Ioan Iacob CTO Recognos Inc.

Mr. Ioan Iacob grew up in Targu Mures, Romania, and graduated from the “Transylvania” Technical University Brasov, Romania.

After working as a researcher in Romania and as a computer journalist for the former “BYTE” magazine, Ioan enrolled as a visiting lecturer at the Computer Science department at “Petru Maior” University of Targu Mures.  In parallel, he was working as Chief Architect for a Netherlands-based software company that developed software for major financial institutions such as:  Amsterdam Stock Exchange, ING Barrings, ABN Amro, Rabobank etc.  For a while he worked in Switzerland, Geneva in the field of Computer Aided Design developing systems for companies like ABB and General Electric.  In 2001 he joined Recognos Romania as CTO and in 2005 he relocated to the US as CTO of Recognos, Inc.

He is the head of development for major systems used in Investments Management; his main expertise being in the Portfolio Engineering and Trade Order Management.  Mr. Iacob is an expert in Distributed Architectures and .NET and JAVA based technologies.