Derby Bar Restaurant, Bucharest, Romania

Marius Dogaru - dreaded by big fish in Romania.


Indeed.


Tip not big enough? :)


Restaurant and Bar Derby - nice terrace, nice atmosphere.


Marius Dogaru - software salesperson, currently specialized in IBM Lotus. Born and raised in Bucharest. His father was born in family of 5 children, his mother in family of 7 children, yet he is the only child in their marriage. He started in Army faculty, switched to electronics study and switched again to Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. He worked for Wrigley, Xerox and now IBM. Fishing is his biggest passion. Recently he's just caught 18kg fish in the lake near Bucharest, but the picture of the fish is too big to fit on this blog :) (will be posted later when it will shrink a little). With a lot of money he would live the life of Rex Hunt and he would buy Russia. Yes, the whole Russian Federation. Imagine that.


Oskar Laufer - managing IBM Lotus partner sales&relationship in CEMAAS region. His hometown is Eerbeek in Netherlands and he also lived in Amsterdam for quite a while. His grandfather was from Austro-Hungarian (today Slovakia) town Malacky and a lot of his family lived in Vienna, where he also moved recently - drawn by his recently broken heart :). And yes he smoked pot when he was younger - to answer all Americans when they get to know a person from Amsterdam. He visits Amsterdam regularly - especially for Queensday. He graduated at VU University of Amsterdam. He worked as tour guide in the National concert hall, he had internship at Baan (now owned by Infor and was founded by two very religious protestant brothers Jan and Paul Bann) and later joined IBM in Amsterdam. He enjoys night life&clubbing, eating (gourmet), taking photos with his new Nikon D200 and traveling also beside his job related travelling. With extra money and time he would do even more travelling, enjoy a lot and also give back a lot. To society.

Closing relationship is akin to closing a Siebel opportunity in stage 10 - "Customer did not pursue" or "Functionality did not meet specification". SOA (the big IT buzzword of today) in Netherlands means STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease)


Manfred Stadler - managing IBM Lotus software sales in CEMAAS region. Born and raised in Vienna. In his youth he's spent a lot of time there near Nickelsdorf where also Nova rock festival is taking place. Stadler is a very common name in Austria. Sopron - shopping area bordering with Hungary, now also a lot of Hungarian dentists are luring Austrian customers. His sister lives in California, where they now have (ex-Austrian) governor Schwarzenegger - seems she could not escape the grasp of Austria :) He graduated at TU Wien, founded a Video rental company Happy Family Video - and lived through the clashes of standards: video2000, beta, super8, VHS. He then joined IBM where he had several positions - SE, Account Rep, Manager of SAMs, EMEA Portal Manager. He has three kids and a Yamaha 1100 cruiser.

Adrian Aldea - technical specialist in Tivoli software, working for IBM Romania and SEA region. He was born and raised in Bucharest and there is no famous Aldea, but himself :) He graduated at UPB, worked for AT&T, had a pause and now works for IBM. He's a chain smoker, he plays tennis (doid a lot more when younger). In job and in private life computers are a very big thing. He has seven of them at home. Geekish. He also likes old movies and jazz music(vinyl, mp3, Bakelite plates). He plays piano, but himself thinks that not particularly well.