Tamas Gabor
Business Administration graduate from Budapest Business School, with MBA from CEU Business School. Last worked as CEO/Retail Operations Director at MOL NyRT / Tifon d.o.o. Zagreb, Croatia.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Website: | http://www.joobili.com |
| Skills: | Business, English, German, Languages, Leadership, Management, Retail, Russian, Sales |
| Location: | Budapest |
| Groups: | Seedcamp |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | Internet, leadership, management, oil, Retail, Travel, Wine |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | MOL NyRT / Tifon d.o.o. Zagreb, Croatia |
| Position: | CEO/Retail Operations Director |
| Time period: | December 2006 - November 2008 |
| Description: | Providing leadership and management for the transformation of a family owned fuel retailer business to become part of multinational Oil Company. Ensuring the smooth takeover and integration of an operation of 650 employees and EUR 100+ million worth of assets.
Critical skills • “Man” management, coaching • Change management • Business development • Adoptability to new markets, cultures • Strategy Notable Achievement • Turn- around: 500% EBIT growth vs plan • OPEX:-10%; Margin:+20% • Implemented new marketing strategy • Complete restructuring and reorganization • Successful takeover of all BUs During my fixed term contract with MOL I successfully merged two distinct companies and cultures in just 14 months while I am proud of delivering sound financial results. |
| Employer: | Goodyear Dunlop Tires Magyarország Ltd. |
| Position: | General Manager |
| Time period: | December 2002 - November 2006 |
| Description: | Managing and leading a team of 30 employees when HU joined the EU and the business environment changed fundamentally. Assumed full-scale bottom line P & L responsibility.
Critical skills • “Man” management, coaching and motivating • Long term vision • Strategic thinking/analysis • Result oriented Notable Achievements • Built a new management team, managed a full-scale strategy refocusing from product- towards customer. • Driving a Cultural transformation towards achieve “High Performance Culture” within the organisation. • Delivered 180% top-line and 300% bottom-line growth over 3 business years. At Goodyear I learned how to transform strong management skills into effective leadership. |
| Employer: | Wellunic Interactive Communications (interactive services consulting agency) |
| Position: | Founder/CEO |
| Time period: | December 2000 - November 2003 |
| Description: | Building up an online service agency from scratch and laying down solid foundations to enable steady growth.
Critical skills • Entrepreneur with “can do” mentality • People selection and development Notable Achievements • Built an international clientele through providing high quality service • Sold the business Starting my own company helped me polish the entrepreneurial skills valuable to companies of all sizes. |
| Employer: | DuPont - Conoco Hungary / Conoco UK Ltd. / DuPont-Conoco Czech |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | December 1993 - November 2001 |
| Description: | (2000 – 2001)
E-commerce Project Lead- Conoco Central-Eastern Europe Developed innovative business models through e-Business; Critical skills • Project management • Inter-company networking / found raising • People selection and development Notable Achievements • Assessed strategy options, selected and implemented relevant strategies; • Introduced e-solutions which improved efficiency, enhanced customer relationships, and created value for the Company; (1998–2001) General Manager –Conoco Hungary Ltd. Managing and leading the organisation of 300 employees. Assumed to full-scale bottom line P & L responsibility. ($100 mill top-line) Responsible for staffing, training, developing and mentoring high potential individuals Critical skills • Broad operational understanding of the businesses • Coaching / Mentoring • Project Management Notable Achievements • Improved results from below industry average to well above level: • Doubled the SoM of the retail network • Portfolio Management (real-estate) (1996-1998) C&EE Business Development - Prague, Czech - Project Co-ordinator • Led and participated in various Business Improvement projects in the area of Marketing, Engineering, IT, and Finance within the Central & Eastern European region. • Team Leader for Marketing strategy and Brand Development project, for Strategic/Long Range/Business Planning group for C&EE region, monitoring of new emerging countries/markets, participating in pre-acquisition project analysis. (1996) European Business Development - London, UK - Project Co-ordinator, • Team member of the Global Lubricant Project • Long Range planning. Optimised the LRP process for C&EE. (1994) Hungarian Retail organization – Budapest, HU – Marketing/Operations Manager (Winner of the DuPont, Marketing Excellence Award) • Managed 7 direct and 120 indirect subordinates • European Retail Automation Project – Team |
| Employer: | Exxon / Esso Hungaria ltd. – Budapest |
| Position: | Various commercial positions (retail sales/marketing) |
| Time period: | December 1990 - November 1994 |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Mid-century, Modern Design and Architecture
Collecting Hungarian Red Wines |
Tamas' Startups (1)
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Joobili
Joobili is Europe's best source for Timely Travel inspirations. You say when you want to travel, and Joobili tells you where the best festivals and events are that match your travel dates and interests. Pretty simple.
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zoombu
A travel search engine that finds integrated routes from your front door to your destination.
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Trazzler
Trazzler helps travelers answer the question “where should I go?” with an inspirational way to explore, save, and book trips
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LeisureLogix
LeisureLogix has built technology that marries trip planning/booking, location based content and mapping/navigation into a single application known as the RoadTrip Wizard
Tamas' Contacts (2)
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Thomas Grota
MSc from Cologne University, 7 years as VP/CTO at Pironet NDH AG, 7 months as Freelancer, 1 year as COO at Contentteam AG, 2.6 years as VP at Deutsche Telekom AG & Managing Consultant at Detecon Int'l, Presently at T-Venture Holding GmbH since Jul'09
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Steven Carlson
10+ years of career experience as an online marketer, with executive positions in web analytics, VoIP, ISP and social networking. Have taken part in starting, building and growing three businesses. Manage collaborative blog (nowEurope) for the EU.