Andrew Romans

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• Startup type: Company
• Status: Active
• Stage: Beta

Andrew Romans leads GVP with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, telecommunications, IT and finance. He has raised funds for companies and advised on scores of M&A transactions in the US, Scandinavia and Europe advising companies, VC and private equity firms. At the age of 26, Romans co-founded and led The Global TeleExchange (The GTX) and raised over $50 million for that company deploying switches and operations in the US and Europe. The GTX was one of the earliest companies in VoIP deploying a softswitch to control a TDM-VoIP minutes exchange. Romans facilitated a $25 million vendor financing package with Lucent and additional cash funding from Lucent Ventures and other VCs. Romans also founded the European operations acting as General Manager EMEA for a venture capital backed vendor of VoIP software and equipment - Sentito Networks (acquired by Verso Technologies). Romans holds a number of board seats. He holds a BA in Politics and French & German Literature from the University of Vermont and an MBA in finance from Georgetown University which he completed on scholarship. Romans began his career in New York City and has been equally active in North America and Europe where he is a frequent public speaker on topics such as Venture Capital, business models and strategies as well as specific technologies such as wireless, FMC, VoIP, IP & web TV and new media. An American citizen with permanent UK residence, he speaks fluent German and French, is conversant in Czech and Slovak.