Mrs. Tamás Brányik (Zsuzsa)

His first job was at the Hungarian Ministry of Trade (1951-1961). He then worked at IBM. In 1971, he was appointed the first independent director of IBM Hungary Ltd.
His task was not an easy one: he had to find a balance between the interests of the government and the 100% American-owned company. During his successful work, the Hungarian customer base continued to expand, the copier business developed, and in July 1971, the IBM computer center, the so-called IBM Support Center, was opened. The center, designed for testing and demonstrating software, also provided processing capacity for customers.

Under his leadership between 1971 and 1974, the IBM/360 and then the IBM/370 systems were first used in Hungarian state administration. The largest systems in state administration and the majority of corporate computing systems soon used terminal-based IBM mainframes; this represented a significant advance in the application of domestic computing.

The IBM Newsletter, intended for customers, interested parties and colleagues, was published in 1977 and can be considered the predecessor of the Blue Rose magazine.

In 1981, a change of era occurred at IBM: the IBM PC was announced, which also played a significant role in its domestic distribution in the 1980s.

In 1989, Hungary was removed from the trade embargo (COCOM) list of Eastern Bloc countries. This provided an opportunity for IBM in Hungary to promote the AS/400 computer, introduced in the United States in 1988; the machine was available for purchase in Hungary within a year.

In 1990, IBM announced an educational program called the Academia Initiative, within the framework of which a computing center equipped with the IBM 3090-170J supercomputer was inaugurated at the Budapest University of Economics in September 1991.

He retired from IBM after 1990.