3rdGEN Consulting and Service Ltd. is the first and only third generation consulting company in Hungary. The members of our Consulting Community are exclusively top- and high- level leaders – experienced experts who have managed large organisations and have 10-15 years of experience in CXX leadership roles, including many who have gained in the international arena. We believe that the expertise and experience of these leaders is priceless. We also believe that SMEs and their company leaders, as well as the middle- and top-level management of large companies need this knowledge in order to effectively face the challenges presented by the modern economic and business environment.

He gained 25 years of experience as a senior manager and later as a top manager of multinational companies, first in the field of FMCG and then in HR services, before starting the operation of 3rdGEN Zrt. together with his founding partners. A leader with outstanding knowledge and experience in the field of company management, service sales, and creation of corporate strategy. He considers his greatest achievement to be the fact that, as a senior manager, he was able to train and mentor leaders from among his colleagues who today work as successful company managers and senior managers.

After obtaining a qualification as an IT system organizer, in addition to working and studying in a German-speaking country, I have been working as a senior manager for 25 years. My work and my professional experience was defined by my 20 years in retail (Penny Market), during which time I had worked for 16 years as an executive and later as a CFO, building and then managing the IT and organizational development, logistics, human resources, finance accounting, controlling and legal areas. After years in the retail trade, I had worked as a supply chain director at PICK Szeged for 3 years, then got experience in the field of e-commerce. For the past 20 years, as a member of the board of directors of the German-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, I have been actively involved in the chamber's work, and as vice-president I was responsible for the supervision of dual and vocational training.

He worked as a Global HR Executive, head of international companies such as Iron Mountain, VISA, Nokia Siemens Networks and Nokia. During his work he spent years in Italy and the United Arab Emirates. One of its strengths is how HR should be a real partner in the business, part of the strategy. He is a true Business Leader who has developed HR into a business area that has outgrown the support function in these companies and has made a significant contribution to their transformation and business success.

He has worked primarily in finance and management for the past 20 years, of which he has spent more than a decade as a consultant mainly in large companies (e.g. EY, K&H Leasing Group, E.On, Deloitte, MVM). He was a senior executive at Assessment Systems, DBH Group and Deloitte. Endre spent half of his 20-year professional career in an enterprise environment and the other half in an SME environment, totaling more than 10 years as a senior manager. He was involved in the creation and successful international market of several companies. In recent years, he has primarily worked as a management consultant, mentor and interim manager.

Organization and leadership development consultant, trainer, and HR advisor. She is a senior professional with decades of experience in large corporations and international settings. She has experience in corporate leadership, primarily in HR executive positions (IKEA, Synergon). She is a developer of personal effectiveness and efficient collaboration, teaching communication and personal effectiveness at Metropolitan University for eight years. Sha has working with Thomas International leadership support tools for over 20 years.

CooperVision Kft., one of the world's leading contact lens manufacturers, is the number one regional manager in Hungary and Slovenia and a member of the CEE leadership team. As an economist, she has worked for multinational companies for 18 years in marketing and sales and management. As a visualist obsessed with innovative solutions, she founded his own start-up company, LIMESET, in 2015. In his workplaces (Unilever, Béres, Walmark, Merck, EGIS, CooperVision) she has always successfully changed the status quo. In 2020, coopervision was the most successful subsidiary in Europe under Covid-19.

During my more than two decades of business professional and managerial career, I have rooted and made a French beauty brand popular in Hungary. I have built, developed and operated a network of retail brand stores with more than 30 stores and the Hungarian webshop of the brand. In addition to my work as a business manager, I have a business coach degree in leading Hungarian and French coaching schools. I currently work as a coach and business consultant, primarily in the commercial sector and SME.

Laszlo was ceo of Vestfrost Zrt. for 9 years, where commercial and wine coolers are manufactured. He directed brownfield and greenfield investments here. It has introduced new warehouse, logistics, corporate governance and quality systems and has undergone an organisational transformation. He was an interim consultant on several occasions. He worked for 10 years at Electrolux's factories in Jászberény and Nyíregyháza as a production engineer and factory manager. Typically, it was responsible for the development and installation of technological processes – while coordinating everyday factory tasks.

I have 25 years of experience as a middle and senior manager in the automotive and railway sectors. Since 1997, I have been leading domestic and international organizations and projects in the fields of trade, production, service, logistics and procurement. My main professional areas are: change management, project management, and risk management. I am a graduated economic conflict resolution mediator. In 2009, I was voted Purchasing Manager of the Year by the Hungarian Logistics-Purchasing and Inventory Management Company. I am a member of the Hungarian Project Management Association, the Hungarian Society for Logistics-Purchasing and Inventory Management, the Purchasing Managers Club, the HTE Project Management Section, and the Medical Cluster.

He is a senior executive with extensive experience in effectively and effectively leading teams across national borders and corporate functions. He began his corporate career at Iron Mountain financial organization, where over time he became more and more responsible and eventually managed the entire Central European finance team, and subsequently became Iron Mountain's Vice President of Central Europe. After Iron Mountain, he founded his own consulting firm. In his senior management work, he faced a myriad of business and financial challenges, always trying to achieve optimal business performance, revenue and profit growth.

Gábor started and first became a people manager at Price Waterhouse, later became director in banking at ING Bank and worked as a manager/senior manager in various industries and companies. He led a canning company (Békéscsabai Konzervgyár), been CEO of an internet media company (Internetto Rt), worked at the CEO level in banking (K& H Bank), chaired a debt collection company (Kvantum), was a board member of a service centre (Diageo SSC), and a senior executive in a telecoms company (Vodafone). He has experience with SMEs, large multinationals and state-owned enterprises. He held several management positions in parallel, enabling him to work for longer periods in a single company. He managed several large international projects (e.g. building Diageo's global treasury from scratch in Budapest) and coordinated M&A transactions (e.g. the merger of KBC Bank Hungary and AbnAmro Bank Hungary). In 2016, he started working full-time in corporate advisory and leadership development. He is committed to the engaging-empowering and developmental leadership style and believes in consulting through experience.

Lóránt managed the sale of Budapest Airport Handling Kft. as managing director, and then continued to work as a co-managing director of the new owner, a Turkish company called Celebi. In 2007 he returned to Malév Ground Handling Zrt. as a CEO, which he led until April 2013, while in parallel, in 2011, the management of Malév Zrt. was entrusted to him until its shutdown. After that, he participated in the establishment of a private groundhandling small business, and after the establishment of Minibud Kft., the official bus partner of Budapest Airport, he acted as its managing director.

He started his professional career with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and ergonomics, research and teaching in work sciences, but after the first years of the system change, he headed procter&gamble's distribution center in Hungary for almost 2 years. This move almost 30 years ago became decisive, as after P&G, he continued as head of logistics at Amstel (now Heineken), director of supply chain Central and Eastern Europe at Nestlé Purina PetCare and director of European supply chain at Provimi Petfood. From 2009 he worked as a company manager at HAVI Logistics Kft. and STI Hungary Kft. (the latter part-time, in parallel), and then at Alois Steiner Kft. The nearly 30 years of logistical work were crowned by the PhD degree in economics obtained in 2021, where the topic of the dissertation was opportunities to improve the efficiency of partnerships and supply chain management. In his work and personal life, he attaches great importance to cooperation, to bring human values to the surface and to continuously increase efficiency, in which the qualification of KAIZEN Coach also helps a lot.

Managing Director of celanese's hungarian service centre (SSC). István has been working since 2010 at the budapest centre with 500 employees. He has previous experience in finance, accounting, controlling and project management in international and Hungarian companies (Energy Management Zrt, Contitech, BMW, EY). Experienced manager selection and development (graduated coach). Member of the Bureau of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), member of the United Way Hungary Bureau, former Vice-President of the Hungarian Association of Services and Outsourcing (HOA).

I have spent the last 20 years professionally in the FMCG sales field in the corporate environment of Coca-Cola and sc johnson. From my work experience and MBA studies, I have up-to-date international management and management experience in the business sector. I believe that the way to success is through continuous learning, openness to synergies and change, intensive team collaboration. My strengths: Developing strategic partner relationships, Revenue-to-profit growth, Process Management, Leadership Training, Mentoring.

Attila gained more than 10 years of management experience in sales and business development at OTP Bank. He has extensive professional and managerial experience in sales, business development, setting up and managing sales networks, improving process efficiency, developing customer management processes, CRM, and campaign management. In addition to implementing several strategic projects, he participated in agile transformation as leader and continued as an agile leader post-implementation. Currently, he is working as business development consultant, gaining experience in banking projects, business and financial planning, and B2B sales.

Professional and executive leadership career reflects 20+ years gained with industry leading multinational companies like ALCOA Inc., (USA) and Deutsche Telekom AG (Germany). Successfully led and introduced cost efficiency and cashflow improvement programs in both manufacturing (ALCOA), as well as service provider (Deutsche Telekom) industries. Nóra played a crucial role in positioning Procurement as strategic decision making function. She is an open-minded strategic thinker, whose passion is continuous efficiency improvement; collaboration-based internal and external stakeholder management; E2E focus and responsibility; targeting win-win solutions. Respected as an empathetic and inspiring people manager. She initiated and played an active role in strategic organizational transformations. Experienced working in both agile and matrix organizations.

For the past 30 years, he has worked in the local and regional markets of the European FMCG market. He gained experience in various sales, marketing and general management positions. During his career, he worked as a C-level manager at Unilever, ReckittBenckiser and the Intersnack Group. Over the years, his responsibilities included the development and transformation of various organizations, and the mentoring of the talents working in them. In addition to sales and general management, he also has experience in logistics and factory management.

I earned my degree as trade instructor at the Budapest Business School, Faculty of Commerce. In addition to my qualifications, I also participated in negotiation technique and mediator training programs. I have been working in the trade industry for 30 years, including 25 years in manager roles which include 14 years in senior management positions. I've been at my current job, at dm for 24 years. I started in sales as regional manager, and later worked as a procurement manager. Then I took over the management of the expansion department as company manager, where I am responsible for the complex management of 3 groups (acquisition, operations and business equipment), in addition I have regional sales management role, and I have also been acting as managing director for 6 years. Working in a multinational company, means that I have been and still involved in several international strategic projects. I really like working in a team, through personal interactions. My credo as a leader is that the leader's main job is to support his/her colleagues, creating the conditions so that those who work with him/her can develop in the best possible way.

Gábor worked for more than 30 years at Ericsson, one of the biggest telecommunications equipment suppliers in the world. In the last 9 years, he was the Head of the Hungarian subsidiary with 2000 employees and the Vice President for Central European Region, with P&L responsibility for Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. Previously, he spent several years abroad, in the United States, in Sweden (Stockholm). And in Russia (Moscow), when he was Vice President of Ericsson Northern Europe and Eurasia Region. He has more than 25 years of experience in B2B sales in the field of infocommunications and related services, as well as in the set-up and management of complex matrix organizations of multinational corporations. As Head of Ericsson Hungary, he contributed a lot to strengthen the excellent company culture and cooperation between local functional units. His belief is that the company works well when everyone is given the right job empowerment and that everyone feels ownership of their job, with clear goals and accountability.

I have worked for more than 25 years in multinational companies (Tengelmann, Linde, Bell Group) in various management (CEO, CFO) positions. Due to this, I gained experience in the field of food industry in Hungary, Germany and Romania, as well as got to know the machine industry and the IT sector in the domestic and multi-environment. During this time, I gained experience in, among other things, integrated system implementation, building controlling and accounting systems, crisis management, implementation of investment and acquisition projects, and management of manufacturing companies. I have been a member of the Board of Directors of the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce for 5 years. I am happy to share the knowledge and experience gained with the younger leaders, with whom working together and watching their development is always a great pleasure for me.

Zsolt has led purchasing organizations in 4 industries and 3 countries in 5 multinational companies (GE, MOL, Symbol, Telenor, Ericsson) in the last 30 years, including SSC design and international integration. He is a founding member of the Hungarian Purchasing Managers' Club and has been a board member of MLBKT ever since. The Purchasing Manager, launched jointly by MLBKT and Corvinus University, is one of the start-ups and still lecturers of postgraduate training. In this workplace, they are engaged in procurement training, outsourcing, consulting, organizational development.

Ildikó began her career at Deutsche Bank; these nearly 10 years have provided her with an excellent opportunity to gain a wide range of international professional experience. She then ran a Hungarian small bank controlling and later ran his financial field for more than ten years. As CFO, she was involved in supporting the bank's strategic decisions and played a significant role in several successful acquisitions that were decisive in the bank's life. She was involved in the bank's 2018 IFRS (International Accounting Standards), which was both challenging and a success for both professionally and humanly.

Digital business transformation consultant and trainer who contributes to the business success of his clients in digital business strategy, product/service development, workforce transformation and digitisation. For many years, Béla held senior management positions at large multinational companies in America and Europe. You have created several global business units at Cisco Systems. Its consulting clients include some large companies such as Cisco, Bertelsmann and Toys "R" Us and telecom operators such as Verizon, Telkom South Africa and Deutsche Telekom.

He has 20 years of experience as managing and financial director and process auditor in Hungary and internationally in manufacturing and trading companies (Cereol, Beghin-Say – food industry, Exir – mechanical engineering, Bayer, BASF – chemical industry) and media service provider (Express, RTL) and financial financing (ALD Automotive). Since 2007, its main activity in its own business has been to customize and operationalize enterprise solutions based on the needs of SME operators, in particular with regard to the development of management operations for companies with a turnover of 3 - 50 persons and 100M - 5 Billion.

He has more than 25 years of senior management experience in production, logistics, quality assurance and project management in multinational companies. Until 2020, Integer Holding, a U.S.-owned multinational company, will be responsible for the production and sale of medical devices. He previously worked for Johnson Electric, Euro Pool System, Sylvan Hungária Zrt., PepsiCo Snacks, Amstel Brewery Inc. in the operating and production fields. He has extensive experience in logistics and food (FMCG) fields.

Over the past 30 years, he has gained extensive senior management experience in telecommunications and IT outsourcing. From 2001 to 2004, he led the establishment of Mobimak in Macedonia as COO. After returning, he served as the SME division manager for the new company following the T-Mobile and Magyar Telekom merger. In 2008, he became the Director of Customer Relations and Operations Support at T-Systems Hungary. From 2012 to 2015, he was the CEO of IT Services Hungary. In 2016, he was the VP for Central and Eastern Europe at Liberty Global/UPC. In 2018, he joined Invitech ICT Services, and from 2019 to 2022, he was the Head of Enterprise and SME Sales at Telenor. In 2022, he returned to Invitech as CEO to oversee its transformation and the B2B integration of the 4iG group.

After 23 years in the oil industry and 3 years in the automotive sector, Gábor has been working as an interim executive and consultant for the past two years as an entrepreneur. Previously, he was involved in managing subsidiaries at Mol Plc. Later, he served as the technical director and head of the Ford Truck launch in Hungary and Slovakia, as well as leading the technical team of the VIArent commercial car and truck rental company. He has gained extensive experience in efficiency management, with a focus on operational, technical, and organizational transformation. His approach emphasizes creating a balance between the Bottom-Up and Top-Down processes that are people-centered. Gábor also participated in Mol Plc's Refinery Lean Transformation Program as a Stream Leader on the Mol side, in collaboration with McKinsey & Company's consulting project.

Éva has 20+ years of management, sales and pharmaceutical industry experience. She spent 11 years at Berlin-Chemie/A. Menarini Kft, and later 12 years at Egis Gyógyszergyár Zrt , in the non-prescription drugs business. Her main responsibilities were to build up the Sales Force (KAM, Area Representatives, Area Managers, Assistant Managers). People Management was a major part of her job besides developing sales strategy, team alignment, motivation management and working with co-departments incl. developing joint strategy with Marketing/Trade Marketing. During her career she built teams of 8-30 people , developed/managed performance, and sales targets. She has both B2B and B2C experience. She closely worked with Pharmacies in Hungary.