Peter Arvai

Peter Arvai

CEO at Prezi

Stockholm Area, Sweden

Current
Past
  • VP of Product Management at Mobispine
  • Analyst and project manager at Mobispine
  • Business Analyst at JakeBox
Education
  • Stockholms universitet
  • Kungliga Tekniska högskolan
  • Vulcanus in Japan Program
  • National University of Singapore
Connections
500 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Peter Arvai’s Summary

I want to show people how inspiring ideas can change the world

Peter Arvai’s Specialties:

Digital media development, project management, business development, interaction design.

Language skills
Fluent: Swedish, English, Hungarian
Intermediate: Japanese


Peter Arvai’s Experience

  • CEO

    Prezi

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    October 2008Present (1 year 2 months)

    Heading www.prezi.com

  • Founder and Board Member

    Sanocore

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    January 2007Present (2 years 11 months)

    Sanocore develops and maintains www.omvard.se
    Omvard is making the results of Swedish health care providers available to Swedish consumers.
    Omvard.se was awarded "Best website in Sweden 2009" by Internetworld

  • VP of Product Management

    Mobispine

    (Public Company; MOBS; Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 2007October 2008 (1 year 7 months)

    Headed mobile ad development
    Planned all product development
    Assisted in an IPO and two acquisitions
    Managed relations with SonyEricsson and Nokia
    Protagonist for a simple consumer offering and a perpetual beta product development philosophy

  • Analyst and project manager

    Mobispine

    (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    July 2006March 2007 (9 months)

    Responsible for customer integrations
    Formulated business plans and investor memorandums
    Was in charge of developing new projects and divisions for our business.

  • Business Analyst

    JakeBox

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Printing industry)

    August 2005December 2005 (5 months)

    Spearheaded the formulation of a business plan and an investor’s memorandum to be used for a share issue by start-up company JakeBox AB.

  • Master Thesis Worker

    Swedish Trade Council

    (Government Agency; Management Consulting industry)

    February 2005June 2005 (5 months)

    Delivered a report on media related IT business opportunities.

  • Trainee

    Fuji Xerox

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Media Production industry)

    January 2003August 2003 (8 months)

    Traineeship with Fuji Xerox consisted of developing a research project on automatic video indexing of business meetings. Interaction with work colleagues was in Japanese.

  • Producer & Choreographer

    Dansemble

    (Performing Arts industry)

    May 1998April 1999 (1 year )

    Production was first locally produced dance performance in Karlskoga, and seen by about 2000 persons


Peter Arvai’s Education

  • Stockholms universitet

    Master , Business Administration , 20012006

    Master Thesis is published and marketed: http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Business-Case-Mobile-Service/dp/3639048156

  • Kungliga Tekniska högskolan

    Master , Media Technology Engineering , 19992005

    Activities and Societies:
    Stockholm Student Radio, Associated
    Students of the Media Programme
  • Vulcanus in Japan Program

    Japanese business practices, Japanese language 20022003

    The Vulcanus in Japan Program is a 12 month grant awarded by the EU and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. It consists in 4 months of Japanese language, culture and business practices courses, and 8 months of internship in a Japanese company (see above).
    references : EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation (www.vulcanusalumni.net)

  • National University of Singapore

    Exchange semester , Economics


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Peter Arvai’s Interests:

New media technology, new media/ICT business models, current affairs, international travel, gourmet cooking, performing arts

Peter Arvai’s Groups:

Co-founded the Alumni Association for Media Technology Students at the Royal Institute of Technology. www.medieteknik.com/alumni

  •    Vulcanus Alumni
  •    KTH medieteknik alumni
  •    Xerox Extended
  •    Silicon Vikings
  •    Sweden Networking Group
  •    Business in Japan
  •    TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
  •    Swedish Startups

Peter Arvai’s Honors:

Published author, Developing the Business Case for a New Mobile Service, ISBN-10: 3639048156

Best Local Radio Program, 2003
Scholarship, Sasakawa Foundation, 1999
Scholarship, Sweden-Japan Foundation, 1999


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