Cristian Pop

I'm an entrepreneur, I'm enthusiastic about starting and scaling businesses and I always feel the need to work on something important. .

My experience is anchored in the private healthcare sector and in commercial real estate investments. I co-founded and managed three companies, first of them was a private dental clinic (https://novodentclinic.ro/), the second and the most succesfull one so far is DigiRay (https://digiray.ro/ ) the bigest network of dental imaging centers in Romania, and the third one is an investment company focused on commercial real estate investments (https://udmcapital.ro/ ). I founded DigiRay in 2011, and I grew it to become the biggest company in it's field in Romania surpassing all it's competitors. I've made my exit from the shareholding structure in 2024 and sold the company to a private equity fund (https://www.blacksea.fund/ ) but I still run the company for a transition period of 12 month. Afterwards I will be a member in the advisory board.

I know that I need to further refine my skills, my abilities ,consolidate my strengths and find out how much more can I become as a leader, as a entrepreneur,as an investor and as a person.

I've started DigiRay back in 2011 in a small city (50k inhabitants) in Romania. Back then there where already regional networks of dental imaging centers from which the most powerful where 2 networks in Bucharest and another one that already had 13 locations at a national level. Fast-forward by the end of 2023 DigiRay was the biggest player in Romania both in terms of turnover and in no. of clinics with 26 locations 5Mn Euros in revenue outpacing the main competitor form Bucharest and all the other competitors who started earlier and in bigger markets