Experienced management consultant and senior data scientist who helps corporate and public clients with financial and business analysis, evaluations, regulatory impact analysis, market research and business planning.

Familiar with the economic, financial and legal aspects of acquisitions, investments and divestments, setting up and liquidating undertakings, economic analysis for competition law and merger approval, utility price regulation, assess to infrastructure networks. Team leadership, project management, budgeting. Experience with corporate C-level and board level decisions, public governance on national and EU level.

I started a foreign investments consultancy in Budapest with a small team in Budapest, later moved to the Netherlands and associated with Candole Partners, a consultancy that provides market and transaction analysis and advice to firms investing and operating across Central and Southeast Europe.

• Financial and economic planning for transport and energy infrastructure projects (CBA, NPV, IRR, demand, ex ante, ex post evaluations, corporate and EU funded)
• Management consulting with corporate finance and quantitative methods (NPV, IRR, ROIC, sales forecasting, cost drivers, time series or panel data analysis)
• Regulatory impact assessment, compliance issues, regulatory changes (tariff calculations, impact on revenue, market share, taxation, etc, SCP and competition authority models)
• Supporting foreign direct investment / buy-side clients (market research, target and location selection, due diligence, fair value)
• Experience in managing a small fund with one acquisition, transactional support, disinvestment. Experience in transport, energy, media, online publishing, copyrights, insurance.

My company started cooperation with Candole Partners in 2010 and became associated in 2013. In Hungary it is chartered as VSG4 Investments and in the Netherlands as Visegrad Investments.

As Commissioner for Rail Regulation responsible for proposing a policy model and draft legislation for opening the Hungarian railway market for private entry (2005).

As first executive chairman of the railway regulatory body Hungarian Rail Office (2006-2008). Creating legislative and contractual arrangements for about 20 new entrants (third-party insurance, access rights and pricing, financial assessment of railway undertakings, etc) and to prepare ground for tendered privatizations in the railway cargo business.

After returning from London from a Future Leaders Programme with the Chevening Scholarship advisory position in Hungary’s EU accession and economic policy making.

Professional / advisory responsibilities: economic policy advisor on implementing EU energy and transport liberalization, institution building, oversight of a public sector information projects (ministry of economy and transport), ex-post evaluation of Hungary’s government investments, training ex post evaluation unit (national development agency), drafting railway policy option (transport minister)

Managerial responsibilities: consolidation of governmental information management systems, economic chapter Information Society Strategy of Hungary policy document.

Junior banking consultant at ITCB, a private know-how transfer entity that helped the transformation to a two-tier banking regime in Southeast Europe with vocational training and consulting services. Tasks: training needs assessment, business research in banking, insurance and mortgage markets (opened at that time for foreign investors and privatization).

On study leave from September 2001.