Silvia Mihailescu

CMO | Head of Brand, Marketing & Communications | AI Transformation | Sustainability | ex ING Bank, IBM, Adswizz (SiriusXM)

Romania

About

I am an award-winning global marketing & business transformation leader, with an extensive record of success driving demand by bringing brands to life and exploring untapped opportunities. I have lived and worked extensively in Japan, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and the USA for both Fortune 100 brands and startups. For the past 20 years I served & lead clients, employees and business leaders by leveraging creativity and analytics while developing new services and products, equipping businesses with industry knowledge, digital eminence, and deep expertise. I run on trust as my leadership fuel, I use inspiring programs, always mixing new channels and modern methods in order to drive unique client experiences. Through my work I am actively partnering with Sales, Marketing & Communications, IT, Product, HR and Agencies to help companies enter new markets and reinvent themselves. Together with a few but strong ladies, we launched the Women in Marketing and Communications Community in Romania. #strategy #marketing #transformation #program_management #agile #design_thinking #innovation #coaching #author #speaker #global_thinker #leadership

Experience

  • Head of Marketing and Communications - EMEA at GlobalLogic
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    Responsible for the marketing strategy, execution, and leadership across EMEA for GlobalLogic (a Hitachi Group company of $2B revenue and +33k employees). One of my focus areas was to develop campaigns, events, and stories that could cut through the AI noise and position GlobaLogic as true AI & Industry Leader and a key partner for over 300+ clients in the region. Engineer impact across industries, services, countries and contributed to building True One Hitachi with a content-led campaign model. In charge of consolidating and strengthening our Employer Brand across the region. Bring alignment, drive engagement and foster a culture of OneTeam for more than 11k employees in EMEA, with GlobalLogic being one of the youngest members of the Hitachi Group.

  • Founder at Women in Marketing and Communications in Romania
    Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Director of Brand, Marketing & Communications and Sustainability at ING Romania
    May 2019 - Sep 2023 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    Leading a superb team, that is consistently contributing to maintaining ING Romania's position as the #1 LoveBrand in banking while growing our client base in a healthy manner - both in B2C and B2B. I focus on translating and humanizing complex financial services through simple, purposeful and fun communication. Last but not least I love that in my role I work with wonderful people who are driving our local Sustainability agenda by making every day count. As a relationship, people and growth enabler, I am always the #1 fan of my team, the agencies and NGOs we work with.

  • Guest Professor at Faculty of Business Administration in foreign languages (FABIZ-ASE)
    Jan 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Partnering with FABIZ on delivering insights and best practices for students enrolled in their new Master in Digital Business and Innovation. http://mdbi.fabiz.ase.ro/

  • Member of the Organizing Committee at Effie Romania
    Oct 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos