Cristian Negruțiu is Founding Partner at Sparking Capital, a venture capital fund aiming to help innovative start-ups to scale-up and develop. He works side by side with the founders to build great companies that create long-lasting competitive advantages.

Cristian Negrutiu has extensive managerial experience acquired through various positions in different companies at executive level since the year 2000. In the period 2010-2019 he was Logistics Country Manager for DSV Solutions in Romania. In this capacity, Cristian served as a Board Member, fully responsible for strategy and P&L of his division. He managed more than 500 people and led several local and regional projects, ranging from IT implementation to capacity expansion.

On the education side, Cristian has a double background, in economics and law, followed by an MBA at University of Sheffield. Currently, he is Lecturer PhD at ASE, with research focused on entrepreneurship and the supply chain.