Viktor Molnár, Former Regional Director, Ford Central & Eastern European Operations

  • 8 Apr 2015 12:00 PM
Viktor Molnár, Former Regional Director, Ford Central & Eastern European Operations
In this job he had full responsibility to run Ford’s operation outside of traditional Western European markets (Central and Eastern Europe, Stans, North Africa), reporting to the Vice President of the European Sales Organisation, to Ford's European Headquarters in Cologne, Germany. Covering 32 countries, from Gibraltar, to Central Asia and North Africa, the region delivers sales of 70,000 vehicles on actual level.


1. Where did you grow up?
I have gown up in Budapest, on the Csepel island.

2. If you could be an expat anywhere in the world, where would you choose?
I believe the people who surround you, whom you are together with are more important than the country you live at.

3. What would you miss most if you moved away from Hungary?
What I would miss the most would be the language, the culture, and using our mother tongue.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
This city has many amazing places, and while there are obviously must sees, like the Buda Castle, the House of Parliament, the Heroes’ Square, the Citadel, Saint Stephen’s Cathedral, or Europe’s largest Synagogue, it really depends on the preferences of the people coming: they can be interested in opera or underground music or culinary experiences, and they will all find in Budapest what they have been looking for.

5. What is your favourite food?
I don’t have one. The art of cuisine is way too rich and exciting for me to just pick one preferred food.

6. What is your favourite sport / form of exercise?
I do functional training.

7. What is your favourite place in Hungary?
This country offers a lot of wonders, but I probably I like Budapest and the slightly untouched North-Eastern part of the country the most.

8. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
I could imagine myself as a monk, a teacher of a philosopher just alike.

9. What’s a job you would definitely never want?
I believe I could hardly stand a job with the lack of the opportunity to interact with people, as human relations and communication are important to me. For instance I could hardly imagine myself as a chemist.

10. Where did you spend your last vacation?
At the monastery of Mount Athos, Greece.

11. Where do you hope to spend your next one?
Georgia.

12. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
I was doing canoeing as a teenager, while my favourite musician was Bruce Springsteen, though I liked Mozart as well.

13. Apart of temptation what can’t you resist?
I can’t resist the temptation to trying to help people in need.

14. Red wine or white?
White.

15. Book or movie?
Both, though I have a tendency towards books.

16. Morning person or night person?
Night.

17. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
Undereducation and the lack of thinking at a national level.

18. Buda or Pest side?
I like both of them way too much, both has its charm and I don’t like the distinction among them.

19. Which achievement in your life are you most pleased about?
It means a lot to me that the I can use the status I have achieved in my life on the benefit of other people, helping, educating them.

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
Est difficillimum se ipsum vincere – the most difficult is to defeat ourselves, as the motto of the Roman legionaries has it.

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