Roger Swinburn

Roger Swinburn

Bcom

Managing Partner

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  • H-1036 Budapest
  • Hungary

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Personal information

Professional experience

  • Apr 2009 - present

    (3 years, 2 months)

    Managing Partner

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    Industry: Human Resources, Executive search, interim management

  • Sep 1998 - Mar 2009

    (10 years, 7 months)

    Managing Partner

    Boyden global executive search, http://www.boyden.com

    Industry: Human Resources, Executive Search

  • 1995 - 1998

    CEE Regional Director

    Hasbro

    Industry: Entertainment

  • 1991 - 1995

    Country Manager, Hungary

    DHL

    Industry:

  • 1988 - 1991

    Commercial Director, Ireland

    Unilever

    Industry: Food

  • 1985 - 1988

    Commercial Manager, Kenya

    Unilever

    Industry: Agriculture

  • Employment status
    Entrepreneur

Educational background

  • Oct 1977 - Jun 1980
    Liverpool University

    Economics, Law and Accounting, B. Comm

  • Languages
    English

About me

My current house, on the Danube bend just north of Budapest ,is my 26th, Hungary is the fourth country I have lived in and gardening now seems more attractive than flying. My career has taken in management accounting for Unilever's more distant subsidiaries, based in the HO in London. Then 3 years in Kenya with a Unilever joint venture growing sunflowers as an import substitution effort. The partners included the CDC and IFC - drought, politics and finance merged. I came to Hungary in late 1991 to be the General Manager of DHL, yet another joint venture with a difficult past to be sorted out. Those who have visited these parts can imagine the challenge of running a service business with ties to the airport and customs authorities! Then three years spent as the regional director for Hasbro - yes, I drove the translation of 'Monopoly' into Romanian, 'Jenga' into Czech and 'Risk' into Slovenian. Having held the Boyden licence for 10 years I am now operating a regional search business. Most projects are currently within Hungary but we are also working actively in countries to the south and east of Hungary and must be one of the few search companies in the world to have completed assignments in Albania (a fascinating place). Cooking and tennis are practised regularly with occasional success.
 

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