Christopher Mattheisen is an American businessman, economist, managing director of Microsoft Hungary from March 4, 2019, from 2006 to 2018 the best known as CEO of Hungarian telecommunications company Magyar Telekom.
Professional career
Mattheisen graduated in history at Indiana University, Bloomington and economics at Columbia University, New York. In 1990 he came to Hungary where he started a consulting company for business analysis and strategic planning. In 1993 he was the founding marketing and sales director of T-Mobile Hungary. He moved on to Poland in 1996 to participate in launching the mobile operator Era GSM for US West International as Director of Marketing, Sales and Strategy. From 1997 he headed in London the marketing and sales activities of US West's European mobile subsidiaries, then from 1999 he worked at BT Cellnet as Business Marketing and Sales Director. In September 2002 he was appointed of Magyar Telekom's Chief Officer heading the Residential Services business unit and member of the Management Committee. From January 2005 to June 2006 he was Chief Officer responsible for the Wireline Services business unit. On December 5, 2006 he was appointed CEO of the company as successor of Elek Straub, and on December 21 elected member and chairman of the board of directors. Under his leadership, Magyar Telekom won a string of professional awards such as Business Ethics Award, Best Employer in Hungary and in Central and Eastern Europe, and an international Innovation Award.
Building brand identity in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, Economist Intelligence Unit, Great Britain,,.
Lectures – conferences
What are we doing to the world?,, Internet Hungary Programme, 2009, October 13–14
Master Course Leaders: The Successful Management of The Assets, , DFT-Hungária, Budapest, 2011.
Internet of things, BarCamp Budapest, 2011, March 30.,,
Business & Technology Conference, Siófok, 2011, April 13–14.,
The continuous improvement of the competitiveness in the condition., Média Hungary 2011, May 5., Hungary, Siófok, Hotel Azur, Digital Day hall, May 3, 2011., 12:30 – 12:40., lecture.
We have an app for that — Future of ICT and telecommunications in Hungary., International Telecommunications Society, 22nd European Regional ITS Conference, Budapest, 18 – September 21, 2011.
AmCham Career School Series – 2nd session with Christopher Mattheisen, Chairman & CEO of Magyar Telekom Nyrt., October 6, 2011.
Internet Hungary, October 11–12, 2011. Siófok, Hotel Azur, An Inclusive Digital World''
