Terapia consolidates management

Terapia Cluj, the second-leading Romanian drug producer has scored two major victories at once in terms of human resources, by consolidating its management team with a new sales and marketing manager and a new planning director. The two individuals are Dragos Damian, former country manager of Italian Menarini-Berlin Chemie Group for Romania, and Mirel Florica, former chief of operations with the Romanian drug maker Sindan Bucharest. Terapia is thus drawing to a close a troubled time in terms of management. Early in the year, as soon as Terapia was acquired by the American investment fund Advent International, the firm saw three departures. Those people were its chief executive Dorin Toderas, sales and marketing manager Marius Chereches and distribution manager Lucian Codreanu. Toderas was quickly replaced by British-born Stephen Stead, but the position of sales and marketing manager remained open until now, for almost half a year. ZF