Second generation entrepreneur, head of the KÜRT Academy, owner. He works with first and top managers and owners of companies to significantly improve their strategic and management effectiveness, collaboration and value creation. His interests focus on the interplay between human nature and technological efficiency.

Previously, he led the research and development business at KÜRT Information Security and Data Recovery Ltd., and before that, he served as Chief Strategy Officer at USAnotebook.com. He holds a bachelor’s degree in technical management with a major in entrepreneurship and a master’s degree in organizational development and coaching with a major in innovative team development.

His social responsibility included renewing the leadership of the KÜRT Foundation High School and founding the Association of Responsible Family Business in Hungary in 2009, of which he has been a board member since then. In recognition of his achievements, he was elected to the board of the Family Business Network International Next Generation in 2010 and to the board of the European Family Businesses Association in 2011. He has since led owner-leader exchange programmes in all three organisations.

Csaba has over two decades of experience facilitating organizational transformations as well as global team and leadership development programs. Csaba graduated with a master’s degree in economics and he also holds a post-graduate diploma in organization development and supervision. To learn more about development in multicultural business settings, he completed extensive international professional development programs.

During his consulting career, Csaba’s clients have included Lego, ING Bank, Pepsi, Pfizer, Hungarian Telekom, Tesco, Teva, Vienna Insurance Group and others, including leading local, Hungarian companies. Many of his assignments have been related to leadership development, strategy deployment, organizational transformations and effectiveness increases for leadership teams. These projects often involved intercultural management teams.

Engineer, Senior Consulting Partner at KÜRT Academy, startup- entrepreneur, 33 years of experience in IT. He worked as a manager at Microsoft Corporation, managing the enterprise business for 7 years and then lead the local Microsoft subsidiary for 7 years as CEO. He then spent 3 years at Microsoft’s regional headquarters in Munich as COO for the enterprise business. He has worked as a startup entrepreneur and was Vice President of the IT Business Association for 7 years, leading the IT chapter. He participated as a technical lead in the development of the Export Strategy of the Digital Wellbeing Programme. In 2016 he joined the KÜRT Academy, which he led from 2018 to 2023. He is currently a Senior Partner of KÜRT Academy, an expert in leadership, strategy and digital transformation.

Tímea’s decades of experience in marketing management comes largely from the IT industry, having worked at Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and the Association for the Digital Economy in Hungary (IVSZ). Starting in enterprise segment marketing, as a server business unit manager, then as a partner strategy and program director, marketing communications and operations manager, she has built well-functioning and successful marketing teams and business units. After professional, business and organizational development of the data-driven marketing agency Nitro, he now serves as the marketing lead for a national EdTech startup. His personal mission is to ensure that the role and added value of marketing is increasingly recognised and put in place in more and more companies, whatever their size, profile and maturity. He enjoys working to shape the mindset of business decision-makers, develop marketing professionals and ensure that marketing teams work together effectively.

He started his career at Budapest University of Technology (BME), intending to become a researcher, until the regime change swept him away and forced him into a business career. Over almost 25 years, he has worked in almost every area of the oil industry, both at home and abroad, managing refineries and running commercial organisations, but always returning to the biggest challenge of the oil industry: the total optimisation of the value chain. Today, full-time, he wants to make the world a better place by spreading Lean methods in petroleum refining and in other areas of life.

Róbert Byssz has more than 15 years of experience in the transformation of large global companies. Róbert was responsible for the global transformation of Philips in more than 100 countries. The main goal of this transformation was to completely replace Philips’ business and operating model. More than 70,000 employees of the company were trained in agile and lean methods and, together with the team, they achieved the transformation of Philips from a manufacturing holding company established in the 1970s into the world’s first listed HealthTech company.

In addition to several professional awards, Philips’ transformation was mentioned by Harvard Business Review as one of the 20 most successful digital transformations in the world in its article on the subject in 2019.

Later, Róbert tested the knowledge he acquired in the corporate sector in the startup and scale-up world, where he worked to make fast-growing, dynamic companies more successful on a global and European level.

Economist, IT leader, SAFe Agilist, with 5+ years strategic level Agile transformation experience, 15+ years reorganization and efficiency related project and program management background in BIG4 and international environments. He oversaw digital transformation efforts (BIGDATA, Customer Platform, CRM) driving the Agile transformation at E.ON. His main interest is defining and implementing value adding change, at organizational, process or cultural level.

CEO, AI and Digitalisation expert
Szilárd Orovica is the CEO of KÜRT Academy, a business consultant and economist. He started his career in Frankfurt at PricewaterhouseCoopers, spent nearly nine years in German-speaking countries, then became a managing director at a Siemens subsidiary in Germany, before taking up a managing director position at Infineon Technologies, a semiconductor manufacturer with 800 employees. He was Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of KUKA Robotics, a manufacturer of robot control cabinets, for seven years, and was a board member of the German-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for several years. He then became CEO of Bubbles International Zrt, a start-up with 60 owned and franchised automated laundries.
Besides managing the KÜRT Academy, he is also involved in corporate consulting and training support. On the corporate consulting side, he focuses on strategy creation and financial consulting related to AI and AI implementation, as well as manufacturing process analysis and digitalization. He has been a visiting professor of Corvinus University of Budapest on Industry 4.0 for several years.