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Change in Magyar Telekom's management
Budapest, May 25, 2011 11:30
Magyar Telekom's Board of Directors appointed Róbert Budafoki to the
Chief Operating Officer position in charge of heading the Business Services
Business Unit (T-Systems) of Magyar Telekom, effective from June 1, 2011. As of
his appointment, Róbert Budafoki becomes a member of Magyar Telekom's Management
Committee.
Tibor Rékasi, who has headed the Business Services Business Unit since December
2010 on an interim basis, while retaining his previous tasks, will return to the
Managing Director position of IQSYS. "Tibor Rékasi has demonstrated an excellent
performance at accomplishing the challenges posed by the interim period. We
highly appreciate his work", Christopher Mattheisen, Magyar Telekom's Chairman
and CEO emphasized.
Róbert Budafoki is 44 years old. He graduated at the
Budapest University of Technology in electrical engineering. He started his
career at KFKI in 1991 as computer systems engineer. From 1992 he worked for
Olivetti as systems engineer, later product and account manager. In 1995 he
joined Cisco Systems Hungary as one of its founders and became General Manager
in 2001 and General Manager Consumer Business and Marketing Central and Eastern
Europe in 2006. From 2008 he was the founder CEO of Central Europe On-Demand
(CEOD) which provides software and cloud computing services for business
customers in eleven countries of the Central and South East European region
(Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey).