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Dr. Viktor Nyíri

Dr. Viktor Nyíri earned his LL.M. from the George Washington University in 1996. He is a 1994 graduate of the Eötvös Loránd University Law School of Budapest, and pursued post-graduate studies at the Central European University. Between 1996 and 2005, he gained experience as a lawyer, focusing on company law and M&A transactions. Since 2005 he has worked exclusively as a private investor, completing several venture capital and real estate investments individually and through his holding company, the NV Asset Management Ltd. He has wide knowledge of the health care market and an extensive network of contacts. Due to his recent investments, Dr. Nyíri is recognized as one of the primary venture capital investors in the health sector.

Attila Pechtol

Attila Pechtol graduated in 2000 from the College of Finance and Accounting, with an emphasis on Financial Institutions. He performed analysis and controlling activities at several companies. Since 2004, he has worked as Director of Finance for the venture capital investments of Dr. Viktor Nyíri, with direct involvement in screening, preparing decisions, decision-making, monitoring and exit. Meanwhile, he obtained postgraduate certificates in Economics and Law from the Institute of Post-Graduate Legal Studies at the Eötvös Loránd University (2004), and in Corporate Management from the Corvinus University of Budapest (2009).

Dr. Attila Erdős

After earning a medical degree from the University of Szeged, Dr. Attila Erdős began work at the Institute of Pathology as a clinician. He completed his MBA at INSEAD in 1996. From 1996 to 1999, he headed the Baltic office of SmithKlineBeecham (currently GlaxoSmithKline) and later became the European Business Development Manager at the Disease Management Division. He worked as Zone Sales Manager for GE Medical Systems in charge of Southeast Europe from 1999 to 2005 and as Managing Director of GenoID Ltd. from 2005 to 2007. At present, he is responsible for coordinating the release of products and services of several biotechnological enterprises to the international market.

Viktor Déri

At the beginning of his career in the 1990s Viktor Déri managed investment service companies acting on the Hungarian funds market owned by banks (e.g. Budapest Bank, CIB, MFB). He partook in the development of the Hungarian capital market as president/member of several organisations related to the stock market.

Since the 2000s, he took part in the formation of the government-supported domestic venture capital market and as the President of Small Business Development Financial Ltd. and CEO of Corvinus Venture Fund Management Ltd. he managed numerous venture fund investments and exits.

In the first round of JEREMIE Programme he acted as investment director and member of the Investment Committee at Biggeorge’s-NV Venture Fund Management Ltd.

During his 12 years in the venture capital sector, Viktor has gained outstanding experience in the issues, possibilities and investor expectations towards Hungarian SMEs, as well as the ability of selecting the right projects and other unique features of venture fund management.

Györgyi Herczegné Sulyok

She started her carrier in the foreign trading industry, working for TESCO International Organization for Technical Scientific Cooperation and later for various privately owned import-export business. In addition to her advanced level education in foreign trade, she has graduated from Budapest Business Scool, as economist, majoring in Financial Institutions.

In 2004, she joined MFB Hungarian Development Bank Private Limited Company, as senior assistant in equity finance and asset management. Her main responsibilities included monitoring, reporting, customer relations and various other tasks related to the asset management of corporate holdings.

Representing MFB Bank in its Subsidiaries, between 2007 and 2010 she was designated as Member of the Board of Corvinus International Investment Private Limited Company as well as Member of the Executive Supervisory Board of Kisvállalkozás-fejlesztő Pénzügyi Zrt. where she had participated decision making in various equity investing and asset management activities of these companies. In 2018, she had joined X-Ventures Beta Plc.

Ildikó Divaldné Rigó

In 1991, she graduated from the Accounting and Business Department of the I. Géza King Secondary School of Economics. She started working as a secretary at a hungarian knitwear factory's corporate lawyer. Between 2002 and 2008, she worked at Budapest Leasing Ltd. as a contract writer and then as a customer service employee. After that, she gained professional experience in the administrative field at several companies. Since 2018, she has been employed by X-Ventures, as a back office employee. From January 2023, she is responsible for the Back office area.

Miklós Nyíri

With a background in liberal arts and journalism, Mr. Nyíri joined GenoID Kft. in 2004, and was appointed the company’s Managing Director in 2007. During his term, the firm developed into one of the region’s most important laboratories for molecular diagnostics, research and forensic science.

Under Mr. Nyíri’s direction, the company achieved success in the privately funded health care market, took the lead in international R&D research consortia, had two patents accepted by the European Patent Office, and acquired unique know-how in the field of forensic genetics.

At present, Mr. Nyíri is a director of the biotech firm Neumann Diagnostics.

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