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29 March 2016

Florin Talpeș, Bitdefender's CEO and founder, has received the The Best CEO in Romania special award from Capital, Romania's first business weekly

“He succeeded in creating one of the most important national brands, Bitdefender,” the magazine says. “Its innovative security products are trusted by 500 million users worldwide – families and companies. We hope to see Bitdefender reaching the 1 billion threshold in the near future”.

Mr. Talpeș, Bitdefender's CEO and founder, is a visionary entrepreneur who has worked in the IT security business for 20 years. Right after the fall of the Soviet block in 1990, with his wife Mariuca, he created Softwin, one of the first ever Romanian private software companies and the mother company of Bitdefender.

Founded in 2001, Bitdefender is a global security technology company, delivering solutions protecting users in more than 150 countries. As a founder of the National Association of Software Services Industry, Mr. Talpeș has helped develop Central and Eastern Europe as a major hub in the IT World by encouraging international expansion of technology start-ups. In 2015, he received the Most Admired CEO in IT award from Business Magazin, Romania's most prominent business weekly.

 

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