TITLE : HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY COMPANY : WIZZ AIR INDUSTRY : AIR TRAVEL LOCATION : BUDAPEST , HUNGARY

Zsolt Nadas , as the Head of

Technology at Wizz Air , ensures that the technology foundation grows with the agility and scalability to match the aggressive goals of the airline . As the fastest growing airline in Europe , Wizz Air is constantly expanding the breadth and depth of technology investments . This includes modernisation of its website – which is Europe ’ s fourth most visited website – and an acceleration of the migration to public cloud . It also includes the governance , optimisation , and exploitation of the 300 + TB of data used in its day-to-day operation .

Zsolt started his career as a software engineer and later pivoted to Data and Analytics with a focus on data-centric transformation . He also has significant depth in compliance and enterprise risk management , having been responsible for the control design for the first Sarbanes-Oxley compliant Data Lake on a big data platform . Nadas stays close to cutting-edge innovation by being active in the start-up community , acting as a mentor for multiple data driven pioneers .

Zsolt graduated with a degree in Computer Science from University of Illinois , and later supplemented this with a Master ’ s in Computer Information Systems from the University of Phoenix .

ZSOLT NADAS HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY , WIZZ AIR