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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).