ahec Honorary member

Barnabas Nemeth

Place And Date Of Birth January 5, 1948, Budapest, Hungary


Barnabas Nemeth
Family Married, 2 daughters
Education, qualification 1984-85 - College for Foreign Trade and Economics (economist)
Major: foreign economics
  1967-72 - Budapest University of Technical Sciences (engineer)
Major: technology and industrial economics
Business Career
2001-2005 Commercial Counselor/Trade Commissioner to the USA in New York City, member of the Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, as the representative of the ITDH (The Hungarian Investment and Trade Development Agency).

Major activity:
1. Organizing investment and trade seminars:
- Dallas (TX), Denver, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Newark (NJ), Vienna (VA), New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia, etc.

- Assisting Hungarian industries (in particular IT, software, wine, etc.) and companies to commercialize products and services in the U.S. market.

2. Investment development
- Investment negotiations with some 200 U.S. companies.

- Investment negotiations with:
IBM, GE, Flextronics, Jabil, 3M, Acterna, Diebold, Convergys, Exxon, Danaher, Goodrich, Gleason, Innotec, Honeywell, Metem, Mestek, Motek, Oracle, Nypro, HP, SEI, SEITZ, Suntech, Teletech, TYCO-EarthTech, FEI, Flexab, Exel, Elanders, Citrix, Conlon, Avail Medical, Altair, Ademco, Bencton, Computer Associates, Loranger, Crompton, Silicon Graphics, Monsanto, etc.

3. Participation in setting up Hungarian Technology Center in:
- Vienna (VA), and
- Rochester (NY)
1996-2001 Director for Strategic Affairs,
Hungarian Investment and Trade Development Agency (ITDH) of the Hungarian Government,
Major activity:
1. Making the business strategy and annual business plan of the Agency.
2. System development in informatics:
- Introducing the controlling techniques in the Agency’s management system.
- Planning the Intranet system in the Agency.
- Investment Monitoring System for the Agency.
- Company Databasis
3. Representation of the Agency at the forums of foreign institutions (e.g. WTO/ITC, UNIDO, US.TDA, OPIC, US. EXIMBANK).
1991-96 Diplomat (commercial counselor), Deputy Head of the Trade Representation, Washington, D.C., Hungarian Trade Representation, Embassy of the Republic of Hungary,
Major activity:
- Investment and trade development: organizing investment and trade seminars, trade promotion, investment development
- Inter-governmental relations in trade policy issues with the US. Trade Representative’s Office, Department of Commerce, U.S. Trade and Development Agency
- Coordinator of the U.S. Assistance Program to Hungary with U.S.AID, U.S.TDA, U.S.TDA.
1982-91 Deputy Director General,
Ministry of International Economic Relations, Division of Economics,
Ministry of Trade, Head of Department, foreign trade analysis and strategy, trade liberalization.
Major activity:
- Foreign trade and trend analyses,
- Preparations of proposals for the government in foreign economic issues,
- Participating in trade liberalization.
Skills - Foreign language: English at advanced level
- Computer: MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
Major job interest - Representation of foreign companies in Hungary
- Exploring Hungarian investment opportunities for foreign investors
- Matchmaking Hungarian inventors, R&D products for foreign Venture Capitals firms.
- Working for foreign company in Hungary.
 


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