Ervin Kovács

He spent the mandatory one and a half year of practical training at the Hungarian Radio and Television after graduating. During his subsequent professional career, he was the leader of computer science, typically intellectual, collectives at renowned domestic computer science institutes for nearly 50 years.
He worked at the Central Physics Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA KFKI) for nearly 10 years, after a short initial period as a laboratory head.

In 1968, he was one of the founding members of the Computer Science Coordination Institute (SZKI), where hardware, software, and application systems were designed and sold. Until 1988, he was initially a laboratory manager, then a laboratory group manager, and finally a technical director at SZKI. For a while (during the long-term illness of the director general of SZKI, Zsolt Náray), he also worked as acting director general.

He was a member of various expert bodies of the Unified Computer System (ESZR), Mini Computer System (MSZR) and Microelectronics Base (MEB). He also acted as one of the representatives of Hungary in international relations.

From 1988, he became the educational director of the Computer Applications Company (Számalk), and then from 1992, the strategic director, and a member of the board of directors of Számalk Rt., which was formed through the transformation. In 1993, the Kft. (of which he was a member) formed by the management of Számalk purchased the strategic ownership share of the company from the Hungarian state following a successful tender, thus (indirectly) becoming one of the owners of the group of companies.
He formally retired in 2000, but continued to perform his duties as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Supervisory Board until 2005.