About Prezi
About Prezi
Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery.
Brief history
Prezi co-founder, Adam Somlai-Fischer, is an internationally renowned architect and visual artist who has been working with zooming presentations since 2001. Adam found that a zoomable user interface (ZUI) enabled him to explore the “big picture” overview of a floor plan and then zoom into the detail of individual rooms. Because there was no commercially-available zooming presentation editor, each presentation had to be coded by hand. Audiences were wowed and approached Adam to discover what presentation software he used. A few persuaded him to give them access to his code. Finally, in 2007, Budapest University of Technology professor Peter Halacsy convinced Adam to develop an editor so that anyone could make zooming presentations. After creating a prototype, they recruited a business-minded entrepreneur, Peter Arvai, to join as CEO — to help them build a product and a company. Prezi was launched in April 2009 from Budapest, leading to investments from TED Conferences and Sunstone Capital. The San Francisco office was established in November 2009.
The team
Peter Arvai

Founder, CEO
Peter works to boldly zoom where no one has zoomed before.
Before joining Prezi Peter established omvard.se, that helps patients compare treatment outcomes between hospitals. omvard.se was voted Best Website of Sweden 2009. Peter was also part of creating the world's first mobile news reader, secure an IPO and acquire companies as VP of Product Management at a mobile internet start-up, Mobispine.
His half-written cookbook aims to explain everyday Japanese cuisine beyond sushi.Get support on the support forum
Peter Halacsy

Founder, Head of Product
After serving as lead developer of Origo.hu, Hungary’s largest Internet company, Peter was Assistant Professor at the New Media department of Budapest University of Technology. He also co-founded Kitchen Budapest with Adam Somlai-Fischer. To Prezi, Peter brings his love of technology, skills in swing dance, and a wicked sense of humor.
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Adam Somlai-Fischer

Founder, Head of Design
"I hand-coded my first Prezi in 2001, just as a personal tool to develop my ideas by seeing relations, big picture, and then focus the attention of the audience by creating a visual journey. I made about 1500 Prezis by now, and after each and every one I am thinking about how to use this language better, how could we build this knowledge into the product, so we can help everyone in making better prezis. In a Prezi there is always context, there are no slides hiding one idea from the other, and the visual journey is always there to help us orient in the cloud of information."
Adam, an architect and artist, a maker and facilitator, spent the last decade creating innovative technologies and artistic projects which facilitate the creativity of others - ranging from mixed reality interfaces and DIY smarthomes, to institutions and workshop methods for innovation. His (collaborative) works have been exhibited at Venice Biennales and dozens of festivals globally, and published in leading magazines and blogs. In 2007 he co-founded Kitchen Budapest media lab with Peter Halacsy. He wrote his first prezi in 2001.Awards
- 2009 Winner of the World Technology Award (WTN in assoc with TIME inc, New York) in the category of Arts, shared price with Usman Haque
- 2009 I.D 50 – Selected as one of top 50 emerging designer worldwide by International Design magazine, NY
- 2009 State award for excellence from the prime minister of Hungary
- 2008 New Trends in Architecture, selected as one of 15 top emerging architect within Asia-Europe
Major Exhibitions
- 2010 Media Architecture Biennale, Vienna
- 2010 Transmediale, Berlin
- 2009 Pixelache, Helsinki
- 2009 NTT/ICC, Tokyo
- 2008 Beijing National Art Museum
- 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture, International Selection
- 2007 NTT/ICC, Tokyo
- 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Hungarian Pavilion
- 2006 ISEA, San Jose, US
Selected Publicity
- Financial Times Culture (2 issues)
- Architectural Design UK (3 issues)
- La liberation Culture
- Architectural Review
- We Make Money Not Art interview
- Sensing spaces
- Interactive Architecture
- Indian Architect and Builder
- Designboom, Milan
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Conference talks, Lectures, some workshops
2011
• How to Web, Bucharest, on Prezi vision
• The New School, New York, workshop on thinking with Prezi
• Startupweek, Vienna, Keynote on Prezi
• Frontiers of Interaction, Florence, Keynote on Prezi & Design
• Aquincum Institute of Technology, Budapest, on Prezi
• Login, Vilnius, Keynote on Prezi
• University College London, London, on the edges of architecture
• Prezicamp, Barcamp, Vienna on Prezi
2010
• Vivo Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil, on spatial creativity
• Modena Design Awards, Italy, on Innovation and design
• Migrating Arts Academies, Berlin, on user experience design and peer production
• Media Architecture Biennale, Vienna, on Enabling spatial creativity
• Prezivent, Netherlands, on Prezi
• University of Fine Arts, Budapest, on artworks and Prezi
• ETH, Zurich, on Responsive Spaces
• Aedas Architects, London, on Prezi
• Transmediale, Berlin, on creative industries
2009
• Kretakor Collegium Budapest on Technological Literacy
• Exploratorium, San Francisco, on Prezi, architecture & innovation
• Stanford Social Media class of Howard Rheingold, capturing the class live with prezi
• TU Vienna, on Man & Machine
• Moholy-Nagy University, Budapest, on non-linear narratives • World Technology Network, TIME Building, New York, on Prezi
• IAAC Barcelona, on architectural works
• Pixelache, Helsinki, on Kitchen Budapest medialab
• Transmediale, Berlin on Open Hardware
2008
• Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, on architectural works
• Tokyo University of Science, on architectural works
• Cologne School of Media, on artworks
• Walled Garden conference, Amsterdam, Workshop on the Future of email
• Media Architecture Conference, Berlin
• Venice Biennale of Architecture, pecha kucha
• Asia-Europe Foundation, Singapore, pecha kucha
• Royal College of Art, London on Peer Produced Art
2007
• Waseda University, Tokyo, on peer production, prezi prototype
• Rome School of Design, on physical computing
• Bartlett, University College London, on Mediated Spaces
• School of Architecture and io1.0, Rome, on physical computing
• IUAV, Venice, on physical computing
• Domus Academy, Milan, on physical computing
• Bartlett, University College London, on physical computing
2006
• Domus Academy, Milan, on physical computing
• Mal au Pixel, exhibition and seminar, Paris
• Game Set Match conference, Delft, The Netherlands on physical pixels
• Goldsmith College, London, on physical computing
2005
• Dorkbot Budapest, on physical computing
• Matchmaking festival, Trondheim, Norway, on artworks
• Crystalpunk workshop, The Netherlands, on physical computing
• Maker’s Fair, O’Reilly OSCON, Amsterdam, on physical computing
• Westminster University, London, on artworks
• NTNU School of Architecture, Norway, on physical computing
2004
• VIPER Basel, international festival for film video and new media, on artworks
• ISEA2004 conference, Helsinki, on physical pixels
• Konstfack, University College for arts and design, Stockholm, on physical computing
• SMART seminar – Millenaris center Budapest, Hungary
• Outside in conference Gothenburg, Sweden, on physical computing
Attila Söröss

Operations Manager
Prior to joining Prezi, Attila was running Eidos Studios Hungary - a 60 person development studio, which delivered the 'Battlestations' video game series. 'Battlestations: Midway', an action-strategy game played on Xbox360 and PC’s, has reached #1 in the United Kingdom game charts.
Born in Budapest, Attila studied Management, Finance and Teaching English as a Foreign Language at various Hungarian universities. To Prezi Attila brings understanding of leading highly creative teams as well as his motivation to write a piece of history with Prezi.Get support on the support forum
Drew Banks

Head of Marketing
After treading across NC State's “Brickyard” plaza and down MIT’s infinite corridor, Drew cut his entrepreneurial teeth within game-changing companies such as SAS and Silicon Graphics. Hooked on disruptive innovation, Drew co-founded Pie Digital in 2005 to make home networking easy as Pie! At Prezi, Drew returns to his SGI-spawned passion to change the world through visualization.
Drew also writes. He’s published a couple of business books on communications and social media, as well as a couple of novels on ... life.Get support on the support forum
Adam Banko

Developer
Adam got his degree in Computer Science he was looking for new challenges and smart people so he joined Prezi. When he is not hacking he can be found dancing in contact impro jams, meditating at odd locations or educating students on learning methodologies. He also spends some time at Corvinus University discussing critical theories and learning organization development hoping that he can make the world a better place.
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Viktor Belenyesi

Developer
Viktor is interested in new technologies and methods such as cloud systems, SAAS and mobile devices. He works as an iPad developer at Prezi.
In his spare time he plays the guitar and reads often.Get support on the support forum
Mark Crosley

Senior Product Manager
Mark has worked as an architect, a software entrepreneur, a documentary video producer, and a product manager. He developed design software for architects, was responsible for adding animation to PowerPoint at Microsoft, and has planned an online school for professional animators. Now he's delighted to be immersed in the exciting world of Prezi.
When not dreaming of digital media, he plays guitar and sings in a not-very-good rock band, and loves to get outdoors in the Bay Area.Get support on the support forum
Laszlo Laufer

User Experience Researcher
Laszlo has a background in cognitive psychology, with some short excursions in Math along the way. He is Prezi's User Experience Researcher. He does usability testing, observation, interviewing, eyetracking, you name it.
In addition to his work at Prezi, he teaches Human Computer Interaction at the Budapest University of Technology, where he is an Assistant Professor. When on holiday he feeds his travel addiction.Get support on the support forum
Ádám Bódi

Developer
As a Developer at Prezi, Adam uses his background as a computer scientist to work on projects using the latest web technologies. However, his love of technology and piecing things together isn't limited to work - he enjoys gaming (tabletop, video, or otherwise) with friends.
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David Gauquelin

Senior Designer
Before being at Prezi, David was working at frog design. He's enthusiastic about designing meaningful and straightforward interfaces. If you dare to ask him why, he'll be happy to speak about design challenges that deal with information & communication technologies.
For the juicy details, sometimes David can be heard making strange electric guitar loops, he loves experimenting with arduino, tinkering with electronic junk and cooking for friends.Get support on the support forum
Zoltán Gera

Senior Developer
Music was always a primary motivator in Zoltán's life. That's why he had to: program the SID chip, write music trackers for FM synthesis, get to know opcodes of a dozen platforms, learn twisted math, teach Numerical Methods and Operating System Programming at Eötvös University, and do research in Digital Signal Processing to finish his PhD.
At Prezi, he likes to learn and teach, create cool pieces of software without making them overcomplicated, but optimized to the edge.
In his freetime, he loves to move to music and enjoys lowering his ecological footprint. No matter what, he can always be motivated by (good) food.Get support on the support forum
Vera Gergely

Quality Assurance
With a degree in Economics, Vera came a long way to become a QA Engineer at Prezi. Paying attention to the tiniest details and being dedicated to user experience are her biggest strengths.
She often brings Tufa, her wirehaired dachshund to work. Outside work she can be found playing board or console games, watching TV series, and spotting unusable interfaces.Get support on the support forum
Laszlo Gombosi

Quality Assurance
When he was 20 years old, László gave up studying European Logistics to jump into the gaming industry. From being a game tester at Digital Reality through designing scenariors and gameplay mechanics at EIDOS Hungary, he had gone a long way to end up as a Quality Assurance at Prezi. In between he also worked for Autodesk and spent a year at Nuance Inc. Laszlo found the mix of joy and professionalism he was always looking for at Prezi!
His hobbies vary throughout different seasons. During the winter he is still an avid gamer who can spend a whole weekend in front of a MMO, but as spring comes he fires up the engine of his 800ccm motorbike and does not stop until the first snowfall.Get support on the support forum
Gábor Török

Quality Assurance
After several years of back-end and front-end development, Gábor joined Prezi's QA team. At Prezi, he's always finding new ways to automatize product testing. He prefers Emacs over Vim.
He can't say no if you invite him for a drink, and if you don't see him for a short time, he's probably doing yoga in a quiet room or dancing at a psychedelic party.Get support on the support forum
Akos Toth-Mate

Developer
Akos is driven by the smart people around him at Prezi, who make his role as a Developer even more interesting and productive! When he's not tinkering with the latest features and technology or working on his BSc in Software Engineering, he's hanging out with friends at a local pub.
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Samuel Toth

Designer
After working for years in online marketing and game industry Samuel decided to join Prezi as a designer. He use his programming skills to help design thinking in his team. In his spare time he still works on games for education.
When he's not programming interfaces or reading about user experience he is probably listening to blues or playing his harmonica.Get support on the support forum
Zoltan Toth

Data Analyst
Prior to joining Prezi Zoltan worked as a developer for pharmaceutical market research companies. Now, he helps Prezi arrive at data-driven decisions and provides fellow developers with an easy access to data.
In his spare time Zoltan enjoys cooking and finding simplicity in life.Get support on the support forum
Balazs Turai

Prezi graphic artist
Balazs is just completing a degree at the University of Applied Arts in Budapest. He is a member of the French Miracle theatre group, where he does live-drawing performances. He was looking for a thinking/narrating-tool like Prezi for a long time, so it was love at first sight. Currently, Balazs is working on interactive narrations in Prezi and animating his diploma film about a time-traveling platypus.
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Balint Gabor

Senior Developer
Balint has an MSc in Computer Science and has already spent time as a computer and cognitive scientist, and worked as a software developer. He is interested in understanding the human mind, computers, language and their interactions. He loves developing in Python and Java, and is a budding SCUBA diver.
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Christian Jepsen

Board member and entrepreneurial VC-guy
Christian brings international start-up, technology and media experience spanning more than 9 years in four countries. He started his career by raising $ 400 M (as an entrepreneur). He calls things the way he sees it and we like him for it.
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David Udvardy

Interaction Designer
As an Interaction Designer at Prezi, David finds himself switching between interviews, paper, and Photoshop - keeping his mind fresh between different media. Outside of work, you can find him behind the lens shooting landscape and theater photography. He kindly lends his photography talent to Prezi projects, too.
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Gabor Veszi

Senior Systems Engineer
Gabor is passionate about automation, metrics and bridging the gap between development and operations. He likes to know what's happening in the world of technology. He's mad about farm animals, candlelight dinners and long walks on the beach. The goal of his life is to write the perfect blurb about himself.
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Janos Hardi

User Interface Engineer
As a User Interface Engineer at Prezi, Janos is interested in the way users think. And he particularly enjoys the creative way people around him think! When this Trekkie needs a break from observing users, he's listening to ska and dub.
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Daniel Kalman

Designer
After freelancing for the past few years Dani joined the Prezi team as a designer. He tries to brighten up the online world with his colorful illustrations, and enjoys being part of the planning process of new design projects. When not working, he is riding his pink fixie, climbing, canyoning, or doing whatever comes up and seems interesting. He also plays a lot with video editing and drawing weird illustrations.
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Juli Pecsi

Community Relations
Juli has worked with PR/HR in several multinationals. She was one of the first employees at Prezi, and has worked under the tagline "juli will help". Now, she oversees Prezi's European partnerships as a member of the marketing team, and manages the social life inside and outside of Prezi.
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Attila Petroczi

Data Analyst
Attila is our first data analyst. He joined us to know more about our users to make Prezi much more effective and user-friendly. He likes to mix work with hobby, and he likes to play with data.
In addition to his work Attila does his PhD studies in Computer Sciences, teaches Data Mining and Customer Analytics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and deals with students as a mentor at Schönherz Dormitory.
In his spare time he likes hiking, playing table tennis and football. He is a cavalier of the Saint Schönherz Senior Knights.Get support on the support forum
Lior Paz

Developer
When he's not playing the saxophone, listening to jazz, or enjoying the kitchen (cooking and eating), Lior is a Developer at Prezi. With a BSc in Computer Science from Haifa University in Israel, he uses his technical chops to cooperate with colleagues and tackle challenges.
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Patrick Wenger

Sales Manager
As Sales Manager for Prezi, Patrick has the chance to interact with people all over the world - including the global Prezi team. To unwind from work, he finds peace in skiing and hiking.
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Peter Nemeth

Senior Developer
Peter has tried his hand at many things: meeting robots, generating 3D graphics, building a sensor network, programming a microcontroller, generating random 64k intro, and creating PCBs. He likes hacking things (often successfully) and is interested in visual design/art, and music.
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Peter Vajda

Quality Assurance
Every company needs a detail-oriented person to ensure standards of quality are being met at the company - Peter is the Quality Assurance man at Prezi. To take a break from his day job, Peter indulges in cycling and watching movies.
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Szilveszter Farkas

Senior Web Engineer
There are no real startups out there without university dropouts. Szilveszter took the leap for Prezi, and hasn't regretted it. Before joining the company as one of the first employees, he contributed to open source software and communities. In his free time, Szilveszter enjoys travel. At work, he is passionate about delivering top quality software to the world.
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TED

Investor
We at Prezi really admire the work done by the TED. Our shared goal: to enable ideas worth spreading.
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Andre Haddad

Board member, CEO and entrepreneur
Andre runs Shopping.com, and was previously one of the founders of iBazar.com which he sold to eBay in 2002. Andre is somewhat tired of Powerpoint and is excited to support Prezi team in their effort to reintroduce delight and fun in presentations.
In his spare time, Andre loves to watch Pixar movies with his 4 year old twins.Get support on the support forum
Andrew Braccia

Board member and VC
Andrew is a Partner at Accel Partners and brings with him over a decade of operational and leadership experience. He sits on a number of boards including 99designs, Squarespace, Cloudera and OpenX – and is looking forward to being a part of the team at Prezi.
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Zoli Radnai

Community Manager
Zoltan comes to Prezi after completing and MA in Communications and Media Sciences, being a freelance writer, blogger and online journalism lecturer. Now he manages the Prezi community, builds interaction channels, and communicates with Prezi users in every possible way. Check out his personal tweets at @zoliradnai.
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Maria Paz Ramirez

Interaction Designer
María Paz studied Product Design Engineering in Valparaíso, Chile. In 2011 she graduated with a MA in Interaction Design in Milano, Italy, making this field a place to express her love for intuitive interfaces and creating meaningful experiences. If she is not working, you can find her laughing, making contemporary dance with some crazy people, cooking, or travelling.
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Zsuzsa Weiner

Developer
The multicultural feel of the company and intellectual atmosphere of the job are just a few of the things that Zsuzsa likes about working at Prezi. To her job, she brings a Ph.D. in mathematics and experience giving lectures at Eötvös University in Budapest. Outside of work, Zsuzsa enjoys swimming, skiing, and playing the cimbalom.
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Gábor Vályi

Social Researcher
Gábor Vályi's passion is listening. As Prezi's researcher he listens to stories people tell about their work and life and thinks about how we could make their presentation duties easier, yet more exciting.
As an assistant professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics he listens to his students' world changing ideas.
As DJ Shuriken, he scavenges friends' attics, record stores and flea markets for long forgotten, beautiful sounds.Get support on the support forum
Nelli Csarno

Team Development
Nelli spots bright and passionate people to join Prezi and tries to make sure they experience flow at work. Nelli has a MSc in psychology and has loved computers since the C64 games. In her spare time she can be found in twisted yoga poses or chilling out with friends.
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Zsofia Konya

Office Manager
Zsófi keeps things running smoothly at the Prezi office. Her lexicon is populated by: order, transfer, invoice, organize, lmgtfy, booking, fröccs, olive, movie, travel, tomato, cats, hiking, arkham asylum, rpg, humor, „bug”, sleep, vacak, röfi, sour cherry, kindle, levander, portugieser, chocolate, omg, tea, raspberry, music, cheese, om.
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Laszlo Pandy

Developer
After completing his degree in Ottawa, Laszlo moved from Canada to Budapest and joined our team. He brings us his focus on the user’s perspective, and his desire to make software as simple as possible.
Outside Prezi, Laszlo is frequently contributing to free software projects, riding his bike or exploring his new city.Get support on the support forum
Kálmán Kéménczy

Productmonkey
Kálmán is a productmonkey at Prezi. He helps his teams to be more agile and eliminate as much "muda" as possible. He became a "measurement addict" at Prezi and loves to log and analyze everything. He really loves to create high quality prezis to prove that Prezi has no limits. Sometimes it's hard to decide whether he is a Jedi or Sith because he tries to keep the balance of the Force. You can find him playing guitar in the office's kitchen or riding his foldable strida bike.
In addition, he is an active member and contributor of several free and open source projects e.g. Mozilla, LibreOffice and openSUSE.Get support on the support forum
Maugli

Team member
Maugli was born in a dog shelter, from where he was rescued as a one-week-old closed eye puppy. After being raised up by Balint and his wife he became a subject of a dog ethology research program and participated in countless of scientific publications. He loves walking, hiking and most of all playing agility. Nowadays he spends most of his days in the prezi office entertaining the human fellows and begging for food.
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Tufa

Team member
Tufa, a wirehaired dachshund was found near lake Balaton in the summer of 2011. He's been living with Vera and her girlfriend since. He practices his irresistible meerkat pose every day. When not sleeping or practicing, he tries to dig leftover food from the trash hoping that no one will notice.
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Joel Onodera

Joel Onodera
Joel brings to Prezi his 20+ years of experience in finance, analysis, and product planning. His passion for data driven decision making was nurtured at companies like Apple, Nike, Six Apart, and Sony. When not forecasting Prezi's future, Joel is happy spending time with his wife and two sons, playing a round of golf with friends, and rooting for the hometown San Francisco Giants.
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