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Roland Pecsenye is the Chief Digital and Operations Officer at Hungarian Bank Holding. Roland brings a wealth of experience to the organization. As the founder of the first big Hungarian fintech IND Group, he grew the “garage startup” to a multinational leading e- and m-banking software vendor with 9 offices and 250+ of staff. He’s worked with dozens of banks on next generation online and mobile banking projects and participated in several successful digital banking rollouts with market changing character.

In this episode, we hear from Roland about his decision to join Hungarian Bankholding (MBH), the 4 areas he oversees in the CDO, and why he feels the Foundation story is truly unique on the market today. He shares some concrete examples from this year’s first merger between MKB and Budapest Bank, and gives a glimpse of the roadmap and what’s coming next for Foundation and Bankholding.

How do emotions influence the world of financial services? More than we might think. In this episode we uncover some of the latest trends in emotion AI and sentiment analysis, looking at example from other industries and predicting how these will influence the banking sector. Pamela Pavlischak is the founder of Subjective (subjective.so), an emotion-centered design studio that helps Fortune 500s and startups craft experiences that evoke powerful emotion, build intimacy, and grow in meaning over time. Pamela is also a faculty member at the Pratt Institute in New York City, where she teaches emotional design and affective computing. She's the author of Emotionally Intelligent Design (O'Reilly, 2019) and the forthcoming #Feels: How Technology is Changing our Emotional Life for the Better. Have thoughts after listening to this episode? Join the conversation and be part of her upcoming research by tweeting to @paminthelab.

Welcome to our first Hungarian episode! Going forward we plan to release content  in English and Hungarian. Stay tuned for our next episode in English!

A Beyond Fintech podcast második évadában Mary Alcantara mellett Kántor Endre ragad mikrofont, hogy a legújabb fintech trendek mellett digitális, innovációs trendekről beszélgessen hazai és nemzetközi szakértőkkel. Az első adás vendége Szmola Roland, a  hazai legnagyobb agilis szakemberhálózatot tömörítő RI consulting alapítója és szakértője, illetve Pereczes János, a Foundation CEO-ja, aki nem kisebb dologra vállalkozott, minthogy csapatával digitális alapokon építsen egy új bankot.
Az adásban szó lesz arról, hogyan forgatta fel az agilis működés és munkaszervezés a nyugati nagyvállalatokat az elmúlt húsz évben, majd ért el hozzánk is pár évvel, ezelőtt, miért nem tekinthető csodaszernek és mit jelent a mindennapokban. Szóba kerül az is,  hogyan építkezik egy hagyományos banki világ örökségére egy teljesen digitális bank és ebben milyen szerepe van az agilis, környezetére gyorsan reagálni képes működésnek.  Ahogy az is megfogalmazódik, hogy a jövő nem abban áll, hogy mindent tudjon egy szervezet  vezetése, hanem abban, hogy gyorsan tanuljon és meghallja az ügyfelei és munkavállalói hangját, amihez pedig felhatalmazó vezetésre és új típusú működésre van szükség.

Az egyre növekvő szervezet iránt érdeklődők a reshapethebank.com és a Foundation Linkedin oldalon találják nyitott pozícióink listáját, illetve további infokat a Foundation építkezéséről.

Joyce Zhang is co-founder and CEO of Alariss, a global expansion marketplace backed by General Catalyst and other Silicon Valley VCs. Alariss enables tech companies from around the world to enter the US market quickly and effectively with a remote American country manager and team. Prior to founding Alariss, Joyce has had an impressive career with roles at Microsoft, Groupon, the World Bank and the Fed. She was also the first employee and VP of Sales for Human Interest, one of the most valuable Y Combinator companies of all time. In this episode, Joyce shares her experience as an executive turned founder, what she learned during the process of fundraising for her own company, and tips and tricks for companies entering the US market.

Brian Flynn is a serial entrepreneur and investor focused on the software, digital media and mobile sectors. He runs FounderPartners which partners with, invests in and actively helps global technical founders build and exit their companies. FounderPartners has founded and/or invested in 30 companies and achieved an 85% success rate of generating profitable shareholder returns.
In this episode, Brian talks about the attributes of a great founder (17:46), the business factors they examine when looking at a prospective investment (18:22), and why they prefer to go for mustangs rather than unicorns (26:55).

Gernot Schwendtner is co-founder of weGrow, an Amsterdam-based internationalization service focused on growing startups and scale-ups in Europe and the USA. weGrow is helping companies such as WeTransfer, UnitedWardrobe, Channable, Honeypot and HelloPrint enter markets in both strategic and hands-on ways. Gernot was the VP Marketing & International Country Manager of TravelBird, Managing Director of News Travel, and built up a venture-builder for an Austrian media company.

In this episode, Gernot talks about the background of weGrow and how the journey started. He speaks in-depth about the struggles he faced regarding international growth and expansion, and how other founders can overcome similar challenges and avoid the biggest mistakes he sees startups make when planning to expand internationally.