Representative for Romania at the European Investment Fund (EIF), where she has spent more than 18 years shaping and scaling the country's venture capital and private equity landscape. Camelia manages five major equity fund of funds totaling nearly €700M, including the Recovery Equity Fund backed by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), enabling over 30 VC and PE funds to back regional innovation.
Through her long-standing institutional leadership, Camelia has been instrumental in transforming Romania from an emerging market into one of Central and Eastern Europe’s most dynamic startup and growth ecosystems. She bridges European institutional capital with local fund managers, ensuring promising startups and scaleups have access to continuous growth capital.
At How to Web Conference this October, Camelia pulls back the curtain on institutional investing, showing how macro capital flows through fund-of-funds to back the next wave of regional founders.