Éva Ziegler
(Based on the CV, published in „Who is who in the Hungarian economy” in year 2005)
Engineer, systems analyst, banking consultant. She is married, her husband is Ferenc Szecsei, her daughter is Virág Magdolna Szecsei (1977).
Graduated by Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Budapest University of Technology (BME) in year 1976.
Employed by Hungarian Airlines (MALÉV) in 1976-78, as systems analyst. As systems analyst again, she was leading the development of the Unified Information System of the Institution of State's Water Management in 1979-80.
As from autumn of 1980, she was working as secretary and inward sales lady for one of the firsts trading representations in Hungary, the Dow Chemical Representation Office. Then, she was responsible for financing and forwarding till autumn of 1988 as well.
Meanwhile in 1981, she completed the joint postgraduate course of BME and Budapest University of Economics, and acquired the degree in managing the economical structures and systems.
A German company, the Karl Schmidt Silospedition Ltd called her to set up and manage their Hungarian representation office in 1988. Then, she was the managing director of the Intersilo Ltd, the successful joint venture of Karl Schmidt Ltd and Chemolimpex till 1992.
She had been invited to the State Agency of Privatization (ÁVÜ) in 1992, to work as Director of Asset Management and IT Systems. Her further task was to set up a company in 1993, which was supposed to be in charge to follow-up the contracts between state and new owners after the privatization period. Due to various political reasons, this follow-up company was not established.
Therefore, she left the task and ÁVÜ in 1983. As head of representation office in Hungary, she was extending the activities of CA Leasing, the subsidiary of Creditanstalt Bank (future Bank of Austria). She was leading the representation office during five years, offering mainly cross-border business and real estate leasing to customers.
She is taking part in the activities of Hungarian Leasing Association, lecturing presentations on seminars in Hungary and abroad. As from January of 1999, she was the managing director of DB Leasing Ltd (later: DFS Hungary Ltd, then Franfinance Hungary Ltd). In addition, she became the chairman of DFS Leasing Hungary (later: Franfinance Leasing Hungary) in 1999.
She acquired her degree in banking in year 2000.
Her book „About leasing for everybody” came out in 2001. She was a co-author of the „Economy of real estate branch” manual and textbook, assembled by János Soós, which had been published in 2002.
She acquires a degree in coaching in 2002. As from year 2002, she is teaching the „Leasing” postgraduate special subject in Department of Information and Knowledge Management of BME.
She established her private company, the Ziegler Consulting in year 2003. It is dealing with systems theory, IT and financial research and the business aspects of these areas. It acts as catalyst of relations between enterprises. Helps in finances, in company and task structuring, in crisis handling, and offers multilevel intermediary services.
Education
1976 | Budapest University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, degree in systems engineering |
1981 | Postgraduate university degree in managing of technical systems and economical structures |
1980-88 | Various international training courses organized by Dow Chemical Company (finance, sales) |
1995-96 | Several international courses at Karl Schmidt Silospedition Ltd (customs, forwarding) |
1995-96 | Balance analysis, equipment leasing, real estate leasing by CA-Leasing Academy in Vienna |
2000 | International Bank Training Center - banking consultancy |
2001 | CEGOS certificate - coaching |
2002 | Trend Hungary - factoring, data security |
2002 | Dun and Bradstreet - credit qualification seminar |
2003 | Volán HR and Education - EU applications (conference) |
Conferences, significant presentations
1979 | First Systems Theory Conference, Hungary - presentation about principles of the Unified Information System of Institution of State's Water Management |
1993 | Presentations about privatization in Hungary - organized by German states ministries for economic affairs and chambers of commerce |
1998 | Discop'98 international conference, Budapest - workshop presentation about financing possibilities in leasing |
1998 | International conference in Duesseldorf about possibilities of cooperation between the financing subsidiaries of Deutsche Bank - presentation about leasing in Hungary |
1999 | The „Leasing in Central and Eastern Europe” international conference in Prague (sponsored by Leaseurope, the European Federation of Leasing Company Associations) - presentation about the principles of leasing and the leasing sector in Hungary |
2001 | The „Leasing Days” conference (organized by Simpletech and sponsored by Hungarian Leasing Association), Hungary - presentation: „Types of the Leasing. Past, present and future.” |
2002-07 | Department of Information and Knowledge Management of Budapest University of Technology and Economics - teaching the „Leasing” postgraduate subject |
The details of presentations since 2007 can be found here.