.wave Network
Get to know the members of our professional network, who will support you
Our Mentors
Tamás Balassa
Tamás is a business professional with finance background and strategic mindset, experienced in venture capital, corporate finance and digital technologies. He spent the first half of the last 10 years on the VC/PE side and the second half on the company management side, while he has just recently come back to the investor arena, focusing on later stage digital technology companies.
Zsolt Balog
mentor for the winning team at .wave 4.0
Zsolt is a leader and strategist with 16 years of corporate, entrepreneurial, and CVC experience in Europe, CEMEA, and China. Recognized for consistently directing and delivering financial & cultural turnarounds in developing and developed organizations, delivering top & bottom-line results in FMCG, IT, food, logistics, and retail industries.
#Technology #ProductMarketFit #BusinessStrategy
Gábor Boncz
mentor for the winning team at .wave 3.0
#BusinessStrategy #GoToMarketStrategy #Growth Strategy
Virág Dezső
Virág is a Principal at Lead Ventures („LV”), a CEE-focused venture capital fund that invests in carefully selected startups with global ambition. She gained her financial and exit experience in sell-side M&A transactions as advisor before joining the newly established Lead Ventures’ team in 2018. Since then she has been on an intensive journey, from helping build the fund’s reputation and CEE coverage up to working with a multitude of category-defining companies. Virág is an active board member at companies such as Leanpay, All Eyes On Screen, Agroloop and GoodVision.
#Financial-plan #go-to-market strategy #scale up
Attila Ferenczi
“Every purchase is a vote to support sustainability!”
Attila Ferenczi has been dealing with waste management and education on this topic for nearly 20 years. During his university years, even as a student, he took on an active organizing role and facilitated the establishment of the alma mater’s selective waste collection. Since 2013, he has been focusing his experience gathered at several domestic organizations and internationally in his own startup company Recobin Kft. which also takes an active social roleiIn addition to environmental protection.
#circulareconomy #wastemanagement #b2b #socialentrepreneurship
Plamen Ivanov
Plamen is an impact-driven entrepreneur with an unwavering spirit and an unyielding drive to effect positive change. Leveraging his expertise gained as an earlystage investor in +100 impact and climate-tech businesses, as well as his +7 years as an impact entrepreneur, he is now dedicated to assisting founders in becoming investor-ready and achieving their fundraising goals.
#Fundraising #InvestorReadiness #ImpactInvestment
Erika Lajkó
“As an early-stage start-up you have to develop the approach of continuous change and the skill to measure its outcomes.”
Before embarking on a life of adventurous entrepreneurship, Erika was a high-performance manager both on the industrial and investment sides. One of her businesses faced critical challenges because of the pandemic, but her latest business – a boutique financial advisory company – is prospering and growing successfully. Currently, she is attending the Global Executive MBA of INSEAD, – one of the best business schools in the world – with the committed aim to grow as an entrepreneur and as a person.
#financialadvisory #businessmanagement #foodie&exploratory cook
Dénes Nagy
mentor for the winning team at .wave 1.0
“Success is working together with like-minded people towards a meaningful cause.”
Dénes has 10 years of experience in securing private and state capital funds; moreover he gained significant knowledge in venture mentoring projects such as Photon and Rendi. In the last few years, he dedicated his wisdom to supporting early-stage companies to grow and is proud of being a part of several successful exits.
#investment #venturementoring #sports
Zsolt Pethe
Accumulated 25 years of business development, banking and management experience with a highly entrepreneurial attitude across business and finance sectors. Spent the past six years as CEE Regional Manager for German impact finance company FASE, developing investment pipeline, conducting investment-ready projects and facilitating Seed to Series A rounds across the Europe with a network of 2000+ impact investors.
#Business planning #Fundraising #Impact Investment
Kamilla Rácz
Kamilla has gained her experience in the impact investing space and consulting. She is a team member of Tilia Impact Ventures, a pioneer impact investment fund in the Czech Republic and CEE. She is convinced that social and environmental challenges should be addressed on multiple levels and therefore by entrepreneurs, as well. She strongly believes in the power of combining business approach with impact mindset. Kamilla is primarily involved in new investment opportunities, specializing in deal sourcing, business, financial and impact analysis of target companies.
#Impact Investment #Investment readiness #Fundraising
Oszkár Rimóczi
“There is no waste of time, only unexploited learnings.”
Oszi used to build multinational anti-fraud and payment infrastructures, as well as his startup. Since 2017, he helps to re-engineer and build ventures, while continuously educating himself in sustainability and sustainable business development. He is the master of go-to-market strategy, business and product strategy, design thinking, service design, and validation.
#designthinking #humanecology # business&product strategy #hiking&nature
Ákos Tallós
CEO of MediMass, he achieved the greatest exit in Hungary.
Productivity consultant turned entrepreneur. I have a strong background in IP management, and considerable international technology transfer experience. Working with start-ups – mostly bio-tech and med-tech – for more than 15 years, and having run and sold my own venture, I love the process from idea generation to creating the best product / service that meets consumers expectations while still carrying the genes of the original concept. Having played on both sides of the fence, and having seen myself and others both succeed and making less than optimal decisions, I hope I understand the difficulties start-ups face and am able to make them achieve their targets quicker.
#technology #lifescience #businessstrategy
Ákos Tolnai
mentor for the winning team at .wave 2.0
“Time is the most important factor to any start-up. Therefore, doing the right thing instead of doing things right is paramount.”
Ákos is a certified customer experience consultant and international speaker on innovation and behavioral science who had the chance to work with 50+ innovators in the last 10 years. Armed with priceless conclusions and experiences from his failed startup business, he is mastering B2B, go-to-market, and product-market fit. Moreover, his insights have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and different professional customer experience and UX blogs.
#behaviouralscience #go-to-market #B2B #traveling
Our Experts
György Baksay-Nagy
Investment related legal issues
Zsolt Balog
How to hire & fire fast? Leadership
Tamás Bíró
Agility
Tamás Birtalan
Supply chain integration via sustainability
Gábor Boncz
Governance
Gertrúd Király
Profiles
Benedek Rácz
Pricing
Oszkár Rimóczi
Beyond ESG
Startup management, Founder issues, Customer VP design,
Go-to-market strategy
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Our Team
Gabriella Sódar
Márk Tóth
Lívia Túri
Program director
Innovation manager
Event manager
Gabriella Sódar
Program director
Márk Tóth
Innovation manager
Lívia Túri
Event manager
.wave Builders
Csilla Baksai
IFUA Horváth & Partners
Viktória Bodnár
IFUA Horváth & Partners
Zsófia Papp
IFUA Horváth & Partners
Attila Dobos
Nitro Solutions Zrt.
Liza Degtyareva
mégis
Luca Jendrek
Ex-.wave team member
Oszkár Rimóczi
mégis
Melinda Újfalusi
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