Thomas C. Knobel
Chairman & CEO

Born in Switzerland, Thomas founded his first company at age 7, a fresh food delivery business. His inherent entrepreneurial spirit has led him to start several businesses throughout his life. His first corporation was founded in Switzerland, PowerSoft, a computer and video game software company. In 1994, after realizing that entrepreneurial talent is more appreciated across the globe, Thomas moved to the United States in order to live "the American Dream".

As NobelTel's CEO, Thomas successfully founded several business divisions and launched multiple products. Nobel's online prepaid businesses, NobelCom.com and EnjoyPrepaid.com, are recognized as leading prepaid telecommunications websites. Nobel's products are anchored by its own facilities-based carrier division. NobelTel operates a global TDM/VoIP network, selling to and purchasing from leading telecommunications carriers. Today, Thomas is involved in developing new business models and establishing relationships with key partners in throughout the world. Thomas was educated in Switzerland, and holds a B.S. in Business Management from Babson College in Massachusetts.

Michael P. Knobel
President/COO

Michael finished his formal education in his home country Switzerland. Michael was one of the pioneers that had the vision of bringing VoIP technologies to South America as he opened and ran two Nobel offices in Sao Paulo (2002) and Buenos Aires (2003). It is there where he built a strong technological background and developed leadership and operational capabilities. Michael proved himself to be a strategic business leader while taking over the majority of Nobel's departments in the Bucharest headquarters; he fully restructured them operationally and consistently grew and promoted new supervisors and managers from within. His successful use of an unconventional Swiss-American-Brazilian-Romanian influenced management style lead to big increases in productivity and enabled Nobel to move all its operations to Romania. In the process of these changes, Michael was promoted to President/COO of Nobel and is at this point responsible for Nobel's operations, for the implementation of strategic business goals, for the administration of the Romanian office and the Carrier Group sales.

Michael is fluent in eight languages. He enjoys traveling, especially to exotic places. He's passionate about dancing and the Bucharest night life. He enjoys the young spirit he has found in Romania and especially the integrity level he experiences among the people in Nobel.

Cristina Preda
Managing Director

With strong expertise in International Business and Economics, Cristina Preda took over NobelTel's Eastern European Headquarters in Bucharest in 2003. In just 18 months, she grew the number of team members from 20 to over 200. From a very young age Cristina started winning awards for participation in various management courses and seminars worldwide. Ms Preda's background includes both sales of high technology equipment and overseeing teams and budgets. Her international experience is ideal for managing the operational relationship between the Eastern European office and NobelTel's various global offices.

Johanna Florea
VP of Sales and Business Development

With 10 years of managing experience , Johanna Florea joined Nobel's headquarter in Bucharest in 2004 as a Routing Manager. Johanna has a Bachelor Degree and a Master of Arts in Management and also graduated post universitary studies in Marketing. Due to her educational background, her strong management and leadership skills she was able to build new departments within the company, motivate the teams as a stong leader and had an active role in changing the business structure of the company.

Dana Florian
VP of Finance

Dana Florian joined Nobel in September 2006 as VP of Finance. She in charge with the company's overall financial activities and she is leading several financial divisions.

She has a 14 years experience in financial field and a 5 years experience in building team. Her strong abilities helped her to create, manage and grew very strong teams in Nobel. With expertise in international exposure she adapted the financial operations according to worldwide Nobel's policy in just 6 months.

Dana holds a bachelor degree in Management and Accounting.

Stefan Petrov
VP of Operations

Currently the Vice-President of Operations, Stefan Petrov is responsible for all Nobel's operations functions.

He gained his operational experience by managing departments like Customer Service and Outbound Sales. He has developed business frameworks, built and successfully managed sales and client services teams and managed complex projects to ensure customer satisfaction, improved call efficiency, low abandonment and improved employee product knowledge and training.

Stefan Petrov is a proactive problem solver with excellent strategic, critical thinking and synthesizing abilities.