Florin Segarceanu
President
Florin Segarceanu needs no introduction – he is widely renowned for being one of the best tennis players in the world that Romania has ever offered. He was a multiple national, European and a triple university champion. He played ATP tournaments starting 1980 up until 1992. While on the ATP Tour, he was ranked inside top 100 players in the world for more than 5 years. He obtained the best result of his generation, namely the qualification in the first 8 teams worldwide, together with Ilie Năstase. In 1995 he became the non-playing captain and coach of the Romanian Davis Cup team, and since, the Romanian team has constantly been among the top 16 teams in the world. Starting 1999, Florin dedicated his time to investing in education, real estate development and golf. He aims to gather all golf players in Romania under the RGA “umbrella” and to bring golf to a higher level.
Nicolae Kovacs
Secretary General
Nick is a consultant specialized in finance and real estate, with expertise in financial structuring and restructuring, M&A, as well as real estate management operations with his consultancy boutique, Centaur Asset Management. Prior to Centaur, Nick was the Corporate Finance Director of the DP Holding’s Romanian portfolio of businesses, a private equity fund with over USD 2 billion under management, with ties in real estate, media, logistics and retail. In 2009 he joined the management team of the DP Global Properties (Romanian Portfolio), a private equity Real Estate Fund with more than Euro 1 billion assets under management. Prior to that, he was an entrepreneur in financing real estate business. In 2005, after completing his studies with James Madison University in Virginia, USA, he started his career with EFG Eurobank and Banca Transilvania where he specialized in financing real estate.
Considering his restless dedication to the game of golf, in his capacity as Secretary General, he has committed to set up, manage and grow the Romanian Golf Association to become the official representation body in Romania and to develop the golf infrastructure in Romania.
Alexandru Voicu
Operations
Alexandru joined the Certinvest team early in 2015 as a portfolio manager covering international markets. Before joining Certinvest, Alexandru was the Head of Education at PRMIA activities (Professional Risk Managers International Association). He was awarded an MSc in Investment Management from the Henley Business School at the University of Reading.
Alexandru started playing golf very recently (2013), though he still has ways to go until actually playing golf. He enjoys his shanks and slices, but prefers to be a straight shooter.
Cornel Danila
VP Events
With a wide experience in business development and multicultural organizations, Cornel Danila is the CEO of Covalact Group, one of the leading dairy business in Romania, part of the private equity fund, Sigma Bleyzer.
Cornel has more than 20 years’ of experience in companies as Henkel and Danone in sales, marketing and supply chain in Romania, France, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Cornel has graduated in 1991 the Mechanical University in Bucharest and the MBA program of the Open University from UK in 2003.
He discovered golf in 2008 while he was living in France and started to play in 2011 in Romania.
Mihaela Kovacs
Communications Consultant
Mihaela is PR and marketing professional, with strong real estate background and international exposure, with excellent results in start-up operations, brand positioning as well as reputation management and cost effective media strategies and events. She has extensive experience in real estate, having managed communications for important investors as Dinu Patriciu Global Properties and Baneasa Developments and also for local law firm Biris Goran. Her experience extends in legal, media and most recently in the tech fields.
As a strong advocate of women’s golf, Mihaela has helped grow and promote the game of golf to women since she discovered golf in 2012. Mother of one boy, Mihaela is also passionate about engaging younger generations to the game of golf which, she believes, offers the right values for a healthy education.