Ilie Ghiciuc

Ilie Ghiciuc 33, is an entrepreneur in Iasi, the largest city in eastern Romania. After working in a series of jobs as a software engineer, in 2010 he started his own company, Thinslices, which works with early stage entrepreneurs in the U.S. and western Europe who want to create complex digital products, like meeting software or a calendar platform. It was a daring move in a country that had no infrastructure to support entrepreneurs. Thinslices’ revenue has grown from $1 million in 2014 to an expected $3 million in 2016, and Ghiciuc recently started another company TeamFluent, which sells cloud-based learning management software for companies