Members of the Management Committee

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.

Thilo Kusch
Chief Financial Officer
Member of the Board of Directors

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.

Róbert Budafoki
Chief Operating Officer, Business Services Business Unit

Mr. Budafoki (born in 1966) 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).
He was appointed 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.

Attila Keszég
Chief Sales and Services Officer

Mr. Keszég (born in 1966) graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics as a qualified mechanical engineer before attending an MBA course specializing in financial and management studies. He started his career in 1992 at Hemingway Holding, then he worked for Dove Mid Europe. In 1994, he joined Pepsi Cola Hungary first as Key Accounts Director, then Project Manager, later Unit Manager Central Hungary managing field sales, delivery and warehousing. From 1999, he worked as Sales Director of Pepsi Cola Hungary and from 2001, as Sales Director for Traditional Trade Central and Eastern Europe responsible for the Hungarian, Polish, Czech and Slovak markets. From 2005, he was the General Manager of Red Bull Hungary. From September 1, 2010, he has been Chief Sales and Services Officer of Magyar Telekom.

Istvan Kiraly
Chief Marketing Officer

Mr. Király (born in 1965) graduated from the Institute of International Relations in Moscow with a major in international economic relations. He received a specialized economics and business English translator and interpreter qualification from the Foreign Trade College Budapest in 1992 and MBA qualification from OxfordBrookesUniversity in 2000. He joined Magyar Telekom from Pannon in 2004 as a business development manager and he was in charge of Strategy and Marketing Director in the Business Services Business Unit from 2008. As a result of the organizational changes effective from July 1, 2010, he has been appointed Chief Marketing Officer of Magyar Telekom.

István Maradi
Chief Technology and IT Officer

Mr. Maradi (born in 1964 ) graduated in 1989 from the Technical University of Budapest with a degree in communications engineering, specializing in GSM and mobile communication, then in 2000 obtained an MBA degree at the Open University of London. He started his carrier in Matáv PKI Research Institute as mobile telecommunications researcher. Then he participated in the start-up of Westel Rádiótelefon Ltd. with responsibility for network design. In the initial period of the company’s operations he worked as design engineer, then as radio engineer, and from 1992 as director for network operations. From 1995, he was director of operations and core network planning at Westel 900 Rt. From 2001 to 2006, he worked as Chief Development Officer, Chief Information Officer and Deputy General Manager of T-Mobile Hungary. From 2006 to 2007, he worked for Cisco CEE as a market analyst in charge of business development support for the local Cisco offices in 17 European countries. From April 1, 2007, he has been Chief Information Officer of Magyar Telekom and from January 1, 2008, Chief Technology and IT Officer.

Balázs Máthé
Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer

 Dr. Máthé (born in 1968) received his law degree from Janus Pannonius University, Pécs in 1995. His previous studies included EU Law Studies at the Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy and a few semesters at the Faculty of Arts (History and Languages) of Janus Pannonius University. Prior to joining Magyar Telekom, he worked as an attorney at various international law firms for over a decade, including five years at one of the leading global law firms, Linklaters, where he was a Partner and the Head of the Corporate Department in Budapest. As an attorney, he specialized in cross border mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters. He joined Magyar Telekom as Group Legal Director in 2007. He was appointed Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer of Magyar Telekom as of July 1, 2010.

Róbert Pataki
Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer

Mr. Pataki (born in 1971) graduated as an economist from the CorvinusUniversity in Budapest and then completed studies in International Finances and Marketing Management at the University of Erasmus in Rotterdam. He started his career as an investment analyst at Project Finance International Ltd. in The Hague in 1995 and he worked as a financial analyst for Nutricia Netherlands BV in Rotterdam in 1996. He joined Accenture (Andersen Consulting) in 1996 and until 2001 he worked for Accenture’s Strategic Services, first as a strategic consultant, later as a senior manager responsible for the telecommunications and e-commerce sectors. From 2001, he continued his professional career with A.T. Kearney as a dedicated account manager providing consultancy services to leading Hungarian telecommunications companies; later in 2003, he became senior manager of A.T. Kearney’s European Telecommunications Team responsible for major European projects in the field of mobile communications and Internet services. He has been Chief Strategist of Magyar Telekom since September 2006. As of April 1, 2009, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Alternative Businesses and Corporate Development Business Unit by keeping his tasks as Chief Strategist of Magyar Telekom as well. Due to organizational changes within the company, he has worked as Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer from September 2009.

Éva Somorjai
Chief Human Resources Officer

Ms. Somorjai (born in 1966) completed her studies at the College for Commerce and Catering. From 1989, she worked at the international directorate of Magyar Hitelbank. From 1991 through 1994, she was the administrative and financial manager of a real estate investment company in Melbourne, Australia. Between 1996 and 2001, she worked in various management positions in the human resources area of Pepsi Cola’s Central European division. In 1999, she was appointed human resources director of the international organization and personnel development area, from 2000 she filled the position of human resources director of the Hungarian company. She has been working for Magyar Telekom since October 2001. Since 2002, she served as Director of the Group HR Branch. From April 1, 2007, she has been Chief Human Resources Officer of Magyar Telekom.