Elek Straub (Born November 19, 1944 in

Balatonfüred Balatonfüred (; ; ) is a resort town in Veszprém county, in Hungary. The town with a population of 13,000 is situated on the northern shore of Lake Balaton. It is considered to be the capital of the Northern lake shore and is a yachting destinat ...

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) is a Hungarian engineer, consultant, investor, philanthropist and businessman, known as former president and CEO of

Magyar Telekom Magyar Telekom Nyrt. (officially ''Magyar Telekom Távközlési Nyilvánosan Működő Részvénytársaság, Magyar Telekom Telecommunications Public Limited Company'' ) is one of the leading Hungarian telecommunications service provider com ...

Biography

Born in

, Straub obtained his MS in Electrical Engineering from the

Budapest University of Technology and Economics The Budapest University of Technology and Economics ( or in short ), official abbreviation BME, is a public research university located in Budapest, Hungary. It is the most significant university of technology in the country and is considered ...

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

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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 one of the leading Hungarian telecommunications service provider com ...

, which was

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

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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

Elek Straub
at fcpaprofessor.com

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