Leadership

OFFICERS

President
Róbert Rékási, CFA is the President of CFA Society Hungary. Róbert works at the Central Bank of Hungary as the He Head of Foreign Exchange Reserves Management. He has 16 years of experience of the financial markets serving in various positions in the central bank. His current role is to manage the country’s foreign currency liquidity and international reserves to support monetary policy and financial stability. He has been a proud CFA Charterholder and serving as a volunteer since 2009.
Email: rekasir@mnb.hu

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Tamas Pletser, CFA is Vice President of the Board. Equity analyst specializing in EMEA Oil&Gas sector with 20 years of experience.

Attila Gyurcsik, CFA is a member of the board at CFA Society Hungary. He is the Chief Investment Officer at Accorde Fund Management, previously worked as Head of Research at Concorde Securities Ltd.

Péter Juhász, PhD, CFA is a member of the board at CFA Society Hungary He is an associate professor of finance at Corvinus University of Budapest. His field of research includes business valuation, financial modelling, and competitiveness of firms. Besides he also regularly acts as a business consultant and trainer.

Hai Thanh Le Phuong, CFA is a member of the board of CFA Society Hungary. She is the Head of Research at Concorde Securities.

József Soltész, CFA, FRM is a member of the board of CFA Society Hungary. He works at KPMG Advisory Hungary as a manager in the field of financial risk management. His main topics are comprehensive risk management, market and liquidity risks alongside with the related model and data management. He graduated from Corvinus University of Budapest with MSc of Mathematical Finance.

Gábor Szentirmai, CFA is a member of the board of CFA Society Hungary. Gábor works as senior associate for Heal Partners Ltd., an independent financial advisory firm operating in Central and Eastern Europe. He does project management in various M&A transactions either on the sell-side or on the buy-side and he also regularly does company valuation exercises. Gábor graduated from Corvinus University of Budapest as an MSc Finance student and in the course of his studies he also spent two semesters in Germany at Otto Friedrich Universität, Bamberg.

PAST PRESIDENTS

Istvan Preda, CFA (2000 - 2003)
Gabor Asztalos, CFA (2003 - 2004)
Istvan Preda, CFA (2004 - 2005)
Peter Varga, CFA (2005 - 2016)

About CFA Institute

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