Marius Panait

Current

Managing Partner at Entelion Software

Past

Managing Director at KPNQwest Romania

Education

Liverpool University
Universitatea 'Politehnica' din Bucuresti
Liceul Unirea Turnu Magurele

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Marius Panait’s Summary

In 2002, me and my partner - Cristian Dumitrescu - left the multinational type of organization for starting the most excitement enterprise of our lives - our own business Entelion Software.

Entelion offering, we hope, inspiration and encouragement for us as software designers, is a composite constructed from two closely related words entelechy and teleology.

Entelechy itself has three related meanings: Aristotle used it to refer to actuality as opposed to potentiality while Leibniz held it to be the soul or principle of perfection of an object or person. But its more modern incarnation is in the description of
something that contains or realizes a final cause. (telos = goal or completion; ekhein = to have)

Teleology is the doctrine that there is evidence of purpose and design in he universe. In other words, it holds that the mere fact of the existence of the universe is proof of the existence of a designer.

Till 2002, I was the Managing Director of KPNQwest Romania, the subsidiary of the Dutch/US joint-venture between KPN Telecom and Qwest Communications. Qwest bought EUnet International, the merge of EUnet's all over Europe (EUnet's in Europe were providing Internet services since 1982!). I had the chance to work for one of the firsts Internet providers in Romania - EUnet, since 1994. At that time, there were only a couple of leased lines in Romania, dial-up speed was maximum 14400bps and I was playing with the first version of Internet Explorer!

I have a Computer Science degree and an MBA from Liverpool University. I work in IT&C since 1994, having very good knowledge about this industry, suppliers and consumers, technology and services providers.

Marius Panait’s Specialties:

Enterprise software solutions: CRM - customer relationship management, CMS - Content Management Systems, e-business B2B/B2C solutions, web-based software development.

Marius Panait’s Experience

Managing Partner

Entelion Software

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

October 2002 — Present (7 years 2 months)

Entelion Software develops web-based software applications with database access. The company also provides e-business solutions according to the ASP (Application Service Provider) model, meaning that the software applications are leased together with access to the technical platform (hardware, hosting, firewall, antivirus, etc) and to additional services (upgrade, support, backup, monitoring, etc) - model also known as Software-as-a-Service.

Entelion designed, develops and supports a CRM service, which targets customers from highly competitive industries like: leasing, insurance, pharma, B2B services, B2B distribution, advertising. The product, called Teamshare, provides also a powerful CMS (content management system) module for administrating web sites: corporate, e-commerce, product presentation, intranet.
Managing Director

KPNQwest Romania

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; KQIP; Internet industry)

March 2000 — September 2002 (2 years 7 months)

• In charge with: hiring new sales/technical people, public relations, reports (sales, marketing, finance, and operations) to headquarters, maintain the link and cooperation between departments.
• What I achieved: monthly revenue increased at least 3 times, in-country network doubled, huge image exposure on the Romanian market - at the governmental and business level, lead the most profitable (in terms of revenue per employee) Internet company in Romania, market share increased at least 3 times.