Stefan Ponea
CEO – Director General
Romwaste Solutions
2023 – new endeavor in Environmental Services – Rom Waste Solutions SA
2023 – end of a beautiful 18 years long journey
2022 – new milestone in Romania: EURO +30M turnover, 50% EBITDA, 145 people operating 26 outlets (16xB2C) and 5.5k units equipment, 45% market share (COFACE market report) and 58 months capital weighted premium fleet.
2021 – digital ecosystem, RPA, BI, integrated supply chain, augmented reality, chatbots, native bidirectional streaming APIs, machine learning and predictive maintenance
2020 – 15 years of constant development: Industrial Access divests rental activity under new brand mateco (www.mateco.ro), while continuing dealership for JLG, Niftylift and other premium brands. Three main business lines: construction equipment sales and service under Industrial Access brand (www.industrialaccess.ro) operating in Romania & Moldova, B2C rental solutions under Smartrent brand (www.smartrent.ro) operating in Romania and B2B under new brand mateco (www.mateco.ro) operating in Bulgaria, Poland and other East European Countries.
2016 TVH (www.tvh.com) buys 100% of Industrial Access SA, the powered access market leader in the Balkan Region
2013 Best Rental Company of the Year IAPA Awards Miami USA
2011 Best Rental Company of the Year ERA Awards Amsterdam NL (under 15 million turnover)
2008-2011 Balkan Regional development covering Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia & Moldova
2007 Successfully partial exit (80%) of the shares to Balkan Accession Fund (PE) www.bafonline.eu.
2005 Founder and CEO of Industrial Access SA. Started-up with US 3000$ in March 2005 and closing 2007 with Euro 4.4M turnover / Euro 700k NI after taxes www.industrialaccess.ro
1997 First job in Romania, Bomax Grup. Started as a sales agent, going through logistics, accounting, marketing, special / major accounts & operations, wholesales, import & export, group management member, ending as a general manager of the equipment division in February 2005.
