Ovidiu Bujorean

Ovidiu Bujorean is Technical Director for partnerships and investments with ACDI VOCA/ AV Ventures. He is spearheading AV Ventures growth in Sub-Saharan Africa and is building impactful educational and financial vehicles that support agriculture middle size businesses and agriculture (adjacent) technology ventures. Bujorean is the creator and host of AV Ventures’ Roots to Foods podcast series that brings leapfrogging ideas and entrepreneurs forward, while also inspiring the next wave of African entrepreneurship. The podcast features breakthrough ag technologies, entrepreneurs, and organizations that scaled food system solutions benefitting the African communities and showcases pragmatic entrepreneurial approaches such as building effective teams and businesses and scaling ventures.

Bujorean also designed and implemented The GIST Network, U.S. Department of State flagship global entrepreneurship program that built dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystems in 135 countries across all the continents. BUjorean and his team architected a global entrepreneurship support organization that built an online global community of 250k entrepreneurs, trained more than 3k entrepreneurs, vetted and mentored fast growing tech entrepreneurs who raised $32M+ in funding and generated 2,000 jobs and $300M in annual revenue. The GIST program won recognition from President Obama and U.S. Secretaries Kerry and Clinton.

Other highlights from Bujorean’s portfolio include founding OviBees Ventures as a venture accelerator company specialized in designing breakthrough approaches and platforms that deploy technology-based entrepreneurship at country and regional level. Venture Frontier Lanka is such as example. Bujorean also founded LEADERS, organization that impacted the lives of 40,000 young leaders and entrepreneurs in Romania.

He is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA) and Harvard’s Kennedy School (MPA) where he was a scholar of the Joint Japan World Bank program. He is fluent in English, French and Romanian and is learning Portuguese.