amalia holds a Software Engineering degree from the Automatics Faculty, Bucharest. Primarily working as software developer for two German-Romanian companies – Deuromedia and iQuest Technologies -, she has been specialized in database management. Apart from the IT related activities, Amalia has always had a particular interest in studying various companies’ cultures. She discovered in ESG research a way of transforming this interest into a constructive work. Since 2009, when she joined Solaron team, Amalia has been involved in various data collecting projects, quality check and team leading activities. She also took part to Solaron database improvement and definition of some internal processes. She is currently holding HR responsibilities related to international analysts.

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Andra graduated as a social worker in 2010 from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Philosophy and Socio Political Science, social specialization. Since then, she worked as a Production Manager at a small bakery plus administrator-seller at a jewelry store. Meanwhile, she was also involved in volunteer work in several NGO projects, where she worked with disabled and abandoned children and made the community aware of their needs.

Andra joined Solaron in December, 2013 and has since been working as a News collection analyst. She enjoys working in a multicultural and dynamic team environment where she can strengthen her professional and foreign languages skills.

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Andrea graduated from the Public Administration Faculty from “Petru Maior” University, Tirgu-Mures, Romania. Due to her excellent communication skills, she started her career working as a Sales Representative at Telekom Romania Communications, the national telecommunications company.

In February 2014, Andrea joined Solaron, where her good abilities, attention to detail and foreign languages skills are of value in identifying and analyzing controversial ESG news.

Currently, Andrea works at Solaron’s emNews product as a combo analyst. She collects controversial news, collates all the information gathered, and summarizes it from an investor’s point of view, detailing all the important facts, associated risks and their impact on the company.

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Andreea Gorgan is an ESG analyst at Solaron Sustainability Services, where her attention to detail, analytical ability and perseverance help deliver qualitative Solaron products.

Andreea holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She started her career in a company that offered Human Resources consulting services and had previously volunteered for several foundations and the national opera in Cluj-Napoca, mainly analyzing statistical data.

Andreea Gorgan’s current location is Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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Andreea H. is a proud student of the Faculty of Food and Tourism in Brasov, Romania. She joined the Solaron Team in January 2015, enjoying her position as an ESG Analyst. Her passions for foreign languages and sustainability brought her to Solaron, where she works on the emNews project. Before joining the Solaron team, Andreea worked as a G4S operator and customer service agent at Orange Romania.

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Andreea holds a bachelor degree in Psychology and Pedagogy from Transilvania University Brasov. She developed abilities in psychology and sociology spectrum working more than seven years as interview operator at IMAS and GFK, two marketing research companies that collect data for various sociological and marketing investigation projects. Now she is a psychologist for Târgoviște City Hall's Social Assistance Department.

After joining Solaron in March 2010, she found a new and compelling professional path in CSR research, where her sociological expertise, communication abilities and English and Spanish skills have been capitalized in a diversity of projects and data collection.

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Atul has completed a B.Tech in Biotechnology from Kurukshetra Universityand an MBA (Marketing & International Business) from Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, India in 2010. He has also done some NSE certifications in the Financial Markets, including investment & portfolio management module, mutual fund module and capital & derivative markets. Prior to joining Solaron, I was working with India infoline Ltd.(IIFL) as a Relationship manager responsible for the acquisition of clients that required a demat/trading account and provided them portfolio advisory services based on the extensive research that IIFL did on equity broking. I worked in IIFL for 6 months.

Since Nov. 2011, he has been working in Solaron as an ESG Analyst. His role as an analyst involves collection of data through secondary research. He is responsible for analyzing companies based on their published financial statements, Annual Reports, Sustainability Reports and other available Reports and also through various publically available reporting mechanisms of the company.

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Bogdan holds a degree in electrical Engineering from Transylvania University of Brasov. His work experience includes software programming, engineering at Electrica SA Corporation and administrator on a community related project entitled “House of the mothers” Since 2009, when he joined Solaron, Bogdan has been working in various data projects, including product development, research in foreign languages such as Spanish and quality check. He dedicates his free time to classical guitar and anthropology. Bogdan is based in Romania.

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Camelia has a diploma in Finance and Accounting at West University from Timisoara. She has over 15 years of experience in various fields, including sales, logistics, IT and Quality Management.

Since June 2011, Camelia is an ESG analyst for Solaron, being part of various projects. She is currently working as independent analyst in the News project.

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Educated in the Politehnica University of Timişoara, faculty of Computer Science, Cătălin has over 15 years of experience in IT and Software Design. He joined the team in 2014 as a consultant and is now coordinating the team which is evolving Solaron's software solutions, while closely working with the other departments of the Company.
Before joining the Solaron team, Cătălin worked as a Software Analyst, Software Designer and Programmer in many companies, both web development and desktop software, in Italy, Germany and Romania.
He has a passion for new technologies, and has found in Solaron an amazing openness towards effective and modern client-oriented solutions that bring the best out of both worlds: ESG and IT.

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Claudiu is a student at "Dunărea de Jos" University, Faculty of Computer and Information Technology from Galati. His passion for sustainability brought him to Solaron, where he works as Combo Analyst on the emNews project. His hobbies are music and traveling.

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Cristina graduated with a Law Degree from Transilvania University in Brasov, Romania in 2002 and began work at the National Agency for Unemployed, before moving on as a legal adviser at the General Direction for Social Services and the notary office.

Cristina has been with Solaron since 2009 and worked on various data collection and negative screening projects, becoming one of the senior analysts in our team. Her fast research capabilities and solid ESG knowledge gained during several years of experience in this field enabled her to bring significant contribution in improvement of Solaron's Data Collection project.

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CA Romanian based senior ESG analyst at Solaron, Cristina holds a Master of Architecture degree from the “Technical University Cluj-Napoca, Architecture and Urbanism Faculty”. From 2007 to 2010 she has worked on restoration and conservation projects of historic monuments. It was during this period when she developed deep humanitarian concerns and a passion for sustainable development.

Cristina’s interest for sustainability brought her to Solaron in 2010 and since then she has been working on various projects, gaining valuable skills as a researcher and analyst. She is fluent in English, Spanish and Romanian. As a senior analyst of Solaron’s Data Collection Team, Cristina has been involved in research, including in foreign languages, product development and quality check.

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Cristina holds a degree in Communication and Public Relations from "Politehnica" University of Timisoara. During her studies she acquired concrete knowledge in the areas of PR, communication, management, marketing, human resources as well as translation. Her interest in sustainability goes back to high school, when she won the first prize at the Junior Achievement National Contest in 2003, with a project based on green education and recycling, which gave her the opportunity to participate at the "Global Trade Institute" International Conference in Chicago, USA and acquire skills in business networking and ethics from an early age.

Since 2009, when she joined Solaron, Cristina has been working in various data projects, including research in foreign languages such as Spanish and French, product development and quality check, with a constant preoccupation for improvement and perfection. She is based in Romania. She dedicates her free time to travel and arts & crafts.

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Daniela Nistoroiu is a graduate in Communication Sciences (Journalism) and also holds a degree in Psycho-Pedagogical studies. She has also completed her Masters degree in Managerial Communication and Public Relations from “Constantin Brancoveanu” University, Pitesti, Romania. She began her career as a reporter-editor in the Cultural Department of a television and also gained experience in communication as a Public Relations Consultant in two private companies.

Since June 2011, when she joined Solaron, Daniela has become one of the senior analysts in our team, bringing her valuable contribution to quality improvement of the Solaron News product. She is currently working on the Quality Check (QC) process in the News project.

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Dumitru is a Computer Science specialist, holding an engineer diploma in Computer Science from "Politehnica" University of Timisoara. He has an overall experience of eleven years in sales, IT, Automotive and Sustainability sector. He started his career working in Computer Sales for Eta2u, where he won the company Sales Contest in 2004. In 2005 he joined Continental Automotive Timisoara as Project Manager and worked directly with clients like BMW, Mercedes, Nissan, Porsche and others.

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Guillermo was born in Valencia, Venezuela, and graduated as medium technician in Register and Statistics of Health. He worked in systems area in a recreation enterprise in 2011 and as general assistant in a touristic inn in 2010 where he developed his english skills. He also studies violoncello at EMSEL in Valencia. In 2012, he joined the violoncello section of the Carabobo Symphonic Orchestra, one of the prestigious orchestras in the country. He joined Solaron in 2015 as an analyst and performs his work in the news team. He loves studying and reading anthropology.

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Hovire holds an MBA (Finance) from Mysore University, India. He currently works as a Summary Analyst at Solaron Sustainability Services where he holds a responsibility of providing quality information and data by analyzing companies’ Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) in the interest of the potential clients (investors).

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Iuliana graduated from the Faculty of Philology, Bucharest, Romania in 2004. She had the opportunity to work at the National Museum of Art of Romania between 2003-2010. There she was a Conservative, responsible for storing and managing paintings. There she learned importance of being careful and paying attention to detail. She joined Solaron in September 2013 and works as an Independent Collecting Analyst.

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Ionel holds a Software Engineering degree from the Automatics Faculty, Bucharest, and specialized in Web Development using PHP Programming language, JavaScript, MySQL, CSS and HTML. His first eight years of work experience was in the area of Information Technology and Web Programming. He also volunteered with NGOs and contributed to the improvement of life for abandoned, sick and poor children. Additionally, he worked to sensitize the society about discrimination.

Since 2010, he is an ESG analyst for Solaron, being part of various projects. Currently, he specializes in controversial news research.

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Ioan graduated with two Computers related specializations (Engineering - Computers; and Sciences and Letters - Computer Sciences) from “Petru Maior” University, Tirgu-Mures, Romania. Due to his excellent computer proficiency, he started his career working as an IT&C Border Police Officer at the General Inspectorate of Romanian Border Police.

In July 2013, Ioan joined Solaron Sustainability Services as an ESG Analyst, where his attention to detail, good abilities for synthetic and global views over concrete situations and foreign language skills are of significant help in the news research.

Currently, Ioan works at Solaron’s emRatings ESG ratings product, evaluating companies’ performance on various sustainability parameters including Environment, Social and Governance.

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Irina participated in various ESG projects, from data gathering and analysis, to negative screening, interview with stakeholders, companies’ reviews and ratings. With a good understanding of environment, social, and governance practices, she was involved in products development, training programs, team leading and project management.

Before joining Solaron in 2010, Irina worked as HR consultant for companies such as Michelin, NCH Advisors and Mercury Research. She has two Bachelor's degrees in International Business and Management of Small and Medium Size Enterprises. Irina is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Romanian.

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Jennifer has a Master degree in Ecommerce and Bachelor of Business Administration from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico. Before joining Solaron she has nine years of experience in Marketing and two years of experience in teaching e-commerce.

Jennifer joined Solaron in 2011 as an ESG analyst, and now she performs her work in the news team.

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Sri Harsha has completed his Bachelor’s degree as a Computer Science Engineer from Jawaharlal Nehru technological university Anantapur (India) in 2010. He started his career in Hardware and Networking and then realized that his true interest lay in the area of Sustainability. He joined Solaron Sustainability as a Junior Research Analyst in Sep 2010 and currently works as a Research Analyst for emNews. He is responsible for finding contact details and sources. He speaks English & Hindi. He loves to listen to music.

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Lairy Yanireed Starke Sanchez, from Valencia, Venezuela, graduated in Petroleum Technology, at the Institute for Industrial Technology administration Extensión Valencia. She worked for two years in the oil company Petroleos de Venezuela in the area of fuel preparation. Besides, she worked as teacher at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, in the area of Administration and Mathematics. She is responsible and willing to learn, respectful and punctual person.

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Lavinia has a Master degree in Business Management in Trade and Tourism, a Bachelor degree in Finances and Banks, six years of work experience in Trade, half year in Tourism. She likes doing sports, listen to classic music, human relations and she is very enthusiastic about social responsibility.

Lavinia works as quality check analyst in News Team for Solaron's emNews product. She also carries out research into key issues at customer request.

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Manjula, an ESG analyst at Solaron, is currently based out of the United Kingdom, where she is working with the News team, business development team and ratings team. She brings in diversified cultural and business exposure across Asia, Europe and America, and is passionate about CSR, sustainability and social work.

Before joining Solaron, she worked for different charities in UK and USA. She began her career as a Relationship manager, working for one of the largest private banks in India. She holds a Masters in Business Administration (Finance and Marketing) from Regional College of Management and Certification in Business Analysis from Ivy Tech Community College, USA.

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Mariana was born in Venezuela and graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor in Sciences. She studied 4 years at the medicine school of University of Carabobo. She studies at CBS specialties school in Valencia for being chef where previously she graduated in bakery and as kitchen assistant.

Joined Solaron as a Collecting Analyst in News Team in early 2015. Mariana is a great lover of nature and animals.

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Marius is a senior in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Transylvania University in Brasov, Romania. He started his work at Solaron as an ESG Analyst since May 2014. His passion for sustainability brought him to Solaron where he works on the emNews project. His hobbies include music, traveling, swimming, and driving.

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Mihaela completed a specialty in Finance and Banks from the University of Transilvania, Brasov, Romania. She had one year as part of the European program for exchange students & a scholarship at Universita G.d'Annunzio, Pescara, Italy.

After this she joined Carrefour in a program from young talent, as Manager of a department in Bucharest.

With the arrival of the Italian Group UniCredit in Romania, she joined their new program of Financial Analysts in back office activities. She worked here for 5 years until she became one of the middle managers.

Later she joined Solaron were she works for almost 5 years, currently as Quality Chck (QC) collecting analyst of emNews project.

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As Director of Client Solutions, Niels handles development of ESG research solutions for Solaron's clients. He is based in Amsterdam. Niels joined Solaron in 2010 as an analyst and has gained experience from production to delivery of research insights. As part of the core management team, he has contributed across multiple areas within Solaron ranging from research, marketing and Information technology to business development.

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Pallavi has completed B com and Diploma In General Management. She has started her career in Solaron as an analyst from July 2015, with around seven months experience till date. She is currently responsible for the collection of controversial news. She loves listening to songs and reading.

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Pavithra has completed her Bachelor of Science with specializations in Chemistry, Botany and Microbiology from Maharani’s Science College for Women, Bangalore as well as an MBA in Finance from Bharthiyar University, Bangalore. She started her career with Greenpeace as a Fund raising executive under the Finance department for a year. She has been with Solaron for over eight years. She joined Solaron as an ESG Junior analyst and is currently working as a Quality Check (QC) analyst for emNews. She has also been part of various projects namely Data Collection, Screening, Global Compact and News Collection. She was also involved in the Screening and News products development as well as creating training documents.

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Prasanth is a Quality Check (QC) Analyst at Solaron Sustainability Services, currently working on the emNews product.

He has over five years of experience in Journalism and two years of experience in advertising. Before joining Solaron, he worked as a Senior Sub Editor with Deccan Herald, a newspaper published out of Bangalore. Prasanth holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism and a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from University of Kerala.

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Salaja R: A post-graduate in Finance, with more than five plus years of experience in reinsurance sector. Salaja possesses prolific and empirical experience in controlling reinsurance, technical accounting, administration and management of claims for the portfolio of South East Asia.

At Solaron, she is responsible for managing Accounts and Finance functions. She coordinates with the Management Team internally and the External stakeholders for accomplishing objectives for her role. She is responsible for managing the day to day financial activities. She plans, directs, supervises and coordinates the activities relating to accounting and other financial functions of the organization. She liaises with the Directors and Statutory auditors in carrying out the corporate audit and meeting other statutory compliance. She maintains an account of all the transactions of the organization including International accounts and reports to the management, as required.

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Radu Apreutesei graduated from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, Romania. He has a bachelor’s degree in communication and public relations.

A confident and self-motivated individual, Radu had joined the Solaron team in 2015 and has been working as a news summary analyst. Resourceful and innovative personality, he enjoys working in a multicultural and dynamic team environment. Solaron is a great opportunity for developing knowledge and strengthening professional skills.

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Remus graduated from the Faculty of Biology, (Biochemistry specialization), Bucharest, Romania in 2003.
He also holds a Master degree in Molecular Biology (2005) from Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest. Remus had the opportunity to work at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest between 2003-2008. There he was a Research Assistant for 5 years, focusing on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology researching.
In October 2008, Remus joined the company S.C. Soler & Palau SRL Romania (subsidiary of Soler & Palau SA, Spain) as a Sales Representative between 2008-2010. S&P Company supplies a wide range of specialist fan and air moving products. He joined Solaron in February 2010 and works as an Independent Collecting Analyst. He has experience in collection of quantitative data, screening and controversial news.

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Robert started his career as a Sales Representative at Telekom Romania Communications S.A. (formerly, Romtelecom S.A.), the national telecommunications company of Romania. He is qualified as a Computer Technology Technician, with skills in hardware and software troubleshooting. Robert enjoys nature, long walks and playing guitar and has interest in philosophy and anthropology. He is an Analyst at Solaron, currently working on our News product.

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Simona has a background in Philology with a specialization in foreign languages: English, Italian, Spanish, and German. She previously worked in an Italian employment agency where she used her language skills to attract British and Italian businesses into recruiting Romanian and Italian staff. She also used her language skills to make translations of CVs, documents and websites for the company. In her free time, she used to write articles for local newspapers and websites. Simona joined Solaron in April 2010 and used her passion for journalism in the News team as a Summarizing and Quality Check (QC) Analyst.

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Dan has a degree in Tourism and Geography from The Bucharest University, Romania.

Before joining Solaron almost six years ago, he worked in the Marketing, Sales and Customer Service area for about seven years.

During the years at Solaron, he has been involved in client projects as well as in Solaron News.

He has good knowledge of English, French and Spanish. His hobbies are dancing, music and reading.

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Suhas graduated with a B.Com from Kuvempu University, India, post which he pursued a Master's in Visual Effects at MAAC. Prior to joining Solaron, Suhas worked as a freelancer (video editor) in Medical & research projects and for a pharma company, Embiotic laboratories. He's also worked in VFX production house, Digital Juice, as a motion graphics designer.

He joined Solaron as a VFX Compositor and editor and holds deep interest in Photography & Cinematography. He currently produces educational videos for an International NGO.

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Tilianna Zecca is certified with CAE and CELTA by Cambridge University. She has experience as a Language Teacher, Coordinator at a Language school, Finance Director at an NGO, volunteering in Nepal, India and Mongolia. Currently she is a Senior analyst at Solaron Sustainability Services working at Stakeholder Insights project, responsible for direct stakeholder interviews.

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Valentin has a diploma in Economics at University from Craiova. He has over 5 years’ experience in fields like tourism, entertainment, logistics, IT and Public Relations.

He enjoys playing and making music, reading and listening to people.

Valentin has been with Solaron since April 2010, and has experience in collection of quantitative data, screening and controversial news research as Collecting Analyst.

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Vlad has graduated from the National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Faculty of Political Sciences – Bucharest, Romania, and owns a Licentiate’s Degree in Politology, an area that covers fields such as Politology, Sociology, Public Relations, Management and International Relations.

Vlad has three years’ experience in political counselling, as a Parliamentary adviser for the Romanian Parliament. He has also worked for two years as a Customer Service Representative at Vodafone Romania, where he provided email assistance for customers of voice and data services.

For six years, he has been working at Solaron, in different positions, such as ESG data collection and research analyst, or human resources adviser.