TOKEPORTAL
Mentors & Partners
Our mentors provide their services at a particularly favourable price. Working with a mentor is not mandatory, but highly recommended. In case you would like to contact our mentors or become our mentor, please drop us a line at hello@tokeportal.com.
MENTOR
Business development
She has 15+ years experience of Corporate Communications, Public Affairs and Government Relations at a regional executive level in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with GE (1996-2015), a Fortune 50 company, and with the Hungarian government. An Honorary Professor at Budapest Business School, the leading business school of Hungary. Since 2016 a member of Krynica Economic Forum’s Program Council (Poland). A mentor at BME VMS powered by MITsince 2018. She is positive about Central Europe’s future as an emerging innovation hub in the digital era for the world if stakeholders co-created it (#CEEforInnovationHub). A businesswoman w/ a heart in today’s digital era.
PROFESSION
He gives certainty to the uncertain, shows the way for the seekers, gives hope to those in despair. Lajos studied startups in theory and practice for 10+ years. His main areas of expertise are small business strategy, retail and wholesale, fundamental business development processes, SEO and digital marketing. His favourite approach is agile, says: without customer, there is nothing – without value creation, there is no profit.
PROFESSION
MENTOR
Law & Finance
Zsolt graduated from University of Economic Sciences, Budapest on Finance and Corporate Evaluation Faculty in 1999. He started his professional career in Arthur Andersen, then in 2000 he joined to the Project Finance and Syndications Department of Raiffeisen Bank Hungary as a senior manager. He was promoted to be a department head in 2004. From 2007 Zsolt worked as Division Head of Corporate Banking and Project Finance of Hungarian Raiffeisen-group. Besides he was a member of the Board and Supervisory Board in some Raiffeisen affiliates.
From 2010 to 2015 he was the founding partner of a boutique advisory firm, Reconcept Ltd. It was specialized in resolution of special financial situations, such as reorganizations, liquidations and restructuring cases. Zsolt and his expert team successfully managed several corporate recovery cases in the mid-company segment, moreover they launched some innovative financial solutions to the Hungarian market practice.
First as an advisor, then as a senior director and a board member of a subsidiary Zsolt took part in Central Bank of Hungary’s corporate lending activization program between 2014 and 2016. From 2017 he is working as an independent real estate and corporate finance expert focusing on property development and investment markets.
As a lecturer or teacher Zsolt has been leading several banking and financial course in the past decade. From 2016 he is a PhD-student of University of Miskolc.
PROFESSION
I am a senior structured finance expert working over 20 years in the financing industry in different leading positions with an in-depth experience in execution, negotiation and lead of complex local and multijurisdictional M&A/LBO, project and other syndicated finance transactions. Having worked in an international environment I had a chance to execute financing transactions with London, Amsterdam and Vienna based colleagues in 10+ jurisdictions across Europe.
PROFESSION
Pintér Attila Law Firm offers comprehensive legal service in all areas of economy law for small, medium and large sized companies. Our Firm is available to the clients in connection with every legal question related to the daily operation of economic companies, especially cocerning corporate law, private equity law, company buyout transactions, credit and loan operations, labour law, intellectual property law (including patents, software right and know-hows), as well as transactions related to real estate law. Furthermore, our practice supports economic companies with up-to-date solutions in relations among corporate members as well as contractual relations with the companies’ customers or suppliers and the internal regulation of these relations.
PROFESSION
White Unicorn Ltd. is an advisory company established to support SMEs. Its primary goal is to obtain active capital for companies coping with the lack of financial sources. Firstly, it prepares SMEs to fundraising which usually concludes business and financial planning, as well as mentoring. On the other hand, it supports fundraising activities of the SMEs with exploring and recommending investors, participates in compiling the teaser and the investor pitch deck, advises the SMEs picking the ideal investor (investment long- and short-list), participates in negotiations with the investor (term sheet, syndicate contract) and provides the proper business and legal support for that.
White Unicorn offers range up-to-date „one stop shop” way solutions in complex packs to its SME clients coping with liquidity problems.
White Unicorn Ltd.’s permanent legal partner is Pintér Attila Law Firm.
PROFESSION
I am a specialist financial investment advisor, with over ten years of experience in real asset type investments, such as real estate and venture capital. I have an in-depth knowledge of the CEE financial market and detailed knowledge of CEE based operational
managers. In addition, I have substantial experience in trading various Foreign Exchange instruments, in private wealth management and
implementing new financial services products for brokerage companies
PROFESSION
MENTOR
Marketing & Media
We think differently. We believe in originality, the power of creativity, humour and professionalism.
The POLECATFILMS’s team produce creative commercials and videos from the beginning to the end.
The bold always succeed.
Everybody has to have individual an presence online. We help you to find this unique style and we will make it together. We consider important to build long-term reliable partnerships. We really focus on trust, quality and the good atmosphere during the workflow.
We create our videos in a cinematic style and we keep up to date with new trends.
PROFESSION
PROFESSION
Strategic outreach manager of Women/Business/Angels (2017). She has 20+ years experience of Marketing, Corporate Communications and Knowledge Management as an executive leader at country, CEE and EMA levels with PwC and KPMG (1995-2017). Founder and CEO of YourStory.hu. A passionate believer of the innovative and blitz scaling startup world, and all sorts of well-designed and well-targeted communication. One of the mentors of an educational program that lead GenZ through the process of design thinking. Provides consultancy before investor pitches to startup companies to enter the market and help them grow. Since 2018 one of the key mentors of Design Terminal.
PROFESSION
Founded and/or led several companies in Central-East European (CEE) region, the latest called Vatera Ltd. which is one of the biggest e-commerce/auction site companies in CEE. By his leadership in 2006 and also in 2007, Vatera.hu won the internet e-commerce company of the year, awarded by the domestic professional jury and by the vote of internet users. Vatera.hu was the only Hungarian company which was a finalist in Red Herring international IT consulting pages’, Awarded for EMEA (Europe, Middle-East, Africa) region in 2007 and also in. Vatera was acquired by Naspers in 2008.
From 2009 he has invested in numerous early stage startups mostly in the IT sector like Gravity R&D – achieved the highest score ont he Netflix recommendation system competition (http://www.gravityrd.com/ ), Colabs – startup center and tech hub (http://colabs.hu/), Be-novative – open innovation platform
From 2012 he has joined to Central Fund as a Partner and starting from 2013 he has led the Conor Seed Capital Fund (Part of Central Investment Group) in Hungary focusing on talented early stage startups.