What you
should know

The "RUF Angels" program is available to those few truly special people who really believe in our 100% model, in our mission, and everything RUF represents. The first 100 Angels will be forever named "The Founding Angels".

Become a Founding Angel

 Become a founding angel

Angels Benefits

The "Founding Angels" names will be commemorated on a bronze plaque in the RUF Headquarters, and their stories locked for 100 years in a sealed bottle, for generations. For real, we intend to do this, as soon as we have 100 Angels :)

But there are other significant benefits. The "Founding Angels" can nominate their favorite nonprofit organizations and they also vote to select the yearly Flagship organization. They get the pride of being the "founding fathers" of an organization that one day will, hopefully, become the global conduit of Romanian communities worldwide for doing good.

Who are our Angels?

Our Angels are professionals and business people who have made a pledge to support the organization annually. It is simple, RUF exists and can act as a 100% pass-through organization because our Angels exist.

Learn more about our funding sources and see our finances in the Transparency section. Ask us more about this program or the RUF pledge, or see about our Membership program.

Monica Ferchi

Founding Angel, San Francisco, CA, USA
Founder and CEO of TransUSA Exchange, a cultural exchange organization that specializes in placing international students and young professionals with industry leaders in the U.S.
www.transusaexchange.com
www.facebook.com/monicaferchi
Radu Georgescu

Serial Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist, Founder of Seedblink, RUF Founding Angel
One of the most prominent and successful entrepreneurs in Eastern Europe, Radu founded GECAD in 1992. He focuses on identifying and on-boarding new investment opportunities, as well as promoting entrepreneurship in the new generation of innovators.
Flaviu Simihaian

Founding Angel, CEO at Troy Medicare, Charlotte, NC
A Harvard Business School graduate, Flaviu is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Troy Medicare and previously iMedicare, a Software-as-a-Service platform that 10,000+ pharmacies use to grow their business and care for each patient.
Dana Pirvu

Founding Angel, SF, California
Dan Serban

Founding Angel, Key West, Florida
Dan is one of the best-connected Real Estate Agents and a Top Producer in the Luxury Real Estate market in Key West. He is passionate about preserving Romanian American values and being an Ambassador of the Romanian United Fund in the Key West Area.
Mike Dinescu

Founding Angel, RUF Ambassador in Irvine, CA
Monica Magdas Miller

Founding Angels, Los Angeles, CA
Monica is the founder of Santicler, a sustainable apparel brand exclusively manufactured in Romania. Deeply passionate about the country’s traditional textiles and its bucolic countryside, she wants to help revive its rural areas by promoting economic act
www.facebook.com/monica.m.miller.77
Horatiu Suciu

Founding Angel, Chicago, Il
Managing Partner at City Habitat Properties
cityhabitatchicago.com
Mihai Lehene

President and Founding Member of RUF
Mihai is a Founding Member and the President of RUF. Passionate and caring, Mihai’s goal is to inspire all around him to be better and help each other, especially his fellow Romanian Americans.
twitter.com/mlehene
Adrian Calugar

Founding Angel
"Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting". - Brian Tracy
Nicole Blajan

Managing Principal at GSD Real Estate Group
Eugen Vasile

Luciana Nemtanu

Founding Angel and Volunteer Engagement Director
As a strategic leader in higher education, Luciana helps administer a large research and volunteer mentorship program at University of Michigan where she also teaches research communication. For RUF, she serves as the Volunteer Engagement Director.
www.linkedin.com/in/luciana-nemtanu
Sebastian Micle

Ioana & Sebastian Micle, Founding Angels, Lake Forest, IL, USA
Sebastian is the Owner of New Explode Construction, of Lake Forest, IL.
Cristian Comsa

Founding Angel, London, UK
Cristian is the Head of Structured Funds and Linear Cross Assets Trading at UniCredit United Kingdom.
Diana Dram

Founding Angel, Chicago, USA
Diana is acting as Global Strategic Sourcing Director with McDonald’s. She leads business relationships and strategies that leverage scale for positive impact on the environment and communities globally.
George Roth

Founding Angel, Member of the Board of Directors
George is the Subject Matter Expert of the Document Understanding vertical at UiPath. He is also the Honorary Consul of Romania at the Honorary Consulate of Romania in San Francisco and Honorary Senator of the University Babes Bolyai in Cluj, Romania.
Patricia Vlad

Founding Angel
Brand Manager at GSK, Bern, Switzerland
Cristian Luput

Founding Angel, RUF Board of Directors
The founder and CEO of Optimus Realty Inc, Cristian strongly believes in the power of charity to improve people's lives and change the mentalities and hopes of the less fortunate ones. Cristian is acting Treasurer of RUF.
www.facebook.com/cristian.luput
Ted Cominos

Founding Angel; RUF Board of Directors; Venture Capital / Private Equity Attorney
Ted Cominos is Corporate / Private Capital partner with the Global-10 law firm, Eversheds-Sutherland.
www.eversheds-sutherland.com
Marius Butas

Founding Angel, Arizona
Calin Moigradan

Founding Angel, Chicago IL, USA
The Founder and President at Ladybug & Friends Daycare and Preschool, a safe, nurturing daycare with a unique learning style and successful franchise business.
Cristian Merdariu

Founding Angel, Chicago IL, USA
Cristian is co-founder and owner of City Habitat Realty, a successful real estate company in Chicago. He believes Romanians should work harder to express and identify themselves as one nation, to earn their own sense of value and the right to be proud.
www.cityhabitatchicago.com
Diana Muresan

Founding Angel
Diana Muresan is Mortgage Banker with The Federal Savings Bank, member of the Chairman Club and currently creating the first Senior Housing Department at the TFSB. She has a master degree from DuPaul University, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.
Ciprian Fiastru

Founding Angel
Ciprian is the owner of Chicago Clean Home since 2013. The company was founded with a great desire to offer top-quality, detail-oriented cleaning services to home and business owners that aim at having not just cleaner spaces, but also healthier ones.
www.chicagocleanhome.com
Stelian Danciutiu

Valentin Daraban

Founding Angel
Real Estate Developer for Keeper Development INC
www.keeperdevelopment.com
Simona Oarga

Founding Angel
Simona Oarga assists taxpayers and small businesses with taxes in Chicago IL and the surrounding communities. Whether you are an individual or a local business in or around Chicago IL, Simona C. Oarga has years of valuable experience as an IRS registered