Elek Straub

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Elek Straub (Born Nov. 19, 1944) is a Hungarian engineer, consultant and businessman, known as former president and CEO of Magyar Telekom.[1][2]

Biography

Born in Balatonfüred, Straub obtained his MS in Electrical Engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1968, where he continued his Postgraduate studies in business administration from 1970 to 1972.[3]

After his graduation in 1968 Straub started his career at the Enterprise Computing Center of the Ministry of Labour, where he became Head of the Department. From 1980 to 1990 he was Vice President of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, and from 1990 to 1995 Country General Manager (CEO) for IBM Hungary. In 1995 he was appointed CEO of MATAV, which was Magyar Telekom in 1996. He served as its chairman and CEO until 2006, and was succeeded by Christopher Mattheisen.

After his retirement at Magyar Telekom, he has been President of the Hungarian Yachting Association from 2007 to 2012, and since 2010 is Chairman of the Board and Managing Partner of Day One Capital.[3]

Selected publications

  • Elek, Straub, and Tolnai György. A Külföldi Folyóiratok Központi Katalógusának számítógépes rendszere. Budapest: OSZK (1982).
  • Straub, Elek. "IN HUNGARY." The Impact of New Technologies on Information Systems in Public Administration in the 80s: Proceedings of the First International IFIP Conference on Governmental and Municipal Data Processing, Vienna, Austria, 23–25 February 1983. North Holland, 1983.
  • Kovács, Péter, and Elek Straub, (eds.) Govermental [ie Governmental] and Municipal Information Systems: Proceedings of the IFIP TC8 Conference on Governmental and Municipal Information Systems, Budapest, Hungary, September 8–11, 1987. Vol. 1. North Holland, 1988.

References

  1. ^ Imogen Bell (2002) Central and South-Eastern Europe 2003. p. 331
  2. ^ Jack W. Plunkett (2005) Plunkett's Wireless, Wi-Fi, RFID and Cellular Industry Almanac.
  3. ^ a b "Elek Straub, Telecommunications and internet expert, entrepreneur," at linkedin. Accessed 02-03-2015.

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