Executive Summary
Visionary and hands-on technology executive with over 15 years of leadership experience building and scaling high-impact platforms at the intersection of human performance and frontier technology. Expert in AI/ML, cloud architectures, data analytics, and media technologies. Proven success in both startup innovation environments and global enterprises, driving products from concept to $1B+ revenue milestones.
Alignment with Share Ventures' Mission
- Transformative Technology: Expertise in building platforms that augment human potential through advanced technologies.
- Venture Acceleration: Track record of bringing innovative products to market faster, with scalability and resilience.
- Cross-Disciplinary Leadership: Proven ability to bridge technology, product, and business functions in venture-driven ecosystems.
- Culture Building: Passionate about fostering collaborative, high-performance, mission-aligned technology teams.
Core Capabilities
- Technology Strategy & Execution: Architecting future-ready platforms across AI, automation, cloud, and data.
- Human-Centric Innovation: Building products that enhance user engagement, decision-making, and performance.
- Operational Excellence: Scaling teams, optimizing workflows, and embedding agile, data-driven cultures.
- Security and Compliance Leadership: Ensuring robust standards across all ventures and technology deployments.
Signature Achievements
- Paramount+ (Pluto TV): Scaled FAST platform to 70M MAUs, built AI-driven monetization models driving $1B+ revenue.
- Disney+ OTT: Led platform modernization and cloud-native transformations, cutting operational costs by 50%.
- Red Bull TV: Architected award-winning global streaming experiences (Best TV Experience – Google Award).
- Amazon: Delivered ML-driven logistics optimizations, enhancing real-time decision-making and resource efficiency.
Work References
Case Studies
Dynamic Cropping: Leveraged human visual attention models to automatically extract the most compelling portrait view from landscape video, enhancing user engagement across formats.
Pluto TV Refactor: Transformed a stalled proof-of-concept into a scalable, production-grade platform in just 90 days, unlocking significant growth, operational efficiency and longevity.
Why Share Ventures + Cristian Grunca
I bring the strategic vision, technical depth, entrepreneurial mindset, and executional rigor necessary to accelerate Share Ventures’ mission of transforming venture creation through technology and human performance integration.
Together, we will redefine what’s possible.