Board Member
Ian Brzezinski
Ian Brzezinski leads the Brzezinski Group, LLC, a consulting firm advising commercial and government clients on international security policy, government relations, business development and political risk. He is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and its Future Europe Initiative.
Board Member
Iulian Calinov
Iulian Calinov is currently Program Manager with Facebook, and serves the Romanian community in Seattle as a Honorary Consul on Romania as well as the Secretary of Romanian American Society of Washington State.
Communications Committee Chair
John Florescu
John Florescu has a 25 years history producing high-profile interviews with world leaders, as well as producing long-form documentaries for American and European television. A former Communications Director for the DNC, he now runs media companies in Romania with his brother, Radu.
Board Member
Charles Frank
Former First Vice President of the EBRD (major investor in Romania), Director of CME (owner of Pro TV), real estate developer in Bucharest, and owner of Time Out Bucharest Earlier he was a Professor of Economics at Princeton, Yale, and Makerere University; and a Vice President at Salomon Brothers and GE Capital.
Board Member
Ambassador Mark Gitenstein (Ret)
Served as U.S. Ambassador to Romania from 2009 to 2012 and was one of Alianta’s founding members.
Board Member
Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec (Ret)
Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec (Ret) brings over 40 years of diplomatic experience, most recently serving as U.S. Ambassador to Romania (2023–2025).
Board Secretary & Corporate Counsel
Obie Moore
Obie manages OLM Advisors which provides transatlantic legal and investment advisory services. Before that, he was a partner at Dentons LLP and was a Global Board member and MP of the Bucharest and SE Europe law practice of Denton’s legacy firm Salans. He also managed the Romania-American Enterprise Fund, and served as President of AmCham.
Treasurer
Allison O'Brien
Allison O’Brien serves as Managing Director, Government Affairs for Oracle Corporation, where she oversees industry-leading political programs in support of Oracle’s advocacy efforts, including diplomatic and policymaker engagement opportunities, the company’s political action committee, and political compliance, transparency, and oversight objectives. Additionally, Ms. O’Brien manages internal and external operations for Oracle Corporate Affairs globally.
Chair Emeritus
Ambassador Jim Rosapepe (Ret)
US Ambasador to Romania from 1998 to 2001, Jim is co-author of
Dracula is Dead: Travels in Post-Communist Romania with his wife, public broadcasting journalist Sheilah Kast. He is Chair of Patuxent Capital Group and Vice Chair of the Maryland Senate Budget and Tax Committee, as well as a Board member of the Council of American Ambassadors.
Partnership Committee Chair
George Roth
George Roth is a Sr. Manager in the Tech Partnerships Group at UiPath. He is the Co-founder of Recognos, a software company located in the San Francisco Bay Area with a subsidiary in Cluj. George is the Honorary Consul of Romania in San Francisco, Board Member of the Romanian United Fund and also runs the Romanian American Business Network group in Silicon Valley.
Board Chair
Ambassador Adrian Zuckerman (Ret)
Ambassador Adrian Zuckerman (Ret) is a former U.S. Ambassador to Romania (2019–2021)