MINDSPIRE
Consulting
Established in 2016, MINDSPIRE’s team consists of professional consultants with experience in delivering banking projects from 5 to well over 15 years.
We are specializing our knowledge and activities towards banking transformations, while continously enhancing our own methodologies and tools that help us and our clients to achieve success in a highly professional way.
Based in Budapest, Hungary
We are proud to support the realization of strategic initiatives at the largest banks in the region. We operate throughout the CEE and SEE delivering large-scale implementation projects.
15 years of experience
MINDSPIRE Consulting was established by banking consultancy professionals, who had been working together for more than 15 years with their teams on large scale projects in the Hungarian and regional financial sector.
100% focused on banking
The partners’ goal was to create a high-class consultancy firm that is 100% focused on banking, helping the financial institutions through complex programs like mergers, portfolio acquisitions and implementations or replacements of complete IT systems.
Constantly developing our knowledge
Focus means being the best in your area, therefore we are constantly developing our knowledge and methodologies through our vast experience base on our projects and industry practices. Besides the sector focus, we also provide strategic services in areas we believe to be the best.
WHY
MINDSPIRE?
Today, MINDSPIRE Consulting has an international team of more than 180 consultants, most of them banking professionals and senior consultants.
We are working for the top financial institutions in the region, maintaining strategic cooperation with some of the largest banking groups.
Most of our projects we deliver on-site, while we also work in multi-location programs where our staff are distributed across several sites (like HQ and regional subsidiaries).
Number of Clients
Successful projects since 2016
Countries of reference
Successful projects in 2021
INOVIVO GROUP
MINDSPIRE Consulting is part of INOVIVO Group, a leading IT and business consulting holding in Hungary and the region.
INOVIVO is operating in key sectors such as Financial institutions, Pharmaceutical industry, Energy sector, Telecommunication, Airline industry, Automotive & Transport and Manufacturing.
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MANAGEMENT
MINDSPIRE’s Management Team
Ágnes Bundai
Ágnes has been working in the Financial Sector for over 20 years as management consultant and programme manager, leading large banking projects in multinational environments. She has professional knowledge and unique experience in the coordination and management of complex implementation programmes, and also PMO coordination of large-scale banking mergers and integrations.
Szabolcs Homola
Szabolcs has been involved in the management consulting sector for more than 20 years now, taking various managing positions and ownership in market leading consulting firms. His main focus areas are business strategy, expansion to new professional areas and high quality consulting services. Besides his managerial duties Szabolcs is taking care of key clients in and outside of the Financial sector as well.
Attila Kovács
Attila has over 25 years of experience in the financial sector. He has managed numerous projects both on the banking side and as an external consultant. His strengths include business consulting and operational development. He has held various leadership positions in the consulting industry for more than 10 years. He also has extensive experience in personnel selection and development.
Zsolt Slezák
Zsolt has been dealing with the IT challenges of the financial sector for more than 20 years. He gained unique experiences as lead expert, later project and program manager for several large CBS and ERP implementation projects as consultant. As an Information Technology executive, he played a key role in the transformation and daily management of the IT organization of large banks.
István Serfőző
István has 25 years of experience in the Financial Sector. He has been managing several Core Banking System implementation and Digitalization projects in major Hungarian commercial banks. István is also one of the most established migration experts, being responsible for the overall coordination of Mindspire’s Data Migration services.
Our key services
Banking Transformation
Services
We help the CEOs and CIOs of major banks in Europe to transform their Core Banking Systems and simplify their products and processes with an end-to-end delivery responsibility.
Data Migration
Services
We are ready to help you to correctly assess, design and execute any data migration task from the smallest satellite system implementation to a full scope bank merger and architecture integration.
Project Management
Office
Project Management Office (PMO) and Programme Management guarantees a uniform approach to the projects’ governance and ensures consistent quality of the activities throughout the different teams.
Project Management
Services
MINDSPIRE’s banking project management service can help you overcome the difficulties and effectively manage your projects by keeping the set deadlines and controlling the budget and the scope effectively.
Our Key Personnel
Andras Linczmayer
András has 15+ years of experience in the Financial Sector. He has been acting as a project manager in top priority initiations, leading large implementation teams with several external vendors, successfully delivering complex system architectures and greenfield applications as well. While leading MINDSPIRE’s Project Management and PMO service lines, he continues to manage and support large-scale projects and PMOs, getting involved in the details professionally.
András Breuer
András has gained 15+ years of experience in the Financial Sector as a Core Banking Systems implementation expert and project manager. He is currently leading the Core Banking Transformation Services at MINDSPIRE, while supporting key implementation projects as lead expert and QA. His main strengths are Core Banking platforms, business and IT architecture design and vendor management.
Árpád Pregitzer
Árpád has 15+ years of experience in the Financial Sector, having led and participated in 10+ successful Banking Data Migration projects so far. As an expert and QA of major MINDSPIRE projects, he oversees the full cycle of Migration, including conceptual planning, mapping of source and target systems, transformation, dress rehearsal and go-live activities.
András Székely
András has more than 20 years of experience in banking with 10+ years spent in diverse management roles. His primary area of expertise is retail banking and change management, with a particular focus on front-end and digital customer service processes, products, CRM and customer data management. He is also familiar with related IT architectures and applications.
Ádám Fábián
Ádám has 15+ years of experience in the field of corporate finance in the international environment. During his career he worked in auditor, finance controller and Chief Financial Officer roles, mainly in the consulting sector. Currently he is the CFO of Inovivo Group, which includes being responsible for the Finance department of MINDSPIRE Consulting Ltd. as well.
Ákos Németh
Ákos has been working as a sales representative for 20 years, including 15 years in the financial sector. He worked for the largest multinational vendors and integrator companies in various sales lead positions. Ákos’s responsibilities at MINDSPIRE Consulting also include staffing in people management and supporting the delivery of major projects.
Zsolt Bajzáth
Zsolt has been working in the financial consulting sector for more than 10 years. He gained significant experience working as a business analyst and IT project manager (PMP) primarily in application implementation, IT operation, business process reengineering and high complexity banking mergers. Zsolt is playing a key role in stakeholder management as well.
András Váradi
András has got 25+ years of experience in the Financial Sector as a Core Banking Systems implementation expert and project manager. Before working as a consultant, he fulfilled various line positions for more than 10 years at Citibank, his last position being Head of IT at Citibank Hungary. His main strengths are business and IT architecture design, stakeholder management and vendor side communication and project management (PMP).
MINDSPIRE Consulting
Work environment
Providing the best work environment to our colleagues is one of our top priorities.
We know that there is a lot more than just the physical elemenents of our professional life. Besides offering high quality offices at central locations and business class work equipment to our colleagues, we also focus on ideal and flexible work-life balance.
Our colleagues have outstanding growth opportunities in MINDSPIRE’s training- and development focused environment. We foster transparent and open communication and always recognize great performances.
Our latest events in pictures…
MINDSPIRE is a professional community with a strong team spirit, where positive thinking and reinforcement is a core value. Besides our frequent professional meetings, our colleagues regularly have different types of gatherings, spanning from project team celebrations and after-work get-togethers to all-staff events.
Please check out some of the highlights of our latest events!
01 – MINDSPIRE All Staff Meeting 2022
Our end-of-summer event took place on September 23 at the Városliget Café.
The occasion offered a perfect opportunity for colleagues working on different projects to share their summertime experiences and have casual conversations.
During the evening, a short management report reviewed our current client projects as well as our future plans.
02 – MINDSPIRE Cooking Competition 2022
On 10 June 2022, the MINDSPIRE team gathered on the Vasmacska Terrace located by the Danube shore in Budafok for a tradition-creating cooking competition. In addition to their culinary capabilities, the participants could compare their skills and creativity in foosball and kitchen apron decoration activities as well. The most skillful were awarded various prizes by the jury. The stress of the challenges could be eased at a party that lasted well into the night.
03 – MINDSPIRE Children’s Day 2022
This year we had the opportunity, at last, to personally greet the MINDSPIRE kids on the occasion of the Children’s Day, which was held on May 22 2022 at the Budapest Garden. The youngsters and their parents could participate in a variety of activities such as foosbal, ping-pong, beach volleyball, soccer, ninja warrior courts and trampolines. In the firefighter park joyful development programs waited them, they could catch a glimpse of the exciting life of the firemen, there was a live firefighter demonstration and a puppet show.
Our colleagues said
“I joined the MINDSPIRE team following a long career in banking. I recognized it as a professional and dynamic company, but professionally and personally I received more here. Continuous development according to one’s need and customizable tasks are given.“
Annamária Szilárd
“I could try out myself not only with many clients, but in a number of roles as well. I can experience all of this in a very supportive and positive atmosphere every day. Besides the challenges, there are plenty of opportunities for joy and laughter, and these also make tasks that sometimes seem impossible easier to perform.”
Kamilla Kundrík
“In addition to the internationally recognized knowledge, I could build excellent personal relationships, not only during professional activities, but also at social events.”
Sándor Ozsváth
“Vast knowledge, proven methodologies and extensive experience have been assembled at our company. MINDSPIRE is a real TEAM. It’s good to know that besides those who I am working with on a project at a time, I have everybody on my side.”
László Domokos
Our earlier events
MINDSPIRE Kick-off event 2022
Our regular annual meeting was held on February 25, 2022, in the Hotel Nautis at Gárdony. The first part of the evening included a management presentation, a round table discussion about the most interesting trends in the banking industry. After diner, awards were presented for outstanding performances in several categories. The event continued with a party until the early morning hours.
MINDSPIRE Christmas party 2021
This year we held our traditional year-end festive event at the Orfeum Club. Following the management’s greetings and the buffet dinner a number of programs made the pleasant occasion even more interesting.
In addition to the revue show, a casino and a spirit tasting opportunity, the ladies could get ready for the dance lasting till dawn with Swarowski make-up tattoos.
MINDSPIRE’s 2021 Sports Day
The MINDSPIRE Consulting team could meet again on the shores of the Városliget Lake on September 17 as part of a community sports day. Those who wanted to exercise could test their skills in table tennis, teqball, streetball, darts and table football, with the rally and golf simulator our colleagues could compete on the virtual racetrack.
Social responsibility
We at MINDSPIRE Consulting believe that it is our duty to help the society in which we operate. Commitment to our wider community is intrinsic to who we are and to what we try to accomplish during our life at work.
We are proud of the wide range of activities our colleagues are involved in aiming to make a positive and lasting difference in our community.
Please see some of our recent CSR activities!
Supporting the Kompánia Foundation, November 2022
This year, the Kompánia Foundation has asked us to be fundraising ambassadors on the occasion of the organization’s 25th birthday.
The purpose of the campaign was to prepare for the coming period.
Supporting Shelter Foundation, March 2022
Due to the crisis in Ukraine, we helped Shelter Foundation (Menedékház Alapítvány) with material donations and volunteers to set up their newly opened accommodation for 60 people, suitable to house families as well.
MINDSPIRE Christmas Charity 2021
In 2021 we are again preparing for the Christmas holidays and for the closure of the year following an extraordinary period. Like earlier, this time we have decided to support charities instead of sending gifts to our business partners.
#orszagoskavekommando initiative 2021
MINDSPIRE Consulting has joined Nespresso’s #orszagoskavekommando initiative. With the programme it is now possible to support the staff of more than fifteen hospitals classified as COVID centres nationwide with coffee capsules and coffee machines.
Our earlier CSR events
Employee Charity at Easter 2021
Getting enthusiastic after our Christmas gift-giving event of 2020, we have decided together with our charitable colleagues to continue our ‘Let’s Do Good’ campaign. In 2021, we are making Easter preparation memorable for 38 lonely older people joining the Volunteer Center Foundation’s Friends of the Elderly Program.
Are you thinking of joining us?
At MINDSPIRE Consulting you can be part of a team where growing your career while performing diverse and challenging tasks is not a promise, but a routine.
We are constantly working on making MINDSPIRE a truly great place to work, where our colleagues feel valued and have equal opportunities and benefits.
You can participate in international financial institution projects with a stable, prosperous company offering long-term and secure employment.
We would like to hear about you if you think your education, expertise and skills might be a good fit at MINDSPIRE Consulting!
Check out our open positions now!
Attila Kovács
Partner, Human Resources and Operations
“I consider that the greatest value of our consulting team is the supportive environment, which enables us to share our professional knowledge within the company, thus empowering us to effectively solve the complex tasks that arise at our Clients.
It is always a pleasure to follow the development of the colleagues who have joined us as career starters and after a few years are able to work independently and responsibly as consultants or even project managers.”
