Ioan Popa, 52, founder and majority shareholder of Romania’s largest poultry processor, Transavia, has never had partners and business advisors and says he has never made any compromises. The ambition to be more than just another player on the market and the striving to constantly make a profit have been the trump cards he used in order to build a business he puts at 150 million eurosA graduate of the zootechnical and veterinary medicine faculty in Cluj-Napoca, specialising in poultry rearing technology, Ioan Popa has been working in the zootechnical field for over 25 years now. Before setting up his own business, Popa worked for seven years in the poultry industry, filling various positions, from head of farm to general manager of the State-held Poultry Plants in Alba and Sfantu Gheorghe.
However, only one year after the revolution, he moved from employee to entrepreneur status, and set up Transavia.
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