Members
Board of Directors
Ian Brzezinski
Board Member
Ian Brzezinski leads the Brzezinski Group, LLC, a consulting firm advising commercial and government clients on international security policy, government relations, business development and political risk. He is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and its Future Europe Initiative.
Iulian Calinov
Board Member
Iulian Calinov is currently Program Manager with Facebook, and serves the Romanian community in Seattle as an Honorary Consul of Romania as well as the Secretary of Romanian American Society of Washington State.
John Florescu
Communications Committee Chair
John Florescu has a 25-year history producing high-profile interviews with world leaders, as well as producing long-form documentaries for American and European television. A former Communications Director for the DNC, he now runs media companies in Romania with his brother, Radu.
Charles Frank
Board Member
Former First Vice President of the EBRD (major investor in Romania), Director of CME (owner of Pro TV), real estate developer in Bucharest, and owner of Time Out Bucharest. Earlier he was a Professor of Economics at Princeton, Yale, and Makerere University; and a Vice President at Salomon Brothers and GE Capital.
Ambassador Mark Gitenstein (Ret)
Board Member
Served as U.S. Ambassador to Romania from 2009 to 2012 and was one of Alianta's founding members.
Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec (Ret)
Board Member
Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec (Ret) brings over 40 years of diplomatic experience, most recently serving as U.S. Ambassador to Romania (2023–2025).
Obie Moore
Board Secretary & Corporate Counsel
Obie manages OLM Advisors which provides transatlantic legal and investment advisory services. Before that, he was a partner at Dentons LLP and was a Global Board member and MP of the Bucharest and SE Europe law practice of Denton's legacy firm Salans. He also managed the Romania-American Enterprise Fund, and served as President of AmCham.
Ambassador Jim Rosapepe (Ret)
Chair Emeritus
US Ambassador to Romania from 1998 to 2001, Jim is co-author of "Dracula is Dead: Travels in Post-Communist Romania" with his wife, public broadcasting journalist Sheilah Kast. He is Chair of Patuxent Capital Group and Vice Chair of the Maryland Senate Budget and Tax Committee, as well as a Board member of the Council of American Ambassadors.
George Roth
Partnership Committee Chair
George Roth is a Sr. Manager in the Tech Partnerships Group at UiPath. He is the Co-founder of Recognos, a software company located in the San Francisco Bay Area with a subsidiary in Cluj. George is the Honorary Consul of Romania in San Francisco, Board Member of the Romanian United Fund and also runs the Romanian American Business Network group in Silicon Valley.
Ambassador Adrian Zuckerman (Ret)
Board Chair
Ambassador Adrian Zuckerman is President Donald Trump's former Ambassador to Romania (2019–2021). During his ambassadorship, he championed rule of law, energy security, and major defense and infrastructure partnerships, earning Romania's highest civilian honor, the Order of the Star of Romania, Grand Cross.
Maj Gen (ret) Borys Kremenetskyi
Board Chair
Borys Kremenetskyi is a retired Ukrainian Major General with extensive experience in military leadership, NATO cooperation, international diplomacy, and defence affairs. He held senior positions in the Ukrainian Air Force, NATO, the EU, and Ukrainian embassies in the United Kingdom and the United States.
