Zoltán Tömpe

As a student, he won first prize at the National Conference of Scientific Student Circles in 1973. Between 1974 and 1982, he worked at Videoton Foreign Trade Co., Ltd.; initially as a sales representative in the Soviet export department, later as a market researcher in the marketing department. He participated in the KMST computer technology price negotiations and played a role in managing Videoton's French relations. He was the first person from Videoton to visit Japan and China.

Between 1983-86, he worked as a foreign trade economist at the National Market Research Institute on electronics and IT projects, and then between 1986-88, he worked in Tibor Vámos' group at the Computer Science and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (SZTAKI).

He was active in publishing in the 1980s. He published nearly 90 publications on computer science, IT, foreign affairs, and public affairs in numerous journals, including in English. He also translated professional books.

In 1988, he joined Győző Kovács' team: the Számalk Distance Learning Center. In 1989, Győző Kovács, a few colleagues and an English partner founded the Számalk Open Business School (OBS) Ltd. Between 1989 and 2006, he was its managing director. This was the first distance learning and also the first private business school in Hungary (so-called business school, where over time several thousand people received their MBA and DMS degrees). OBS organized the distance learning educational programs of foreign institutions (four English universities: Buckinghamshire, Brunel, Sunderland, Durham and the American ICS) and supported them with Hungarian consultation. Under his leadership, OBS also won two EU Phare educational tenders between 1994 and 1996, where they provided further training to corporate senior and then middle managers. In 2006, Számalk OBS was merged with the main owner Számalk Oktatási Rt.

Subsequently, between 2006 and 2020, he founded and led two private art colleges with a French background (VISART and MODART). In these, IT also played an important role in the Graphic and Numerical Design departments (in the subjects Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Graphic Design and UI/UX). He retired in 2020.