László Vinkovits

He began his professional career in 1976 at the Videoton Development Institute (VIFI), where he worked on the development of the R-5 computer system. From 1978, he led the international approval and production of the R-11 computer system. For this successful work, he received a ministerial commendation.

In 1978, he founded the Dormitory Computer Science Circle (KSZK) at the Zoltán Schönherz Dormitory of the Budapest University of Technology (BME), which then operated as a professional branch of the National Computer Science Association (NJSZT), and which has been contributing greatly to the self-education of IT students ever since.

Between 1979 and 1985 he worked on the development of application systems in the former Yugoslavia and in Germany. Between 1985 and 1992 he worked at VTD GmbH (Düsseldorf) and was responsible for managing German-Hungarian software cooperation. He initiated the entry of several software development tools into the Hungarian market (Microsoft, Clipper dBase, Ingres, Borland/Delphi).

In 1989, he founded the first German-Hungarian software development joint venture, VT-Soft Kft., of which he was the managing director until 1992. Between 1992 and 1994, he was the commercial director of Contoll and then of Microsystem.

In 1995, he founded his own company, Unisoftware Rendszerház Kft., which he positioned as a supplier of large-scale enterprise software solutions. As a development tool, Uniface 4GL technology was represented as a partner of Debis IT Services (Daimler Inter Services), the largest German system house. After several successful large-scale complex IT reconstruction projects (renewal of the ERP systems of BKV, Volán Companies, Magyar Posta), the German partner, Unisoftware Kft., acquired 90% of the business and established debis IT Services Unisoftware Kft., which he managed as managing director. This was the first foreign IT acquisition in Hungary, which was awarded the title of IT Manager of the Year by the Association of Information Technology Enterprises (IVSZ) as a recognition of its performance.

In 2010, after Deutsche Telekom acquired Debis Systemhaus in Germany and established T-Systems International, the Hungarian company was also transformed into T-Systems Unisoftware, then T-Systems Hungary Kft., which he continued to lead as Managing Director until 2006. The company grew from four people to a company with 600 employees in 10 years. After MATÁV took over T-Systems Hungary from Deutsche Telekom AG in 2004, he continued to work as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of T-Systems Hungary.

In 2007, he joined his family company, Ker-Soft Kft., which his wife Eszter Vinkovits founded in 1992 to distribute software development tools.

Awards: Ministerial Commendation (Minister of Industry, 1979); IT Manager of the Year Award (IVSZ, 1999).