Gabor Renyi

Scientific associate at the Institute of Building Sciences (ÉTI) (1972-1978), deputy commercial director at Mechanikai Művek (1978-1981), director and head of innovation at Skála-Coop (1981-1983).

In 1983, he participated in the founding of Novotrade Rt. He was the founding managing director and chairman of the board of directors of the first Hungarian business company established in the form of a joint-stock company after 1948 until 1990.
Earlier, in 1981, he participated in the development, production and international sales of one of the most successful Hungarian logic games (Tower of Babel), and played a role in the international market launch of the first Hungarian hand-held electronic game, the XL-25.

Under his leadership, Novotrade Rt. became one of the world's largest independent game software developers, with countless successful video games to its name. These games ran on ZX Spectrum, Commodore, Atari, Apple, Amstrad, MSX and Enterprise home computers, IBM PC and Sega, Nintendo and Sony game consoles.
He founded Novotrade International, which later became world famous under the name Appaloosa. Under his leadership, Novotrade's software development team created Borland's famous Quattro software, which became the world's most widely used spreadsheet software after Lotus and before Excel.
At the same time, the company represented Microsoft, Ashton Tate and other renowned software development companies in Hungary for a long time. It was the first to organize the connection of Hungarian game developers to the Internet, which had already been operating at American universities in 1986, allowing them to regularly exchange data with developers in Silicon Valley from Budapest via a rudimentary modem.
Novotrade published about 1 million volumes of computer books in Hungary, which only dealt with home (mini)computers. It was under its organization that the Muzix machine built on the ZX-81 was introduced to the German and English markets.

Under his leadership, the largest Hungarian educational software studios were established under the brand names Delta-Soft and Okta-Soft. He launched the development and sale of countless business, complex bookkeeping and accounting programs, logistics, process management software and related hardware using home computers. These were so-called "off-the-shelf" software and hardware accessories, and they greatly helped the mass spread of generally usable systems in Hungary.

From 1984, he organized specialized retail units where computers, software, add-ons and books could be purchased (these were: Novotrade 2C store (Commodore), the Atari and Apple store, and then the Novotrade PC salon). From 1985, he also introduced computer leasing on a large scale, which was an unknown form of finance in Hungary until then; he arranged financing with banks.

He was the founder of the internationally successful ASK software development company (pattern recognition; software and hardware developed for mass laboratory testing; software development for special weighing systems). He became a partner and majority owner of the Andromeda group, which was one of the largest distributors of Sony Playstation and other software in England. He founded Intermusica Kft., together with the Japanese company Roland, which sold electronic musical instruments in Eastern Europe.

He is responsible for implementing the first Hungarian industry-wide business-to-business (B2B) application, developed jointly with IBM: the Sunbooks wholesale system, which was included in IBM's international reference list. Sunbooks Book Trading Ltd. was founded in 1999 and began operating in 2000. It was the first to introduce a completely new, online B2B business model in the domestic book market.
The users of the system were the players in the book market: nearly 2,000 book publishers and 5,000 book retailers received wholesale services with the help of this system. Sunbooks ensured the professional storage and delivery of books based on electronic orders received on the internet, with a high warehouse and automatic picking system through its logistics partner (initially the Hungarian Post, later ATI Depo), with on-site delivery within 24/48 hours.

Between 1991 and 2011, he was the Chairman and CEO of the publicly listed Novotrade Investment Company Plc. and its successor, Genesis Energy Investment Plc. From 2011, he was the owner and managing director of Novotrade Investment Company (Schweiz) AG.

Since 2013, he has been the owner and chairman of the board of directors of Happy Business Services Zrt.
Between 2015 and 2019, he was the owner and managing director of G-patent Industrial Law Ltd.
From 2016, he was a part-owner and managing director of Urosystem Research and Development Ltd.