Laszlo Gazdag - Central Europe

Laszlo Gazdag, Executive Director, developed The Collins Group’s presence in Hungary. His task is to build on the initial TCG work in Hungary and Croatia and to take The Collins Group into the other countries of Central & Eastern Europe. Laszlo has an extensive technology background combined with considerable finance experience in banking and asset management. He has a PhD in engineering physics from Technical University of Budapest, followed by an Executive Master's MBA from Purdue University (USA) & Rouen Graduate School of Management (France).

  • Founder and managing director of Divio Media Ltd. a video encoding technology developer/Hungarian-Swedish company (2010-).
  • Managing Partner, Crosswell Ltd.; investment advisory activity, portfolio management, foreign exchange and commodity trading strategies, managed funds (2007-2009).
  • CEO of Optilink Hungary Kft (subsidiary of Optilink AB of Sweden) where he formed a 20 man technical team to develop cutting edge read/write devices for holographic storage technology (1999-2006).
  • Acted as chief representative in Budapest of Standard Bank of London (1998/9) and Glumina Banka of Croatia (1996/7).
  • He was managing Director of Central European Advanced Technologies Ltd, which was a management support and financial services for high tech companies, project management and technology transfer in Hungary (1994-1999).
  • In 1992-1993 Laszlo was sales & marketing director at Lasram Ltd, where he established a domestic distribution network and organized international sales.
  • Tungsram Laser Technology Ltd, 1988-1991: Deputy Managing Director (1990-91) in charge of sales and marketing; Director of job shop centre (1988-89): technology supervision, networking and technology transfer.
  • Tungsram Co, 1984-87: Team/Project manager: product development, R/D engineer.