The barrier to learning has never been ability — it's price. TimeBank removes price entirely. One hour taught earns one TimeCredit; one credit buys one hour of learning from anyone, anywhere. No money, no fees, no gatekeepers.
Product and consulting background (Cognizant, Capgemini, UCB Pharma), Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and certified Scrum/SAFe practitioner. Antwerp-based and Romanian-Belgian — TimeBank grew out of the city's diaspora communities and the conviction that everyone has something worth teaching.
Finance and strategic partnerships, formerly at Microsoft Western Europe and L'Oréal România. Elena leads the financial model and the institutional partnerships that let a fair, non-extractive platform sustain itself.
We work with Belgium's social-innovation ecosystem — including the Sociale InnovatieFabriek advisory network — and a group of mentors across product, finance and impact. We're building in the open with the people who care about how skills move through communities.
We're starting where we live — Antwerp and the Romanian diaspora in Belgium — because trust and the teaching loop are easiest to prove in a real community. From there, the model is borderless by design: time is worth the same everywhere.