Presidential counselor Alexandra Gatej (in picture) has resigned from the position she has held since July 2009 with the Presidential Administration following the 'speculative and denigrating' public approach of the news of her being recruited by the Securitate in 1989. Gatej will return to the private business environment, she has said.

Pascal Prigent is the new general manager of GlaxoSmithKline Romania, replacing Patrick Desbiens, who has been promoted within GsK France. Prigent joins GsK from another drug producer Eli Lilly France, where he ran marketing and sales.

Peter Weiss (in picture), the former head of RBS Romania, will be the new executive president of Bancpost from January next year, replacing Mihai Bogza. Bogza will become head of the administration council with Bancpost. The changes still require the OK from the Romanian Central Bank (BNR).

Google, which has recently established an office in Romania, has started recruiting staff for its local office, but the team will only be made of ten people , in a first phase, according to Dan Bulucea (in picture), head of Google Romania, quoted by Business Magazin.

Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii law firm has appointed six new partners to strengthen the management team, thus bringing the total number of partners to 21. The Romanian law firm has also promoted five lawyers to Senior Associate. The promotions are part of the firm’s annual performance review taking place in November and all the appointments are effective from January 1st, 2011.

Jan Gijsen is the new president of Ford Romania and the head of the car maker's factory in Craiova. Gijsen will come to office at the beginning of January, joining the Romanian subsidiary from the position of head of new markets divisions for Ford Europe.

Codrut Pascu (in picture), the managing partner of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Romania for the last five years, has been promoted regionally, being in charge of the Turkish and Bulgarian operations as well, apart from the Romanian ones. Pascu, 35, is now member of the company's steering committee in the Central and Eastern Europe.

Mihai Mares (in picture), the former Office Managing Partner of Garrigues in Romania, has joined Musat & Asociatii law firm, along with the team which used to work for Garrigues in Romania.

Former Romanian envoy to Singapore Silviu Ionescu will be released Thursday evening from prison, after the Court of Bucharest accepted his request for his arrest to be replaced with a ban on leaving the country. On November 17, a lower court rejected his request, ruling that Ionescu's arrest is legal and justified.

Two new expats will join the Petrom broad of directors from January 2011. Daniel Turnheim (in picture) will be the new chief financial officer of the company, replacing Reinhard Pichler, while Hilmar Kroat-Reder will be responsible for gas and energy, replacing Gerald Kappes. The two directors who will leave Petrom will have new attributions in the OMV group, the mother company of local Petrom.

Presidential counselor Alexandra Gatej (in picture) has resigned from the position she has held since July 2009 with the Presidential Administration following the 'speculative and denigrating' public approach of the news of her being recruited by the Securitate in 1989. Gatej will return to the private business environment, she has said.

Pascal Prigent is the new general manager of GlaxoSmithKline Romania, replacing Patrick Desbiens, who has been promoted within GsK France. Prigent joins GsK from another drug producer Eli Lilly France, where he ran marketing and sales.

Peter Weiss (in picture), the former head of RBS Romania, will be the new executive president of Bancpost from January next year, replacing Mihai Bogza. Bogza will become head of the administration council with Bancpost. The changes still require the OK from the Romanian Central Bank (BNR).

Google, which has recently established an office in Romania, has started recruiting staff for its local office, but the team will only be made of ten people , in a first phase, according to Dan Bulucea (in picture), head of Google Romania, quoted by Business Magazin.

Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii law firm has appointed six new partners to strengthen the management team, thus bringing the total number of partners to 21. The Romanian law firm has also promoted five lawyers to Senior Associate. The promotions are part of the firm’s annual performance review taking place in November and all the appointments are effective from January 1st, 2011.

Jan Gijsen is the new president of Ford Romania and the head of the car maker's factory in Craiova. Gijsen will come to office at the beginning of January, joining the Romanian subsidiary from the position of head of new markets divisions for Ford Europe.

Codrut Pascu (in picture), the managing partner of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Romania for the last five years, has been promoted regionally, being in charge of the Turkish and Bulgarian operations as well, apart from the Romanian ones. Pascu, 35, is now member of the company's steering committee in the Central and Eastern Europe.

Mihai Mares (in picture), the former Office Managing Partner of Garrigues in Romania, has joined Musat & Asociatii law firm, along with the team which used to work for Garrigues in Romania.

Former Romanian envoy to Singapore Silviu Ionescu will be released Thursday evening from prison, after the Court of Bucharest accepted his request for his arrest to be replaced with a ban on leaving the country. On November 17, a lower court rejected his request, ruling that Ionescu's arrest is legal and justified.

Two new expats will join the Petrom broad of directors from January 2011. Daniel Turnheim (in picture) will be the new chief financial officer of the company, replacing Reinhard Pichler, while Hilmar Kroat-Reder will be responsible for gas and energy, replacing Gerald Kappes. The two directors who will leave Petrom will have new attributions in the OMV group, the mother company of local Petrom.