Elek Straub (Born November 19, 1944 in

Balatonfüred Balatonfüred (german: Bad Plattensee, sk, Blatenské Teplice) is a resort town in Veszprém county, in Hungary, with a population of 13,000, situated on the northern shore of Lake Balaton. It is considered to be the capital of the Northern lake ...

/ Hungary) is a Hungarian engineer, consultant, investor, philanthropist and businessman, known as former president and CEO of Magyar Telekom.

Biography

Born in

, 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."Elek Straub, Telecommunications and internet expert, entrepreneur," at ''linkedin. Accessed 02-03-2015. After his graduation Straub started his career in 1970 at the Enterprise Computing Center of the Ministry of Labour, where he became Head of the Department. From 1980 to 1990 he was Head of the Computing Main Department and then 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 Magyar Telekom Nyrt. (officially ''Magyar Telekom Távközlési Nyilvánosan Működő Részvénytársaság, Magyar Telekom Telecommunications Public Limited Company'' ) is the leading Hungarian telecommunications service provider company. I ...

, which was Magyar Telekom in 1996. He served as its chairman and CEO until 2006, and was succeeded by

Christopher Mattheisen Christopher Mattheisen (born 1961) is an American businessman and economist. He was the managing director of Microsoft Hungary from March 4, 2019. From 2006 to 2018, he was the CEO of Hungarian telecommunications company Magyar Telekom. Profess ...

. 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.

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.) ''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

External links

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by Richard L. Cassin, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. {{DEFAULTSORT:Straub, Elek 1944 births Living people Hungarian businesspeople Hungarian computer scientists Budapest University of Technology and Economics alumni