With over 25 years of experience in the IT industry in Romania and the United States, Andrei Pitiș is a tech entrepreneur, angel investor and advisor with five successful international exits.
Andrei graduated from Politehnica University of Bucharest, Faculty of Computer Science and passionately started working in the software industry early on. He founded his first company in his early 20s, a Silicon Valley-based start-up together with two other partners. In 2005, Andrei held the position of Romania Country Manager of IXIA, a leading provider of performance test systems for IP-based infrastructure and services operating in over 30 countries worldwide. He then founded and exited from Vector Watch, a disruptive 30 days battery life smartwatch. After the exit, Andrei held the position of VP of Product and heading the Romanian and Belarus Development Centers at Fitbit, until august 2020.
Andrei also served two terms in a row as elected President of ANIS - the most active Romanian software association.
Andrei is also passionate about growing the young entrepreneurial tech community in Romania, founding in 2012 Innovation Labs, a leading national program teaching students to design and develop self-sustainable start-ups. Andrei is also the co-founder of Tech Angels, the first network for business angels in Romania, being an active investor and business advisor for several Eastern European start-ups.
In 2019, Andrei Pitis founded Simple Capital, a private investment vehicle, interested in financing tech product startups and companies with high growth and interested in expanding on the global market.

With over 15 years of experience in the digital and innovation field, always on the move, passionate about simplicity, strategic thinking and crafted customer experiences, Alexandru is the CEO of ROCA X, hunting for promising start-ups, accelerating their growth and helping shape them into tomorrow’s unicorns.

Alex has graduated Automatic Control & Computers at the Polytechnic University in Bucharest and has a Master's degree in Project Management in Cybernetics from ASE Bucharest. In 2003, together with his wife Simona, he founded Zitec, a company providing online solutions for challenging business problems, throughout many industries and across various countries. Alex’s hobbies include reading comic books, photography, and sailing. In addition, due to his passion for comics, he invested in a comic book publishing house, HAC!BD and several US and Romanian based startups. Alex also enjoys supporting sustainable non-profit projects, such as Alpinet.org or amazing people such as AlexGavan.ro. Alex and Simona have two kids, Ruxandra and Alex, who both love the Star Trek universe and Frank Herbert's 'Dune'.