Networking on Behalf of Romania and the United States: An Interview with Honorary Consul George Roth
George Roth was born in 1956, in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He graduated from the “Babeş-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca (M.Sc., Mathematics and Computer Science, 1975–1980).
He worked for the Cluj Territorial Center for Computation (1980–1991), after which he emigrated to the United States. In the United States, he worked as a Software Architect on numerous projects for large financial institutions in the U.S. and Europe (Recognos Inc., 1999 — to present; UiPath, 2018 — to present).
George Roth is one of the founding members of the Romanian American Business Network. He is also the Honorary Consul of Romania in San Francisco (2007 — to present) and the Chairman of the Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce, the San Francisco Chapter (2017 — to present).
On October 4, 2019, Honorary Consul George Roth attended the annual ALIANŢA/The Alliance Gala at the Romanian Embassy, in Washington, DC.
With that occasion Mr. Roth granted me an exclusive interview.
1. Good morning, Mr. George Roth, you are the Honorary Consul of Romania in San Francisco and the Bay Area. What responsibilities and activities do you have in this line of work?
So, the Honorary Consuls organization, there are twenty three of them in the United States. You have in Portland one, too, with an American gentleman. Our role is to network on behalf of Romania and to network on behalf of the U.S. in Romania. So, we are a kind of organization which have to build the relationship between the two countries, which can be cultural, financial, and then different type, on multiple levels. One of the advantages of this Honorary Consuls organization, which was created in the United States by the initiative of [then] Ambassador and later Minister of Foreign Affairs Mircea Geoană, he created this network. And our advantage is that we represent continuity, working closely with the Romanian Embassy and consulates, when the consuls and the ambassadors are changing. But us, being locals, we are the link and maintain the continuity of this relationship. We are not financed by anybody, we are self-financed and that’s why we are a kind of independent body, interested purely in the relationship between Romania and the United States.
2. Thank you so much, Mr. Roth. You are known for becoming involved in promoting the Romanian IT industry in the Bay Area of California. Please, elaborate for our readers your success story.
I mean, I am promoting in the sense that I created an organization called the Romanian-American Business Network. Actually, I didn’t create it, I restarted it. Our scope is to help the Romanian IT to come in the U.S. and also have the American companies to go to Romania. In time, this role changed, in the sense that initially we sent American companies to Romania through outsourcing, but lately it’s nice to see that companies, successful companies, from Romania come to the U.S. to open a global presence through Silicon Valley or United States. Virtually, I was involved with a company [that] I started, which took a lot of years, so everything what I talked about I experimented myself and I went through the history and evolution of these relationships.
3. Thank you so much, Mr. Roth. Last question: what are your more recent projects and your goals for the future?
I mean, my biggest recent project is that I am working for UiPath, which is the first Romanian IT Unicorn. I am extremely lucky that I work for such a company, seeing what’s going on from inside. And my personal role is, actually, to help that the brain-drain, which is happening in Romania to become an advantage of the country through returning the know-how of the people who left Romania to Romania. And also to help Romanians to invest in Romania.
4. Thank you so much, Mr. Roth.
My pleasure, thank you.
(October 13, 2019)
NOTE — Versions of the article were published in:
AMERICAN THINKER (El Cerrito/San Francisco, California) [+ comments]
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and
CARIBBEAN NEWS GLOBAL (Brooklyn/New York City, New York) [+ views, comments]
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and
CARIBBEAN NEWS NOW! (Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas) [ comments]
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and
CONSERVATIVE READ (Scottsdale/Phoenix, Arizona) [ comments]
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and
INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATIVE (Phoenix, Arizona) [ comments]
and
MARIANAS VARIETY (Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands) [ comments]
and
MEDIUM (San Francisco, California) [100+ views; comments; 100+ likes]
and
SAIPAN TRIBUNE (Garapan/Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands) [ comments]
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and featured in:
320ro.com (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom) [ comments]
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and
ACCENT (Toronto, Canada) [in Romanian] [ comments]
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and
ACTIVE BOARD
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and
AFRO-CONSCIOUS MEDIA (Canada; Long Beach, California) [ comments]
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and
ALTERNATIVA/THE ALTERNATIVE (Toronto, Canada) (_________ 2018) [in Romanian] [NOTE = scroll down on the journal’s home page to get the article and then press OPEN on the article]
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and
ARMONIA/THE HARMONY (Hickory/Charlotte, North Carolina) [in Romanian] [ comments]
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and also
ARMONIA MAGAZINE/THE HARMONY MAGAZINE (Hickory/Charlotte, North Carolina) [in Romanian] [ comments]
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and
BLUNT FORCE TRUTH (Detroit, Michigan) [ comments]
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and
BURNING PLATFORM [ comments]
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and
CARIBBEAN POST (Santiago, Dominican Republic) [ comments]
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and
CLICK ROMANIA (London, United Kingdom) [in Romanian] [ comments]
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and
CURENTUL/THE CURRENT (Chişinău, Republic of Moldova) [in Romanian] [ comments]
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and
CURENTUL INTERNAŢIONAL/THE INTERNATIONAL CURRENT (Sterling Heights/Detroit, Michigan) [in Romanian] [ comments]
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and
FIWEH (Okinawa, Japan) [ comments]
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and
FREE REPUBLIC (Fresno, California) [ comments]
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and
GÂNDACUL DE COLORADO/THE COLORADO BEETLE (Estes Park/Denver, Colorado) [in Romanian] [ + views; comments]
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and
GOP BRIEFING ROOM [ + views; comments]
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and
INVESTORS HUB (London, United Kingdom) [ comments]
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and
JURNAL DE CHIŞINĂU/CHIŞINĂU JOURNAL (Chişinău, Republic of Moldova) [in Romanian] [ comments]
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and
LUCIANNE.COM (Cliffside Park, New Jersey) [ + comments]
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and
LUMEA ROMÂNEASCĂ/THE ROMANIAN WORLD (Grand Rapids, Michigan) [in Romanian]
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and
MENAFN (Amman, Jordan)
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and
MERIDIANUL ROMÂNESC/THE ROMANIAN MERIDIAN (Santa Clarita/Los Angeles, California) [in Romanian]
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and
MEXICAN OCCUPATION
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and
MIORIŢA USA (Sacramento, California) [in Romanian]
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and also
MIORIŢA USA (Sacramento, California), printed edition [in Romanian]
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and
MOLDOVA9/NEW MOLDOVA (Chişinău, Republic of Moldova) [in Romanian] [ comments]
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and
MOLDOVA ŞTIRI/MOLDOVA NEWS (Chişinău, Republic of Moldova) [in Romanian] (300+ views; comments]
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and
MORNING IN ARIZONA [ comments]
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and
NAŢIUNEA/THE NATION (Bucharest, Romania) [in Romanian] [ comments]
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and
NEW YORK MAGAZIN/NEW YORK MAGAZINE (New York City, New York) [in Romanian] [ comments]
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and
OBSERVATORUL/THE OBSERVER (Toronto, Canada) [in Romanian]
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and
OCCIDENTUL ROMÂNESC/ROMANIAN WEST (Madrid, Spain)
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and
OFICIAL/OFFICIAL (Chişinău, Republic of Moldova) [in Romanian] [ comments]
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and
PARADIGMS AND DEMOGRAPHICS (Cleveland, Ohio) [ comments]
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and
PROTECTORS OF LIBERTY (Mount Pleasant, Michigan) [ comments]
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and
QOSHE (Netherlands & Turkey)
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and
QWIKET (Kingston, New York) [ comments]
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and
ROMANIA JOURNAL (Bucharest, Romania) [ + views; comments]
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and
ROMANIAN TIMES (Portland, Oregon) [in Romanian]
and also
ROMANIAN TIMES (Portland, Oregon) (print edition, p14) [in Romanian]
and
SAVE AMERICA FOUNDATION (Clearwater, Florida)
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and
TAPATALK (Santa Monica/Los Angeles, California) [ comments]
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and
TIMP ROMÂNESC/ROMANIAN TIME (Bucharest, Romania) [in Romanian] [ comments]
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and
TRIBUNA/THE TRIBUNE (Chişinău, Republic of Moldova) [ comments]
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and also
TRIBUNA/THE TRIBUNE (Chişinău, Republic of Moldova) [in Romanian] [ comments]
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and
TRIBUNA ROMÂNEASCĂ/ROMANIAN TRIBUNE (Chicago, Illinois) [in Romanian] [ comments]
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and
TRULY TIMES [ + views, comments]
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and
TRUMP’S MINUTEMEN (Fort Worth, Texas)
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and
UNIMEDIA (Chişinău, Republic of Moldova) [in Romanian] [ + views, comments]
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and
US POLITICS 10z [ comments]
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and
ZIARUL DE GARDĂ/THE GUARD NEWSPAPER (Chişinău, Republic of Moldova) [in Romanian]
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and referenced in:
CENTRUL DE PRESĂ — PRESSPEDIA/THE PRESS CENTER — PRESSPEDIA (Bucharest, Romania) [in Romanian] [+ views]
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and
CURENTUL INTERNAŢIONAL/INTERNATIONAL CURRENT — FACEBOOK (Sterling Heights/Detroit, Michigan) [in Romanian]
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and
HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY (Cincinnati, Ohio)
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and
LIBERAL FORUM
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and
MUCK RACK (New York, New York)
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and
OBAMA LIES
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and
PRESS RUSH (Turku, Finland)
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and
THY BLACK MAN [ comments]
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and
ZENITH NEWS (Duluth, Minnesota)
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NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS = 5
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