{"id":63006,"date":"2025-10-08T11:13:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/speakeri\/andrei-pitis\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:13:54","slug":"andrei-pitis","status":"publish","type":"speakeri","link":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/en\/speakeri\/andrei-pitis\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrei Piti\u0219"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrei Pitis is a tech entrepreneur with several successful international exits spanning over 30 years of experience in the tech industry in Europe and the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current positions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Co-Founder and CEO at Genezio<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Co-Founder and Chairman of the board at Pentest-Tools.com<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2023 Andrei founded Genezio along with Bogdan Ripa, Paula Cionca and Bogdan Vlad. Genezio provides a complete solution for evaluating conversational AI agents\u2014such as chatbots\u2014helping teams launch and maintain reliable, secure products. The platform simulates real-world scenarios and runs automated or manual tests to evaluate performance, accuracy, and security both before launch and throughout the agent\u2019s lifecycle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2019, Andrei Pitis founded Simple Capital, a private investment vehicle, interested in financing tech product startups and companies with high growth and interested in expanding on the global market. Currently the portfolio has over 25 startups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrei is passionate about growing the young entrepreneurial tech community in Romania, co-founding in 2012 Innovation Labs, a leading national program teaching students to design and develop self-sustainable start-ups. Andrei is also the co-founder of Tech Angels, the first network for business angels in Romania, being an active investor and business advisor for several Eastern European start-ups.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrei graduated from Politehnica University of Bucharest, Faculty of Computer Science and passionately started working in the software industry early on. He founded his first company in his early 20s, a Silicon Valley-based start-up together with two other partners. Starting 2005, Andrei held the position of Romania Country Manager of IXIA, a leading provider of performance test systems for IP-based infrastructure and services operating in over 30 countries worldwide. Between 2013-2016 he founded and exited Vector Watch, a disruptive 30 days battery life smartwatch. After the exit, Andrei held for 4 years the position of VP Product and Head of European Development Centers at Fitbit, between 2017-2020. Andrei also served two terms in a row as elected President of ANIS &#8211; the Romanian IT software association.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":63007,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[],"product_cat":[264],"class_list":["post-63006","speakeri","type-speakeri","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","product_cat-2025-speakeri-summit-oct-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakeri\/63006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakeri"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speakeri"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakeri\/63006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63008,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakeri\/63006\/revisions\/63008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63006"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=63006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}