SICTIC appoints Managing Director

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08.06.2018
Anca Albu SICTIC

The Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC) appointed Anca Albu as Managing Director. With full responsibility for the management of SICTIC’s business, Anca Albu will play a key role in meeting the ambitious growth goals of SICTIC as leading angel investor club for early-stage deep tech startup investments in Switzerland.

Anca Albu got promoted to managing director of the Swiss ICT Investor Club begin of June 2018, at a key point in the association’s rapid growth, with an increasing numbers of investor members (over 210) and rising number of investments (more than CHF 20 mio. in 2017). SICTIC President and Co-Founder Dr. Thomas Dübendorfer explains: "We've now reached a size and activity level that made it necessary to assign the responsibility for execution and operations to a managing director to have more time to work on strategy and corporate partnerships on the board level and much less on operations, especially because our board members all work pro bono."

Anca Albu’s leadership experience accumulated by working in international environments, consulting development agencies and governments on tech ecosystems growth strategies and open source practices will be vital as SICTIC continues its ambitious growth plan of reaching 500 investor members by 2020. She had joined SICTIC as Head of Marketing and Business Development in 2017.

Having started her work with the global tech startup community back in 2010 as one of the first employees of the Startup Weekend global core team, and with a deep understanding of technology, design and over 10 years of diverse professional experience in development, strategy, operations and management, Anca brings with her an extensive network, a strong skill-set and an excellent experience in relationship building, high performance and team leadership.

The Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC) is a non-profit association established in 2014 that connects smart money investors to Swiss early-stage deep-tech startups. SICTIC organizes the deal flow and matchmaking of startups and investors, and facilitates the process until the investment round closes, with an aim to grow the quantity and quality of local seed stage investments. With more than 200 investor members, SICTIC is among the largest business angel clubs in Europe.

(Press release)

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