https://uiorean.com/tags/about/Recent content in About on Ligiu UioreanHugoen_UShttps://uiorean.com/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://uiorean.com/about/<p>I&rsquo;m Ligiu Uiorean, the founder and director of <a href="https://www.airportlabs.com">AirportLabs</a>, a multi-national software company whose technology now keeps operations running at more than 100 airports worldwide, including some of the busiest on the planet, from Chicago O&rsquo;Hare to Dubai. My mission is simple: making aviation efficient.</p> <p>I was born and raised in Cluj. I studied at the city&rsquo;s German high school before taking a degree in Automation at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Politehnica). My early career carried me through industry and into aviation in earnest, from Bechtel in London to the Abu Dhabi Airports Company, where I ran IT and development across five airports and helped design the systems for one of the largest airport terminals in the world. It was there, watching tender after tender come back offering vendors&rsquo; off-the-shelf products rather than what airports actually needed, that the idea for AirportLabs took shape. I speak Romanian, English, and German.</p>