Speakers

Péter Oszkó is a financial specialist; he holds a law degree and is a certified tax expert. He started his career as a tax consultant with KPMG, and then joined the company’s London office as a member of the team offering consulting services to financial institutions. Later, he joined the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. He joined the Hungarian branch of Deloitte as a partner in 2004. From 2006, he oversaw the company's tax consultancy division; in 2007, he became president and CEO of Deloitte Hungary. He also headed the consultancy divisions of several other countries in the region. During his career, he has dealt with some of the biggest corporations in the financial and the energy sectors, telecommunications, media and technology, real estate, biotechnology and the pharmaceuticals industry, as well as a host of other large companies. He assumed a leading role in several business acquisitions, in the business and financial processes of corporate transformations, and in developing contractual terms for the companies involved. In recognition of his successes in business, finances, corporate leadership and process management, he was chosen Young Manager of the Year in 2008. From April 2009 until the 2010 national elections, he served as Minister of Finance in the technocrat government of the Republic of Hungary. His tasks included managing the financial crisis, with a specific focus on the transformation of the state budget and tax structures, the renewal of the pension and social support systems, restoring the market financing of the state budget, the oversight of state asset transactions, as well as conducting negotiations with international financial institutions and inter-governmental economic bodies. He has published and presented widely in practically all fields of finances, taxation, budget and economic policy as well as corporate leadership and management.

He graduated as an economist from the University of Corvinus in Budapest then completed studies in international finances and marketing management at the University of Erasmus in Rotterdam. He started his career as an investment analyst with Project Finance International Ltd. in Hague in 1995, then worked for Nutricia Netherlands BV in Rotterdam in 1996 where he was a financial analyst. He joined Accenture (Andersen Consulting) in 1996 and until 2001 he worked for Accenture’s Strategic Services first as a strategic consultant senior manager, later as a senior manager responsible for the telecommunications and e-commerce sectors. From 2001 he continued his professional career with A.T. Kearney as a dedicated account manager providing consultancy services to leading Hungarian telco companies, later in 2003 he became a senior manager of A.T. Kearney’s European Telecommunications Team responsible for major European projects in the field of mobile communications and internet services. He has been Chief Strategist of Magyar Telekom since September 2006. He had an outstanding role in creating the company’s new organizational structure and in elaborating MT’s growth strategy for the period up to 2010 which serves the basis for the new operational model of the company. As of April 1, 2009 he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Alternative Businesses and Corporate Development Business Unit by keeping his tasks as Chief Strategist of Magyar Telekom, as well. With his nomination he has become a Member of the Management Committee of Magyar Telekom. Due to organizational changes within the company he works as Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer from 1 September, 2009.

Shehryar is obsessed with entrepreneurship and creating value for companies. In the past 8 years he has worked in management consulting, private equity and venture capital-financed entrepreneurial startups. Since April 2010 Shehryar has been deeply involved in the ‘Groupon’ business. He was in the founding team of Groupon Europe working together with the founders of Citydeal and eBay Europe. He established and managed the Groupon Belgium operations, ramping up the team to 34 people and gaining #1 market position in Belgium. Shehryar then received the opportunity to join the founding team of Rebate Networks GmbH (Groupon’s biggest global competitor) to launch similar Groupon concept businesses in Eastern Europe. In September 2010 Sheheryar moved to Budapest, Hungary to launch Kupon Vilag Kft, which has now grown to a +41 person company in 5 months growing at an exceptionally fast pace in an extremely hot and highly competitive market. Shehryar holds an MBA from INSEAD (France/Singapore) and a Master in Economics from the Helsinki School of Economics (Finland). He speaks four languages and has lived in Belgium, France, Finland, Singapore, Pakistan and Hungary.

A pioneer in media architecture and internationally renowned media artist, Adam searched for years for a technology that would help him share his ideas with fellow colleagues. He couldn’t find a suitable solution so he envisioned and built Prezi in 2001. Selected Awards - Winner of the World Technology Award (WTN in assoc with TIME inc, New York) in the category of Arts, shared price with Usman Haque - I.D 50 – Selected as one of top 50 emerging designer worldwide by International Design magazine, NY - EU New Trends in Architecture, selected as one of 15 top emerging architect in 2008 within Asia-Europe

Gabriella established the book publishing department at Sanoma in 2003. The main orientation of the titles is documentary-informative, but a special and unique storybook serial for children was also introduced, the characters of which were animated to a cartoon, which is included in the book on a DVD. In 2010, the first multimedia storybook was created, which included a cartoon, an audio book, a TV-serial, the iPad version, and an interactive game attached to the print book. Gabriella directed the development of the www.polc.hu online bookstore, and she has been leading it from the beginning. The www.polc.hu bookstore has been merchandizing e-books in Hungarian since March, 2011. Gabriella is an active participant of the web shop development at Sanoma Media Budapest Zrt.