Pecsenye Roland

While still at university, Roland founded one of Hungary’s first B2B FinTech companies with three high school friends. Over the next 18 years, Roland managed to grow IND Group from a “garage company” to a leading international digital banking software solutions vendor with nine offices and over 250 employees. Following a successful exit to Vista Equity Partners led Finastra (FKA Misys) in 2014, Roland has been a keen investor in European FinTech startups. He also advises and mentors prominent acceleration and incubation programs. Roland holds a BA in Business Administration from Euro-Business-College in Munich. Outside of work Roland enjoys travelling with his family to his ancestral homeland in the Zemplén Mountains in North-East Hungary. Here he cultivates several estates in the UNESCO world heritage site of Tokaj-Hegyalja with its centuries old tradition of naturally sweet white wines and in Gönc with his Pálinka distillery built on family estates producing fruit brandies.