Sergiu GÂNDEA Name and surname: Sergiu GÂNDEA Position: Account Manager, also Consultant within UNDP project “Building e-Governance in Moldova-2”, Company/Institution: Ericsson AB International, Representative Office in Moldova and United Nations Development Programme Country: Republic of Moldova E-mail: sergiu.gandea@ericsson.com; sergiu.gandea@gmail.com Phone number: +373-22211790 (office), + 373-79402002 (mobile) Title of presentation: “Broadband infrastructure development in Moldova: ways of moving forward” Sergiu Gândea graduated from Technical University, Chisinau, Moldova, also post-graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute, is an Account Manager at Ericsson International Company in Moldova, also currently is hired as consultant within UNDP project “Building e-Governance in Moldova-2”. As an ICT expert he has been participating at elaboration of several important documents within UNDP projects, like: Elaboration of the National e-Strategy for Building an Information Society „Electronic Moldova” , 2004 Elaboration of ICT sector development strategy for next 2009-2011 period for Ministry of Information Development of RM, 2008 Revision of the Methodological framework on e-development analysis and preparation of Moldova edevelopment Report 2009. Mr. Gandea’s expertise spans over 9 years in ICT area such as marketing, sales, management and developing of new business projects. As a former executive of two leading local ISP companies gained valuable experience in identification of barriers and obstacles in development of ICT sector from Republic of Moldova. He is author or co-author of more than 25 publications. 1