dr. Balazs Vinnai

One of the most successful Hungarian businessmen, who founded his first business, the IND Group, as a teenager, which was developed by him to a strong, medium-sized fintech company operating region-wide and sold it to the world’s leading financial software company, Finastra. As Vice President, he has been responsible for the digital strategy of the London-based IT business for more than five years.

In the meantime, the entrepreneur, who was awarded the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, returned to Hungary as a financial investor and became the president of W.UP, which facilitates the digital transition of traditional financial institutions with it's artificial intelligence banking softwares. He is a co-founder of the Codecool programming school that is active in four countries, and since 2020, he has been the president of the IVSZ Association for the Digital Economy, which brings together the most important Hungarian infocommunication companies.

He has been involved in digital finance and banking softwares since the beginning of his career in the 1990s, thus, he closely followed the emergence and spread of online financial services. In 2021, the newly established Hungarian Bankholding recognized his unparalleled knowledge and asked him to serve as Chief Advisor to the President, to oversee and help with his advises the digital aspects of the merger of the three domestic financial institutions.