Members of the Board of Directors

Christopher Mattheisen
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Mattheisen (born in 1961) studied economics at Indiana University of Bloomington and at ColumbiaUniversity. He first came to Hungary in 1990 to start a strategic planning and business consulting company. In 1993, in his capacity as a marketing manager of U.S. West International, Mr. Mattheisen helped launch various Hungarian, Polish and Czech mobile service operators. He worked as the marketing and sales director of TMH between 1993 and 1996. Between 1997 and 1999, he ran sales and marketing activities of MediaOne in London and later worked in Britain as a business, sales and marketing director of BT’s Cellnet. In September 2002, Mr. Mattheisen became Chief Officer of Residential Services of Magyar Telekom and in January 2005, Chief Officer of the Wireline Lines of Business (“T-Com”, including Residential Services, Internet and Network divisions). From December 6, 2006, Mr. Mattheisen has been the Chief Executive Officer of Magyar Telekom, from December 21, 2006, he has been the Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors.

Dr. Ferri Abolhassan
Board member since April 2010

Dr. Abolhassan (born in 1964) joined IBM in California in 1989 and completed his doctoral work in Research & Development in massive parallel computing at SaarlandUniversity in Saarbrucken. Between 1992 and 2000, he worked at SAP Retail Solutions as a Sales Director and as a Managing Director. Between 2001 and 2004, he was Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at IDS Scheer AG. He was a member of top management at SAP AG as Executive Vice President. In 2008, he joined T-Systems International GmbH and he has been a Member of the Board of Directors of T-Systems and Chief of Systems Integration. From December 1, 2010, Dr. Abolhassan has been responsible for the New Production Unit as a member of the Executive Board at T-Systems.

Thilo Kusch
Board member since 2006

Mr. Kusch (born in 1965) studied communication engineering and business administration at Technische Universität Berlin. From 1989 to 1992, he successfully established and ran his own company selling PCs and PC networks to residential and small business customers. From 1992 to 1998, he worked in a leading position in Arthur D. Little’s Telecoms, IT, media and entertainment practice as a management consultant and from 1998 to 2001, he was telecommunications equity analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. He joined Deutsche Telekom Group in 2001 as Senior Director in charge of IPO preparations and investor relations for T-Mobile International. Since April 2002, he was a Senior Executive Vice president of Deutsche Telekom, in charge of investor relations. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Magyar Telekom in September 2006.

Günter Mossal
Board member since April 2012
Member of the Remuneration Committee

Mr. Mossal (born in 1961) qualified with a degree in Electrical Engineering at the Rheinisch-Westfälisch- Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen. He started his career in 1988 at Deutsche Telekom in a local branch office in Cologne. Between 1991 and 1995 he worked for the German Federal Ministry for Posts and Telecommunications. In 1995 he consulted the European Commission on the regulation for WLL applications. In 1996 he rejoined Deutsche Telekom. He was responsible for the business development in the UK and was member of the Board of Directors of the British Cable Company Eurobell. Between 2000 and 2002 he was Head of Investment Consulting for Western Europe. Since 2003 he is Vice President for Area management. He was member of the Supervisory Board of T-Mobile Croatia, member of the Board of Directors of Makedonski Telekom and member of the Board of Directors of T-Mobile Macedonia.

György Mosonyi
Board member since April 2012

Mr. Mosonyi (born in 1949) obtained a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Veszprém in 1972. From 1974, he worked for the Hungarian representative office of Shell International Petroleum Co., where he held the position of commercial director from 1986. In 1991 he worked at the Shell headquarters in London. From 1992 to 1993 he was the managing director of Shell-Interag Ltd. and from 1994 to 1999 he was the Chairman and CEO of Shell Hungary Ltd. In 1997 he also held the positions of head of the Central & East European Regional unit of Shell and in 1998 he was the CEO of Shell Czech Republic.From 1999 to 2011, he was the CEO and member of the Board of Directors of MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Company Plc. From 2006 to 2011 he was the Chairman, and since 2011 he has been a permanent invitee, of the Sustainable Development Committee of the Board of Directors. Since 2011, he has been the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of MOL.

Dr. Klaus Nitschke
Board member since April 2010

Dr. Nitschke (born in 1961) has a degree from the Cologne University in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree from the BostonUniversity and in 1992, a PhD degree as Doctor rerum naturalium from the Max-Planck Institute in Cologne. His career started in 1992 as a Top Management Consultant for Dicke & Associates Management Consultants. He participated in 1999 in the decision to sell the company to Deloitte Consulting, where he continued to work for another year. From 2000 to 2002, he continued his career with Bertelsmann AG as Chief Operating Officer of BOL AG (e-commerce book and CD retailer) and as Vice President, responsible for building up an MVNO. In 2002, he joined Deutsche Telekom where he has been in various management positions. He was first assigned as Area Manager for the Central European subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom: Magyar Telekom, Hrvatski Telekom and Slovak Telekom. Between 2003 and 2005, he led the Strategy department of Deutsche Telekom’s fixed line business in Germany. From 2005 to 2009, he worked as a Managing Director to build up a Product & Development unit which was later reintegrated into Deutsche Telekom. Currently he is working at Deutsche Telekom’s Headquarters as Senior Vice President Strategy Europe and Area Management Magyar Telekom Group, TM-NL and is acting as ICT Business Europe & Area Management Croatia.

Frank Odzuck
Board member since 2006
Member of the Remuneration Committee

Mr. Odzuck (born in 1959) obtained an economics degree in 1983 in Budapest. He was the managing director of the Hungarian operations of Eduscho and Eduscho-Tchibo for 8 years and later the managing director of Nestlé-Schöller Hungary Ltd. Since 2003, he has been the CEO of Zwack Unicum Plc., listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange. The company, producing and marketing a genuine “Hungaricum”, is one of the best-known international companies in Hungary (Underberg, Diageo).

Dr. Mihály Patai
Board member since April 2012

Dr. Patai (born in 1953) studied economics and obtained his doctorate at the University of Economics in Budapest.He studied in Moscow with the scholarship of Comecon in 1978, and at University of Vienna in 1981. He spent six months in London with the scholarship of a subsidiary of the Hungarian National Bank.He started his career in 1976 at Hungarian National Bank. From 1978 to 1988 he worked for the Ministry of Finance as a research fellow and, subsequently, as the deputy head of the Department for International Finances. From 1988 he worked for The World Bank in Washington DC for a period of five years, as the Executive Director’s Assistant. He was the Managing Director of Kereskedelmi Bank Rt. in 1993, and he was the Chairman and CEO of Allianz Hungária Insurance Ltd. in 1996. From 1998 to 2006 he was member of the Board of Directors of Matáv Rt. (now Magyar Telekom Plc.). Since 2006 he has been the Chairman and CEO of UniCredit Bank Hungary Zrt.

Dr. Ralph Rentschler
Board member since 2003
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee

After receiving a doctorate degree in economics, Dr. Rentschler (born in 1960) worked for four years for Robert Bosch GmbH as an expert advisor on business principles and methods. His areas of responsibility included investment analysis and cost accounting. He was Head of Group Controlling and Planning and Reporting Departments at Carl Zeiss from 1992 to 1997. His areas of responsibility included production and investment controlling, controlling of affiliated companies, M&A and strategic planning. Later he became Commercial Manager of the Brand Optics Division at Carl Zeiss, where he managed Accounting, Controlling, Data Processing and Purchasing. Dr. Rentschler joined Deutsche Telekom in 2001 and became CFO of the group-wide Fixed Net division. From July 2009, Dr. Rentschler has taken over the position as the Financial Director of the Board Division Southern and Eastern Europe in addition to his position as the CFO of the Fixed Net business. From July 2010, Dr. Rentschler took over the position of the Financial Director Europe.