The most successful IT CEOs of the year have been awarded

Being in its 12th year, IVSZ-established award was given to CEOs and young talents achieving outstanding performance in Infocommunication sector. The committee of the award named after Tibor Gyuros has chosen two candidates out of the ones that had the most nominations. In 2009 the IT CEO of The Year award was received by Dr. Gabor Kornai, chairman of AAM Management Information Consulting Ltd., the Young IT Entrepreneur award was received by Sandor Kiss, CEO of Sense/Net Ltd. Presenters of the awards were Janos Keresztesi, chairman of IVSZ, Ferenc Baja, commissioner responsible for government informatics, Elek Straub, chairman of the jury, member of the directorate of Graphisoft Zrt.

The IT CEO of The Year:  Dr. Gabor Kornai

Jury containing well-known economy and IT experts and chief editors of newspapers and weekly magazines chose “The IT CEO of The Year” and “The Young IT Entrepreneur of The Year” on the basis of the nominations of ICT experts.

Former title was received by Dr. Gabor Kornai, chairman and one of the establishers of AAM Management Information Consulting Ltd. managing the AAM companies for 15 years. Since the establishment in 1994 – when it had only 10 employees –, AAM developed to a company now employing 220 people, realising 4.5 billion HUF a year. The company itself is currently present in 11 countries, has offices in 3 countries, and the 25% of its yearly income derives from foreign projects.

Gabor Kornai plays a vital role in the development of the company: as a CEO he is mainly responsible for defining the strategy of the group of the AAM companies. He is extremely proud of having been able to executing their strategic plan for 2006-2008. Apart from his day-to-day duty as a CEO, he also lends a helping hand to managers as a mentor and a coach.
 
The Young IT Entrepreneur of The Year: Sandor Kiss, CEO of Sense/Net Ltd.

The young expert established the online, web-developing company with his four partners in 1995. Currently employing 45 people and realising 400 million HUF a year, the company develops content-managing systems and builds on the power of communities with open source code. Its product – the only .NET content-managing system with open source code for companies – has currently its 6.0 version. Due to its business results and dynamic development, the company has been acknowledged, as it was on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Program in Central Europe list four times since 2000.

September 2008 was a milestone in the life of the company: they purchased their .NET platform competitive, IVY Ltd. Due to the successful acquisiton, market positions of the company kept on strengthening.
 
The Gyuros Tibor award

After the sudden death of Tibor Gyuros, in 1997 the board of IVSZ decided to create this award as a tribute to the late chairman of IVSZ and the excellent IT Director.

The IT Director of the year award and The Young IT Entrepreneur of the year award were first tendered by IVSZ on 1997 with the aim to establish a tradition and to recognize the work of the two best IT managers every year. By now these tenders have a great tradition: the award is given to heads of IT companies who contributed to the success of their company and the development of the Hungarian IT area. In the last decade IVSZ has given many awards (including surcharges) to people who have had a huge influence on not only the Hungarian, but the regional IKT industry as well.