Teofil Muresan
An experienced and respected entrepreneur in the local and international business environment, Teofil Mureșan is a graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, class of 1989, from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. Within the same University, Mr. Mureșan also obtained his PhD in electrical engineering and worked for 8 years as an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department.
Continuous collaborator of UTCN, Mr. Mureșan participated in various projects, including obtaining a joint UTCN – Electrogrup Patent, a partnership in establishing in Cluj-Napoca the first Executive MBA program in Romania with British curriculum, together with Hull University in United Kingdom. Mr. Mureșan is also a member of various scientific committees.
At the same time, Mr. Mureșan has constantly invested in his personal education, so that, in addition to his PhD in Electrical Engineering at UTCN, Mr. Mureșan holds a Sloan MSc in Leadership and Strategy from the renowned London Business School and is a graduate of the Executive OPM Program at Harvard Business School.
In addition to his management role within the E-INFRA Group, Mr. Mureșan is a member in Boards of Directors of several companies and non-profit organizations. Furthermore, Mr. Mureșan believes that education is a catalyst for change that led him to become actively involved in many educational initiatives.
Mr. Mureșan began his career as an engineer at the Local Energy Dispatcher in Cluj and soon became a Dispatcher within the National Energy Dispatcher.
1997 is the year in which he took the step towards entrepreneurship by founding the first company now part of E-INFRA Group: Electrogrup, an infrastructure construction company initially providing, among other, services in energy and telecom infrastructure to large telecom operators in Romania.
Teofil Mureșan played an essential role in the development of Electrogrup from his position as founder and CEO for over 18 years, the company expanding its services portfolio, becoming one of the most important builders of energy infrastructure, telecommunications and civil engineering in Romania. Since 2013, Mr. Mureșan has taken the Electrogrup business abroad, carrying out important construction and telecom infrastructure projects in several European countries, such as Germany, Poland, Belgium, or the Netherlands.
Teofil Mureșan understood the important synergies between telecom, energy, and civil engineering industries, therefore in 2007 he consolidated the E-INFRA Group by founding Direct One, a company that today has the largest neutral long-distance national fiber optics network; Nova Power & Gas, a supplier and distributor of electricity and natural gas has been soon after added to E-INFRA portfolio. At the same time, in 2010, together with a German partner, Mr. Mureșan founded WESEE, a joint venture company active in wind energy infrastructure sector, and in 2017 he acquired Netcity, the project company that develops and operates through a strategic partnership with the City Hall the entire metropolitan fiber optic infrastructure in Bucharest.
