Constantin-Adi Gavrilă, CEO

Founder and CEO of ADR Center Romania, Constantin Adi Gavrilă has been dealing with ADR since early 2000s. He is a full-time mediator who has managed cases and ADR development projects all over the world. Adi is holding an IMI international mediation certification. His PhD studies focused on ”Constitutional law”, particularly on ”Mediation and Access to Justice”. Click here for more information

Marin Pădeanu

Executiv Director

Mediator, lawyer and president of the ”PROPACT” Professional Mediators Association, Marin Pădeanu started his activity in the field of mediation in 2003, being one of the founding members of the Mediation Pilot Center, established in Craiova with the support of the Ministry of Justice. Marin Pădeanu held the position of member of the Mediation Council between 2015 and 2019 and between 2020 and 2021 he was director of president's office within the National Authority for Consumers Protection. Click here for more information

Christian Radu Chereji

Director, Facilitatea de Training a ADR Center România

Professional mediator accredited by the Romanian Council of Mediation (2008) and certified by the International Mediation Institute (2011), International mediation researcher, expert, and trainer, Mediation author, speaker, and researcher. Click here for more information

Anda Ştefania Ciofu

Marketing Manager

Anda Stefania Ciofu is a member of the Management team, representing the Marketing Department. Is CEO and marketing director in an online company, with a progressive experience of over 15 years. Using theoretical knowledge, market-oriented reasoning, but also advanced technologies and the most effective marketing tools, she gained a solid experience in Branding, Graphic Design, Marketing and Email Marketing, Email Campaigns, SEO performance, eCommerce strategies, PPC campaigns, Social Media, Analysis and Reporting. Anda is a graduate of the University of Craiova, Faculty of Letters, with a degree in Communication and Public Relations in the field of Communication Sciences. Within the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, she obtained a Master's degree specializing in Marketing and Business Communication.

Leonardo D'Urso

ADR Center CEO

Leonardo D’Urso is the CEO and co-founder of ADR Center. Since 1998, he has resolved more than 1000 national and international complex civil and commercial mediations. With 20 years of full-time work in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), he is responsible for the managing of ADR Center’s activities, the opening of 31 Resolution Centers in Italy and the creation of ODR Center, an innovative cloud platform developed to manage the mediation process. Click here for more information

Judge Daniel Weinstein (Ret.)

One of the preeminent mediators of complex civil disputes in the United States
Founder of Weinstein International Foundation

Hon. Daniel Weinstein (Ret.) is one of the preeminent mediators of complex civil disputes in the United States. Judge Weinstein is also internationally recognized as one of the premier mediators of complex, multi-party and high-stakes commercial and political disputes. He is the recipient of the 2014 International Advocate for Peace Award from the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, whose past honorees have included: former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The National Law Journal has recognized him as an ADR Champion (2017-2018). In January 2020, the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, presented Judge Weinstein with the Peacemaker Award, its highest honor. The award was last presented in 2013 to Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Click here for more information.

Jay Welsh

Established innovator in ADR field
Former executive vice-president and General Counsel of JAMS

Jay Welsh is an established innovator in the ADR field. After joining JAMS in 1991, he played a prominent role in the growth of ADR within the U.S., as well as internationally. Most recently, as former executive vice-president and general counsel, he led the expansion of JAMS to include twenty-three Resolution Centers around the country and was instrumental in the growth of the company internationally. He was in charge of training all incoming neutrals and all legal issues, and he engineered the acquisition of JAMS from the investment banking firm that had acquired it in 1989. Click here for more information