The Romanian business scene witnessed several moves at the helm of both local and international companies this year. Romania-Insider.com looks at some of the most important top management changes in Romania in 2010. (Click MORE below to read the full story about the top management change)

CEO/COO/GM positions

A&D Pharma/Anima- Cristian Sas becomes chief operating officer for Anima MORE

Actavis Romania – Alina Culcea replaces Dragos Damian MORE

Allianz Tiriac – Rangam Bir replaces Cristian Constantinescu MORE

Antena 1, Intact Production – Codrut Seres takes over GM position MORE

Athenee Palace Hilton – Linda Griffin replaces Friedrich Niemann MORE

Automobile Dacia – Jerome Olive replaces Francois Fourmont

Aviva Pensii – Daniela Vasile is the new general manager

Avrig 35- Haydn Wright replaces Alexander Hergan MORE

Banca Romaneasca – Marinis Stratopoulos replaces Andreas Maragkoudakis MORE

BCR Leasing – Bogdan Speteanu replaces Thomas Tolazzi MORE

BRD – Guy Poupet replaces Patrick Gelin

Blue Air – Sherif Ussama replaces Adrian Ionascu MORE

BPP Proffesional Education – Dorina Badea replaces Stuart Whent MORE

Bucharest Stock Exchange – Valentin Ionescu replaces Stere Farmache on GM seat MORE

Cargill – Martin Schuldt replaces Nese Tagma MORE

Citibank – Tibor Pandi replaces Shahmir Khaliq MORE

Coca Cola - Evguenia Stoichkova replaces Dragos Militaru MORE

Colliers – Ilinca Paun becomes managing director MORE

Ford – Henrik Nensen becomes head of national sales company for Ford replacing Paul Flanagan MORE

Gefco Romania – Christophe de Korver replaces Denis Renard MORE

GE Money – Paul Panciu replaces Cristian Dragos

Killpatrick Executive Search – Jacob Hoekstra replaces Liana Brasoveanu MORE

Kraft Foods Romania – Gerard Chandran replaces Lachlan Grave MORE

Lidl – Gabor Teleki is the country general manager MORE

Lukoil – Maxim Khitrov replaces Constantin Tampiza MORE

Microsoft – Ronald Binkifski replaces Calin Tatomir MORE

Ness Technologies – Bogdan Popescu replaces Otakar Smolik MORE

Ogilvy & Mather Romania – Mona – Lisa Caravaniez replaces Gina Leu MORE

Oriflame Romania – Pavlina Marinova replaces Monica Tatoiu MORE

Penny Market – Frank Wagner replaces Marcel Thiele MORE

Pepsi – Pavlos Katsievis replacing Mike Holmes MORE

ProCredit Bank – Ilinca Rosetti replaces Gian Marco Felice MORE

Romgermed – Razvan Stefanescu takes over GM position MORE

Rompetrol Rafinare - Arman Kairdenov replaces Vasile Cosmin Turcu MORE

Strauss Romania – Marius Melesteu replaces Matanya Scwartz

Ursus Breweries – Gary Whitlie replaces Stephan Maria Weber MORE

Vodafone - Iñaki Berroeta replaces Liliana Solomon MORE

Volksbank – Johann Lurf replaces Gerald Schreiner MORE

Xerox - Gabriel Pantelimon replaces Petr Sichrovsky MORE

Yellow Pages Romania - Jesper Simonsen replaces Marco Stettler MORE

Other management positions

A&D Pharma – Florin Buligoanea, the new chief financial officer MORE

Ardaf – Nicolae Scripcariu, new national head of sales MORE

Aviva – Robert Logh, the new strategy and business development director

BCR – Christian Bruckner, new head of operations and IT MORE

BCR – Martin Skopek, new VP on retail

Danone Romania – Laurentiu Tulvan, new industrial director MORE

DTZ Echinox – Razvan Sin, the new head of the retail division MORE

Enel – Radu Cosarca, new external relations manager MORE

Farmaceutica Remedia – Florin Chirciulescu is the new operational director

Ford- Don Gelinas, new chief financial officer MORE

Heineken Romania - Ed van Willegen, new supply chain manager

Heineken Romania- Liana Petre is the new HR manager

HP Romania – Mihai Guran, new enterprise server storage manager MORE

Lafarge Ciment - Paul Vu Huy Dat is the new chief financial officer

Metro Cash & Carry Romania – Edwin Derloo is the new operational director

Microsoft - Michal Golebiewski, new business, marketing and operations lead MORE

Microsoft – Todi Pruteanu, new PR and citizenship manager MORE

OgilvyInteractive – Andy Lita, new business director MORE

Real Hypermarket - Christian Göpfert, the new operational director MORE

Real Hypermarket - Thierry Guillon-Verne, the new head of Food Products Purchasing MORE

Romtelecom - Efthimios Tsokanis, new IT manager MORE

Siemens – Dan Santimbreanu, new head of corporate communications

UniCredit Tiriac Bank – Gianfranco Bisagni, new VP for corporate investment banking & private banking MORE

UniCredit Tiriac Bank- Alina Dragan, new executive VP on HR MORE

Ursus Breweries – Victor Armaselu, new VP for sales and distribution MORE

Vodafone – Lee Wilkins, new senior manager of online and internet services MORE

Volksbank - Udo Birkner is the new vice-president MORE

Romanians promoted abroad

Diageo – Viorel Ognean becomes sales development director with Diageo for the Eastern Europe MORE

Discovery Channel – Ada Roseti becomes the new channel manager for Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia

HTC – Florian Seiche becomes The HTC EMEA president

JTI - Mihai Hagit becomes the trade marketing Africa duty free manager

Honeywell – Lucian Alexandru becomes EMEA logistics leader

NATO – Oana Lungescu becomes NATO spokesperson MORE

Polycom – Tudor Bercan becomes territory manager for SEE MORE

Vodafone - Liliana Solomon becomes the new Director of Operations, Europe Region for Vodafone MORE

editor@romania-insider.com

Romania-insider.com welcomes information from its readers about management changes in companies active in Romania. Feel free to send information about the newly appointed managers to editor@romania-insider.com, along with a brief CV and a picture.