Péter Záboji

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Péter Záboji

Péter (Balazs) Záboji (born December 25, 1943 - † July 3, 2015 ) was a Hungarian industrial manager and business angel. He worked for Siemens AG for a long time and sat a. a. on the supervisory board of E-Plus .

Career

Záboji studied mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and physics at the Université catholique de Louvain , gained first professional experience at IBM and then went to France to acquire the academic degree Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Insead . He then joined Siemens at the beginning of the 1970s - he said he was the first employee with an MBA degree - and stayed there for 20 years, including five in the USA. In the company he was a. a. “Director Strategic Planning” for the entire communications area and joined the management of the Private Networks division. Then followed u. a. a position at the British telecommunications company GPT Communications, activities as a business angel in the Internet industry and in early 1999 the foundation of his first company, European Telecom Exchange AG (EUTEX).

In April 2000 - his "career seemed to be over", according to Manager Magazin - he was appointed to head Tenovis by the holding company KKR . He restructured the company significantly and, after a little over two years, moved to the supervisory board in the summer of 2002. The work he u. a. in his book Change! If you design your company of tomorrow positively today , it was not perceived positively in the press to the same extent. For example, Spiegel Online published a critical article in 2004 and added a. an anecdote that was missing from the author's point of view in the book: that Záboji knocked over a Tenovis employee on his scooter.

In his extensive résumé there are also numerous other companies and institutions in which he was active as managing director, board member, supervisory board or advisory board, including E-Plus , o.tel.o communications , Schoeller International, the RFID broker founded by Cornelius Boersch ACG, Brainloop, the Munich Network, STAR Private Equity and Zouk Capital. In 2003 Záboji became "Entrepreneur in Residence" at INSEAD and Associate Professor for Entrepreneurship. At the end of 2005 he founded the European Entrepreneurship Foundation in Liechtenstein. a. Falk Strascheg and Klaus Hommels belonged. In 2008 he moved the main focus of his activity to Hungary. On a cultural level, for example, he was a member of the board of trustees of the Budapest Festival Orchestra .

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b július: Elhunyt Záboji Péter, a startup világ egyik meghatározó szereploje. In: digitalhungary.hu. Retrieved November 29, 2017 (Hungarian).
  2. ↑ a b Eutex European Telco Exchange Ag: Peter B. Záboji: Executive Profile & Biography. In: bloomberg.com. Retrieved April 12, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Portrait: Peter B. Záboji. In: handelsblatt .com. January 1, 2003, accessed April 12, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Alpha Forum: Peter B. Záboji, entrepreneur, in conversation with Sabina Wolf , transcript of the broadcast on May 8, 2003. Accessed on April 12, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b Peter Záboji: Construction completed. In: manager-magazin.de. July 30, 2002, accessed April 12, 2018 .
  6. ^ Nils Klawitter: Brutal Investors: How KKR skeletonizes a company. In: Spiegel Online . April 14, 2004, accessed April 12, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Peter Záboji: The polygamous entrepreneurs - serial entrepreneurs help the start-up scene to shine again , in: VentureCapital Magazin, special edition “Start-up 2008”, p. 16f (download as PDF ).
  8. ↑ Peter B. Záboji: Peter B. Záboji on. In: about.me. Retrieved April 12, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Thomas Knüwer: Netzwert Reloaded LVI: Gold-Zack, Záboji and the wild hunt. In: indiskretionehrensache.de. September 12, 2011, accessed April 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Záboji, Péter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Záboji, Péter Balazs (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian industrial manager and business angel
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1943
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 2015