Adrian Banica

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Biography

Mr. Adrian Banica serves as Chief Executive Officer & Chief Technology Officer at Direct-C. He served as Chief Executive Officer at Synodon. He founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Tropheus Ventures. Currently, he is also a Board Director at Capital Road. He also serves as a Board Member of the Alberta Clean Technology Industry Alliance. He is a serial entrepreneur who founded two successful technology ventures within the past two decades and has significant expertise in hardware systems commercialization for the oil and gas vertical. The first venture, an oil and gas and space systems instrumentation company, was acquired by Belgium-based Rhea Space Systems in 1999. His second venture, TSX Venture-listed Synodon Inc. (SYD), adapted a satellite-based methane sensor into a helicopter-deployed system called realSens and has successfully commercialized a service to oil and gas companies to map and quantify their greenhouse gas emissions. He has helped secure over $25 million in financing for the venture and led the company to its first profitable quarter in 2014. Currently, he is advising a number of technology companies and was the Executive Chairman for Illusense Inc., a BC-based pipeline inspection technology developer. He is also a member of the A100 group.