Mr. Yann Bidan

Yann has over 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe. His greatest venture so far is TELUS International Europe, formerly named CallPoint, for which he co-founded in 2006 the Romanian affiliate. With the acquisition of CallPoint by the Canadian technology company TELUS in 2012, he became Member of the Board of Director and Country Director for Romania until 2017. Today the Canadian company currently employs around 2,000 team members in Romania. Since 2018 his focus went from IT & Customer services to Impact Entrepreneurship, investing in tech for good companies in Europe and other continent. Consequently, he joined the French Tech global community, which he serves as Co-Founder and Vice President for Bucharest. In 2019 Yann co-founded a joint venture with the largest and fastest-growing education network Maple Bear Canadian Schools, to create Maple Bear Central & Eastern Europe, headquartered in Sofia Bulgaria. The Maple Bear network currently includes 496 operating schools in 38+ countries offering bilingual, high quality, Infant care, Preschool, Kindergarten, Elementary and Secondary education, based on practices that place Canadian education among the top on the planet. Maple Bear is proud to bring the best of Canadian education to 70,000 students around the world. In 2022 he signed a 100M Euro investments partnership with Vantage Capital partners to develop a network of 50 Maple Bear Canadian schools in Poland and Czech Republic. In 2023 he co-founded the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria and serve since then as Board Member.