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Dragoş Stanca
Managing Director of F5, the new media company of Realitatea-Catavencu Group, and a member of the Board which is running the media group.
Email: dragos.stanca [at] f5web.ro
He has been working in the media since 1995. He started his journalist career as a field reporter, working for Radio Contact (subsequently acquired by Kiss FM), and as a correspondent for Transylvania of several national publications.
He then became news editor in chief at Radio Contact Cluj and a maker of radio and TV talk shows (for Radio Contact and ProTV Cluj). He spent a short time with the Swiss publishing group Ringier, and between 2000 and 2004 he structured and led the local newspaper network of MediaPRO Group.
Later on, Dragos Stanca became the General Manager of PubliMedia, in charge of managing all the print and online publishing operations of MediaPRO group.
In January 2007, he took over the management of the print and online publishing division of the new Realitatea-Catavencu Group, being actively involved in the integration of the publishing group Catavencu into the operations of Realitatea Media and thus contributing to the establishment of the leading group in providing quality content in Romania.
One year later, he laid the foundations of the Group’s business media division (which includes the only business television station in Romania, The Money Channel, the daily newspaper Business Standard and the weekly publication Money Express).
Since October 2008, Dragos Stanca has dedicated himself exclusively to the management of the new media operations of Realitatea-Catavencu Group, launching the online consultancy and investment project F5.
In 2009, he set up F5 Webcorp, a company which provides all new media strategy and development services for the Realitatea-Catavencu Group, along with the cross-media sales unit F5 X-Media.
He has a bachelor’s degree in economic sciences from the “Babes – Bolyai” University”, and is a graduate of the eMBA Leaders programme organised by the Scandinavian International Management Institute (SIMI), in cooperation with IFRA and World Association of Newspapers (WAN).
He is Executive Member of WAN, also member of BRAT Managing Council (Romanian Bureau for the Audit of Print Press Circulation), the organization that presents accurately the circulation, as well as measuring both the audience of print press (through SNA) and the online audience of Romanian websites (through SATI). Furthermore, he is member of IAB Romania Managing Council.
