János Szlankó

He began his professional career at the Measurement and Computing Research Institute (MSZKI) of the Central Physical Research Institute (KFKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. As a system developer, he participated in the development of BASIC compiler programs, an integrated circuit design system, and the petroleum product pipeline management system of the Hungarian Petroleum Transportation Company (ÁFOR).

Between 1985 and 1990, he served as the director of the KFKI MSZKI. In addition to his managerial work, he also contributed to projects: the Paks Nuclear Power Plant: unit 3-4 control system and the full-scale training simulator of the control room; the Tokamak T10 fusion reactor computer control system of the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow; the national computer networks of the Hungarian Telecommunications Company (MATÁV) and the Central Statistical Office (KSH); the development and small-scale production of the TPA 440, 780, 730 computers.

After the organizational transformation in 1990, he was one of the founders of the private company KFKI Számítástechnikai Zrt. (commonly known as: KFKI Számítástechnikai Csoport), and was its president until 2011. With good business sense and together with his fellow researchers of similar abilities, he built one of the largest domestically owned IT groups in a decade. The group of companies brought together a number of companies that held leading positions in domestic IT development, trade and system integration. (For example, the machines manufactured by KFKI before 1989 were used by large state-owned companies and energy service providers, including the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, in addition to research institutes. One third of the Group's revenue came from government orders.)
The most notable projects of KFKI Computer Science Ltd. (1990-2011), in which he directly participated: HM (Ministry of Defense) financial system; OITH BV (National Judicial Council Office for the Execution of Sentences) system; OTP (National Savings Bank) large application systems; Ministry of the Interior (BM), Hungarian State Railways (MÁV), EUnet, PanTel data communication networks; Recoderm, the world's first palmprint recognition system for Lockheed Martin.

Since 2007, he has been the managing director of his own investment management company, HOLYSTOR Ltd. His more interesting investments were/are in the healthcare and youth education sectors (see below).

He was the president of the Hungarian Content Industry Association (MATISZ) between 2005 and 2015. At first, it was just a hobby for him, but his work there became the inspiration for his investments, which he started in 2007.

In 1994, he was one of the initiators of the development of the National Infocommunications Strategy (NIS). He worked on this project until 1997, and for a while he was also the head of the editorial committee.

Among his important awards are the Neumann Prize (NJSZT) received in 1996, and the Eötvös Loránd Prize (Council of Ministers) received in 1990 for the production and application of TPA machines.