Tamás Vahl

After graduating from college, he worked as a foreign trade sales representative (Metrimpex, Konsumex, Medicor). In the meantime, he learned to program on a computer, and thanks to his knowledge of German as a second mother tongue as a result of his childhood spent in Berlin, he was hired as a sales representative by the IT company Siemens (then called Sicontact). During the company's internal training, he gained serious expertise in the field.

After Siemens, in the 1990s he was entrusted with managing the Hungarian subsidiary of BB-Data (Berliner Bank's outsourcing company).
After two years, he became sales manager for IBM's industrial and commercial area.
After another two years, he took a management position at HP Enterprise Systems, which lasted four years.

After that, he became the commercial director of SAP Hungary, which had been founded barely a year earlier, and then its managing director from 2000 until the beginning of 2008. During this time, he pioneered the establishment of first an international customer support center and then a development center in Hungary. In recognition of this activity, he received a state award in 2005. Under his leadership, the 40-person company grew into a company employing more than ten times as many people.

After leaving the multi-world in 2008, he was the business development director at AAM Executive Informatics Consulting Ltd., and then from December 2008, he led the navigation and infotainment technology company NavNGo for three years through a difficult phase, achieving considerable success.

This was followed by real - mostly IT - micro- and start-up businesses, where he took on a role as either a consultant or a supporter of the investor side for two years. During this time, he implemented his earlier plan and wrote the book "The Giraffe's Neck", which discusses the activities, culture, and operating models of multinationals in Hungary in a readable manner, spiced up with many stories.

Realizing which of the corporate cultures was closer to him, he rejoined IBM in early 2013. For the first five years, he worked first in the Smart City solutions area and then as the Eastern European leader of the Energy and Utilities Services area. After spending many years in sales and management, he found his motivation and self-fulfillment in a new area: in the IBM Global Sales School, where he has been training new IBM entrants in sales and negotiation techniques, traveling to EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) countries.
Member of the board of the Association of Information Technology Enterprises (IVSZ). Between 2007 and 2009, he was the vice president of the NJSZT. Since 2007, he has been the president of the largest bilateral interest representation organization in Hungary, the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Award: Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2005).