Gábor Csizmadia

He started his professional career at his first job in 1979 at the Mechanical Laboratory, where he worked as a development engineer for PC-based industrial measurement data acquisition systems, and then continued his work at the Computer Science Coordination Institute (SZKI).

He gained organizational experience as vice president of the Cobra small cooperative, and then in 1989, immediately after the change of regime, he founded the Selectrade group of companies, of which he has been the owner and top manager since its foundation. His life was intertwined with the life of the company. He took on a pioneering role in the nationwide spread of personal computers and PCs, and in the process implemented numerous PC-based industrial measurement data collection and object protection systems. His main strength is the integration of PC-based systems.

He has delivered more than 100 major IT projects of national importance. Some of these that he always remembers fondly are: Company Information System, Bankruptcy Processing Central Office, instant Customs assessment system, NATO military operation simulation system, Prime Minister's Office intelligent object protection system, IBUSZ encrypted image processing video server, Ministry of the Interior multimedia language labs.

Other prominent projects: computerization of vocational schools in 1997; Equal Opportunities Project in 2002; Sulinet Express in 2003; Visiting fee machines in 2007; NAV Archives project in 2007; Establishment of NAV Electronic Print Production Plant in 2008.
Since 2012, it has been operating and continuously developing the 15-hectare Finommechanikai Vállalat (FMV) Industrial Park near Örs Vezér Square as the main owner.

In 2001, he founded NATO Profil Ltd. to support civilian NATO accession; their newspaper Tiszti Kaszinó reached all foreign missions.

Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, he founded the Information Security Technology Society, of which he was president for four years, and from this grew the Alliance for Security movement in 2002.

Between 2001 and 2009, he was the vice president of the National Association of Intelligent Settlements (ITOSZ), and a founding member of Localinfo, a municipal content provider.
He was also the chairman of the IT professional group committee of the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications (IHM) for two years.

In 2008, the Minister of National Defense recognized his professional work with a First Class National Defense Medal and a gold ring.
He became a Doctor of Geography at the University of Pécs in 2010. His successes were achieved through his multidisciplinary, comprehensive systems approach and strategic thinking, his task-oriented organizational skills, and his above-average work capacity (he works 10 hours a day even at the age of 65).