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Business development manager, Digital Natives
Agility is an approach, which helps to balance between theory and fast changing practical challanges. In this spirit Kristof takes part in planning and managing web based service development, e.g. mindroom.hu video search system, which is supported by speech recognition technology, VKT gesture-driven software and he also works in the startup incubation projects of Digital Natives. All of these projects are managed in Scrum methodology. In the company, he is responsible for sales, project management and consulting. Previous job: Citibank, he worked there for 4 years, then he joined to Digital Natives in 2006.. He studies International Relations in Corvinus University.
advisor
Gábor has been originating, executing and monitoring private equity and venture capital investments in Central and Eastern Europe for over seventeen years. He currently works as independent advisor, focusing on transaction structuring and fund raising assignments. Gábor was the managing director of DBG Eastern Europe’s Budapest office from 1999 to 2005. He is primarily focused on investment initiatives in Hungary. Prior to joining DBG Eastern Europe, Gábor was country director of CETI (a telecommunications-focused fund) and served as an investment manager with the International Finance Corporation. He was also a member of the board of directors of MOL (the Hungarian national oil company) for several years. Gábor presently serves as a Member of the Board of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hungary. Gábor has an MBA from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. He has a Masters of Science in chemical engineering.
1999-2000 Adserver and Median Webaudit 2.0 system design at Index.hu.
2001-2004 He turns to operative SEO at Vendégváró.hu.
2005- Freelance SEO Consultant:
- IrányMagyarország.hu (2005-, most visited hungarian tourism site),
- Árukereső.hu (2007-2008, price comparison site )
- Sanoma Budapest Zrt. (2007-: Startlap/Lap.hu group, Kirakat.hu, Profession.hu, and many others)
2009- Webanalytics and seo consultation for Business Monitor International. The London-based company is a leading, independent provider of proprietary data, analysis, ratings, rankings and forecasts covering 175 countries and 22 industry sectors.
2009- Webanalytics consultation for Sanoma Budapest Zrt.
2010- Organizer of SUPERSEO conference held at Galyatető 19th-20th January 2011.
Can be followed at seo.blog.hu or at Twitter (@banoczy).
Tech Lead/Manager, Search Quality (Ranking) team, Google Inc., Zurich, Svájc
Behshad Behzadi is Tech Lead/Manager of Search Quality group in Google Switzlerand. Behshad is leading several Ranking teams in Google including Freshness, Duplicate Detection and Safesearch. Behshad joined Google in 2006. Previous to Google he was doing research in the field of Bioinformatics. He got his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. This was followed by a Post-doc in Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.
CTO, Skawa Ltd.
Founder of the 24-hour International Programming Contest, 2-times winner of the Hungarian Innovation Contest and ISEF. Graduated with a MsC in Computer Science, PhD-studies in Real-time 3D visualization of Virtual Humans. Co-founder of Skawa Ltd (2008) with Peter Faragó, working on proprietary workforce-in-the-cloud solutions with 15000+ members, carrying out audio/video transcribing, callcenter, translation and data entry orders. Current focus: web-based telephony solution to increase conversation ratio.
Managing Director, Mind Power Hungary translation agency
I started Mind Power translation agency with 4 years of translating and 15 years of technical experience.
Computers and programming amused me already in childhood, but now I am a user only working to improve, to simplify and perfect the user experience of other applications. As a translation agency director, I’ve seen many very good, and sometimes less perfect localization and globalization solutions – and I do believe that with a bit more attention from the developers we could improve the quality of these.
CEO & cofounder Super Marmite
With a background in computer science and industrial design, Olivier Desmoulin started working on experience design for innovative applications at af83, a french software house designing and developing social web applications. He co-founded Super Marmite in may of 2010, instantly attracting significant media coverage, and winning 1st prize at LeWeb conference startup competition. In parallel to his activities at Super Marmite, Olivier continues to develop new innovative products by focusing on observing the user experience and analyzing users'needs.
Budapest Bank
She has been working for Budapest Bank for 17 year. Managed the organization development project, that’s main objective was the change of the branch office network in order to improve the customer focus service. She has a specialized knowledge of six sigma quality management method. She effectively managed projects with the scope of new product implementations, and system changes, upgrades. Her next priority was the development of the sales organization and processes. Focusing on the entrepreneurs, she is got deep knowledge about that segment. She has been managing the micro segment product development department for five years. During this time many innovative and customer friendly products were launched for the customers by her team. She took a degree at the College of Public Administration in Budapest, and got the certification of the National Banker School.
CEO, Finextstartup
Gábor Futó is founder, 50% owner and Chief Executive Officer of Futureal group. The group consists of several investment and development companies in the fields of real estate, private equity, fund management.
Gábor is Chairman of Futureal Property Group, one of the top 10 real estate developers in Europe, with over 100 professionals, € 500 million of projects completed and a further € 1 billion of project pipeline in Central and Eastern Europe.
Gábor is Chairman of Finext Startup Venture Capital Fund Management Ltd., a venture capital investment house investing the capital of the group and separately a special purpose venture capital fund managing the capital provided by the European Union (68%) and the group (32%).
Gábor is previous Chairman of Finext Fund Management Ltd., an independent specialty fund management business managing; among others the best performing and stock exchange listed Hungarian real estate fund and a global endowment fund.
Gábor holds an M.Sc. in Mathematics from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, an MBA from London Business School – BUES Program and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University (Economics PhD Program) and Harvard Business School (MBA Program).
Google Hungary's Country Manager
Edina Heal has been Google Hungary's Country Manager since September 2010. She is a well-known Hungarian media expert with broad experience in the sector. After several years of work at leading advertising agencies, she turned her attention to the music industry, living and working in France and the UK. From 1998, she spent two years working as Polygram's marketing director, then became EMI's managing director. She returned to Hungary in 2004 to become deputy CEO at commercial radio Slager, moving on to the CEO position a year later.
Editor in chief of Népsport, Ringier
Originally an English teacher, who later turned to freelance journalism and blogging with special focus on building online communities and content development. Among other things, he took part in the development of Soccerlens, a London-based football website, and contributed to Footbo, an international social networking website as an online community builder. Henrik has been editing NST, the biggest Hungarian football blog, since 2007, and is proud that Népsport came into being mostly based on the blog’s community. He has been working on the latest Ringier startup called Népsport since August 2010, which focuses on developing high-quality sports blogs on the web. Today, the network features more than 300 blogs with daily active users. Henrik is a devoted fan of the blogosphere and strongly believes that the new way of content provision will be successful in Hungary.
CEO, Weblib
He is dealing with search engine development since 2002. They created the toxicological search engine 'ToxSeek' for the National Library of Medicine (USA), the engine of Startlapkereső.hu, Profession along with health search and knowledge base 'HealthMash', also featured by Seedcamp. Their clustering system has been licenced by the American WebFeat. Since 2007 he shares his search-related thoughts on "Kereső Világ" ("Search World") blog. He can be contacted on Twitter under "EndreJofoldi" alias. He is CEO of WebLib LLC, Hungary which deals with intelligent customised search solutions.
COO, Index
Gabor is responsible for business development at Central European Media and Publishing.
He graduated at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences in the field of Management and Organization, and studied also Strategy at the Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
He started his carrier at Index.hu in 2000 as a project manager, and soon took new responsibilities as Publishing Director in 2001. From 2007 he was COO of the company, responsible for managing operations at Index and also for developing the strategy of CEMP.
As director of business development, he participated in a number of successful acquisitions (among others the ETARGET group and Honfoglalo.hu), and was also driving inhouse developments, such as the Inda services and Blog.hu.
Today he holds several positions in the extensive CEMP group: while still busy with several publications (Index, Totalcar, Velvet), he also chairs the ETARGET group that covers 9 markets of the CEE region with its contextual ppc advertising solution.
SEO manager, Hírek Média
She graduated from SZTE communications department with communication research and mediainformatics specialization in 2007.
She worked on an Eastern culture and martial arts magazine’s online edition between 2005-2006. Then she recognized the importance of SEO and usability however she didn’t know their names. After graduation she studied on this field more consciously. Her first jobs were telecommuting.
After one and half year in Italy, she came home, and she got a job at Hírek Média as a SEO manager.
First she handled the company’s sites, such as Depo, Jobinfo, Egyperces. Now they offer SEO as a service for customers. Her tasks includes managing PPC campaigns (adwords, etarget, ctnetwork), because she would like get a comprehensive picture from search marketing market.
Bónusz Brigád
Web consultant and a co-founder of the hugely popular index.hu website. Until 1998 he managed the Bratislava office of the news site Internetto. From 2000 until 2004, he worked for Westel900, which was to become the Hungarian arm of T-Mobile, as vice president for product development. Between 2005 and 2009 Zoltán worked as a web consultant for the Swiss media giant Ringier AG responsible for the Hungarian, Czech, Slovak and Romanian markets. Also in that period he launched his own web consultancy, Ipsilon, providing corporate training, management coaching, and consulting.
In 2010, he launched Bónusz Brigád along with Gábor Heller.
veddvelem.hu
He graduated as an informatics engineer from the Budapest Polytechnics (BMF) then got degree in economics from the Budapest Business School (BGF). After finishing his studies he took part in development and support of ERP systems in several multinational companies. From end of 2006 his focus moved on web development and Ruby on Rails framework. In parallel he imagined his solution of group shopping. From 2008 he has been developing online sales systems for insurance companies as a software developer at a dinamical informatics company called DBX Kft. in Budapest. With great support of this company they start Veddvelem in 2010 August.
sales director , Origo
István Kozari graduated as an economist, specialized in finances. After he started his career working for Unilever Hungary, he joined Initiative Budapest in 2001, where started as a media planner and buyer and later as a group head. He had been studying law on the University of Pécs while he also worked for DMS Agency in Zagreb, Croatia, responsible for client services.
Started to focus on digital communication from 2006 and became the division leader of Initiative's digital department, then from 2008 worked as the managing director of Fastbridge Hungary, member of the IPG group. He joined Origo in August, 2010 as the sales director of the market leader digital publisher in Hungary.
Partner, 3TS Capital Partners
He joined 3TS Capital Partners in 2007 and works on technology, media and telecom investments in the CEE region. Previously, he had been a private investor and legal/ business advisor at several early stage businesses. In the 90’s he was Managing Director of the Hungarian affiliate of Advent International and also worked as an investment banker with CA-IB Securities. He has a degree in law from the Szeged University, Hungary and a degree in Business Administration from the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
CEO, Videoton zrt
Peter LAKATOS was born in Budapest, in 1961. He graduated from the Technical University of Budapest as an electrical engineer in 1983. He went on to perform scientific work as Ph.D. student in computer sciences on “Man-Machine Interaction”.
He started his professional career at Műszertechnika Zrt. in 1986, where he participated among others in the establishment of the Eastern European foreign trade and the world-wide sourcing activity of the company. He played a prominent part in the set-up of the office automation business line of the company. He has been deputy CEO and Member of the Board of Műszertechnika ZRt. since 1991.
In 1991 he joined the shareholders of Videoton Holding Zrt, where he is a co-CEO and a member in the Board of Directors even today. Since 2007 he has been the joint owner and honorary president of Bravogroup. He and his wife Éva CSIBY established and have operate the charity website www.ad6kap6.hu made by Webconsult.hu Kft, a member of the Bravogroup, in 2008.
While bridge means mental recreation for him, his excellent physical condition is maintained by tennis and golf.
