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 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).
Attila Daday received his electric engineering degree in 1994 and earned his engineering management degree in 1998. In 2010, he also obtained a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Szeged. He began his professional career at Emitel Zrt. at the network operation department and later he became head of the monitoring center. Between 2008 and 2012, Mr. Daday worked at the Hungarian Telekom group, as quality manager and later he became interim manager and advisor for several independent IT projects. Between 2016 and 2019, he was a Back office advisor at Finatech Venture Capital and in February, 2019 he joined X-Ventures.
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.
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.
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.
Laszlo Bicskei received an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering and an M.Sc. in Computer Sciences with a specialisation in Artificial Intelligence from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2009. He continued his studies at the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, followed by a 4-years-long postgradual research project in Computational Neuroscience at University College London.
Early in his career he developed biomedical algorithms that improve patient care at Innomed Medical Inc. and General Electric. Later he worked as a life sciences management consultant at Deallus Consulting in London. As a project manager he led numerous local and global engagements across multiple therapy areas and provided in-depth commercial and technological analysis, due diligence, market opportunity assessment and brand planning.
He joined X-Ventures in 2016 with the mandate of maximizing the value of the fund’s life sciences portfolio, representing the ownership interests of the fund and analysing new investment opportunities.
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.
Zoltán Széles obtained a degree in economics from the Szent István University of Gödöllő in 1996. He gained professional and management experience at the Budapest Fund Management Company and the K&H Securities Fund Management Company. He also worked as Supervisory Commissioner for the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority (PSZÁF). Between 2004 and 2006, he was Director General of Biggeorge’s–NV Property Investment Fund Management Company. While working for his own company, Unisource Ltd., he was responsible for the preparation, management and monitoring of R&D tendering projects co-financed by the Hungarian State and the European Union.