György Kafka

Date of birth:
1959.08.29.
Place of birth:
Budapest
Education, professional qualification:
  • Programmer Mathematician - ELTE - 1984.

  • From 1985 to 1992, he was a software developer at Graphisoft, then vice president of international sales. From 1989 to 1991, he headed Graphisoft's US office. He held a partial ownership stake in Graphisoft until 1995.
    Later, he worked with Apple's specialists and managers and achieved outstanding success.

    In early 1991, he established his own business, Trans-Europe Ltd., of which he has been the owner and managing director ever since.
    Since 1992, it has been engaged in software distribution as the Hungarian partner of Adobe. It distributes a wide range of graphic, visual, multimedia and Internet software to resellers throughout Europe. The companies whose products it distributes started in the Apple Macintosh world, but later encompass a very diverse area in the creative software and hardware market. These - in addition to the already mentioned Adobe - include the following: Corel, Wacom, TeamViewer, JetBrains, Extensis, Pantone.

    He is the founder and operator of the szoftver.hu info portal; the portal aims to create a professional community. Since 2017, he has been organizing lectures and trainings on the use of the above-mentioned software under the name CinemART with the help of world-renowned creative professionals.

    In 2019, he transformed Trans-Europe Kft. into a Zrt., of which he has been the manager and professional director ever since.

    And what else is important
    • Family: one child. (2020 announcement.)
    • A defining experience for him was the 1870/71 academic year spent in Canada with his maternal uncle – Dr. Zoltán Zsigmond, then head of the department at the Statistics Canada office.
    • Hobbies: healthy lifestyle, meditation, sports (biking, skating, skiing, sailing, yoga), traveling, technology.

    Created: 2020.07.02. 11:58
    Last modified: 2024.06.06. 21:05
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