Kristóf Kocsis

He began his career at the Building Engineering and Electrical Design Company (ÉVITERV), where he participated in individual automation projects as a design engineer. Among other things, he designed scoreboard equipment. In the meantime, he worked for a short time in Vienna, at AEG, solving control technology tasks for the Austrian energy distribution network. Later, he worked at the company's computer engineering department, implementing various (power, lighting) design projects.

In the early 1980s, he worked at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Service, then made a sharp shift towards professional journalism. First, he was the editor of the test section at the consumer protection magazine Nagyító – which was unique at the time behind the Iron Curtain – and then he was a journalist at the then Magyar Hírlap. Later, until the change of regime, he headed the industry and technical-scientific section at Delta Impulzus.

In 1989, he founded and served as editor-in-chief of the PC magazine Computer Panoráma, the Hungarian version of the German Computer Persönlich, until the turn of the millennium. In 1993, he also took over the management of the publisher. In the following seven years, the publisher's turnover quadrupled, and its portfolio expanded with new computer technology magazines and professional book publications that followed current trends.

Between 2000 and 2002, as the account director of Vision Communications Kft., he shaped the communication strategy of leading companies in the industry (City Reach Hungary, Dataplex, Ricoh, Fujitsu Siemens Computer). Later, he took on the task of setting up a new editorial team for Chip magazine, which was experiencing a personnel crisis, and repositioning the magazine on the domestic market. He managed to complete the task in record time: the magazine's circulation began to grow the most dynamically in the category of PC magazines.

In 2005, he utilized his experience gained in professional magazine publishing as the managing director of the Burda fashion magazine publisher, which was relaunched after two years.

Until his retirement in 2009, he led the family-owned communications and publishing company Comedit.

In 1985, he received the Journalist Award.