2004 – Dec. 2010 National Office for Research and Technology, Budapest

General Vice President

As one of the two vice presidents, I was responsible for general affairs of the 165 staffed funding agency of the Hungarian government handling 100-150M Euro annual funds.My task was to plan, coordinate and manage the complete scale of activities that the organisation must accomplish: R,&D policy planning and  implementation, regulations,  European affairs. In this context I worked in close relation with middle managers, set objectives, check progress and make adjustments in order to fulfil our mission. This role also required extensive external relationships and cooperation with professional associations within Hungary, EU and other governmental organisations. I represented Hungary in EU research affairs such as CREST, Eureka, and a number of other joint initiatives.  

2003-2004 Office for Research Fund Management and Research Exploitation, Budapest

Director general

Responsible for complete contract management of R&D&I funded from the Hungarian Innovation Fund and EU Structural Funds

Manage activities of the executive agency with 80 personnel,

Provide human, technical, financial resources and ensure that they are used effectively,

Implement competitive calls for proposals and organise peer review evaluations in close cooperation with the policy-making unit of NKTH and Steering Authorities

Establish, manage, monitor funding contracts 

2000-2003 Ericsson Hungary Ltd., Budapest

Director of the R&D Support

Responsible for managing operational support of the R&D Unit 

1996 -2000 EUREKA Secretariat, Brussels

Deputy Head of Secretariat (As diplomat four year secondment from the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

• • • Responsible for budget and business planning
    • Active interest in the development of strategic initiatives, building close contacts with industry
    • Closely involved in strategic planning and formulation of Medium-term Plan
    • Statistical analyses and monitoring of the project portfolio.

1992- 1996 Ministry of Industry and Trade, Budapest

Deputy director – Department of Innovation

• • • Responsible for quality matters, technical regulations.
    • Successfully completed the transformation of several testing and certification institutes to private companies.
    • Responsible for coordinating R&D acticities in industry, especially SMEs
    • Formulating technology policy including the restructuring of the innovation infrastructure (state-owned contract research organisations to private enterprises)
    • Special assignment to head the Board of directors for a large manufacturing company under privatisation.

1990 – 1992

Self-employed project manager

Commissioned to manage a team of software developers working for Hungarian pharmaceutical companies to develop a laboratory information system for the computer assisted certification of drugs 

1989 – 1990 Gedeon Richter Pharmaceutical Works, Budapest

Departement for Quality Assurance, system engineer

Responsible for design and implementation of a Laboratory Information System. 

1981- 1990: Technical University of Budapest

Faculty of Analytical Chemistry, fellow researcher

Research and lecturing in chemometrics, expert systems, quality assurance systems 

1980 – 1981 Research Institute for Plastics, Budapest

Fellow researcher

Responsible for computer processing of analytical data 

1975 -1980 Research Institute for Technical Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Veszprém, Hungary

Junior later fellow researcher

Responsible for the mathematical modelling of chemical processes (crystallisation)