Head of BitDefender: Stock exchange listing remains a priority

The crisis has put off the stock exchange listing of BitDefender, a Romanian provider of security solutions, put at 100 million dollars three years ago, but preparations continue for the floatation, which will most likely occur in 2012, Florin Talpes, founder and chief executive of the company, told ZF in an interview. “BitDefender is preparing to go to one stock exchange or more, and in order to do this it opted for being audited by a Big Four company (the world’s top four auditors – PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Ernst & Young, and Deloitte), and for adopting an accounting standard other than the Romanian one,” said Talpes, one of the most powerful entrepreneurs in the Romanian IT&C sector.