Pál Béres | VP Strategic Projects
Azertelecom International

Pal Beres, Vice President Strategic Projects – Azertelecom International Pal has a MSC degree on Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Budapest and an MBA degree from Budapest University of Economic Sciences. He worked for 10 years at Ericsson in various positions, including the Global Installation Engineering process owner position and also different marketing, and sales managerial positions. In 2012 he moved to the operators’ side, and worked for Vivendi Telecom Hungary, Invitel International, Pantel and finally Türk Telekom International. Pal worked for TTI since the establishment of the company and was responsible for various sales assignments, then took the Procurement and Pricing Director, finally the Market & Commercial Development Director position. He worked in this position for more than 5 years, being responsible for the TTI Group’s major development projects including new submarine cable projects, adding high capacity multiregional transit routes to the TTI backbone and overall supporting the establishment of new business partnerships. Pál was the I&ASC Chair of the SMW-5 submarine cable consortium and represented TTI in the SMW-5 Management Committee. Pál started a new assignment at Azertelecom International at the end of 2021 as the Vice President Strategic Projects. He has been responsible for helping the development of a new initiative of the company, the Digital Silk Way project, which targets to connect China and the Central Asian countries to Europe via a revolutionary new route, crossing Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia then the Black sea, alternatively Turkey. The DSW will be the first route, which crosses the Caspian sea, introducing a very much claimed route alternative between Asia and Europe.